Pumpkin Math

This week we met our new student teacher, Ms. James! She will be joining us for about a month starting Nov. 12! The students were very excited to meet her! Ms. James got to help us during pumpkin math!

During pumpkin math we begun with sorting our pumpkins from shortest to tallest, which led to a lot of discussion about whether we look at stem, or what to do when the pumpkin is not even. 

  

Then we compared the difference between cardinal and ordinal numbers.

Students made predictions about the height in unit cubes, weight in kg and circumference in cm. LOTS of different kinds of MEASUREMENT!! 

We also wrote notes about pumpkins, please don't forget to ask your child about their pumpkin math! We will continue with some pumpkin problem solving this week!

Social Studies Update - Support Required

Do you have a relationship with India, Peru, Tunisia, Ukraine or local Indigenous Tribes? 

Several classes (Ashby-Winters, Boshmann, Cooper and MacQueen) are currently putting together collections of artifacts of each of these populations to use with all four classes.

To give you an idea of artifacts we are looking for, Mrs. MacQueen has put together a Ukrainian Collection with the following items;

- folk tale book written in both English and Ukrainian (The Snow Grandparents -students act out)
-comic books in Ukrainian
-children book in Ukrainian
-traditional dancing costume pieces (headpiece, sash, beads, slippers)
-wooden beaded boxes
-pictures of children in traditional costumes from different regions of Ukraine
-pictures of traditional religious celebrations (Easter, Church Service, Wedding)
-pussy willows
-nesting dolls
-copy of the Ukrainian alphabet
-Ukrainian egg making kit

Really, anything that you think would enhance the learning of the culture and country. Please write a brief description of what the item is and it's cultural importance. We will return all items to you at the end of the school year. We will be sure to bag items carefully. If you wish to make any items donations, please mark your wishes on the bag that you send them in.

If you wish to send in traditional food or make a presentation for any one or all classes, please contact your child's individual teacher.

Thank you for your help!

Auburn Bay School is partnering with the Calgary Food Bank once again this October to help fight hunger in our community.

We Scare Hunger is made possible with the support of Help Hunger Disappear®, Campbell Canada's national hunger awareness and food drive program. Since 2008, Help Hunger Disappear® reminds us that we can all play a part in helping the more than 900,000 Canadians who rely on their local food banks every month.

The Auburn Bay School We Scare Hunger Campaign officially begins on Tuesday, October 1st and will end October 31st. We invite you to be a part of the change our students are working hard to create. Students have been asked to bring in food bank items throughout the next month Last year we brought in 1720 pounds of food. This year, our school goal is to collect 1800 pounds of food!

To give you an idea of how much food that is, the average family of 4 people receive an estimated 125 pounds worth of food, filling approximately 2 grocery carts per family. So, if we divvy up the 1720 pounds worth of food collected last year, this amount supported about 14 families, filling 28 grocery carts with food. (Calgary Food Bank) The Calgary Food Bank Wish List can be found here https://www.calgaryfoodbank.com/wishlist/

Please only send non-perishable donation items.

Together we can make a difference.

Thank you,

Auburn Bay School

Week Four Book a Day

Has your child told you their favourite book?

How Many Minutes We Read in September

"I'm doing so much math" Kaden
"This is so confusing!" Ali
"I'm doing so much math my mind is exploding!" Brodie
"I am enjoying this math and hoping that we get to do more math like this." Erin
"I don't get this when I saw it. Now after talking with my partner I'm starting to get it." Ashton
"It is really hard." Halle
"I feel like I'm getting smarter!" Aysa

Here are all of our minutes for September and our estimates for how man minutes we all read together.

Some used base ten blocks and some used the algorithms.

Here we are talking about breaking the numbers apart and adding that way.

Terry Fox Run

Reminder Terry Fox Run is tomorrow!

Toonies for Terry 

Auburn Bay School will be participating in the Terry Fox Run on Wednesday, September 25th. As we lead up to our run, classes will be working towards increasing their stamina in Phys. Ed while fundraising money for cancer research. Please bring in Toonies for Terry to your classroom teacher as we spread cancer awareness.

On the day of the run, it is important that students wear appropriate outside shoes for walking/running along with dressing appropriately for the weather that day. Parents are welcome to join us for this event out on the soccer field at 1:45 PM on Wednesday, September 25th. The Terry Fox Run will last approximately 15 minutes and students will line up with their homeroom teacher to go back inside for the remainder of the afternoon when we have finished. We kindly ask parents to wait outside while this is happening and to pick up your child from their normal dismissal spot.

Week of Sept. 23-27

OOppps! I realize I did not publish last week's post! I really will get better at this! Here are the results of our Week 2 and 3 Book a Day Challenge:

In Math we have been exploring ways to make ten and number lines. These strategies will help us with our mental math fluency. The students have been working on the Magic Card game (which some might have shown you already), 4x4 grids finding numbers that equal ten, Rolling for Tens and number lines. In these photos you can see the students helping each other to place numbers and representations of numbers on a number line. Which one goes first, how much space should be between the numbers...

Please check out the calendar page and homework section later today for updates.