Hello Everyone,
Special Activity
A Bug's Life:
Our students have been learning about insects in our world over the past month. On Tuesday, October 31 in the morning, we would like to show the students, "A Bug's Life", a G-rated movie representing an ant colony who is looking for bugs to help them fend off grasshoppers from their colony.
Here is the review of the movie on common sense media:
https://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/a-bugs-life
This would connect to our study of insects and address the following curricular connections:
General Learner Expectations
Students will:
2-10 Describe the general structure and life habits of small crawling and flying animals; e.g., insects, spiders, worms, slugs; and apply this knowledge to interpret local species that have been observed.
Specific Learner Expectations
Students will:
Contact Information
Teacher: Cheryl Konno – [email protected]
Room Coordinator: Beccy Mycroft – [email protected]
Mail Pocket:
- nothing today
Up coming dates:
- Oct. 30 – FIELD TRIP – Heritage Park - we are leaving the school at 8:30 and back around 2:30pm.
- Please dress for the weather most of our trip is indoors but we will be walking from building to building outside.
- Please send a healthy snack and lunch. Water bottles should be leakproof.
- Nov. 5 – Daylight Saving Time – Fall Back
- Nov. 7 – Photo Retakes
- Nov. 8 – Fun Lunch – Extreme Pita
- Nov. 8 – School Council Mtg. at 6:30
- Nov. 10 – Remembrance Day Assembly at 10:45am
- Nov. 17 – NO SCHOOL – PD Day for teachers
- Nov. 22 – Fun Lunch - Opa
What we have done today:
Daily Challenge:
We are going to use our time machines on Monday. We will be going into the past looking at the area around Calgary before it became a town. One of the sessions will look at First Nations and Fur Traders and the other session will look at a family that came to the prairies to settle. Discuss with your family questions you might ask of the people that you would meet on our travels or things you wonder about.
Special Activity
A Bug's Life:
Our students have been learning about insects in our world over the past month. On Tuesday, October 31 in the morning, we would like to show the students, "A Bug's Life", a G-rated movie representing an ant colony who is looking for bugs to help them fend off grasshoppers from their colony.
Here is the review of the movie on common sense media:
https://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/a-bugs-life
This would connect to our study of insects and address the following curricular connections:
General Learner Expectations
Students will:
2-10 Describe the general structure and life habits of small crawling and flying animals; e.g., insects, spiders, worms, slugs; and apply this knowledge to interpret local species that have been observed.
Specific Learner Expectations
Students will:
- Recognize that there are many different kinds of small crawling and flying animals, and identify a range of examples that are found locally.
- Recognize that small animals, like humans, have homes where they meet their basic needs of air, food, water, shelter and space; and describe any special characteristics that help the animal survive in its home.
- Identify each animal's role within the food chain. To meet this expectation, students should be able to identify the animals as plant eaters, animal eaters or decomposers and identify other animals that may use them as a food source.
- Describe the relationships of these animals to other living and nonliving things in their habitat, and to people.
- Identify and give examples of ways that small animals avoid predators, including camouflage, taking cover in burrows, use of keen senses and flight.
Contact Information
Teacher: Cheryl Konno – [email protected]
Room Coordinator: Beccy Mycroft – [email protected]
Mail Pocket:
- nothing today
Up coming dates:
- Oct. 30 – FIELD TRIP – Heritage Park - we are leaving the school at 8:30 and back around 2:30pm.
- Please dress for the weather most of our trip is indoors but we will be walking from building to building outside.
- Please send a healthy snack and lunch. Water bottles should be leakproof.
- Nov. 5 – Daylight Saving Time – Fall Back
- Nov. 7 – Photo Retakes
- Nov. 8 – Fun Lunch – Extreme Pita
- Nov. 8 – School Council Mtg. at 6:30
- Nov. 10 – Remembrance Day Assembly at 10:45am
- Nov. 17 – NO SCHOOL – PD Day for teachers
- Nov. 22 – Fun Lunch - Opa
What we have done today:
- We had learning centers. (TR)
- We played Bump. (CM)
- We had gym and we played Hot and Ready and Train Tag. (PM)
- We had math centers. (ES)
- We drew our time machines. (MH)
- We made our pumpkin puzzles. (ZG)
Daily Challenge:
We are going to use our time machines on Monday. We will be going into the past looking at the area around Calgary before it became a town. One of the sessions will look at First Nations and Fur Traders and the other session will look at a family that came to the prairies to settle. Discuss with your family questions you might ask of the people that you would meet on our travels or things you wonder about.