UPDATES
Sports Club for Grades One and Two will begin on Wednesday, November 27 and rEun at 11:45 to 12:10 on Wednesdays. This club emphasizes developing and practicing skills that transfer to sports such as basketball, football, team handball, soccer, volleyball, etc. There is a limit of 40 students. If more than 40 students apply, a random draw will be held to determine the members of the club. Please go to the EHS Physical Education blog to sign up (link).
Intramurals for Grades Three and Four will begin on Thursday, November 28 and run at 11:45 to 12:10 on Thursdays. Intramurals focuses on game play in activities such as badminton, basketball, football, team handball, soccer, volleyball, etc. There is a limit of 40 participants. If more than 40 people sign up, a random draw will be held to decide the participants. Please go to the EHS Physical Education blog to sign up (link).
Eco Team will start next Wednesday and will meet every Wednesday in the Learning Commons.
The Joy Pod has posted our 1st learning intention in PowerSchool. You can locate the learning intention under "assignments, mathematics, info". We will be posting the follow up assessment to that learning intention on November 1st along with a new Literacy one. If you require further information please see this link: https://cbe.ab.ca/support/Documents/MyCBE-K-9-Reporting-Information.pdf or email one of the Joy Pod teachers.
HIGHLIGHTS
We are rolling along with our subtraction strategies and learning how it all works. Subtraction is a difficult concept for students to understand. One explanation for this is because children deduce differences from their knowledge of sums. Another explanation is that we are "programmed" to accumulate rather than divest. A third explanation is that in order to subtract, kids either have to count backwards or start with the smaller number and count up, which is counter-intuitive to the concept of taking something away.
We continued with our Buffalo Jump work today. First, students reflected on how a buffalo jump was performed. Second, students are getting very close to coming up with a plan to perform a buffalo jump reenactment. This has been challenging as they have been asked to organize this as a group.
