Oct 5 - Making 10 Booklet
- pages 1-4
- practiced sight math words: zero - ten
Jan. 6 - Learned number 31
- Reviewed more, less and fewer vocabulary
- Equality/ Inequality booklet pgs. 4-7
Feb. 1 - Strategy- doubles plus one - I add two of the same number and add one more
ex. 4+4+1=9- same as 4+5=9
- Complete Double Plus One to Near Doubles pages in Addition Mini-Unit 3
Social Studies
June 13-17
June 13
Saskatoon Test
June 14
A Community in the Past
- Colouring the front cover- What do you notice? What do you see in the picture?
- Map of Canada- What province do we live in? Where is it in relation to Meteghan, Iqualuit, and Saskatoon? Where is Lethbridge?
- Map of Alberta- What are Alberta's sources of water? Lakes? Rivers? Oceans?
June 15
A Community in the Past
-Closer look at the Alberta's flower, flag, and bird
Great Horned Owl
Wild Rose
Alberta Flag
June 16
Vocabulary
June 6-10
June 6
Looking at 8 different parts of culture: language, music, dance, stories, clothing, art, festivals, and food.
Art
June 8
Natural Resources and Goods
in Saskatoon
June 10
Review
May 30 - June 3
May 30
Watched several videos:
- Looking at the past in Saskatoon
Compare and Contrast:
Saskatoon with Nova Scotia
May 31
Let's learn Ukrainian- worked with Mrs. Fuller to learn some new words
- Settlers from Ukraine in Canada video
Daily Life in Saskatoon- 8 flaps
Language- In Saskatoon people speak English! Many speak Ukrainian and Cree.
- Use the interactive website to research on of the other flaps (more time tomorrow)
June 1
Looking at 8 different parts of culture: language, music, dance, stories, clothing, art, festivals, and food.
Dance- Hopak is a dance with at least 4 people (2 girls, 2 boys) The dancers spin lots! The men jump up in the air, do splits and touch their feet!
Clothing- They wear lots of red. Red= wealth $$. Their blouses have embroidery. Ladies wear headdresses.
June 2
Looking at 8 different parts of culture: language, music, dance, stories, clothing, art, festivals, and food.
Music- Lira= sounds like bagpipes. Sopilka= sounds like a recorder or flute. Kobza= sounds like a guitar with extra strings. Tsymbaly= sounds like a old old piano and is played with wooden mallets.
Food- They enjoy cabbage rolls. It is veggies rolled in cabbage.
Paska is a sweet bread - it's very decorative.
Perrogies- pastry filled with potatoes.
Festivals- Vesna Festival (info on the interactive website)
Ukrainian Day in the Park (info on the interactive website)
June 3
Looking at 8 different parts of culture: language, music, dance, stories, clothing, art, festivals, and food.
Stories- Mr. Cat = a Ukrainian Fairy Tale.
The Rooster and the Cat= a Ukrainian Folk Tale.
Wesakechak and the Fire= a Cree Trickster Tale
May 25-27
May 25
- Correcting Flags of Saskatchewan and Ukraine
- Who are the First Peoples of Saskatchewan? Cree, Dakota, Dene, Nakota, and Saulteaux.
- What type of home do the Saskatchewan First Nations have? They live in teepees. To learn more about the teepee
click on the picture.
Each colour has a meaning, it's important to
understand before you decorate your own
paper teepee.
May 26
- The Early Days In Saskatoon
- Read- How Wesakechak
got his name.
- Take out the last to pages (very back) cut out the eight squares and glue the strip onto the back side "Let's Learn Ukrainian" and the page after Grain Elevator Art.
May 16-20
May 18
- Spring in Saskatoon!
- Finding Saskatoon on the map. Where is Lethbridge? How can we get from Lethbridge to Saskatoon?
- Putting Saskatoon on the Big Map of Saskatchewan
May 19
- Clothing in the past and clothing in the present. Research about the clothing. Head to google see what you find.
