Week of Nov. 18-22, 2019

Hello Room one crew,

It has been a great week. Here's what we've been getting up too:

-We have been working on a school-wide felting project to replace the art piece at the front entrance of the school
-We sorted our recycling bin to find out the recyclables (and non-recyclables) coming out of our class room for Science
-In Math we have been working on using open numberlines for double digit addition
-Our "My Cozy Cabin" project for Social studies is almost completed. Projects are due this coming Friday.

Next Week:

-We will continue our school-wide felting project
-Students will complete their "Cozy Cabin" informational poster by Friday
-We will be practicing expressing common emotions in French
-After concluding "The One and Only Ivan" we will be picking a new novel study!
-We will continue to practice our reading, writing and math skills on a daily basis.

Have a great weekend!

-Dallin Ursenbach

November 11-15th, 2019

Hello parents,

Hope this update finds you well. We had a busy week and the students were working very hard.

-All the students have been able to access their "google docs" which has allowed us to focus on polishing our personal writing through drafting and editing.
-In Science we started our "Waste in our world" unit by brainstorming garbage and then sorting it into garbage/ recyclable/ biodegradable
-In Social studies we are halfway through our regions poster project. We are looking to finish it before parent teacher interviews
-In math we have been working on adding and subtracting in the hundreds and thousands

Next week:
-Parent teacher interviews on Thursday **Still have a lot of room!***
-We will be learning about landfills and recycling processing plants
-Final week for Alberta regions poster
-We will be assessing student number sense
-Our feting artist in residence will return on Monday

Have a great week!

-Dallin Ursenbach

Weekly update Nov. 4-8

Hello Parents, Here's a look at our week in review moving into the Remembrance day long weekend.

Our class put on an exceptional performance of "Sadako and the 1000 Paper Cranes" for this years Remembrance Day ceremony. It was great to see that many of our parents could come out to see the show.

-In Social Studies we have started a poster project in which the students will demonstrate their understanding of the geographical regions of Alberta.
-In math the students worked on demonstrating their understanding of place value through the use of base 10 block representation and number lines
-In Language Arts we cup up old nonfiction books and made collage posters of their text features (I.e. titles, maps, diagrams and  captions)

This week:

With the major performance behind us we will be starting some new curriculum as well as finishing up some projects for parent teacher interviews.

-In Science we start the "Waste in our world" unit
-In Social the students will use the text features they learn about the previous week to complete their "My cozy cabin" regions project
-In Language arts we will be refining our sentence writing by learning how to use topic sentences and juicy words to elevate our writing.
-In math we will be using rulers to visualize subtraction and practice our measurement skills

I apologize for missing the last weekly update. It was due to some particularly nasty illness running through my family.

However, here are a few photos from our Belfast Halloween festivities.

Have a great week,

               Mr. Ursenbach