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Month: September 2015

Toonies for Terry and Running Club Starts Tomorrow

Toonies for Terry and Running Club Starts Tomorrow

If you can, please remember to send a toonie or loonie with your child for Toonies for Terry. It is also Highroad Knights Day!

Just a note that Running Club will be starting tomorrow. Mrs. Goosen and Mrs. Folkerts will be running it as in the past. Here is the note from them:

Mrs. Folkerts and I are very excited to announce that we are ready to begin recess running club. This is open to all students from K – 6 and will take place during Wednesday and Friday morning recess. The first portion of running club will begin on Wednesday, September 30th and continue until the end of November.

All students in kindergarten to grade six are invited to join, regardless of fitness level or experience with running. Walking breaks will be encouraged when necessary and students will gradually build their stamina with each run they do.

Students will run around a portion of our field and laps will be recorded. At the end of the club we will give out awards based on the average laps completed and a special treat will be given to the boy and girl in each class with the highest number of laps. Students who are interested in joining the running club will sign up with their classroom teacher. There is no cost to this club but we do ask that students who sign up stay committed and attend each session. All students will need is their water bottle, running shoes and a great attitude!

We look forward to encouraging your child in their journey towards health and physical fitness! Please email Mrs. Goosen at pgoosen@highroadacademy.com with any questions or concerns you may have.

Sincerely,

Mrs. Goosen & Mrs. Folkerts

Terry Fox, Our First Highroad Knights Day and More!

Terry Fox, Our First Highroad Knights Day and More!

Fabulous start to the week. We did lots of work on the chromebooks this afternoon. I’m trying to remember to get some photos. I will put some up soon of the kids using the chromebooks.

Just wanted to mention a couple of things:

  1. Terry Fox Day – Terry Fox day is on Wednesday, September 30th and we will once again be doing our Toonies for Terry. If possible, please send a toonie or loonie with your child on Wednesday as we raise money for Cancer research. We will be doing some running sometime during that day in memory of the remarkable achievements of the late Terry Fox.
  2. Highroad Knights Day – Wednesday is also our first Highroad Knights Day. Students are allowed to wear Highroad apparel along with pants/jeans (no leggings). Highroad apparel will be available in the school foyer on Wednesday morning before school. Shirts are $10 and hoodies are $30. If students do not want to wear Highroad apparel (which is fine), students should wear the normal uniform. Highroad Knights Day are one way that we, as a school support the various athletic teams and build school spirit.
  3. Pop bottles– You may have noticed a note in your child’s planner asking them to bring an empty 2 litre pop bottle to school. As we are starting our habitats unit, each child will be building their own habitats using pop bottles. This won’t be happening for a couple of weeks but wanted to get this out now so that families can start thinking about getting one. I would prefer that the pop bottle be clear and not coloured.
Spelling List and Memory Verse for the Week!

Spelling List and Memory Verse for the Week!

Here are the spelling words and link to Spelling City for the week:

P2 by ihancock

Here is the link to Spelling City. Don’t forget to bring in your pre-test to score a bonus point on your Spelling Test.

SpellingP2

Here are the memory verses for this week. Please remember that students need to do both memory verses for Friday.

Romans 5:8
But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

John 3:16
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

The End of Our Oobleck Unit

The End of Our Oobleck Unit

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I just wanted to give an update on our Science. We’re rocking right along. Recently, we had been looking at the properties of Oobleck. Do you remember what properties are? We can find the properties of objects around us by using our 5 senses; what we see, feel, hear, smell and taste. So,

Properties are the things or words we use to describe different objects so we can tell them apart.

We played with and investigated the properties of Oobleck to help us understand what made Oobleck different from other substances like water or play-do. You had some wonderful properties you discovered as you worked with the Oobleck.

I also announced today that Scientists themselves do not understand why Oobleck has such strange properties but they are working very hard to find out more, just like we are!!!! However, the big announcement was that Oobleck was actually a combination of cornstarch, water and red food colouring. You can actually make your own.

1. Mix two parts cornstarch with 1 part water. Get your parents to help you with the measurements. You may have to add more of each to get it perfect. You need to have more cornstarch than water though.
2. Add a couple of drops of food colouring.
3. Play and have fun.

Today was a blast! Literally! To end off our look at Oobleck we took a look at Mars. Now you may be asking what does Mars have to do with Oobleck? Well, that would be a good question!! We talked about Mars because the scientists who created the Mars Rover had to go through the same scientific process to create the Mars Rover that the students did to create their Oobleck Machines.

In the first part of our Oobleck unit, the students had to think about Oobleck, play with it, explore, discover, experiment, test, observe and use their senses. Scientists had to do the same thing. They had no idea what Mars was like and yet had to use what they had (pictures, etc) to come up with a machine that could withstand anything that might happen.

The scientists held a convention to share their ideas, discuss, argue, put ideas together and listen to each other. The students had to do the same thing to create their rules for Oobleck. Finally, both the scientists and students had to use all their observations and ideas to create and design a machine they thought would be able to function on Mars or Oobleck. We had an amazing time discussing and sharing ideas and pictures.

Here is the video we watched at the end of the day today! It was a great end to our Oobleck unit.

Have You Seen the Size of Our Solar System?

Have You Seen the Size of Our Solar System?

Found this neat video the other day that I thought I would share with you. This group of guys wanted to help people to understand the real size of the solar system. All the pictures we see of the planets show them really close together. However, that pictures is not accurate. The actual distances of the planets are huge!!!!! So these guys decided to try and show how big the distances were by drawing them out in the desert. Here is the video:


 

Our First Spelling List and Memory Verse!

Our First Spelling List and Memory Verse!

Here it is! Our very first spelling list of the year!!!! You will find the list of words below. Under that, you will find a link to Spelling City where students can practice the words, play games with the words and try a spelling test using the words. There is also the option to do a practice spelling test using the words for the week. If your child does the pre-test and gets 100%, they can print out the certificate and bring it to me to get a bonus mark on their spelling test on Friday. Parents can also just write that the test was completed in the child’s planner.

Spelling P1 by ihancock

Here is the link to Spelling City:

SpellingP1

We are also starting our memory verse this week! Our first set of memory verses is:

Romans 3:23

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Romans 6:23

For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in

Christ Jesus our Lord.

 

 

Connect With Our Class!

Connect With Our Class!

The end of the week is here. It was a great week but I’m sure the students are tired and ready for a break. We did so much this week but one of the biggest things we focused on this week was focus and keeping your mind on the task at hand. While we may think that we can listen and play with objects in our desks or do other things, research so that that is not effective and our brain’s ability to listen diminish’s the more we try to multi-task. So, one of the concepts we worked on was attending to instructions and discussions, which is not easy to do after a whole summer away from the class! 🙂

I believe that I now have everyone subscribed to our blog. But…..

Did you know? There are other ways to connect with our class!

We are also on twitter and instagram.

Our twitter account is:

@mrhclass1

And our instragram account is:

mrhclass1 at https://instagram.com/mrhclass1

Follow us on both networks and see all the cool things happening in our class!!!!!

 

Glad I’m Not This Weatherman!

Glad I’m Not This Weatherman!

Listen to this weatherman pronounce the longest name of a place on Earth. The place is in Wales, where they speak both English and Welsh. However, most place names there are in Welsh which is very difficult to pronounce at the best of times. Wonder how long this guy practiced?

 

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