Tuesday October 29, 2019

Learning intentions for our day...

• We worked hard in Daily 5 today reading and writing.  This allowed our teachers an opportunity to work with individual students on reading.  We discussed how we could be thoughtful during our 'work on writing' making sure that we are carefully thinking about what we write and how we write it.
• In Math we began a new investigation - the Robot Stepper.  This investigation is helping us skip count and notice patterns within sets of numbers.
• As we continued to summarize our time at Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump, we thought about how we know about this place and how the Indigenous people lived.  Some of us remembered the oral practices of the Blackfoot but others reminded us that archaeologists work to learn more about how people lived through artifacts.  We watched a video to learn more ( Solving Mysteries with Archaeologists! ) .  Mr. Kelly heard that when archaeologists studied Head-Smashed-In they didn't find any bison skeletons! We began to think carefully about what we know to solve this mystery.
• Mr. Kelly worked with us to begin drawing a rabbit in our visual journals.  We focussed on how simple shapes and lines can be used to create a picture.

Ask me about...

why I think there were no skeletons found at the Buffalo Jump.  What does this tell us about Indigenous People and how they lived?

Reminders...

• Jacket Racket will continue to Wednesday Nov. 6^th.  Please send gently used winter wear including coats, mittens, scarves, hats, boots, etc. to school in a bag marked with the items and sizes inside.  We appreciate your support of this much needed program!
• Intramurals for Grades Three and Four will begin on Thursday, November 28 and run at 11:45 to 12:10 on Thursdays. Intramurals focuses on game play in activities such as badminton, basketball, football, team handball, soccer, volleyball, etc.  There is a limit of 40 participants.  If more than 40 people sign up, a random draw will be held to decide the participants.  Please go to the EHS Physical Education blog to sign up (link).
• Halloween is Thursday.  Students are welcome to wear costumes to school that day.  No weapons or masks though for safety reasons.  Thank you for leaving treats at home too!  Goodness knows we will all get lots on Thursday night!!