Words Their Way

We are learning the routine of how to complete the Words Their Way individualized spelling program.  Here is a sample of the word sorts for three students. Students practice with individually picked spelling patterns/lists.

Every day uses of rocks and minerals

The last two days we have been discovering all of the many uses of rocks and minerals.

Here are a  few of the items that we have learned are made up of minerals.

Colours in rocks

We know that rocks are made up of minerals.  The colours that we see in the rocks are the minerals.  We had a closer look at some of the rocks in our collections to try to identify the number of colours (minerals) in the rocks.

Museum Field Trip

October 2nd.  It was a snowy day, but we were brave and walked down to the museum for our "Emerging City" program.  We learned a bit of the history of Red Deer, looked at different artifacts and figured out how to put them in chronological order and then made "City" dioramas.

Practice reading the clock

This week we wrapped up our mini unit on telling time.  On this day students worked together on a time/clock puzzle. Boys vs Girls! 

Read to Self

We are working hard at building our stamina for silent reading,  reading to self. Students started their reading logs this week so they can track their awesome reading! 

Sorting rocks

The second activity with our rock collections was to figure out how to sort them according to certain properties.  We sorting today by colour, shape, and texture.  Then the student had to come up with descriptors for each of the rocks in each of the categories.