Storms a-brewing!

Well actually not REAL storms! But today we started talking about hot and cold air masses talked about the "front" and saw an visual analogy with water and oil...get them to explain it to you. It was an interesting experiment! It would be a great idea to start watching the weather reports at home and discussing what the meteorologists are explaining in the next few days.  We're going to start talking about what happens when weather systems move in and out.

 Even though our whole class did not attend the running meet at Red Deer Lake School today, a good number from our class did and everyone ran really well! Congratulations to everyone in Run Club who gave their all today! It was fun to show some "Bronco pride" out and about! We have one more race next week and I'm sure it will be exciting as well.

 Those students who did attend the Running Meet today will want to catch up on the video that we finished watching in class this afternoon. The link is here and also on the Science links page (if you click on the tab at the top).  It is a great video on weather that is worth a second and third viewing to really grab all that vocabulary and those ideas that could be a little tricky to understand.  Anyone in class would benefit from watching a second time too!  There are also some links for practicing cloud vocabulary and other Science information.  Check it out!

In math we wrote our math "Big Number" tests today and will be starting to talk about adding and subtracting with regrouping next.  Practicing number facts regularly at home can help with these larger calculations.  Students all have their mathletics passwords and are strongly encouraged to use them at home regularly if at all possible.

Just a little note about library today: because there were pictures going on in the Library today, students returned their books but were not able to take out new ones today.  They will be doing so tomorrow and then everything should return to normal in the weeks to come.

Terry Fox Day

Our Terry Fox run was a great success.  We ran or walked around at least one of the lakes.  I was proud of so many of our class that made the effort to do both.  And what a beautiful day for such an event!  Thanks to all of you who made a donation to the Cancer Foundation and supported our Terry Fox run!

Lately we've been working hard to finish our "Big Number" poster projects.  They are looking great and most of us have finished and have them up already.  Great job, everyone! To finish up our big numbers study we can anticipate a test either the end of this week or the beginning of next.  As long as they know all the different ways to show a number like they have shown on their poster, the test should be a breeze!  We just need to look at some problems with big numbers to wrap up.

Thanks to all of you who have donated magazines to our class collection.  We do appreciate it.  Tomorrow we will start a page in our visuel journals about clouds using pictures we find in magazines so this is a great help.  This is the time when we WANT our heads in the clouds!