February 28, 2018- I've been sorted into ...

Agenda:

• Read 20 min
• Spelling words have been sent home- please study for test Friday
• There are still treats left over
• Field trip forms sent home yesterday- please return by Friday and pay through your CBE account
• Please save the dates! We will be having field trips next week on March 6th (Mount Royal) and 21st (the Glenbow).  Please check your CBE accounts for fees for field trips.

The Top Three Things We Learned and Did Today:

• Today was the grade 5/6 learning celebration.  They made old books new by making new stories.  They re-wrote the stories and glued them onto the books.  They also added texture to the pictures and sometimes they took black marker directly to the pages to change to illustration.
• As we have arrived to the Sorting Hat chapter in the book, we did a quiz to see which Hogwart's house we will belong in.  We did one before and after recess.  Tomorrow our classroom will change and we will be sitting in our new houses.
• In music, we worked on cutting different instruments from different families.  We will be gluing these onto paper.  The different instrument families are woodwinds, brass, percussion and strings.  We will be seeing these next week on our field trip.  Remember to bring back your forms.

February 27, 2018- The 100th day of school..the projects were rockin!

Agenda:

• Read 20 min
• Tomorrow is pink shirt day. Wear a pink shirt to show your anti-bullying pride!
• What is the mystery rock?  Look it up and see if you can figure it out.
• Spelling words have been sent home- please study for test Friday
• Treat day again tomorrow
• Field trip forms going home today- please return by Friday and pay through your CBE account
• Please save the dates! We will be having field trips March 6th (Mount Royal) and 21st (the Glenbow).  Please check your CBE accounts for fees for field trips.

The Top Three Things We Learned and Did Today:

• Today during buddies, it was the 100th day of school, so they had created projects.  Some of the projects included crayons, Lego, marshmallows, stickers and googly eyes.  
• In music, we had some sharing and after that Mr. O'Reilly went over the rules and etiquette of attending an orchestra.  We also coloured a number of instruments from the four families of instruments.  Tomorrow Mrs. Polski will lead us as we cut them out and trade so that we have an instrument from each family.
• At the end of the day in science, we learned studied rocks like geologists!  Using properties and a rock sample, we had to test the rocks for colour, lustre, hardness and what it would do in vinegar.  We identified granite and there is a mystery one that we need to look up.

February 26, 2018- Dolphins, emojis and cats, oh my!

Agenda:

• Read 20 min
• Spelling words have been sent home- please study for test Friday
• It is Room 4's turn to host treat day tomorrow!  It would be very much appreciated if each family could supply 24-36 treats to sell to all of the students at recess that day.  Some suggestions for treats are: muffins, pretzels, rice cakes, cookies, brownies, rice krispie squares, popcorn. Non-food treats are also appreciated, such as stickers or pencils.
• Please save the dates! We will be having field trips March 6th (Mount Royal) and 21st (the Glenbow).  Please check your CBE accounts for fees for field trips.

The Top Three Things We Learned and Did Today:

• In math, group A had to complete multiplication tasks that helped them practice their basic facts.  Group B and C were introduced to the lattice method of multiplication and practiced a few problems with two digit and one digit numbers.  If we were finished, we had to create our mogul ski using the correct measurement of 175cm.
• In gym, the climber was set up.  We now have seven centers to complete in our gymnastic unit.  We will be doing this all week so we need to remember to wear loose clothes to move around in.
• At the end of the day in art, we went on a website called Art Hub for Kids.  It is a drawing website.  As a class, we first tried drawing a pug using the video's instructions.  Afterward we were allowed to draw a picture of our choice.  We tried drawing dolphins, emojis, Star Wars characters and cats.

February 23, 2018- The Magic School Bus Wall of Erosion

Agenda:

• Read 20 min; visualizer/connector activity due Monday
• Keep tabs of your chosen country at the Olympics for medals
• Spelling words have been sent home- please study for test next week
• It is Room 4's turn to host treat day Tuesday! 
• Please save the dates! We will be having field trips March 6th (Mount Royal) and 21st (the Glenbow).  Please check your CBE accounts for fees for field trips.

What We Learned and Did Today for Fresh Air Friday:

• In science, we made a wall with two heights and put boards on them to create a gentle slope and a steeper slope.  We developed the question, "Which slope will have more soil erosion?"  Ms. Jones put soil on the slope and when Ms. Smith put water down the slopes, we saw that the steeper one did.  Our conclusion was that the steeper slope had more erosion due to the angle of the slope and that the water went down it faster due to gravity.

February 22, 2018- Ninja math missions

Agenda:

• Read 20 min; visualizer/connector activity due Monday
• Keep tabs of your chosen country at the Olympics for medals
• Word work homework- have sentences and transfer words done for Friday (sentences only for Ms. Jones's group)
• Fresh Air Friday tomorrow, please be ready to go outside
• overdue book reminders sent home- highlighted books are overdue
• It is Room 4's turn to host treat day next week!  Please start thinking about a treat to bring the school.

