Bow Habitat

We had a busy week with offsite activities.

During our trip to Bow Habitat Station we:
-learned about fish senses including some scientific words including lateral line, otolith and nares
-created a habitat for a fish (ask your child the 4 things this included)
-used our sense of touch to figure out the mystery objects in the boxes
-saw some prehistoric fish (sturgeon)
-did a smell scavenger hunt to see if we could find our way home like salmon do to lay eggs
-explored the museum and saw other animal habitats including a beaver lodge and marsh

Most of our writing this week was based on our trips to Fort Calgary and Bow Habitat as students reflected and connected their ideas and experiences back to our focus of community, past and present and citizenship.

Students have been doing some measurement and sorting during building activities and we continue to practice basic facts and number sense using cards and games like 'guess my number.'

Here are a couple examples of mystery number games you could play at home to help develop number sense. Finding a hundreds chart to use as a visual will be helpful to have and kids can eliminate numbers as they get more clues.

1. My number is between 0 and 100
2. It is a 2 digit number
3. It is odd
4. The 2 digits add up to 9.
5. What could the possible answers be?

Another option is have your child ask questions that you can answer 'yes' or 'no'
Eg. Is it greater that .....
Is it even....
Is it less than....

Reminder: PD day Friday March 1. No school for students.