Saturday, April 29, 2017

Wetlands Week, Hats On for Mental Health and Magnetic Inventions!

REMINDER:

Monday May 1st-Friday May 5 is WETLANDS WEEK!
We will be having a celebration assembly and wetlands clean up on Wednesday May 3 from 10:30-11:30. You are welcome to attend. We still need volunteers for this even from 9:45-11:30. If you are able and have not signed up already please email me at imlagrana@cbe.ab.ca


Hats On! For Mental Health Day!

On Wednesday May 3, we will be recognizing “Hats on for Mental Health” at our school. We will be asking students to wear a special hat on this day to help raise awareness of the importance of good mental health. Each May, Albertans are invited to wear a hat to raise awareness of the importance of good mental health. Participating schools will relax their hat rules and encourage students and teachers to build understanding by wearing hats to school. Whether its a sombrero, a fedora or a favorite sports hat, all favorite hats are encouraged. For those students who choose to do so, we will have a collection jar at the front office for donations to the Alberta Mental Health Division of the Canadian Mental Health Association. More information is on the website:






Magnetic Inventions:

Today we continued to create an invention that would use the magnetic force of repulsion or attraction. We had to think about our inventions:
-purpose
-magnetic force it would use
-what materials we would use to make it work

We looked at some different uses for magnets:
http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/i-didnt-know-that/idkt-magnets

https://magnetsrfun.wikispaces.com/How+We+Use+Magnets+In+Our+Every+Day+Life

We also shared our inventions to the class. 
Ask me what my invention was?






Charlotte's Web: Chapter 12: The Meeting
We continued reading Charlottes web. A new vocabulary word that we talked about was Terrific. We came up with as many synonyms as we could for Terrific. We also started to make our own Webs using popsicle sticks and glue. Next week we will use yarn to make our own web and we will put special vocabulary words into our web.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMrIGPqP2j8

We also continued working on our second copy of our Persuasive Letter to Mr. Zuckerman. We wrote one together as a class first and then used our OREO graphic organizer to help us in organizing our writing. We tried to add as many examples or evidence that we could think of to extend our writing and really make Mr. Zuckerman CONVINCED in our OPINION.

Sentence Starters to help us when trying to PERSUADE someone:

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