Catching Snowflakes Art!

Some of our 3D structures!

Songs for Christmas Play!

Each grade will be singing songs at the Christmas play this year. Our grade 3/4 class need to learn 3 songs by Wednesday, December 20th. I am attaching videos of the songs so your child can practise at home! We will also be practising in class.

SCIENCE

We have now begun a new science strand: Understanding Structures and Mechanisms.

Grade 3 - Strong and Stable Structures

Grade 4 - Pulleys and Gears

Words for Monday's spelling quizzes

 
     Grade 4 words                                    Grade 3 words

White Elephant Sale

St. Emily will be having our annual White Elephant Sale on Thursday, December 14th.

We are asking the St. Emily School community to donate new or gently used, clean items prior to December 11th. This has been a great success over the years due to the excitement of the students as they found bargains to bring home.

On Thursday, December 14th, each class will have the opportunity to come to the gym and shop. Items will be marked in increments of 25 cents and most likely will be priced in the range of 25 cents to $3. This may be an opportunity for young students to do some Christmas shopping.

In the meantime, please look through ‘no longer needed items’ in your home and consider donating to our White Elephant Sale. We would also greatly appreciate donations of wrapping paper, tissue paper and gift bags. This is in keeping with our REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE environmentally friendly attitude. Remember that ‘one person’s junk is another person’s treasure’!

Geometry Slideshow

Click on the link below to view the geometry 

slideshow created by the PM students!

Geometry Slideshow

Fun making 2-D shapes with geoboards!

Religion - Digital Citizenship Final Task

Students are to choose one activity (or more for extra credit) from the TIC TAC TOE board. We are working on the tasks this week and next. Presentation dates will be announced soon. Click on the link below to access the task sheet and rubric.

FINAL TASK

Harvesting our greens!

Each AM student was given an herb or type of lettuce to bring home today. Our garden tower is flourishing!

Halloween Recounts

We are finishing up our Halloween recounts. I will attach the link for the rubric that will be used to assess this writing task.

Recount Rubric

Grade 4 Communicating skills homework - due Monday

Skeleton Hands

The AM students had fun learning about why we have so many bones in our body. We then extended this lesson into a creative art activity using crayons, paper and oil. Place your child's hand on a window to see the neat x-ray-like picture!

Grade 4 Math

This is the math page that the grade 4s worked on today. It is optional homework. Those that are finished by tomorrow will get extra time on a Chromebook.

United Way Dress-up Days

Our United Way Campaign began yesterday. Every Wednesday for the next few weeks, we will have dress up days in support of United Way.  This is a great way to live out our spiritual theme, Sent to be the Good News.  We are welcoming a cash donation on each of our dress up days to go towards our United Way Campaign.  Here are our Dress up days each Wednesday during the campaign. Mark your calendars!

Oct 18 -    Jersey day 

Oct  25 -   PJ Day

Nov 1  -    Hat Day

Nov 8 -     School Colours (blue and gold) 

Nov 22  -  Crazy Hair day

Special Days in October

Please refer to the calendar at the bottom of the page to see all of the special days in October!

Patterning Group Challenge

Communicatiing skills homework - grade 4

Math Practice - Show what you know

Grade 3s are to complete #7, 11-14

Grade 4s are to complete #8-13

Gym Game Presentation Dates

Wed, Oct 11 - Elijah & Kaeden

Wed, Oct 18 - Lauren & Kaycee

Wed, Oct 25 - Giovana & Fatima

Wed, Nov 1 - Sara & Grace

Wed, Nov 8 - Abby & Tianna

Wed, Nov 15 - Julia & Sophie

Wed, Nov 22 - Norran & Nehan

Wed, Nov 29 - Isabella

Wed, Dec 6 - Ayaan

Wed, Dec 13 - Kaleen & Vanessa

Fri, Dec 15 - Niko & Andrew

Wed, Dec 20 - Brayden, Ben & Jack

Fri, Dec 22 - Trinity

Tulip Planting!

The students loved taking part in the program "Paint the Town Tulip 2017: A WORLD of TULIPS"

We received 50 tulip bulbs to plant in front of the school. We're looking forward to seeing them bloom in the spring!

Communicating Skills homework

Math practice sites

The grade 3/4s have accounts on three math sites this year: Dreambox, Sumdog and mPower. 

The links for the sites are to the right. Each student has been given his/her own login, located in the agenda. These sites will be used in class and can be used at home for extra practice ☺

  

Gym task

The morning students are working on creating an interesting game or activity in gym! 

Click the following link to see specific details:  Gym Challenge

Numbers Review

All math students received a review sheet today for the quiz on Thursday. It is for extra practice and to be done during free time in class and at home.

Curriculum Update

Science: 
The current grade 3 unit is Growth and Changes in Plants.
The current grade 4 unit is Habitats and Communities.

Physical Education:
The students are in the beginning stages of creating an activity or game for the class to be involved in.

