Monday December 5th

Notice:
Bring in Granola Bars for our community service project.
Friday Spelling Tests went home
School newsletter went home for those who do not get an electronic version

We began the day with spelling and a math evaluation quiz. For spelling last Friday's test were handed back and the students were given the two word lists as a word search. It is another fun way to look at the words and find the pieces. There are lots of words containing the word 'oil' etc. so the students will see the patterns.


The math quiz will help us make math groups and plan our math lessons at the level of the students. Over Christmas I will send home 14 math pages witch I told the students are like a math Advent Calendar. They can do a page of math at their level a day. I would like the students to work on their times tables as we are big on multiplication and division after the Winter break.

After recess the students went to Mrs. Awalt for music where they practiced for the upcoming Winter concert. This was followed by Social Studies where we looked at another important transportation element for the First Nations plains peoples, the Horse. We looked at 3 questions on the horse and First Nations Plains Peoples. 1) How did the horse make hunting easier? 2) How did the horse make moving around easier? 3) How would the horse help in defending the Tribe. 4) How were the horses trained by the plains First Nations. We are watching the movie "Spirit" about a herd of wild horses and creating a t-chart for our video notes that show the similarities and difference between the European and First nations ways of working with and training the Horse.

After Lunch those students not in choir listened to and did a report on Bing Crosby one of the quintessential Christmas song Voices. After choir we continued with the Movie 'Spirit' about the difference between how First Nations and the Military broke and trained the Horse. First nations peoples did not have the metal bits so had to use more humane methods of guiding and training horses. We watched for about 40 minutes then in the last half hour the students were given time to work on their computer projects. Today we spent most of our time working at the desks instead of the computer as I felt they need to focus on written desk work after last week of having high access to the computers


See you all tomorrow... Happy birthday 'D' and thanks for the candy canes.