Adventures in Room 4: Weekly Update

Date: Friday, September 7, 2018

Looking Back: ​This is a list of concepts/activities covered this

week that are meant to spark conversation about learning.

Ask Me About…
● Sharing our ideas to help establish our classroom culture and expectations
○ How are we going to show ‘The Golder Rule’ towards others in the classroom?
● Growth Mindset: ISH, The Most Magnificent Thing, Rosie Revere Engineer
● STEM Challenge: Rosie Revere Copter Challenge
● Perseverence Skits: How does one get out of “The Dip?”
● Incredible 5-Point Scale: What does it look like in our classroom (volume) and personally?
● Read ALoud: A Boy Called BAT
● ISH - The importance of ‘ISH’ with respects to creativity and self-confidence
○ ISH Drawings: blind contour trio and back-to-back drawings
○ ISH Poetry: brainstorming our favourite words and starting the writing process
● Math:
○ Mathematical Mindset:​ everyone​ can do math, ​working with others​ enhances
learning, we learn from making ​MISTAKES​ and doing math ​visually ​creates a
greater understanding (Youcubed.com: Week of Inspirational Math)
○ How Many Triangles?, 13 Animals Problem and Dot Math (discovering patterns)
● Gym - Co-operative Games

Looking Ahead
A Peek at the Week…
Monday ● Fine Arts

Tuesday ●

Wednesday ● Fine Arts

Thursday ● Reading Buddies with Ms. Fraser

Friday ● Fresh Air Friday​ (beautifying our garden areas)

● Welcome Assembly​ (11:15am -12:00pm): All are welcome to attend!
● Picnic and Popsicles​ (12:30 - 1:30pm): After school ends for the day,
parents/students are welcome to bring their lunch and join the staff in
the field area for a ‘meet & greet’ picnic; we’ll bring the popsicles!

Notes:
● Please fill out the ​Welcome Package​ and return it to class as soon as possible.
● 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/