Predictions, The Candy Conundrum, Water Filter Testing and A Community in the Past

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Literacy: New Strategy of Prediction:

We continued looking at Character Feelings and this lead nicely into Making Predictions as a way to understand what we are reading better. Our predictions must be confirmed our adjusted based on the reading clues. 

I think________________because...
What do you think will happen based on the information you got from your reading?


Here is how you can practise this strategy at home:

Math Candy Conundrum Problem!

In math we have been following steps to solve a word problem:

We looked at the Candy Problem and worked in groups to solve the 4 problems:

We got large chart paper and worked in groups of 4 to solve each problem...

We had to communicate as a group to decide who would use which strategy

We had to compare our answers and see if we were being accurate

We had to organize our thinking on the page

We had to write an equation for our work

Ask me what was the best part about doing math in a group?

Ask me what was the hardest part about doing math in a group?

Today we got to use sticky notes and did a math forum where we looked at everybody's posters with their math thinking and then had to write a note about something we were confused about and or something that we liked that they did in their math thinking. This was our chance to give feedback to our classmates that would help them to learn and for us to see how our classmates solve problems. 

Tomorrow we will get some time to go back to our poster and adjust our thinking or add or change anything based on the feedback


Then we will share and present our posters with the class


Ask me which strategy I used to solve the Candy Math Problem? How did it would in my group? Did we listen to each other? Help each other? learn with and from each other?

Water Filter Testing!!


Yesterday we began testing our water filters. We had to make a hypothesis about whether our design would work and why we thought so? 

We poured dirty water into our filters and observed what we saw happen to the water

Ask me what level of Turbidity my water changed to if it started at a TURBIDITY LEVEL 4?

Today we had to do a reflection on our water filters:

Ask me what I wrote and drew?

Social Studies Inquiry
Today we read a book called "The Little House" by Virginia Burton.

This book helped us to begin a conversation about THEN and NOW. We will be learning more as we learn about Calgary in the Past. 

Global Citizenship:

Today we talked about making special cards for the Royal Oak Community Craft Sale. We would like to make cards and then donate the money to a charity. We were thinking of donating to an organization that would help clean water for more people to have access to this basic need and right. We were inspired by Stephen from Stephen's Backpacks because at such a young age he decided he had to make a difference and with the help of his family he was able to. We want to make a difference too!

Here are our card making ideas for the Craft Sale: