April 17, 2020- Google Classroom next week

Dear Room 4 families,

Thank you for being so patient and understanding as we move into our third week of learning. We will continue to deliver our learning plans and connect with students through Google Classroom. The tasks for next week will be assigned by 3:30pm today.

If you are accessing this through your tablet or phone, please download the google classroom app.

If you have any questions or difficulties with accessing the Google Classroom, please email me at sacjones@cbe.ab.ca so that I can help you.  If you need paper copies of any of the materials, please email me as well so that I can get these ready for you.

We will also be having regular Google Meet meetings. Grade 4's will meet on Fridays at 3:30pm while the grade 3 students will meet on Mondays at 11:30am. To access Google Meet is the same process to access the classroom. Watch for an email at your child's specific time to click and join.

Ms. Jones 

sacjones@cbe.ab.ca

April 10, 2020- Next Week's Learning Plan

Dear Room 4 families,

Thank you for being so patient and understanding as we move into our second week of learning. We are going to be moving to Google Classroom and Google Meet next week to deliver our learning plans and connect with students. To send tasks and assignments to you through Google Classroom, we will be sending an invite to your child’s school username@educbe.ca email account. 

To join the Classroom, login to their email, open the Invitation from me, click the join button and your child will have ongoing access to my classroom. There they will be able to see the tasks I have assigned them, and can click on each one for instructions, worksheets, links and any tools they will require.

If you are accessing this through your tablet or phone, please download the google classroom app.

Please note, my Google Classroom will not be accessible until this Friday at 3:30pm. Your email will arrive at that time.

If you have any questions or difficulties with accessing the Google Classroom, please email me at sacjones@cbe.ab.ca so that I can help you.  If you need paper copies of any of the materials, please email me as well so that I can get these ready for you.

Remember we will also be having a Google Meet meeting on Wednesday April 15th at 11:30am.  To access Google Meet is the same process to access the classroom. Watch for an email Wednesday morning at that time 

to click and join.

Here are the links from the email you received earlier this week.

Accessing Google Meet or Classroom for the First Time

Google provides excellent resources to help with signing into Google Classroom and joining a class, along with other supports.

§  Google Meet Help

§  Google Meet Cheat Sheet [PDF]

§  Learn How to use Google Meet [video]

§  How do I sign in to Classroom?

§  Join a class as a student

§  Troubleshooting for students

This information will also be posted on the classroom blog. Looking forward to seeing you all there!

Ms. Jones 

sacjones@cbe.ab.ca

A Video From Ms. Jones- April 3, 2020

Learning From Home – Week #1 April 6 – April 10th, 2020

Parents:  

As you know we have been given guidelines from Alberta Education that suggest we provide ~5 hours of schoolwork per week focused mainly on literacy and math. We will work to follow these guidelines but also hope to continue integrating more of our science and social studies work that students have already started. We will work to follow these guidelines. Each week we also hope that you will be able to determine a schedule that works best for your family. Each task has an estimated amount of minutes per week that the task may take. This is just an approximation, each student will work at their individual pace. 

We would really appreciate feedback by the end of the week about a few things. We are all figuring this out together and want to make sure the work we are doing is working for you. Please send me an email and comment on:

• How was the workload? Do you need more things to keep your child going or was it difficult to work through the activities provided? 
• What activities were tough? 
• What areas need more practice? 
• Where is your child ready for more of a challenge? 

We will do our best to adjust things for the weeks to come based on your feedback.

The basic instructions for each task are here on the blog. We have shared this same document with all the worksheets and visuals to your child’s google docs. The document is called Learn From Home Week #1 Room 4. Your child can access this by logging in to their email account or clicking this link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kUJrZSe5Upz8i_xl2ZhWanUCLZk2tEjheib1bWC9jBQ/edit?usp=sharing

Dear Students,

Welcome to our first week of learning-from-home Room 4. Each week we will send you tasks to complete and ways to show me how things are going. We know that things are weird right now and depending on your family’s situation it may be challenging to complete everything. Don’t worry, it’s ok if you can’t do everything or if you need to take some extra time. Just let me know if you need help. I will be working every day and can be contacted via email if you need anything. 

