Happy Monday!

Today we began researching Regions of Alberta using the Zooming in Alberta website. We are working on filling in a chart about all 6 regions and the landforms, climate, vegetation, animals, bodies of water and natural resources found there. Some interesting things we learned are:

- The Canadian Shield is like a wall of rock
- The Boreal forest covers almost half of Alberta
- There are a lot of animals in Alberta
- On a map the rocky mountain region looks like a zig-zag
- There are flowers in the mountains
- The grassland is the driest, hottest and windiest region
- Alberta looks like a rectangle with one corner chipped off
- In the Canadian Shield there are animals like wolverines, grizzly bears and caribou
- In the Foothills there are animals called mink
- There is a flower called the western wood lily
- There is a plant called bear grass

In math we worked on estimation and rounding. We used rounding to estimate the answer to addition and subtraction questions, solve them and see how close we were. We used plickers to  see what we knew.

We observed a picture of an owl swooping down to catch some prey. We will be using this photo to work on writing a good paragraph all week.

In literacy for word work we made a 3 section t-chart and cut out pictures of things that are recyclable, compostable and landfill - please send in more flyers.

We have been reading the novel, Number the Stars. Ask us what happened today.

Reminders: 
- Photo orders were due today
- Choir on Tuesday & Thursday
- Choir at Spruce Meadows on Friday
- Jersey day is Thursday