![]() I hope everyone had a warm and restful weekend. Today we continued our exploration of the First Nations culture within Alberta. Students watched a video (see below) that described how these people told stories through the use of petroglyphs and pictographs . We then had to work together to answer the following two questions: 1. Why do you think Writing-On-Stone Provincal Park shoul be treated with great respect? 2. How is the park important to Alberta's identity? Students have recognized without these images, the stories of the First Nations people would be lost. Students have also brought home a sheet of paper that asks them to help track major life events over the past ten years. Work with your child to determine a minimum of 2 life events each year and record them on the paper provided. Please have your child return it to school on Monday, January 16, 2017. In the gym, Miss Nanavaty introduced students to new movement activities focusing on dance. Ask your child about what they did in the gym today! We continue to explore how estimation can be used as a tool to help check the accuracy of our work in mathematics. Students completed several word problems that had them looking at a chart and reading carefully to determine what place value would be used to estimate. They have brought home their duotangs and should attempt the "Stretch Your Thinking" component as homework. During read aloud today, students discovered how Ivan was captured in Central Africa. He describes his life before he is captured (how they fed, foraged, napped, and played), the members of his family (a troop), and how he is meant to act like a human when Mack brings him to live at his home. Students had opportunity to participate in several new literacy stations this week: 1) They can read facts about Alberta, decide which region they relate to and work with peer to place them in the correct location on the map; 2) Focus on reading a calendar and recording important upcoming events; 3) Work in their visual journals to complete a reader's response to the novel "The One and Only Ivan" and; 4) Smart Board Spelling. Lastly, students worked together to brainstorm many important life events that they thought would happen in the life of a First Nations person hundreds of years ago. They are using this information to create a pictograph depicting this story. They are focusing on the "I can" statements below when completing this task:
Reminders: Jan 11 ~ School Council/Fundraising Meeting Jan 17 ~ Winter Activity Day Jan 19 ~ Fun Lunch Feb 3 ~ PD Day
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