Adventures in Room 4: Weekly Update

Date: December 14, 2018

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

Ask Me About…
● School performance of Treasure Island - Incredible!!
● Luminary project
○ Brainstorming winter adjectives, nouns and verbs
○ Writing winter poems
○ Illustrating the winter poem
● Math Journaling
● Subtraction strategies
● Finding and correcting mistakes in writing and math
● Read alouds: The One and Only Ivan, Winter stories and poetry
● Fine Arts: Perspective drawing
● Social: Holidays Around the World research project using Google Slides
○ Using Read and Write Gold to support reading the websites
○ Learning to find facts and citing sources (no plagerism!)

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

Tuesday ● Buddy Reading

Wednesday ● School Assembly and Ugly Sweater Day

Thursday ● Buddy Craft Activity

Friday ● Belfasty Day and Pyjama Day

● Last day of classes before Winter Break

A Look Through the Arts

Art Centered Learning in Room 2…
● Luminary Art Project: poetry, visual arts, and sculpture

Notes:
● Luminary Art Project:​ Please make sure your child brings a tool, like a hammer, to school
on Monday to begin their luminary project.
● 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/
Adventures in Room 4: Weekly Update
Date: December 14, 2018