Ms. Kooner's Grade 3/4 Class

Monday, November 25 - Sketching artifacts from the old classroom in the Dr. Carl Safran building - Tour of the old building that was Calgary's first high school - learned about Calgary's past with wood, sandstone and brick buildings - Up to the 8th floor to view the downtown skyline and we saw the Cougar mural - walked to Cassie Suche's mural. Cassie spent about 30 minutes with us answering our questions - walked back to 2School and Cassie helped us create our very own mural that had "the city" as it's theme Tuesday, November 26 - Interviewed Mr. Usih, the Chief Superintendent - Watched a board meeting with the trustees - Walked to Thomson Family Park and played on the playground and learned about the history of the park. It is at 1236 16th Ave SW - Journaled about the park Wednesday, November 27 - Started our morning at the Central Library - we had a special room booked just for us - toured the library and journaled about art, architecture an

Here is our learning for the week of Nov. 12. In gym we started learning volley ball skills. We have learned how to "bump" and "volley". We got to try carrying large buckets of full water bottles across the field to experience what life is like for Nya from A Long Walk To Water. In social studies we have started learning about the natural resources in Alberta. We are researching solar power, hydro power, oil, natural gas, coal, agriculture and forestry. We are going to become an expert in one of these areas and then we will present our findings to our classmates. In music, we discovered a different instrument. It is called a gamalon and it's from Indonesia. It's sort of like a metal drum. We also wrote a 3 section story based on the feelings and rhythm from a song. In French, the grade 4s are learning colour names. The grade 3s learning a new math game called Achi. We started using the website readtheory.org to improve our reading comprehension.

Here is our learning for the week of November 4. Today we had our Remembrance Day assembly. The grade 5/6s sang songs and read poetry. We created a visual journal page about remembering those who have fought for our freedom and those that have lost their lives doing so. We also made poppy art this week that was displayed in the gym for the ceremony. We also read a story called "The Promise" about 2 sisters that were prisoners in a Nazi concentration camp.  For literacy centres we finished writing a letter to a character and we got to start a new task. We picked a different character from a book we have read and pretended we were a journalist interviewing that character. We had to write interview questions and answers. In science, we presented our recycled materials projects. We had time to practice as a group and then we presented to different groups of peers. In math we started to solve multiplication problems by using either repeated addition or drawing an array. We