November 8, 2019- We remember...

Important Info:

No school Monday- Remembrance Day
Science test sent home today

Swimming next Wednesday- remember your swimsuit, flip flops, goggles, towel and an extra snack. Be dressed for the weather!

Food Bank donations will be collected until Wednesday- we need to bring donations in!

Fun lunch orders through www.healthyhunger.ca due tonight if you want a pizza fun lunch next Thursday

Save the date: Parent conferences November 21 and 22

What did we do this week?

• In social studies, we watched a video about Calgary during the 1930's and during World War II.  It went from a time of boom to a time of bust.  When WWII happened, Calgary became busier and the repair shops turned into places to make ammunition.  We also learned that Brentwood became a community in 1960.
• At journals today, we finished writing our answers to chosen questions such as, "What does it mean to be brave?"  We reflected on why we remember the ones that we have lost.  We also created a coloured picture that represented the importance of Remembrance Day.
• Today we had an assembly for Remembrance Day.  People in brownies, beavers, girl guides and cubs took a flower and wreath to the Canadian flag.  We also had a moment of silence and couple of students sang songs and wrote a poem.  The portable students read In Flanders Field.
• This week we learned how to use groups of 100's, 10's and 1's to figure out a number.  If you put the groups together, you create a number in the hundreds, or thousands for grade 4.

November 5, 2019- Poppy art

Important Info:

Swimming next Wednesday- remember your swimsuit, flip flops, goggles, towel and an extra snack. Be dressed for the weather!
Retakes will be taken November 7th (Thursday)
Food Bank donations will be collected starting Monday until Wednesday next week- we need to bring donations in!
Remembrance Day assembly Friday at 10:45 am.  If you are in girl guides or boy scouts/cubs, wear your uniform.
Bring 25¢ for poppy donation Friday
Fun lunch orders through www.healthyhunger.ca due Friday if you want a pizza fun lunch next Thursday



What did we do this week?

• Today in art we made poppies.  For the first poppy, we painted a petal and for the details we used our fat sharpies and oil pastels.  For the second poppy we painted the background and cut out a poem, which we glued on and decorated.
• In math we did fall math word problems for our math stretch.  Fall math is when the teacher gives you two questions.  The grade 4's have different questions than the grade 3's.
• In language arts, we have been journaling about Remembrance Day.  Ms. Jones read us a story called the Eleventh Hour, then we answered a question about Remembrance Day using words such as brave and sacrifice.
• We learned a new math game yesterday called I love math for multiplication and addition.  It is kind of like rock, paper, scissors where each player puts out a number using their fingers.  The first person to add or multiply the two numbers together is the winner.

October 31, 2019- One spooky blog....

Important Info:

Swimming Monday and Wednesday next week- remember your swimsuit, flip flops, goggles, towel and an extra snack. Be dressed for the weather!
No school tomorrow- PD day
Pictures sent home - November 6th deadline for orders
Retakes will be taken November 7th
Food Bank donations will be collected starting Monday
Remembrance Day assembly next Friday at 10:45 am
Book orders due Wednesday


What did we do this week?

• Today in gym, we did a game of volleyball.  But instead of using a volleyball we used a beach ball.  First we started with one ball, but Ms. Jones put another ball in the game so we had two games going.
• Today in math, we finished up some work.  We showed our learning of decreasing number patterns and made up pattern rules.
• In music, we played the song Camilo and practiced our crescendos.  Later we did a brain activity.

October 29, 2019- Halloween is creeping up....

Important Info:

Swimming tomorrow- remember your swimsuit, flip flops, goggles, towel and an extra snack. Be dressed for the weather!
Halloween parade Thursday afternoon- Halloween costume expectations and parade details – be respectful of the costumes you are choosing for your child to wear to school.  We also discourage violent type or extremely scary costumes. Do not bring all of the props or extra items that go along with your costume.  Leave props at home.   The Halloween parade will start at about 1:20 pm.     
No school Friday- PD day
Pictures sent home today- November 6 deadline
Library tomorrow


What did we do this week?

• On Monday we went to our buddies.  Our little buddies needed to draw their bodies in October using shapes.
• Today in math, we finished up some work.  We just learned how to write pattern rules for increasing and decreasing patterns and we created decreasing patterns with snap cubes.
• On October 28th we went swimming.  We walked in the very cold wind and snow!  Once we got there, we went to our group meeting spot.
• In social, we watched a video in pairs about Calgary in its early days.  It was called Welcome to Boomtown Buster.  We had to answer a few questions about Calgary when it was really old.

October 25, 2019- What is important to our community?

Important Info:

Swimming Monday and Wednesday next week- remember your swimsuit, flip flops, goggles, towel and an extra snack
Halloween parade Thursday afternoon- Halloween costume expectations and parade details – be respectful of the costumes you are choosing for your child to wear to school.  We also discourage violent type or extremely scary costumes.  Do not bring all of the props or extra items that go along with your costume.  Leave props at home.   The Halloween parade will start at about 1:20 pm.     
No school next Friday


What did we do this week?

• On Wednesday we did our science test.  The grade 3 test was different than the grade 4 one.
• On Thursday we had our first swimming class.  We got sorted into groups based on our level.  We went into the tanks and the lanes and practiced skills such as the front crawl.
• As per usual, we have been working on patterns.  We did lots of increasing pattern activities with questions and pattern rules.  A pattern rule tells the appearance of a pattern.
• In art, we finished our haunted house art.  We added cracked windows and spider webs or shadows.
• Today for Fresh Air Friday we walked to a community mural and drew pictures from it.  Then we went to a sidewalk covered in drawings like sunflowers.  After that we went to the community garden.