In writing, we are learning about how to make our writing more descriptive. Today we learned about adjectives and how they can enhance our writing. We started to learn about adjectives by describing how a secret object felt. We came up with words such as soft, fuzzy, warm, and smooth after they had touched a scarf. When they touched our breathing ball they came up with spiky, plastic, hard, and pointy. We learned about how these words give us a clearer image in our minds when we are reading about an object, person or place. Tomorrow students are welcome to bring their own secret object in a bag for their classmates to feel and describe. We will be using these for our writing and then learning about adverbs.
We have started our new science unit on Boats and Buoyancy. We have started by reading a few books about the Titanic - the unsinkable ship. We have been learning about why they thought it was unsinkable, about why it did sink, and about the people who were on the ship. We are hoping that through a variety of science challenges and experiments, we might be able to learn more about what makes boats buoyant and how to fix the problem that the Titanic had. Our challenge will be to create a boat that will survive an iceberg crash! Tomorrow we will be altering an object that floats to make it float and talking about what a boat needs that allows it to float.
Don't forget that this Friday is our first Stampede Pancake Breakfast! We hope to see you here with your family!
Coming Up:
- Pancake breakfast Friday
- Aboriginal Learning Centre Field Trip forms due May 22 (Please send in as soon as possible)
- May 17 - Popcorn Day
- May 18 - Assembly
