September 30, 2016

Agenda:

Read 30 min

Please bring donations for Terry Fox Run-$2 (school goal: $1800, we are at $909.35)

Homework: complete sleep chart next week, journals due Monday
Big Box Fundraiser

What did we do today?

• First thing this morning, we had a catch up time to finish our word problems for math and our book box journal.
• Ms. Jones read us a book about Terry Fox and how he was determined to work on a challenge.  Some of those challenges were getting on the basketball team in high school and running across Canada to raise money for cancer.  At the end, he was awarded many high honours, such as the Order of Canada for his dream and hard work. 
• We ran the Terry Fox Run today.  Before the run, we had an assembly to warm up and the Terry Fox club gave us some stretches to do.  Our class ran 118 laps, which is 118 km!  That is the distance from Calgary to Innisfail.  The school ran a total of 876 laps (not including Room 5's total).

Questions:

1. Which class has brought in the most donations for Terry Fox?
2. How old was Terry when he first got cancer? - 18 years old
3. How far is where the school ran to?

September 29, 2016

Agenda:

Read 30 min

Please bring donations for Terry Fox Run-$2 (school goal: $1800)
Dress for the Terry Fox Run tomorrow- we are running rain or shine.

Homework: complete sleep chart next week, journals due Monday
Big Box Fundraiser

What did we do today?

• In gym, we practiced the Terry Fox route.  Most of us did two laps in 25 minutes, but some of us were able to do 3-4.
• After recess, we had science.  We had a science scavenger hunt where we had to choose five places to measure the noise level using a decibel app. 
• Today after science we had health and we had to talk about our sleep charts.  It is very important that we complete them this week and hand them in.
• In Daily Five we got a chance to finish our journals and rewrite our good copy.
• At the end of the day, we had a special visitor, an author named Shane Peacock.  He talked to us about his books, how to write a good story with suspense and how more interesting reading is.  A book order form has been sent home, however many of the books are leveled for older students and may not be appropriate for grades 3/4.

Questions:

Not enough time today.

September 28, 2016

Agenda:

Read 30 min

Please bring donations for Terry Fox Run-$2 (school goal: $1800)

Homework: complete sleep chart for tomorrow, math mystery case due tomorrow
Big Box Fundraiser

What did we do today?

• In math, we learned about using an organized list as a strategy to solve word problems and we tried solving a couple on our own.
• At the beginning of gym we played a game called Roll the Dice where somebody rolled two foam dice.  If the numbers multiplied were 1-9 we ran, if it was 10-24 we jogged and if it was 25-36 we walked.  We also played Cat and Mouse where we were had to travel as a cat (in red) or a mouse (in blue) as a pair or group.
• In science we learned how to measure sound.  Ms. Cowdy and Ms. Jones showed us an app that measured how loud we can be.  We also watched a Bill Nye video on sound waves and how sound travels.
• During Daily Five we practiced reading with someone. We tried practicing our stamina for ten minutes.  
• This afternoon we had language arts and we continued to work on the COPS method. This time we also had to find words in our writing we used often.  We circled them and changed them to improve our journal writing.  Then we re-wrote a good copy to fix all of our mistakes.
• We wrote rhythms using five notes on whiteboards in music class.  We had to use four of the five notes. We also got to use instruments after Ms. Stephure took a picture of our us and our work.

Questions:

1. How far can our combined laps cover compared to how much Terry Fox ran in one day?
2. We have an author visit tomorrow! What will he talk about and what books does he write?

September 27, 2016

Agenda:

Read 30 min

See communication folder for forms- Fun lunch forms
Please bring donations for Terry Fox Run-$2 (school goal: $1800)

Homework: complete sleep chart for Thursday, math mystery case due Thursday
Big Box Fundraiser

What did we do today?

