Week of Oct 19

Here is the homework for this week.

Remember Photo re-takes on Monday. Please email me if your child is needing a re-take.

Highlight of the week.

Students have begun work on their acorn art for this year. We have chosen to emulate the style of Canadian artist Ted Harrison to create beautiful natural images. You will have the opportunity to purchase this image through Acorn Art which will come home next week.

 LA This week we continued developing our writing through the creation of monsters. Students drew a monster and have used their language skills to write a descriptive paragraph about their monster. Our focus has been on the use of adjectives, adverbs, (triple scoop words) formulating full sentences and the use of similes to compare elements of their monster with known items. 

Math We have continued to investigate numbers in a variety of ways through representing and patterning and have incorporated a problem solving focus.

Science Our animal research has continued and the students are finalizing the gathering of facts which they will use to create a poster representing important ideas about their animal. We have also begun looking at habitat and how adaptations allow an animal to better survive in certain habitats.

Social We are currently investigating the geographical regions of Peru and we will use this information to se how the people live in specific areas and how the land shapes their lifestyle.

 Week of Oct 12

Here is the homework that will be due on Oct. 24th.

I am looking forward to seeing everybody on Monday morning.

 Week of Oct 5th

Here is the homework due on Thursday Oct 15th.

Week of Sep 28

Highlight of the week.

Students participated in  our Orange Shirt Day for indigenous  rights and showed their support through activities and discussion about the rights of all citizens in our community.

LA -In LA students continued to work with adjectives and adverbs to develop their sentences. Students created a paragraph  about Terry Fox through the use of a web, created by them, to aid in organizing their writing. They also used this idea in developing their details through writing about fantastical creatures. The focus was on good sentence structure and adding specific supporting details.

Math- We continued our focus on place value concepts as well as patterning. Students have worked with increasing and decreasing patterns through pictures and numbers to gain a deeper understanding of how patterns develop.

Science- Our study of animals continue as we have looked at the major animal classifications and how specific characteristics place creatures in a determined place. Students have also begun a research project about an animal of their choice. They will gather basic information and represent their findings in a poster.

Social- We have begun to wrap up our study of mapping and will begin to examine the four countries as our focus this year. This study will be viewed through the lens of how "Quality of Life" is exhibited in these countries. This is our main theme as it ties in with the other focus which is Global Citizenship.

This weeks homework can be found here.

Here is October's calendar for you to have a look at for the month ahead.

 Sep 29

It is Orange Shirt Day tomorrow!

You can wear an orange shirt tomorrow to support our indigenous community.

 Sep 27

Remember Picture Day tomorrow!!!

Find this week's homework here

 Week of Sep 14-18

Highlight of the week.  

It was a wonderful day on Friday as all the classes participated in our Terry Fox run. It was great to see so many donations brought in to support this very worthy cause. The students gave a tremendous effort and walked, jogged and sprinted around our field. As a class, we have been looking at the distance Terry Fox covered on his run and we compared that to our walks around the block . We discovered that we would need to walk around the streets that surround our school 84 times a day to equal the distance that Terry covered in 1 day.  Amazing! 

LA.  - continued focus on creating well-developed sentences 

        - using webs to organize ideas

        - introduction to paragraphs

Math    - working with numbers to 1000

            -representing numbers in a variety of ways

            -comparing numbers

Science    - classification of animals based on observable characteristics

Social        - investigating maps and map structures

Homework

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