Welcome to our first blog! We have been really busy lately!
We are working on giving speeches. Every Friday, there are two types of speeches: a prepared speech and a surprise speech. Our confidence giving speeches is growing as we practice. Remembrance Day is next week. We have written a poem about peace that we will be performing at our assembly. In math, we have been working on writing equations that match story problems. We need to decide what is "unknown" - the start, the change or the result. Then we write the equation with the "unknown" shown as a box or question mark. So far, all of our problem-to-equation work has involved either addition or subtraction. We are learning to make our writing more varied and interesting by using appositives. Here's an example of a sentence with an appositive: Ms. Blair is enjoying learning with her students, an intelligent and very enthusiastic group.of scientific thinkers. Do you know which part of this sentence is the appositive? In order to to better understand that Alberta has changed over time, we have been thinking about how Alberta might have looked through 250 million years of history. We have listened to some catchy songs about geologic time and created a series of "storyboards" that show vastly different pictures of Alberta through time. Each table group in our class has prepared a presentation and has been asked to lead a discussion on on an environmental issue. The first two groups led discussions on light pollution and plastics in the ocean. All members of the classroom audience showed great interest in both issues. Interest in other issues, such as the "disappearance of birds" and problems with groundwater pollution have arisen as the result of our recent visit to Bowness and Bowmont Parks. There, besides sparking our interest in groundwater and birds, students observed and reflected on the differences between vegetation in different areas, the springs that feed into the Bow River and the surprising and often artful arrangement of roots.
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