May 3rd

Hi Parents,

This week in honour of Hats off for Mental Health day we focused on our emotions and how they affect our mental health. We read four different stories "The way I feel", "When Sophie Gets Angry-Really, Really, Angry", "The Invisible Boy" and "When Sophie's Feelings are Really, Really Hurt". We also watched the video "Kids want to know: Why do we lose control of our emotions", I have put the link for this video below. We discussed how it is okay to feel mad, sad, happy, proud, etc.  All our emotions are okay,  but it's how we deal with them. We discussed strategies that we can use to help us deal with our emotions and we also discussed how we can help others. We then wrote about our emotions using the prompt: "I remember a time when I felt...."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bKuoH8CkFc

In math this week we started new math centers to help us practice our addition and subtraction skills and help us learn our doubles.  We also practiced our problem solving skills through a math problem: "The class planted 20 sunflower seeds. Some grew into plants and some did not grow. How many grew into plants? How many did not grow? Show all of the possible answers."


Our words of the week this week were: our, than, were, which
We are now done our words of the week and will use the rest of this year to practice all the words of the week we have learned throughout the year.


In science this week we continued learning about plants. We learned about the different stages in a plant life cycle and then created our own plant life cycle. We then went more in depth into one part of the life cycle: the seed. We discussed the different parts of a seed and how they help a plant grow, then we drew and labelled a seed diagram.
We also learned about wild plants and domesticated plants. We learned what "wild" and "domesticated" mean, then we brainstormed in groups what examples of wild and domesticated plants would be. We discovered some plants can be both. We then put all out ideas into  a Venn diagram.
Lastly, we practiced using our knowledge of what plants need to grow by creating our own garden. We first used a resource from learnalberta.ca, which helped us to create a garden together and figure out some of the things we might need.  The students then went and created their own gardens in their visual journals.

http://www.learnalberta.ca/content/tlfcse/index.html

Reminders:

Monday May 6th is Music Monday. The whole school will be getting together to sing the Music Monday song Mrs. McBride has been teaching them.

Tuesday May 7th is our field trip to the zoo. Please make sure your child is wearing appropriate clothing for the weather, has a snack and lunch and a water bottle.

Wednesday May 8th is our first sessions of in-line skating. Please make sure your child has socks and brings their helmet, if they have one.

Wednesday May 8th is Fun Lunch