- Draw one of your people from the past and one from the present (pg. 4 of your duo-tang)
- Research about the weather Saskatoon in the winter and weather in the summer. Head to google see what you find.
- Draw the view from a window showing what it would look like in the summer and winter in Saskatoon (pg. 5 of your duo-tang)
- The Flag of Saskatchewan and Ukraine. Explore what you can find out about the flags. Don't forget to colour them!
April 11-14
Apr. 11
- Services!
Apr. 12
- Review- Answer questions on "All About the Acadians" page.
- Create a die with review questions.
Yellow lines- cut
Pink lines- fold
April 4-8
Apr. 4
- Important Acadian- Choose from these three Acadians and answer 3 questions about them. Write about this person in your social booklet and draw a picture your person.
Apr. 5
- Natural Resources- Anything that is found in nature that can be used by people is a natural resource. This includes water, forests, fossil fuels, minerals, plants, animals and even air.
Apr. 6
- Natural Resources continued
- How do these natural resources help the community of Meteghan?
Write two really good sentences.
Apr. 7
- What are Goods? Goods are things made from Natural Resources and they are sold or shared. Ex. Clothing.
Examples of Goods found in Meteghan.
March 28- April 1
Mar. 28
- Traditions- What are they? How do we see traditions? What traditions do we already know about? People with families from other countries have different traditions.
- Video on Mi'kmaq Traditional Dancing.
- Social Duo-tang- cut and glue to make flaps for traditions flip chart.
- Traditions are: beliefs and customs handed down from generation to generation. Ex. Eating turkey on Christmas Day.
Mar. 29
- Traditions Research. Looking at Music, Festival, Food and more. (Link on Seesaw)
- Social Duo-tang- short notes on traditions flip chart.
Mar. 30
- Traditions - more about Music, Festivals, Stories, and more. Lesson on Seesaw
- Social Duo-tang- short notes on traditions flip chart.
Mar. 31
- Traditions - more about Art, and Dancing. Lesson on Seesaw
- Social Duo-tang- short notes on traditions flip chart.
- Acadian Flag and Flag of Nova Scotia
March 21
Mar. 21
- Put in the new flip pages into your duo-tang behind your first flip book pages
Mar. 23
- Lesson on Seesaw
Mar. 23
- What are some things to do in Meteghan?
Independent Research- choose 4 of the 5 from your next part of you duo-tang.
New links for Lobster Fishing, and Clam Digging​
March 14-17
Mar. 15
- What did you learn about the Mi'kmaq people from our book "Mi'kmaq Community" by Dolores Nixon?
- Write 3-4 notes about your learning in your flip chart in your social duotang.
Mar. 16
- British flag
March 7-11
Mar. 7
-Things to do in Meteghan
Mar. 8
- What to wear in Meteghan when you are whale watching and nature hiking.
- Who where the first people living in Nova Scotia Video
Mar. 9
- Create Flip Book
Mar. 10
-Learning a few things in French
February 28-March 4
Feb 28
-Pictures of Meteghan- What do you notice? Where could Meteghan be?
-Map of Canada- Find the province Nova Scotia on the map of Canada.
Mar 1
-Exploring Meteghan-
Mar 2
-Travelling to Meteghan
-Using a lined piece of paper
research how you would travel
to Meteghan. Part 1
Mar 3
-Travelling to Meteghan
-Add to your travel information. Be specific... Where are you going to stay? (name a place) What will you do there? (name activities that can be done)
February 14-18
Feb 17
-Journey to Metaghan- Discussion about the title page and decorate it appropriately.
January 17-21
Jan 17
-Review of reading a map, key, and compass rose.
- Practice reading a map.
- Prepare for show what you know "test" tomorrow.
January 10-14
Jan 10
-Review of reading a map, key, and compass rose.
- Create a map of your bedroom.
Jan 11
- Finish your map of your bedroom.
Jan 12
- At the back of your social booklet- cut out the 5 half circles and create a flip book by only gluing the tops of each.
Jan 13
- Create a map of your choosing. Make a practice map on your white board as a sketch, then create your map in your booklet. Make sure to have a title, compass rose and at least 10 items on your map.
