Reminders...

• Spirit Days next week
• We Care - Mooooostaches pictures - Mon. and Thurs. $2 for individuals $5 per group
• Flakes Musical (K-2) Wednesday evening

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• We are researching and planning our tableaux for our Wax Museum
  • We have been exploring how music affects the mood of a movie in Fine Arts
  • we've been comparing area and perimeter with Cuisinaire rods
  • We learned about the phases of the Moon; the Moon looks different because the Moon revolves around the Earth and the Sun shines on the Moon and we see different shapes of reflected light. This is because the Moon is in different places.
  • We are doing fitness activities in Phys. Ed.
  • We painted things that the Hubble Telescope could see
  • We are starting to learn how to write great story beginnings
  • We "read' a French informational piece and matched pictures to the paragraphs trying to translate or learn what it meant
  • We are having Spirit Days (ballon Pop) for the last 10 days of school before holidays. Today was "Hat and Scarf" Day

Upcoming....

• Sky Science - constellations
• writing French words; French culture - voyageurs
• Math - Adding and subtracting decimals
• Social - Wax Museum assembly - Wed. Dec. 18th in the afternoon
• Language Arts - Writer's Workshop - story beginnings; research and script writing for Wax Museum

Reminders...

• Some students have assignments to be finished at home this weekend. These have been part of our classroom work, however we are moving on to our Sky Science unit and students no longer will have time in class to demonstrate their learning on these tasks.
  • 1. Save the Wetlands poster
  • 2. Wetland food chain
  • 3. Indigenous Artifact - persuasive writing and labeled drawing

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• We are playing floor hockey games in Phys. Ed.
• We used Cuisinaire rods to build ourselves. The white rod was 0.01 and we had to make our face 1 whole.
• Ms. T taught us music beats and games
• We decided on the choices for our Wax Museum tableau. We will present these on Dec. 18 in the afternoon
• We are adding sound effects to a beat in Fine Arts
• We are learning about how the Earth moves - rotation and revolution. We also found out what emits and gives off light.
• Fun lunch was Monday

Upcoming....

Reminders...

• Parent Teacher Conferences (Tonight)
• No School Friday (Tomorrow)

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• We are making a new mural for our front hallway, using wet felting techniques
• We played floor hockey in Phys .Ed. We are developing our skills to be used soon in full games.
• Mixed and improper fractions (grade . 6's) and we learned how to compare fractions to determine which was bigger (Grade 5's)
• Fine arts, we picked songs that remind us of certain emotions and looked closely at the lyrics
• We started Sky Science and created a chart that showed what we know and what we want to learn
• We met with our buddies and helped them with Google Slides
• We finished up our persuasive writing for an Indigenous artifact in Social studies
• We saw the Earth Rangers and met some cool animals such as Monitor Lizard named Blue.

Upcoming....

• sky science
• French culture - voyageurs
• stories of people who settled in Canada;
• perimeter/volume
• more felting next week
• Fun lunch (Subway) on Monday

Reminders...

• No school on Monday
• Tuesday - Outdoor School - Be on time! Go right to the gym with your things. If you have medication, it must be in a Ziploc bag with instructions and a parent signature. Give this to Mr. Symington

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• We performed Sadako and the Thousand Cranes for Remembrance Day
• We wrote the paragraph to advertise the Indigenous artifact we chose
• We are trying to finish our wetland food chains
• We are making Save the Wetland posters, using charts and graphs as well as other non-fiction text features to share our reasons why wetlands are important
• We did the Submarine sandwich problem. It is about comparing fractions. We have 3 strategies for comparing the size of fractions:
  1. same denominator - more pieces = larger fraction
  2. same numerator - larger denominator = smaller pieces so less
  3. other fractions - we looked at which fraction was closer to the whole, to half or to zero to help us decide which fraction is bigger.
• We also played some computer fraction games to help us practice our skills with fractions. They are on the links page of this blog, if you'd like to continue to practice at home.
• We learned about 2 stage, 3 stage, and 4 stage life cycles. We used a Venn Diagram to compare 3 and 4 stage life cycles. Plants have two stage life cycles. Three stage life cycles have eggs, babies that grow larger to adults. Four stage life cycles involve metamorphosis which means a change in form.
• We are reading about Sky Science in Readworks.
• We made a card for Hayley using poetry and similes.

Upcoming....

• sky science
• continuing to improve our non-fiction (persuasive writing)
• stories of people who settled in Canada; Metis culture
• Looking at art

Reminders...

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• Painting pumpkins to look 3D
• Non-fiction text features - interesting ways to show information. We are using these on our wetland murals to share adaptations and interactions.
• We practiced our skills with fractions and decimal equivalents through some online computer games. We played Race to 1 which helped us practice putting decimal numbers on a number line. We also learned ways to compare decimals.
• We are exploring ways Indigenous people connect to the land. We learned that the Northwest Coast People's creator stories involved a Raven and we learned strategies the Subarctic People used to catch moose. We have chosen an artifact that we are going to advertise through writing an advertisement/catalogue description.