Ms. Jones sacjones@cbe.ab.ca or sacjones@educbe.ca

How to “Hand In” Your Work

• We would like you to do all your Week’s work on Google Docs or Google Slides. 
• Please share your document as soon as you create it. This will allow us to see your work at any time during the week, whether you are finished or not. We can comment and help with edits. For sharing, email it to sacjones@educbe.ca
• How you organize your work in Google Docs is up to you and your parents can help you with this. 
• We would suggest that you give each subject a title and put all the work underneath it. To help you with this, we have put all the headings in red.
• If you have access to a printer, you may want to print out this document and do the work on the worksheets (ie Science/cursive writing) and then take a picture of it. Please insert the picture into your google docs or slides. You can do this by dragging the picture from your desktop into the doc/slide.

Daily Five Activities (to be done throughout the week)

Listen to Reading: Please complete your assignment on Raz-Kids. You must listen and read the book before completing the quiz.  Only complete the quiz once. (approx 30 min)

Read to Self:Please also make sure you are doing at least 20 minutes of reading everyday. For one of these days, we ask that you complete a read to self ticket. You can just fill this out on your google doc. Tell us what book you are reading and write a sentence telling us what was your favourite part and why.

If you need some new books to read please check out the Calgary Public Library for some great e-books or you can find books in the Raz-kids reading room. On the link section of the blog there are some links for the Tumblebooks libraries also. (approx 20 minutes)

Cursive writing: On a piece of lined paper, write down the riddle and it’s answer twice. You can also print this sheet out and fill it in that way too. It is not necessary to hand this in, have your parents admire your lovely handwriting. (approx 10 min)

Work on Writing (WOW): Each week we will give you a writing prompt for your assignment. Each week mom or dad will decide if you are going to write your WOW entry on the computer or on a piece of paper. Learning to type is a great skill but it is also important to keep practicing your printing skills by writing on a piece of paper or your own journal book at home. Mom and Dad will help you find a balance between these skills. It is not ok to argue with Mom and Dad’s decision on this. We are giving this choice to them, not to you. (approx 30-45 minutes, but I do know some of my students will need extra time.)

Here is this week’s Work on Writing, WOW #1

Tell me how your family is adjusting to our new staying safe measures. Are mom and dad working from home? What are you doing to stay busy and entertained? How are you feeling about all these changes?

Journal checklist:

• Make a plan, including a beginning, middle and end for your journal
• Interesting beginning- make your beginning catchy and wanting the reader to read on
• You should have 2 similes/ metaphors
• Using interesting and juicy/descriptive words (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs)- brainstorm a word bank with your parents or older sibling
• Make sure you use description when telling us what you have been doing (use the 5 senses when you can)  It is the biggest part of your journal.
• Good concluding sentence to wrap up your journal

Writing expectations:

Grade 3: 10-14 sentences 

Grade 4: 15-20 sentences written in paragraphs

MATH

Math Stretch

Look carefully in the bottom right hand corner of each problem to do the problem for your grade level. We would like you to try and complete one problem each day. (approx 10 min)

MATHLETICS 

This week, please login to mathletics and do the activities assigned to you. Remember to use Safari or Explorer instead of google chrome for best results. (approx 15 min)

https://www.mathletics.com/ca/

MATH ACTIVITY 

Grade 3’s: This week I would like to review our multiplication strategies.  If you need a reminder, look for the strategy sheets that were packed in your belonging bags. (they had 4 boxes and a number line). Please complete the questions below.  We did not do near facts, so if you are not comfortable with that one ask a parent or skip it. Print out and complete. If you can’t print it, that is okay, you can just type up the answers on your google doc, write them down on a piece of paper and send a picture. (approx 30 min)

If you have cards, some cups and a bouncy ball, you can play Quidditch with a family member.

