Great Week Ahead!

We have a great week of learning ahead of us! Please make sure that your child is dressed warm on Tuesday for our field trip to the Inglewood Bird Sanctuary. Half of the morning will be spent in a classroom on site and the other half (45 minutes) will be spent outside doing a nature walk. Because it's a half day trip we have to use the most of our time and we won't be able to take snacks to the bird sanctuary with us. Hopefully kids can have a big breakfast before they come to school to hold them over until lunch :) 

Wednesday March 8th is fun lunch if you were able to order it. 

Writing

In writing, we have been reading and learning about the story structure of "pourquoi tales". Pourquoi means 'why' in French and these stories typically attempt to explain why or how things are the way they are (such as animal traits or natural phenomenon like thunder or rainbows). Students are enjoying hearing stories like "How the tiger got its stripes" and "How the elephant got its long trunk". This week we will start crafting our own pourquoi stories about an animal of their choosing that lives in the arctic. They get to choose what animal feature/characteristic they would like to explain and imagine what that animal used to look like 'long ago'. While their stories will be fictional, they will also have an opportunity to research the actual scientific aspects of their animal's adaptation. 

Social Studies

We have finished up our focus on the diverse landscapes of our communities in Canada and will now be exploring the people, cultures, and traditions of an Inuit community, an Acadian community, and a Prairie community. To start we will focus primarily on the people that live up north in Nunavut. We are looking at what early life was like and how people survived the extremely cold winters and lived off the land and animals. Students are beginning to understand how important animals are to the Inuit culture and will be exploring how this culture honours and utilizes every element of the animals that sacrifice their lives for human survival. 

Science

We are jumping into our unit on Hot and Cold Temperatures and will be using our Social Studies topic of the Arctic to get started. Students will be excited to do an experiment this week to discover how marine arctic animals can stay warm.