Mrs.Cooper Grade3/4

  First, Mrs. Cooper would like to thank all of the students for their awesome work while she was away, a thanks to Ms. Demarco for taking such great care of our class, and also for all of the kind words and cards. It was a fantastic and exciting week with our first field trip of the year. The Calgary Hitmen BE BRAVE anti-bullying game was not only a great atmosphere, but it also allowed us to have some great conversations about conflict and bullying behaviour. We spent some time before the game learning about the history of pink shirt day, and ways that we can help connect people who experience bullying. We started brainstorming other ideas of what we can do to prevent bullying, and what it was like for each of us at the game. Many of us thought it was cool that Mrs. Cooper's son was playing there in his first WHL game. Next week we will use these ideas for paragraph writing. In math, we are continuing to practice our recall of multiplication facts. We are encouraged to practice a...

Just a short post this week because we had a short week - but as always lots of learning! The highlight of our week was having Ms. Sharon teach us about textiles, making fabric and fabric dyes. It is part of our artist in residence work. We are making one part of a larger art installation about "Tables Around the World". We are using our knowledge of the land in Peru, Tunisia, Ukraine, India and Alberta to understand what materials are available and how they might influence the textiles or fabric that comes from that area. We will be continuing this work next week as well. We can't wait to see the final product! We continued to develop our reading skills during book club. We are practicing reading "like we talk" so it is smooth and interesting to listen to. We are also exploring quotation marks and dialogue and trying to change our voices when different characters speak. In math we began to explore the relationship between multiplication and division, an...