The Top Three Things We Learned and Did Today:

• In math, we did the ice hockey challenge as a double class.  Against a partner, we answered addition, subtraction and multiplication questions.  We were then awarded "medals" if we got a certain number correct.
• In Daily 5, we had some catch up time to finish our visualizer and connector activities to our fantasy novels.  If we finished early we got to go on Raz Kids.
• This afternoon, the Destination Conservation group had a presentation from a special visitor about how our practice of using plastics is effecting our environment, especially in the oceans.  Those who stayed in class learned a new math game called Clip the Multiples, where we got cards with numbers on them.  We had to decide whether they were multiples of a given number and mark them.

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Agenda:

• Read 20 min
• Keep tabs of your chosen country at the Olympics for medals
• Word work homework- have sentences and transfer words done for Friday (sentences only for Ms. Jones's group)
• Practice your basic facts tonight- multiplication ninja timed quiz tomorrow
• It is Room 4's turn to host treat day next week!  Please start thinking about a treat to bring the school.

The Top Three Things We Learned and Did Today:

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February 13, 2018- Get your rocks rocking!

Agenda:

• Read 20 min
• Keep tabs of your chosen country at the Olympics for medals
• Bring Valentines tomorrow
• Backwards Day next Wednesday
• No school Thursday or Friday or Monday next week

The Top Three Things We Learned and Did Today:

• In music, we talked about music theory.  In a group of two or three, we had to make a web of what we thought music theory is.  Some of our ideas were: tempo, its what we know about music, and beat.
• After gym, we created our pet rocks.  Things we added to make our rocks "rockin" were top hats, googly eyes, hair, moustaches and tails.
• We had one last day of yoga today.  We pretended we went to a pet store after our sun salutations and we did different animal poses.

What do we have to do next?

We need to complete the pet rock booklet, which we will record the properties of rocks and the different types of rocks.

February 12, 2018- Welcome to the Math Olympics!

Agenda:

• Read 20 min
• Bring in items to decorate your pet rock tomorrow.  If you don't have one, please bring one from home
• Keep tabs of your chosen country at the Olympics for medals
• Bring Valentines Wednesday
• No school Thursday or Friday or Monday next week

The Top Three Things We Learned and Did Today:

• Today we had our first day of Math Olympics.  We got pinnies and Olympic bibs with our competition number.  Then we were sent to our first events.  These included ice hockey, figure skating, luge, curling, freestyle skiing (moguls), skeleton and biathalon.
• There was a Coffin Cares assembly.  Two people in our class were recognized by showing respect to others.
• This morning, we chose a country to represent at the Math Olympics.  We then researched their flag, counted their athletes, their medals, what events they will be participating in and five facts about them.

What do we have to do next?

We need to properly read the instructions at each event so that we understand what to do so that we can earn medals. 

February 9, 2018- No snowshoeing today....Boo!

Agenda:

• Read 20 min
• Choose a country you want to represent during our Math Olympics
• Bring in items to decorate your pet rock Monday.  If you don't have one, please bring one from home
• Dress to be in the weather- will try snowshoeing one day next week
• Coffin Cares assembly Monday

The Top Three Things We Learned and Did Today:

• We watched some of the opening ceremonies for the 2018 Winter Olympics.  We watched them to see who we could represent during our Math Olympics and we also kept note of how many athletes they had.  Some had one, while others had over 200.
• We also started to plan what our pet rocks are going to look like.  They have to have two googly eyes, but the rest is our decision.  Mrs. Smith brought her pet rock Aunt Agnes to show the class.
• After our spelling test, we had time to finish any tasks we had not finished, including our Tunisia pictures, inferring journals and math.

What do we have to do next?

We need to bring any accessories we need to dress up our pet rocks, which we will finally create on Monday.  

February 8, 2018- Polar Bears and Skeleton (the Olympic sport that is)

Agenda:

• Read 20 min
• Practice your spelling words, spelling test tomorrow
• Bring in a rock from home that is no bigger than your fist to create a pet rock tomorrow
• Fresh Air Friday tomorrow- will try snowshoeing weather depending
• Coffin Cares assembly Monday

The Top Three Things We Learned and Did Today:

• We had a special visitor today!  Russ from Wendy's after school program came in to talk to us about the sport of skeleton.  He showed us his sled, his gear and we got to try the sled out using a live video of a real track in Germany.  We learned that there are bumpers on the sled to protect you from the walls and there are different levels of competition.  The sport was originally the first sledding sport in the Winter Olympics.
• During Daily 5, we continued to work on making connections with our fantasy books.
• In computer lab, we worked on Raz-Kids, where we listen to a book, then read the book and finally take a quiz.

What do we have to do next?

We need to be put into our Olympic countries before we compete in the Math Winter Olympics.  We will be MATH-LETES!

