Congratulations to our October Pillars of Care award winners!! We celebrated each and every child in the classroom today.
Care for Learning - Zeeshan
Care fro Others - Kurtis
Care for Place - Brianna
Care for Self - Hayla
Care for Respect - Rawda
No school tomorrow -
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Reading non-fiction is important for little learners to develop their background knowledge and vocabulary. Pairing non-fiction and fiction gives us the opportunity to compare stories to fact. Today we found facts inside a picture book about pythons and were excited to learn a little something as well as be entertained. Comprehension questions were used as a follow up.
Patterns on the 300 chart (grade 3) and 900 (grade 4) were the goal today. We wrote about patterns when counting by 5, 10 and 100. Tomorrow we will look at counting by 25.
Biodegradable and decomposers were the words of the day. Looking at waste in our world we talked about how these are two important components.
Read 20/10 and record on the yellow reading log.
No school Friday -
Dress-up day at Beddington Heights Thursday Oct. 29 - Come as your favorite book character. Mask protocol is in place. No weapons or inappropriate costumes.
We wrote about patterns on the hundreds chart today that we created last week. I wrote the first response, together we wrote the second response and the third response was written independently. I was looking for students who could identify odd/even, the digits in the ones and tens place and increasing or decreasing patterns.
The book, "If You Give A Beluga A Piece of Bacon" is being written by the whole school this week. We had our turn to add one page of the circle story. Ask your little learner what we wrote and passed on.
Read 20/10 and record your reading on the yellow reading log.
Little learners have been searching through the social studies text book to locate nonfiction text features. Looking for the Table of Contents, webs, headings index's etc. will help them to become familiar with the feature and see the different ways information can be represented.
Looking at the geographical region of the mountains we brainstormed all the things we already know about mountains, asked a few questions we would like answers to and then made predictions about the book we were going to read. We used the Table of Contents to find out what was in the book, chose a topic to read about and found out that lodgepole pines (which are Alberta's provincial tree) were named because the Native people collected them to make their teepee. As we collect information about Alberta we will be recording it together.
Skip counting was our math focus this morning using a hundreds chart. We skip counted in various ways and next we will write about the patterns we notice. I will be looking for students who can talk about the numbers by what is in the ones and tens columns.
Read 20/10 and bring back your reading record tomorrow -
Scholastic Book orders are in backpacks today. New this year - Scholastic will ship to your home and you can order online whenever you want at schoastic.ca/clubshop. When you check out, please enter our class code: RC248826 our earns free books and you will get free shipping on orders over $35.00. Thanks for supporting readers at home and at school.
We used the Scholastic book orders this morning to do some shopping and then we sorted the books into fiction and non-fiction titles. We found out that this month there are very few non-fiction titles to purchase!
Grade 4 began using Mathletics this morning and are working their way through place value and addition. Grade 3 continued to sort odd and even numbers after writing the numeral of an expanded number.
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We had a look at fiction and non-fiction books today. We started with looking at two books about spiders and noting how they were the same and how they were different. We created a list of their features such as illustrations vs. photos, different titles and facts vs. story. We zoomed in on the first page noting a table of content and a title page. Students then worked with their own pairing of books noticing their similarities and differences. We will be 'zooming in' on non-fiction for the next couple of weeks.
Everyone sorted their personal deck of cards today to determine even and odd numbers. Students estimated the value of their even and odd piles and then were adding the numbers together. I was looking for students who could add with a strategy such as making a friendly number and if their estimates were reasonable.
This week we are walking to remember Chanie Wenjack a victim of the residential school system in 1966. This is to honour and build awareness about the distance that Chanie Wenjack was attempting to walk when he left residential school to reunite with his family. We will be walking the school block counting our steps. Our goal as a school is 644 km. Today we each walked 2,924 steps.
Read 20/10 and record it on your reading log
Good Canadian children need to be dressed for the weather. We are outside three different times of the day and there were a lot of wet feet and cold hands after phys. ed. this morning. Inside shoes too please.
We attempted to answer the questions - "Where do you think Alberta is located in Canada?" and "If you were driving around Alberta what would you expect to see?" this afternoon. Chat your little learner up and see what they are thinking.
Return reading logs on Friday
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Picture day tomorrow
Headphones please for classroom use. We all logged into computers today and accepted the invitation into the Google classroom. Your little learner is all set up in case we have to go back online. We will be using Mathletics, RazKids and Tumblebooks in the classroom all of which have audio. Please put names onto the headphones.
Problem solving during math was our focus this morning. I am looking for little learners who circle numbers, underline the question, box important words, evaluate and solve. Using this strategy will help them to focus on the question and get themselves going. Every problem must have a picture, numbers and words to be complete.
Reading logs are at home for home reading every night. Read 20/10.
Picture day Thursday
In a backpack near you is a home reading log. For the month of October we will be keeping track as a school how often our students are reading at home and for how long. Please make an entry on the log every time you read and then we can keep track each week how much we are reading!!
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No school Friday or Monday
Today we used the new vocabulary from Wanted!! Ralfy Book Burglar that we read yesterday and played a game to determine the meaning of the new words. We then took those 12 words and put them into alphabetical order. Some of the words required us to look to the second and third letters to determine which order they need to be in. This is something you and your little learner can do at the dinner table, or while driving - talking about which word comes first when thinking about A,B,C order.
We continue to skip count and add and subtract larger numbers. Basic facts are something that can also be worked on at home. We are all responsible for addition and subtraction to 18. Grade 4's should now have two packages of work handed in to me for marking. Please ask your student if their math has come home for homework.
Waste In Our World is our current science unit. We have defined waste and are becoming aware of the four types of waste.
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No school Friday or Monday
I refer to the beginning, middle and end of a story all the time when we sequence a story, look at important events, discuss problem and solution and summarize so today we focused on the words beginning, middle and end. After listening to the book, WANTED! Ralfy Rabbit Book Burgler we created an anchor chart together about what a good author would include in the beginning of their story, middle of their story and end of their story. What we discovered was an author really needs to capture the readers attention. Everyone then wrote an exit slip answering the question; What do you think is more important, the beginning, the middle or the end of the story.
Grade 3's were looking for patterns on a hundreds chart this morning and writing about counting by 2. They completed a pocket chart to show me they could count by 2. Grade 4 continued to work with place value, number names, expanding numbers and word forms. It is a lot to remember!!
Working as scientist this afternoon we were outside observing what was in the circle of string we placed on the ground. Great afternoon to out in the sun!!
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No school Friday or Monday
Our Terry Fox run was a success. Thank you for your donations. We will count our money tomorrow and then add it to the rest of the school. Our goal is $400.00.
We wrote writing goals for ourselves today - we have agreed that good writers make their writing interesting for their reader and clear for their reader. We have set strategies such as spelling, interesting details, and great beginnings to help us get to our goals. Writing is a process and we will be able to fine tune a lot this year. Our writing goals are glued onto our writing folders so we can refer to them as time goes on.
Ask your little learner how they are coming with their Me on the Map project, Terry Fox writing, warm colour, cool colour tree art and their message of understanding. All things we tried to finish up this afternoon.
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