Room 4

Friday, September 28, 2018

Agenda:

read 20 min
Music independent study- some of us are taking this home to research. If so, please bring back Monday so we can work on it.
Terry Fox Run next Friday (October 5), please bring in a toonie for Terry

What did we do today?

We went up to Nose Hill and met the SOGO team there. We had to navigate using a map and a given starting point. Then we had to find the different flags in order using our orienteering skills. Some of us are bringing the maps home to show you. We all came back muddy, wet and tired! some of us also saw a coyote den.

Agenda:

read 20 min
SOGO Adventure Running Residency all this week - please come dressed for the weather as we will be running outside. You need to have outdoor running shoes. Also bring a water bottle, a snack for the afternoon and wear lots of layers. We need volunteers to help run the stations everyday. Room 4’s schedule in the school yard:

Friday is also Nose Hill the whole morning until 12:00pm. (have two volunteers)
Music independent study- some of us are taking this home to research. If so, please bring back Monday so we can work on it.

Agenda:

read 20 min
SOGO Adventure Running Residency all this week - please come dressed for the weather as we will be running outside. You need to have outdoor running shoes. Also bring a water bottle, a snack for the afternoon and wear lots of layers. We need volunteers to help run the stations everyday. Room 4’s schedule in the school yard:

Thursday is Nose Hill 1:00-3:15. (have one/two volunteers)

Friday is also Nose Hill the whole morning until 12:00pm. (have two volunteers)

Let me know by email (sacjones@cbe.ab.ca) if and when you are available. We really need people for the Thursday and Friday to go to Nose Hill.
Music independent study- some of us are taking this home to research. If so, please bring back Monday so we can work on it.
Library tomorrow morning

What are the top three things we did today?

So we worked on our WOW factor today (work on writing). We journaled about who has an important person in our lives and why.
In music, we started working on our independent musical instrument study and some people finished their rough draft.
In math, we had blocks to build another structure with. Then we counted how many hundreds, tens and ones there were and we calculated the place value of the building.

Agenda:

read 20 min
SOGO Adventure Running Residency all this week - please come dressed for the weather as we will be running outside. You need to have outdoor running shoes. We need volunteers to help run the stations everyday. Room 4’s schedule in the school yard:

Wed 2:15-3:15

Thursday is Nose Hill 1:00-3:15. (need two volunteers)

Friday is also Nose Hill the whole morning until 12:00pm. (have two volunteers)

Let me know by email (sacjones@cbe.ab.ca) if and when you are available. We really need people for the Thursday and Friday to go to Nose Hill.
Music independent study- some of us are taking this home to research. If so, please bring back tomorrow so we can work on it.
Library Thursday morning

What are the top three things we did today?

Before lunch, we watched a video about waste and decomposers. This afternoon we had to re-construct the waste cycle.
This morning in math block, the grade three students started their SLA assessment in numeracy. The grade fours continued to finish their subtraction booklets.
In gym, we worked on our endurance and navigation skills with SOGO. WE got a map, and we had to find the flags to put our keys in so that they could track where we went.

Agenda:

read 20 min
SOGO Adventure Running Residency all this week - please come dressed for the weather as we will be running outside. You need to have outdoor running shoes. We need volunteers to help run the stations everyday. Room 4’s schedule in the school yard:

Tues 1:15-2:15

Wed 2:15-3:15

Thursday is Nose Hill 1:00-3:15.

Friday is also Nose Hill the whole morning until 12:00pm.

Let me know by email (sacjones@cbe.ab.ca) if and when you are available. We really need people for the Thursday and Friday to go to Nose Hill.
Music independent study- some of us are taking this home to research. If so, please bring back Wednesday so we can work on it.

What are the top things we did today?

In gym, we had a company called SOGO come and run two stations to increase speed and endurance. We will be running with them all week!
In math, we built a structure out of base ten blocks. Then we had to figure out how much the structure was worth by counting its ones, tens, hundreds and thousands.
Mr. O'Reilly gave us a project. We got to choose one instrument which we will research. On the paper he gave us, it asks for the family it belongs in, as well as interesting facts and what it looks like.

Agenda:

What are the top five things we did today?

In math, we finished our addition strategies booklet. After that we had to play a double or nothing game before moving on to a subtraction strategy booklet.
In science, we went for a walk around the Whispering Woods to observe nature and its waste. After Daily Five we reviewed what we saw and discussed how nature's waste turns back into soil.
We played spiderman tag in gym using scooters. If the spiderman tagged you you became stuck in the web.
We did our second school-wide big pickup today where we collected the recycling, one use snack wrappers, paper towels for compost, refundables and food compost.
In computer lab, we started to put our learning goals in IRIS.

Agenda:

What are the top five things we did today?

In gym, we made ourselves into human knots. We had to work together to untie ourselves back into a circle without letting go of each others hands.
During computer lab, we had to write down goals in our journals which we will be posting onto our IRIS accounts.
Mr. O'Reilly finished reading the book My First Orchestra in music. Then we listened to all the sounds the instruments made separately and together.
After we had music, we had a catch up time where we finished our journals about interviewing a classmate, our social charts on climate and word work.
We also worked on our addition and subtraction mental math strategies. Some strategies are using number lines, the split strategy and looking for tens.