February 18 - 22

Remember to dress for the weather. If we can go outside for lunch and recess, we will. Make sure you have boots, a toque, mitts, snow pants, and a winter jacket.

Note: Ms. Jenn and Ms. Tanya have submitted student writing to the Meaning of Home contest. If you didn't bring in your form for us to submit, you can still do it at home. The due date is Monday, February 18th. Click on the link to submit... https://meaningofhome.ca/submission-form-2019/

Monday, February 18

• Family Day
• No School

Tuesday, February 19

• Welcome Ms. Brandt and Ms. Lusk
• Microbits Workshop (https://kidscodejeunesse.org/microbit.html)
• Science: How Plants Communicate and Think
• Math: Number Talk on Estimation and Origami Pig
• Literacy: Canadian Reader - The Man Who Walked... And Walked
• Social Studies: Alberta Stories - iMovie

Wednesday, February 20

• Music
• Gym
• Math
• Literacy
• Free Write
• Book Exchange

Thursday, February 21

• Gym
• Microbit Reflection
• Alberta Stories
• Energy Diet Challenge
• Math- Estimation and Exploding Dots

Friday, February 22

• 11:45am dismissal
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Canadian Energy Diet Challenge
What is a Carbon Foot Print?

Use the link below to calculate your carbon footprint- Think about:
How does your footprint compare to the average Canadian Carbon Footprint?
How does a your carbon footprint compare to that of Amal's?
Share how you could lessen your carbon footprint?
Can a small action have a big impact?

Calculate your carbon footprint

Micro-bits
Check out microbit coding


What things can a microbit do?
What did I like about microbits?
What was challenging about coding a microbit?
How would I like to try and use microbits in the future?





Estimation
Estimation is the ability to use information to make an educated guess where you can explain your reasoning.  When looking at this picture you should be able to make an estimate and explain how you arrived at that estimate.

I see 5 red, 4 white, 4 green, 1 yellow and 1 blue.  That is a total of 15 dice but I know there must be more because this is a 3D object.  So I think there might be 28 dice.

Walk Across Canada
Walking to All Canada's Oceans- Use this article from the Vancouver Sun about Dana Meise to practice your predicting, questioning and summarizing.

We used a Canadian Reader article about Dana Meise walking across Canada to all three oceans to practice our Predicting, Questioning and Summarizing skills.  We discussed as a large group what we thought the non-fiction article might be about.  We used
- titles
- headings (sub titles)
- pictures
- captions
Then we read independently and wrote at least 1 question for each heading.
After that we summarized in our table group using our questions to guide us and then thinking about what was most important and what details from the reading high light those important facts.  Finally we answered some comprehension questions.

The Wild Robot

What predictions can you make using the cover of Peter Brown's The Wild Robot?
- Robot was made in the forest
- Robot is hunted
- Robot meets a boy in the woods
- He could find a boat and go sailing
- Supplies found in a boat
- Maybe there is a small island
- Maybe it is Easter
- The robot is like a chicken
- Maybe he is hungry and eats the egg (cooks it on the sidewalk, fries the egg, lays an egg)
- Finds egg in a nest to raise it
- Sea otters trapped and the robot saves him
- Sea otter lays an egg
- Robot finds the otter in a river or ocean
- Complications with robots and water
- Near a rocky ocean when sailing find the rock
- Sailing the boat found egg, the egg hatched a sea otter
- Gave egg to sea otter

Exploding Dots and the Algorithm