• First thing this morning, we got to finish our nature art.
• Today in gym, we played a game called King's Gold.
• For the first time we went to the library this morning to try and change our passwords for a Google account, but the technology was slow. :(
• In music, we used cups to make a tee tee and ta rhythm.  We did the rhythm to the poem Bubblegum.
• After lunch, we had math and we got some time to catch up on our pattern problems and we got a new one about cats and dogs.  We also started the afternoon with a brain stretch, which we usually do in the morning.  During this time, a few people went with Ms. Jones to do a reading test.
• We also had book exchange.
• In language arts, Ms. Jones introduced us to COPS.  The C means check for capitals, the O is for organization, the P is for punctuation and the S is for spelling.  This is a way we can check our writing.

Questions:

1. Will we make something in science?
2. How much money will we make for the Terry Fox Run?

September 26, 2016

Agenda:

Read 30 min

See communication folder for forms- Terry Fox pledge forms (our school goal is $1800.00)
Please bring donations for Terry Fox Run-$2

Homework: complete sleep chart for Thursday, math mystery case due Thursday
Big Box Fundraiser

What did we do today?

• For math, we worked on finishing the word problem given last week.  We sat together as a class to solve one about roses and got our new math mystery.
• Today in gym, we played Superhero Tag, Rock, Paper Scissors Tag and Tunnel Tag.
• In social studies, we completed a map of Canada by colouring Alberta and labeling Canada's borders and oceans.
• After lunch, we learned about what we need to do when we Read to Someone and we practiced it with a friend for stamina.
• Before art, we did a real lap of the Terry Fox Run.  Our times ranged from four minutes to thirteen minutes.
• For art, we went outside to collect leaves, sticks, pebbles, pine cones and pine needles to make a thing or object that makes a noise.  We then arranged the items into a shape and started to glue them.  We will continue this project tomorrow.

Questions:

1. What are we doing tomorrow in gym?-TBD
2. When will we play dodgeball for the first time?- TBD

September 22, 2016

Agenda:

Read 30 min

See communication folder for forms- Terry Fox pledge forms (our school goal is $1800.00)
Please bring donations for Terry Fox Run

Face to face conferences tonight and Friday

Book Fair tonight and Friday

No school Friday
Homework: complete sleep chart for next Thursday, hand art
Big Box Fundraiser

What did we do today?

• In math, we continued to solve math word problems by using tables and finding patterns.
• For gym, we played hospital tag with two games of fish in the sea games in it.  One game had whirlpools while the other did not.
• In music today, we made our our rhythms and we also got to play them on the drums. We also used cups to make rhythms.
• We finished our leaf art to put up for conferences and some of us had to finish our hand art.
• In health we got a sleeping chart to record our sleeping habits.
• We had our first social studies class today.  We had to locate and colour Canada, and other countries our classmates are from (India, USA, Pakistan, England, Netherlands and Iran).

Questions:

1. Will the weather be nicer for the Terry Fox Run next Friday?
2. What will some of the routines be on the sleep charts?

September 21, 2016

Agenda:

Read 30 min

See communication folder for forms- parent viewpoint

Face to face conferences Thursday and Friday- please book with Mrs. Rennie

Book Fair Thursday and Friday

Homework: Math Mystery of the Week to be handed in by Thursday
No school Friday
Fire Safety Week Info

What did we do today?

• For math, we did our brain stretch and after that we talked about using patterns to solve word problems.  We then had one to solve about sick Fuzzies.
• In gym, we played a game called VIP tag.  After that we played a quick game of Fish in the Sea.
• During recess, the members of Green Team had their first big pick up of recycling and paper towels in the school.
• After recess and lunch, we were given some time to finish our two journal entries about the SEEDS Survivor presentation and our book box choices.  Ms. Jones modeled a journal entry to show what she expects.  We also got some time to practice our reading stamina if we finished both writing assignments.
• In music, Ms. Stephure taught us a bubble gum rhyme and we had to use only two notes to write the whole song.
• We had our first fire drill of the year during art.
• We continued to work on our oil pastel layered leaf art project after music until the end of the day.

Questions:

1. What will are artwork look like when everyone is finished?
2. Who will win the Beakerhead Challenge?