Adventures With Mrs. Craig

 To start off our morning, room 13 wrote about what happened while I was gone. Each person wrote almost a page, sharing stories and what they learned about during the week. Some students were only able to write a couple of sentences. Ask your child what they wrote.  Last week they started making robots for math. They had to create a robot out of graph paper showing their area and perimeter or their head, body, arms and legs. Some students needed extra support understanding area and perimeter. This is something that could be practiced at home too.  In the morning they also participated in an esti-mystery math. https://stevewyborney.com/2019/09/51-esti-mysteries/ This is the website to learn more about mystery numbers. The students seem to really enjoy these.  In Science they have been learning about natural resources that are renewable and non-renewable. Ask your child to give you some examples of both.  In mindfulness today we learned about what 'zendoodle' is and practiced som

 Hello Room 13! As most of you know I am away this week. I have a wonderful sub in, and I know they are continuing on with our learning goals.  If you are home, please check our Google Classroom. Your child can show you how to do this. It will be the same email and password as last year. I have assignments on there. If you have any issues with logging in, email me at lmparsons@cbe.ab.ca. If your child has not accepted the invite to the classroom, I can not assign them tasks. These tasks are only for the students that are at home right now.  Spelling words this week:  Red group: I, eye, by, bye, cry Blue group: won, one, here, hear, fear Green group: flower, flour, their, they're, there Take care, everyone!

 Everyone worked very hard today! We started out our morning with rounding numbers to the nearest 10, 100's and 1000's. We then completed 2 math word problems from our calendar.  After Music and P.E we read a Science fact page called "What is waste?" and "Plant and Animal Waste." They learned that waste is the unwanted materials and objects that people throw away. We learned some very alarming facts such as: 1/3rd  of all food produced in the world goes to waste. Also, the yearly value of the food wasted in the world is 1 trillion dollars and it weighs 1.3 billion tonnes (weight of 800 million cars!).  The last couple of days in math we have been focusing on perimeter and area. We learned that perimeter is the distance around a shape and that area is the units of space inside a shape. Ask your child to draw you some examples with using a rectangle and units of measurement.  In L.A today we learned all about homophones. They guessed that homophones must be &q

 In Science today we researched and recorded the definitions for: waste, animal waste, plant waste, waste disposal, biodegradable waste, toxic waste, decomposer. When we researched these key terms we may made sure to search "definition for kids for ...." We took our art wall down before the break and our class was looking a little sad. Today we researched water colour art for the rocky mountains. We started our mountains and continued with water colour pencil crayons. They turned out really beautiful.  In writing today we talked about the purpose of poetry. Many students talked about how poems are a way of expressing our feelings. They each started a simple poem about mountains. They have 3 different examples to decide from: an acrostic poem, a poem based on your senses or creating something entirely on your own (some are writing songs). 

We really enjoyed catching up with one another today, and hearing about everyone's activities during the break.  In morning math we practiced basic facts with multiplication and division. We will be doing 'morning math' everyday now, before silent reading. Afterwards, we created our January calendar together. Each student made a math word problem up for the day.  In writing, we came up with an adjective to describe what we hope 2022 will look like! They then wrote down 3 sentences to make this happen. Ask your child what they wrote about.  During math, we continued with symmetry. They each had to recreate the other side of a snowflake. We have these in our windows now.  In Science, at the end of the end of the day, we answered the question "What is the coldest temperature an animal can survive in?" You can follow this if you missed it: https://mysteryscience.com/mini-lessons/coldest-temp-animal-survive?loc=mini-lesson-link Spelling Words:  Red: goal, work, better,