Dec 13
- Practice using directions on pg. 8
December 13-17
Dec 15
- What is a Symbol and how do we use them to read a map? Practice using symbols on pg. 9 and 10
- Definitions-pg. 11
-map: It is a picture of drawing of all or part of the Earth's surface
-compass rose: It is a symbol that shows the cardinal directions- North, East, South, West
-key: It us an inset on a map that explains the symbols.
Dec 8- Decorate pg. 1- cover page
- Read pages 2-3 of new social unit.
- What is a compass rose? How does it work? Practice using it on pg. 4
- Practice using directions on pg. 5
December 6-10
Dec 10
-Pg. 6,7- What are symbols on and how can we use them to read a map. Practice using symbols and cardinal directions to build a map.
November 1-5
Nov 1
1. Watch "Inuit Drum Dance"
2. Read "The Hunter and the Promise"- Story from the drum dance.
3. iPad picture in booklet- Draw about Inuit story telling through drum dancing on one iPad
4. Create the envelope for iPads "Memories from Iqaluit" (loose leaf page from Oct. 8- NOT the page that is already in the duo-tang)
Nov 2
1. What to do for fun in Iqaluit-Watch "Throat Singing", "Two Foot High Kick", "One Foot High Kick", "High Kick"
2. iPad picture in booklet- Draw about Throat Singing on one iPad and the Kicks on one iPad
Nov 3
1. All about the Inuit
Nov 4
1. All about the Inuit
2. Finish the iPad squares
Nov 5
Iqaluit Test
October 25-29
Oct 25
1. Read "I build an Igloo" and watched- How an Igloo keeps you warm
2. Discussion about what igloo's are made of, and what the Inuit people would live in when the snow melts.
3. Answered the questions about the Early Days in Iqaluit
Tupiq- Animal Skin Tent
I do not own any rights to this photo
Oct 26
1. Read "Tulugaq and the First People"
2. Discussion about food in Iqaluit and food in Lethbridge.
3. Food in Iqaluit page- Research 4 different foods and the prices of each in both cities. Why do you think the prices are so different? How could you make things cheaper in Iqaluit?
Oct 27
1. Read "The gift of the Inuksuk"
3. Learning about Northern Lights- read "All about the Lights"
Oct 27
1. Arctic Clothing research- What is an Anorak? What are Kamiks?
October 18-22
Oct 18
1. Read Tulugaq and the Snowy Owl- Inuit Story
2. Look at weather in Lethbridge and Iqaluit. What is similar? What is different?
3. Venn-Diagram- What do they/we wear?
Oct 19
1. Finish Venn-Diagram- What do they/we wear?
2. Flag of Nunavut. Make sure to label your second flag.
Oct 20
1. Tale of the Tundra- The Owl and Siksik- on Epic
2. Watch Touring the Town- Iqaluit
3. Discussion- What do you notice about Iqaluit? Plants? Animals? Houses? Weather?
4. Watch the video again
5. Write what you notice about Iqaluit.
Oct 21
1. Observation and Inquiry of Iqaluit (discussion)
2. Inquiry about Iqaluit- write three additional interesting facts.
October 4-8
Oct 4-
1. Watch video to introduce the new unit.
2. Discussion about video.
3. Decorate title page of Iqaluit booklet (blue duo-tang)
4. Colour Nunavut Territory on the map on page 2 (backside of the cover).
5. Orange dot where Iqaluit is.
Oct 5-
1. Watch video about Nunavut.
2. Discussion about weather, clothing, etc.
3. Create outfits for your two people. One male, one female. They should represent the people of Iqaluit.
4. Colour the water around the islands of the Nunavut Territory on the map on page 2 (backside of the cover).
Oct 6-
We are travelling to Iqaluit! But how do we get there?!
- Research what type of transit you will need to travel to Iqaluit. Will you take a train, bus, car, plane, helicopter, etc.? How long will it take you? How much will it cost? What will you eat? Where will you stay along the way?