Hello Room 8 families,
We are continuing our exploration of animal adaptations. The physical adaptation we discussed this week was animal fur. We were lucky to have some real samples of Alberta wildlife fur in our classroom. Students investigated each same of fur and used their sketching techniques to record these artifacts of learning.
This week we had an in-class field trip where we explored why bees are so important, what we can do to protect them, and we even built our very own bee house to take home!
This program gave the Grade 1 students an opportunity to learn ways in which animals depend on plants and way in which plants depend on animals, for example, how animals may help spread pollen.
Our completed bee houses will be next home next week after students are finished painting!
We've also been working on lots of subtraction practice lately! This is one of the games we've played with a partner to practice strategies to figure out the answer.
We've also began a writer's workshop where we are creating our own legends. We are following a similar format to the Ojibwe legend How the Beaver got it's Tail.
So far we have chosen a Canadian animal from the selection here:
Then we created a Character Development page, where we thought about our animal inside and out.
Then we did a planning page for our legend. Our next step is to share our thoughts and ideas with a partner and get some helpful feedback and then begin writing a draft copy!
Ask your child about what animal they chose!
Upcoming Dates:
June 9th - Field Trip
June 10th - School Shirt Day
June 19th - Father's Day
June 21st - National Indigenous Peoples Day
June 23rd - Fun Lunch Extreme Pits (order through https://healthyhunger.ca)
June 24th - Sports Day
June 28th - Last day of School
Kind regards,
Mrs. Amber Melindy
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