Math: 
We are practising place value, comparing, ordering and rounding of whole numbers. There will be a quiz on Thursday. We will then move into addition and subtraction (3-digit for grade 3 and 4-digit for grade 4)

Language:
Current classroom read aloud: the BFG. We are also having bi-weekly spelling tests, with new words being given every other Monday. In writing, the students are using their journals to create small entries on a range of topics.

Spelling Quizzes

The PM students will have spelling quizzes every second Monday. The students were given their words this past Monday and will have their first quiz on Sept. 18th. Please quiz your child at home and refer to the calendar at the bottom of the blog for dates of quizzes.

Planting seeds for our garden tower

The morning students enjoyed planting different seeds into their rock wool cubes and placing them on the window sill to begin the germination process. 

In a couple of weeks, when we begin to see the sprouting of the seedlings, we will then place the cubes into the tower to grow some yummy lettuce and herbs!!

STEM bins

STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. These bins were designed to be flexible for a variety of times throughout the school day. They can be used as tasks for early finishers, centres, morning work, indoor recess, etc.

We have a designated spot in our classroom where we keep the bins. There have been many questions about them and the students are eager to begin using them next week. Each bin contains different materials inside to be used for creative exploration.

Instead of having extra “busy" work in the classroom, students will be engaged in creative, complex tasks and encouraged to think like inventors. 

We welcome any donations of items throughout the year to place into our bins. I hope to mix them up and create new ones every few months. For some examples of items, please visit http://www.schoolingamonkey.com/supplies-for-science-experiments/

Welcome to the class blog!!

I will be using this site to give important information and dates as well as display videos, classroom photos and much more!

Today, the students were given  a number of items and forms to bring home. Please go through the following list to make sure you have a copy:

- Student Agenda
- Activity Fee Letter
- Verification Sheet
- Cash Online Letter
- School Calendar
- Allergy Form

Math board games

The students had fun playing the math board games they created last week! Great job on all the hard work that was put into these!!

Wonder

We have finished reading the novel Wonder in class. The students are working hard on their comprehension tasks for the book. They have to complete three tasks by this Thursday. The map of tasks are located in their language folders.

Probability

Community Outreach Project Fundraiser

Admission: $2.00 per day except Thursday.

Thursday: Non-Perishable Canned Good for the activity

   

Schedule of Events:

Monday May 15: Jersey Day- Dress in your favorite team jersey

Tuesday May 16: Pajama Day

Wednesday May 17: Canada Day (wear red and white, “Canada colors”)

Thursday May 18: Dapper Day/ Fancy Dress Day

Decimal Place Value

A little classroom creation!

Come and see the product of a lot of teamwork that took place in our classroom last week! We had to build our depiction of what represents our country for it's 150th birthday. We decided on our nation's capital's hockey team and some other symbols of our country!

April update

Math - The floor plan measurement task will be handed back next week. We have now begun the second part of the Geometry strand, Transformations. 

Language - Students are working on the extension activity to the "Design a Donut" task. In groups, they are creating a radio ad to advertise a chosen donut. The instructions and rubric can be found in their Language folders on Google Drive.

Coming up...

Easter break - April 14-17

Education week - May 1-5

Tower Garden

We had fun cutting and bagging the many types of lettuce and herbs that our tower garden is producing!

Measurement Summative Task

We will be creating a FLOOR PLAN this week for our summative task in  Measurement. It would be a good idea for students to search up different floor plans at home to look at in order to see what they'd like to include in their own dream home!

24-hour clock

Math centres

Here are some pictures from the math centres that we did last week. Students were able to practise a bunch of multiplication and division concepts before the big test!

Discovery Block

The grade 5s will be having a discovery block on Friday, February 3rd in the morning.

BYOD or Chromebooks will be available for use. 

Please ask your son/daughter what topic area they will be learning about ☺

Long division

We will begin long division next week. Please encourage your children to review this challenging concept at home. The following video is a great help!

Scholastic Book Orders

Scholastic has recently added a shipping fee of $5.00 for any orders that fall below $25.00. For this reason, I will no longer be putting in multiple orders throughout the month, but one mass order at the end of each month. So just a heads up, if your son/daughter sends in money for an order, it may be a few weeks instead of a few days for books to come in from now on. Students will write the due date for each order form in their agendas. Thank you.

Lattice multiplication

We've been learning some new ways to multiply. Here is a video that teaches the LATTICE method.

Reminders

This week, the good copies of the mystery stories are due on FRIDAY.
We will also be having a multiplication quiz on FRIDAY.

Multiplication unit

We have begun the Multiplication/Division unit. Please encourage your child to be practising basic multiplication tables every night! 
The following site is great: Multiplication Flashcards.

We will have a multiplication quiz this Friday.

Soldiers in Kuwait

We were very lucky to receive some photos and responses to some of the letters we sent to Kuwait in November. The students loved listening to each other read the response letters about a day in a life of a soldier!