Good evening families I hope this weekend has been wonderful for you all. Wishing all the Mom's a very happy Mother's day, I hope you found some time this weekend to enjoy some time for you!


Thank you again to all the volunteers who were able to join us this week at the Zoo. The students had an amazing day!

Our highlights for our week together was our field trip. Our learning intentions for this were:

ELAL

  • I can create written messages that align with an intended audience or purpose
  • I can organize sentences in a logical sequence to create written messages
  • I can collect ideas that are inspired by a variety of experiences
  • I can apply creative thinking to create representation of messages
  • I can include adjectives and adverbs to add interest and detail to writing
  • I can use organizational tools to record or categorize information
Science
  • I can discuss ways to respect plants and animals while interacting in various environments. 
  • I can explain positive and negative impacts of human behaviour on plants and animals. 
  • I can discuss how humans might interact with land, plants and animals and if they see land, plants, and animals as equals.
  • I can discuss how various components of Earth interact to support life. 

Students have worked hard this term learning about different types of writing and practicing their skills. We connected our science curriculum to our writing by learning about life cycles, where in Canada we can find different animals, what we can do to help protect the environment, and other amazing facts. We were super engaged in our learning and became pretty attached to the animals we chose to write about!

Going to the zoo on Monday was an exciting chance for us to see our brochures and migration stories come to life. Students were thrilled to see the moose, porcupine, buffalo, caribou, monarch butterfly, and polar bear, and goose that they wrote about, in real life!















During the program, our facilitator, Tom shared important information about the animals living in Canada's Arctic region. We learned about adaptations, like large polar bear paws, their three layers of fur, caribou antlers, how long seals can hold their breath, prickly stems on arctic poppies, muskoxen with their thick, heavy fur, and the difference between animals with eyes in the front and animals with eyes on the sides. We learned about the divergence of ice in the spring and the convergence of ice in the winter. Tom read us a story about our beloved polar bear, Siku, and how he came to our zoo from Winnipeg. We even felt some real polar bear fur!























See you all tomorrow friends, just a reminder that Friday is a PD Day and Monday is Victoria day holiday.

Ms. Craik



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