Mrs. Spreen's Class Blog

Final Post...for 2014! We have had a lot of fun skating this week. Thanks to all parents who have come out to help us with skates - particularly those who came more than once!  While this consumed a lot of time, we also managed to fit in core curriculum. In Social, we began a study of Alberta's fossil heritage.  We are beginning to develop a sense of why fossils are important to us aside from being cool. We also have started talking about fossil fuels and their advantages, challenges and downfalls. In Science, we are continuing with waste in our world.  We are now finishing waste water, toxicity, and other producers of waste. In Language Arts we wrote a "Santa/Elf/Reindeer stuck" story. Some of these are very funny! We also completed our read aloud novel " The Giggler Treatment" by Roddy Doyle.  There were times when the entire class was roaring with laughter at the shenanigans in the story. Tuesday afternoon we constructed and decorated graham wafer

December 8 - 12, 2014 We have completed our experiment discovering how much waste our classroom creates in a week.  We collected everything that would normally be 'thrown out', sorted it into categories (we decided these together), and weighed each category. We discovered that we are wasting 4.8 kilograms (10.56 pounds) of food weekly!  We have decided we would try to eat more of the food brought in our lunched and to take home that which is not eaten rather than throwing it out. We also began our 'Garbage Garden" to see which begins to decompose first - photocopier paper, newsprint, magazine paper, construction paper, fast food wrapper, Styrofoam or plastic food wrap.  We will be digging up the samples after the Christmas break to discover what has happened during the past month. We will be discovering the other creators of waste in the next section of this unit.  We then have a few cool projects to complete to conclude this unit, a few days of reviewing and t