Adventures in Room 4: Weekly Update

Date: Friday, January 26, 2018

Looking Back
This is a list of concepts/activities covered this week that are meant to
spark conversation about learning.

Ask Me About…
● Blackfoot Nation:
○ Many uses of the buffalo visual journal art and research
○ Online research about tipis
● Math: Continuing with The Big Dinner Math Inquiry
○ Math Posters – showing math strategies through drawings, symbols and words
○ Math Congress – sharing our strategies and discussing efficient strategies
○ Ratio Tables – What are they? How do they organize math thinking? How do they
represent multiplication? Criteria for using ratio tables
○ Money – symbols and the importance of the decimal point
● ELA:
○ Oral storytelling: Blackfoot story symbolism represented on tipis
○ Author: Paul Goble
○ Opinion Letter writing: should we have swimming lessons at school?
● Fine Arts: Introduction to Shadow Puppet Plays
● French: Colours
● Gym: Collaborative Games with Mr. Arron and 2 on 2 Volleyball games

Looking Ahead
A Peek at the Week…
Monday ● Swimming Lessons
● Library Exchange

Tuesday ● Swimming Lessons

● Girl Power/Good Guys Workshop

Wednesday ● Swimming Lessons

● Girl Power/Good Guys Workshop

Thursday ● Swimming Lessons

● Fine Arts

Friday ● Swimming Lessons

Notes:
● This update is CASL compliant.​ Please refer to the Belfast Website for other important
dates/events to the school community.
● Belfast Website:​ ​http://schools.cbe.ab.ca/b203/