Apr. 13-17

High Frequency Words

We will be working on spelling the First 300 High Frequency words with a spelling test each Friday. During the week please practice reading, writing and nicely printing these words. The words this week are: 

UNESCO Heritage Sites in Alberta

- A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a special place deemed to have universal value to humanity

- Alberta is home to several UNESCO sites including:

    - Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks

    - Dinosaur Provincial Park

    - Head Smashed in Buffalo Jump

- We used google slides for the first time this year to make presentations about all of the different site

- We learned how to add pictures, change the font and delete slides

Geometry

- We have started our unit on shapes

- We reviewed the names and attributes of 2D shapes and 3D shapes

- We learned how 2D shapes form 3D shapes

- We learned about transformations: flips, slides and turns

Phonics - Spelling Rules

- We are looking a spelling change rules in phonics

- This week we learned about the Doubling Rule for -ed, -ing, -er and -est

- When we add these suffixes to a word with one vowel and one final consonant we double the consonant

- For example: hop - hopped and hopping, red - redder, reddest

STEM Challenges

-In small groups, we worked through different challenges 

-We practiced talking turns, listening to others ideas and work as a team

-Be sure to ask your child what challenges they worked through