Tuesday, January 16

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BRAND NEW - New Spelling words. Your child should have the new spelling words listed in their agenda. All words were copied but the 'Challenge Words' are only meant for those who want to try writing them. The test will be next Tuesday.
Here are the words: a, an, at, and, am,
Challenge words: beaver, water



Social Studies (with a little bit of the Building Things unit for Science)
We've worked hard on brainstorming our list of what would make a successful urban community. Each child choose (up to) 5 items from the list of 50 that they think they would be good at making.
This is what came from those requests:

1.  Millie – Big Mall

2.  Max – Ski Hill

3.  Tarrack –

4.  Isabel – Pet Store

5.  Margaret – Skyscraper

6.  Malia – nature/mailbox

7.  Estella – hotel

8.  Sam – 7 –Eleven/Mac’s

9.  Ainsley – house

10.             Rhys – nature/mailboxes

11.             Ella – zoo

12.             Ashlyn – hospital

13.             Evann – cars/traffic

14.             Stanley – cargo train

15.             Madelyn – fire station

16.             Julia – C-Train

17.             Catherine – City Buses

18.             Caleb – Canadian Flag/Army

19.             Sarah – airport

20.             Lucas – restaurant

21.             Emmett – school

22.             Adriana – grass/roads/sidewalk

23.             William – fun activity (Iganation)

24.             Phoebe – Library

We got to work. First each of us made a plan. Here are some plans. Then we discussed how we need to be flexible with the building materials. As well, there are times when we make a plan and sometimes we need to change the plan - AND THAT'S OK.  

Here are some plans and our designers at work!

Kananaskis In the Classroom: Today we had a performance in the Gym, where we learned about beavers and their habitat, food and behaviors. Here are some pics from the performance. 
As well, we had a more 'in depth' presentation in our class with Brendan (the Kananaskis presenter) and learned more about beavers. 
We were fortunate to have this today because in Grade 1 we study The Needs Of Plants and Animals. This curriculum topic will be further studied in May.