Upcoming....

• fractions and equivalence
• strategies to make our non-fiction writing interesting
• saving Wetlands
• Looking at art

Reminders...

• THANK YOU to all of the volunteers for helping with felting on Wednesday!
• The parent night for Outdoor School (if you have not already attended) is Mon. Oct. 28 at 5:30pm
• Forms for Outdoor School are due Tues. Oct. 29

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• We are making a list of biotic and abiotic things in our wetland
• Ms. El finished the book, The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise. It was an interesting book with a lot of hooks, interesting vocabulary, and great description. it is a story "you'll want to listen to!"
• We practiced our Remembrance Day play - :Sadako and the Thousand Cranes:
• Mrs. Austman read us "The Fly" - it's a non-fiction text that is interesting because of the techniques the author used - like humour!
• We made our crests with felting
• We played a decimal and fraction game and we used visuals to help us learn more about them
• We learned how to play "How Close to 100 and "Cover the Field - they are multiplication fact games
• We are making wetland food chains. We should know what producers, consumers and decomposers are.
• We weighed and carried the bags for our Kidney foundation donations.
• We had picture retakes.
• We reflected on what we know about Indigenous identity and started to learn about different First Nations groups.

Upcoming....

• ordering decimals .... tenths, hundredths, thousandths
• estimation
• grouping ideas and writing
• informational writing - learning about and using non-fiction text features
• Indigenous Identity - connections to the land
• Looking at art

Reminders...

• VOLUNTEERS needed for our felting Wednesday am
• Outdoor School parent meeting Mon. Oct. 28 at 5:30pm (before the Parent Council meeting) .It is mandatory that parents of students going on overnight trips come to the school to learn about the trip. Please let me know if you are attending.
• Reminder - there is a process for applying for funding for your chid, if you need it. Please email me and I will send them to you.
• We have just over 1500 lbs of clothing and small household items for our Outdoor School fund raiser to reduce the costs. Please ask around and bring items to the hall outside the office by Wed. Oct 23rd. Check this link for more information about what items are accepted.

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• We finished our frog paintings
• We planned our crests for the Artist in Residence felting workshop on Wed. morning
• We practiced for our Remembrance Day Assembly
• We made cranes
• We chose our favourite ReadWorks article
• We played a decimal math game with tenths and hundredths.
• We learned about how animals in the wetlands breathe under water, for example frogs breathe through their skin
• WE started to think about hooks for writing interesting informational pieces
• We read into the computer
• We started basketball skills in Phys. Ed. and played Territory dodgeball
• We peer reviewed our wetland poems

Upcoming...

• ArtFelt residency - Wednesday morning - we still need 2 volunteers
• decimals to fractions/ fractions to decimals; ordering decimals .... tenths, hundredths, thousandths
• estimation
• grouping ideas and writing
• hooks for informational writing
• Food chains, food webs
• Indigenous Identity - connections to the land
• Looking at art

Reminders...

• No school Friday or Monday
• The date for the second parent meeting for Outdoor School has been finalized. It will be on Mon. Oct. 28 at 5:30pm (before the Parent Council meeting) .It is mandatory that parents of students going on overnight trips come to the school to learn about the trip.
• Reminder - there is a process for applying for funding for your chid, if you need it. Please email me and I will send them to you.
• We are collecting clothing and small household items (no furniture) as a fund raiser to reduce the cost of Outdoor School. Please ask around and bring items to the hall outside the office between Oct. 15 and 23rd. Check this link for more information about what items are accepted.

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• We are learning water colour techniques as we started to paint our frogs
• Swimming
• We are almost finished our wetland murals
• We are learning about the correct terms for different groups of Indigenous people
• where they live
• we can connect decimals to fractions and read decimals using the format 6 AND 45 hundredths.
• we are practicing the Sadako and the Thousand Cranes play for our Remembrance Day ceremony
• Wetland poems are completed.

Upcoming....

• decimals to fractions/ fractions to decimals; ordering decimals .... tenths, hundredths, thousandths
• estimation
• grouping ideas and writing
• hooks for informational writing
• Wetland murals to show adaptations and interactions to different zones
• Indigenous Identity - connections to the land
• Looking at art

Dates...

• Fri. Oct. 11 - No school - Non-Instructional Day
• Mon. Oct 14 - No School - Thanksgiving
• Thurs. Oct. 24 - Photo retakes
• Thurs. Oct. 24 - Math Night for parents
• Mon. Oct. 28 @ 5:30 -Outdoor School Meeting for parents who have not yet attended