This past week, students worked on revising their Camp NaNoWriMo stories - it's been so incredible to see the stories that they've written and the passion they have developed around creating their stories. In Social, they worked together with a group to research a specific period in the development of Alberta as a province (around the CPR, Treaties, and NWMP), then developed their own "Notes to My Future Forgetful Self" for use on a summative assessment. There was also a fun problem solving challenge in math around calculating the total sum of money from 1001 coins. Finally, we had a blast celebrating "May the 4th" on Wednesday.
Some notes on our Learning this week:
Writing
Edit Camp NaNoWriMo stories by looking for complete sentences and using the COPS (capitalization, organization, punctuation, spelling) method
Reading
Collaborative Literacy Groups
Begin our final book clubs with a book tasting
Math
Buckle down for the final push. Many students are working towards the advanced level skills and understandings from our grade 4 math program. Others are continuing to work towards mastering the foundational and intermediate level outcomes.
Social Studies
Continue our Settlers of Alberta (part 2) unit. This section focuses on the impact British settlers ands structures had on the development of Alberta as a province.
Notes for next week:
Social Homework Project (My Heritage) - comes home Monday
VR app development session #1 with U of L - Thursday
