On the note of climate and weather

When you hear "climate change", what do you think about?  We had a very thoughtful and respectful conversation about climate change and our environment at the end of the day today.  I was impressed with the level of reflection that students put into their comments and how they were able to transition their comments into a real group discussion.  Great thinking!  Students are encouraged to take their reflections home and continue to think about this in discussions this evening.

We are still finishing up our climate projects and students need to continue working on them at home. There will be a period or so of work time tomorrow with oral presentations (hopefully) starting on Monday.  That means they can take the weekend to finish up and practice their oral presentation.

With brisker weather and frost on the ground, we need to be a little more conscious of tracking mud and dirt into the school.  Some of us are not as vigilant as we need to be when changing our shoes coming into school and we need to make sure that we are respectful of our school building.  Students should make sure to have appropriate indoor shoes at school.  And let's not forget to watch the weather when getting dressed and bringing the right outside-wear to school.  We've been spoiled up until now, but it IS getting cooler these days!

We have set up the ground rules concerning bringing student personal electronic devices BUT students need to wait to bring them to school until they have brought home information letters and permission forms to sign.  So a little more waiting is in order!  Hopefully letters can go out tomorrow, but as soon as they are available, they will be sent home and we can start our digital portfolio journey...among other things!  Thanks for your patience!

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.