Reminders, In-Class Field Trip and Guided Insect Walk, Prepping for Insect Research!

Reminders:

Ms. Bennett will be putting together a Remembrance Day slideshow and is inviting school families to send her photographs of family members who are veterans or current members of the Canadian Arm Forces. Please send in all photographs by the deadline of Friday November 1st. With the photographs please include the Canadian Arm Forces veteran or current member’s name, the war or peace keeping mission they participated in, if possible, where the photo was taken, and their relationship to you (for example great grandfather, aunt, uncle, etc.). Ms. Bennett’s email address is mebennett@cbe.ab.ca

Thank you, 

Learning Environment Committee

Reminders: Tomorrow my Raz-Kids information will come home in my home communication folder. Raz-Kids is an excellent way to get more reading practice in different way than our home reading books. Please follow the attached letter and use your username and password information to get started. Please keep the attached username and password somwhere safe as it will remain the same all year long. 

https://www.raz-kids.com/main/ViewPage/name/login

Reminders:

We would like to create our own calm down bottles and are requesting if you have any 500 ml water bottles that are empty and clean could you please send them into class. We are hoping to have a enough that the whole class can participate in this activity by this Thursday October 24th. 

Literacy

This week we have continued to practice retelling as a reading comprehesnion strategy. Being able to retell the important parts about what we have read is an important indication that we are understanding what we are reading. 

If we are unable to retell these parts we need to slow down, back-up and re-read until we can. 

Using the 5-finger model as a guide to retell can help us to remember the story sequence.

This week we have added in a few more details to our 5-finger Retell:

Insect Experts and Guided Wetland Walk

Today we were lucky to have two Environmental Sceintists into our classroom to talk about local insects. We spent the first 45 minutes putting together some familiar insects and reviewing important body parts, adaptations and life cycle.

They then led us on a guided walk of our wetlands and we got to explore sights, sounds and clues that insects are nearby:

Insect Research

Today we explored a website called insects of Alberta:
http://www.insectsofalberta.com/main.htm

We had to do a mind map of an insect that we would like to research using websites, books, articles, photographs and magazines. We will begin this research by using graphic organizers to record our initial findings. Next week we will learn how to create a GoogleSlides presentation so that we can create a final presentation to share with our class and with you about our insect of choice.