Grade 4’s: This week I would like to review our long division strategies. We have been practicing strategy D & E in class. Please answer question 1 in your math scribbler and take a picture of it. (approx 30 min)

I will also be emailing you a game called Long Division Tic Tac Toe to play with your family.

SCIENCE

Print out and complete. If you can’t print it, that is okay, you can just type up the answers on your google doc, write them down on a piece of paper and send a picture.

This experiment asks you to use materials you may not have at your house. Be creative and use things that you have around your house. Do not feel that you have to have the exact materials. Mom and Dad can help you with this. Cardstock and index cards are a stronger type of paper, so if you only have regular paper you may want to double or triple it or fold it a couple of times. (approx 30 min)

GYM and MUSIC (optional)

Let’s keep moving every day! This week we were supposed to start our dance residency with DANCEPL3Y. Since we aren’t able to work with them in-person they very kindly sent along a Youtube link so you can dance along at home! Enjoy! DANCEPL3Y HERE

Mr. O'Reilly has also posted some lessons to his blog to check out if you would be musicians would like.  https://drewcoffinmusic.blogspot.com/

March 13, 2020- Too Cold for Fresh Air Friday!

Important Info:

Make sure your child comes to school dressed for the weather and the conditions, especially on Fresh Air Fridays.
Karen Gummo residency continues next week
Spring Break March 20-30th, 2020- no school

What did we learn?

• In gym, we played Quidditch.  We would be on scooters and had jobs such as chasers, beaters and the seeker.  Beaters had to tag the chasers passing the quaffle.  Ms. Jones would throw a bouncy ball during the game which the seeker would try to catch.
• On Wednesday, we had science.  We finished our rust test experiment.  Most of the nails that rusted were the "galvanized" nails.  They were not supposed to rust, so we will be redoing the experiment after spring break.
• Our last day with Karen Gummo was on Wednesday.  She told us a story called Old Joe and the Carpenter.  We each got into groups and retold the story as a skit.
• Today for social studies, we watched a video about Writing on Stone Provincial Park.  We learned that petroglyphs are images that are carved in stone while pictographs are painted on stone.

March 10, 2020- Beautiful Trees!

Important Info:

Make sure your child comes to school dressed for the weather and the conditions, especially on Fresh Air Fridays.
Karen Gummo residency continues this week
Sa'akokoto visiting Thursday
Math/Science night this Thursday night from 5-7pm.
Spring Break March 20-30th, 2020- no school

What did we learn?

• On Monday we had art and we made a good copy of the mountain landscape we did last week.  Some people were not here, so we watched the video again.  Most of us finished and they all look awesome.  We used watercolour paints.
• Yesterday in math, the grade 4's learned a new game called Remainder Race.  You had to spin a spinner and whoever had the highest number would have to divide it by 19.  If you got a remainder you moved the number of the remainder on the game board.  If you didn't get a remainder you didn't move.
• For Science we did an experiment were we tested arches.  We made a curved and square arch out of paper and we also used a plastic cup and plasticine to hold it together.
• Karen Gummo came to us to do language arts.  We shared stories in a sharing circle after she told us about "The Curious Girl".  Tomorrow is our last day with her.

March 6, 2020- Twitchy turbines

Important Info:

Make sure your child comes to school dressed for the weather and the conditions, especially on Fresh Air Fridays.
Karen Gummo residency continues next week
Math/Science night next Thursday night from 5-7pm.

What did we learn?

• On Thursday in science, we looked at our rust experiment and observed week two of observations. Then we made a rectangular pillar and we tested it for its strength and stability.
• Today we did a STEM challenge and we had to build a windmill with binder clips, straws, craft sticks, and paper.  No tape or glue was allowed.  When all the groups were ready, we went outside to test them.  All our groups windmills twitched in the breeze.  Then we came inside and tested it with a fan.
• We had stuffie day on Wednesday.  We brought our stuffies to school and we got our pictures taken at a photo booth in the learning commons.  It was a fun day.