February 7, 2018- Walking in the science wonderland

Agenda:

• Read 20 min
• Practice your spelling words, spelling test this Friday 
• Yoga residency all this week- wear clothes you can do yoga in
• Bring in a rock from home that is no bigger than your fist to create a pet rock tomorrow
• Coffin Cares assembly Monday

The Top Three Things We Learned and Did Today:

• In science, we were introduced to the pet rock project.  Ms. Jones read a book called Everyone Needs a Rock.  We also came up with ideas of where we find rocks and what we use them for.
• In music, we performed our plays for foley art.  We got to choose a backdrop for our play and Mr. O'Reilly filmed our skits so that he can see if our music beats match the acting.
• The grade 5 and 6 students presented their science fair projects to the school.  Things we learned from their experiments were: the best toothpaste to whiten your teeth is Crest because it has blue covarine, which has a lot of fluoride; Huggies are the best diapers to prevent leaks because they absorb the most water and they take the longest time to leak; watering a plant every five days one tablespoon allowed the best growth of a basil plant.

What do we have to do next?

We need to make sure we have a rock here tomorrow to make our pet rocks.

February 6, 2018- Be a multiplication ninja!

Agenda:

• Read 20 min
• Practice your spelling words, spelling test this Friday 
• Yoga residency all this week- wear clothes you can do yoga in
• Winter walk day tomorrow- dress up to take a walk outside
• Bring in a rock from home that is no bigger than your fist to create a pet rock tomorrow

The Top Three Things We Learned and Did Today:

• In music, we started making a foley (skit).  One to two actors needed to create a scene while the other members of our group made music for the scene.  We were also shown a part from a movie where foley artists were playing louder to make the sound effects.
• In math, we had to practice our multiplication skills, some of us worked on our basic facts while others were practicing their cross multiplication strategy.
• In social studies, we first learned how we are going to be multiplication ninjas.  Then we looked at pictures of Tunisia so that we could make our anthropologist pictures more realistic and less "Canadian."  Then we were given time to work on them.

What do we have to do next?

We have to practice our multiplication tables (3's- 1 times; 4's- 6 times) so that we can do 20 questions in less than two minutes.  We have two weeks to practice. multiplication.com

February 5, 2018- Happy Baby pose and relax!

Agenda:

• Read 20 min
• Practice your spelling words, spelling test this Friday 
• Yoga residency all this week- wear clothes you can do yoga in
• Winter walk day Wednesday- dress up to take a walk outside
• Bring in a rock from home that is no bigger than your fist to create a pet rock

The Top Three Things We Learned and Did Today:

• We had our first class of yoga today.  Our instructor Vivian had the mats set up in a circle to look like the sun.  Three poses we learned were: the hero, the tree pose and the happy baby pose.
• During Daily 5, Ms. Jones read a bit from Harry Potter to show how to make connections while reading.  There are four types of connections: text to text where you compare what you read to another book; text to media where you compare what you read to the internet/ movie; text to world, where you compare what you read to something in the world; and text to self, where you compare something you read to something you have experienced.
• In social studies, we had to think like a person from Tunisia and think about what was in their culture to affect their quality of life.  For example, a place to worship is called a mosque.

What do we have to do next?

In social studies, we have to finish our picture cards to put up on the wall.

February 2, 2018- Throw the Water!

Agenda:

• Read 20 min, practice your spelling words, math textbook work: Group A- pg. 96 #1,2 and 4; Group B- pg. 286 #1-6
• Yoga residency starts next week- wear clothes you can do yoga in.

The Top Three Things We Learned and Did Today:

• We have picked our new words to study for next week's spelling test.  We are to practice at home for our test next Friday.
• Today we went outside with two cups of boiling hot water with food colouring.  Ms. Jones and Mrs. Smith threw the water into the air and we saw that some of the water turned into snow.  The rest of the water turned into coloured slush.  The water turned into snow because the hot water evaporated then froze in the air turning into snow.
• After we came inside, we discussed what happened to the hot water.  We also had to thoroughly clean our hot chocolate mugs, since we had hot chocolate.  We also had time to finish any social centers we had left to do.  If we were done that, we played a math game called Capture Caper with dominos.

What do we have to do next?

Please bring in a rock from home that is no bigger than your fist to create a pet rock with next week.

February 1, 2018- Chocolate rocks!

Agenda:

• Read 20 min, social centers (music and dance, climate and living, Arabic writing, Tunisian Etiquette due tomorrow)
• Report cards envelopes returned asap
• Fresh Air Friday tomorrow- please dress to go outside for a period of time

The Top Three Things We Learned and Did Today:

• During buddies, we helped them get onto Starfall.  We helped them with the letters, g, o and u.
• Today in math, we worked on practicing our multiplication strategies, and in groups A's case multiplying two digit numbers by one digit.  If we finished, we played a domino game called Capture Caper.
• In science, we learned the difference between rocks and minerals using chocolate.  Please ask me the what the difference is.