Room 4

Wednesday, October 31, 2018

Agenda:

Read 20 min
Bring headphones (not wireless) to school for tech class. We are not sharing headphones due to lice.
Fresh Air Friday on Friday
Whoops! Ms. Jones forgot to put this on the blog (candy brain!). Spelling test this Friday
Fire plan and class photos sent home today.

What did we do today?

In science, we watched WALL-E. WALL-E was programmed to compact the garbage left by humans. The humans left Earth because there was so much garbage and no plants.
In math, we applied our estimation skills doing a pumpkin investigation. After making observations about the pumpkin, we cut it open and took out the seeds and pumpkin guts. Then we chose a referent to use and estimated the number of seeds that were in the pumpkin. We had extra time, so we carved them with faces and put them in the pumpkin patch for the parade.
During gym, we played a dodgeball game called pumpkin patch. If we got hit by the ball, we went to the other team's pumpkin patch. We were saved if we were able to catch a ball thrown by our teammates.
This afternoon we had the Halloween parade. Our classmates were dressed as dinosaurs, beanie boos, video game characters monsters and animals.

Agenda:

Read 20 min
Bring headphones (not wireless) to school for tech class. We are not sharing headphones due to lice.
Pumpkin seed estimating activity tomorrow. Thank you to the volunteers who can make it!
Halloween Parade tomorrow in the afternoon around 1:15pm. Halloween costumes to be worn in the afternoon only.

What did we do today?

In gym, we practiced our underhand serving skills by creating rainbows and playing a game with a buddy called rebound points.
In math, we practiced our estimating skills by using referents and eyeballing skills to answer a number of questions and a marble center. We learned to use vocabulary such as half, a quarter and approximately. Tomorrow we will be using these skills to estimate seeds in a pumpkin.
During science, we got together with our Green Team members and started to practice the public service announcement we are going to share with classes and staff in regards to our current recycling habits and how we can improve them. We will be going to classes on Friday.
After taking out new books from the library, we read to someone new in our class and checked for their understanding.

Agenda:

Read 20 min
Bring headphones (not wireless) to school for tech class. We are not sharing headphones due to lice.
Treat day tomorrow! Bring 25¢
Four parent volunteers are needed for Wednesday morning to help with our pumpkin seed estimating.
Halloween Parade Wednesday October 31 in the afternoon. Halloween costumes to be worn in the afternoon only.

What did we do today?

In gym, we started practicing our underhand serves over the net. We practiced in pairs and then we played meteor shower where we had to listen for when to serve.
In art, we worked very hard to finish our pumpkin art for Wednesday's parade. If we finished it and our social, we were given instructions to follow to create a haunted house.
In math, we watched a video on how to estimate using referents. We can use referents of 5, 10, 20, 25 or 100.
In music, we are working hard for our production for the CBC Music Contest. The production crew worked on a trifold of what paradise looks like. We also practiced our instruments and the lyrics.
During computer lab, we worked on Mathletics.
For journals, we shared our writing about our costumes and we had to share what we liked about their writing. Then we went back to ours and tried to improve it.

Agenda:

Read 20 min
No school tomorrow- PD day
Bring headphones (not wireless) to school for tech class. We are not sharing headphones due to lice.
Mark the date: Treat day Tuesday October 30
Halloween Parade Wednesday October 31 in the afternoon

What did we do today?

In language arts, Mrs. Yoon read us the story A Scarecrow's Dance and Ms. Jones wrote down juicy action words from the book down. Then we had to do the same with a different picture book. We also had to organize words into nouns, verbs, and adjectives.
We are very close to finishing are social project. Please watch the bulletin board to see our work!
This morning in gym, we practiced our bumping skills by completing given patterns and by playing Forever 21.
We did the big pick up this afternoon!

Agenda:

Read 20 min
Saakokoto is visiting all day tomorrow
No school Friday- PD day
Bring headphones (not wireless) to school for tech class. We are not sharing headphones due to lice.
Mark the date:Treat day Tuesday October 30

What did we do today?

In math, the grade 4's worked on a logic problem with Ms. Jones before playing a card game where we had to put numbers drawn in a carroll diagram. The grade 3's finished some text work, then we played a game where we had to make 1000 using base ten blocks.
Today in music, it was our second day working on the CBC Music Challenge. We are in different groups: an instrument group (xylophones), percussion, a production crew, and singers.
This morning in gym, we got a partner to practice our bumping skills for volleyball. We also played two games to practice this skill too. One was called PASS and the other was Forever 21.
We had time to work on our Alberta region pennants and our pumpkin art.

Agenda:

What did we do today?

This morning we had our first spelling test in our word work groups.
When we were outside, we played nutrient tag. We were either herbivores, carnivores, decomposers or a human. In the first round there were no humans, but in the second round there was. We noticed that more animals and decomposers "died" during the round where humans were in the game because cutting down trees where the herbivores got their nutrients from and they would take away the decomposers needed to put the nutrients back in the game.
After the game, we picked up garbage that we were finding on the field and playground. We found items such as straws, plastic, gloves, rotten fruit and glass. We will be sorting these items next week to determine if there are any patterns to the littering.

Agenda:

Mark your calendars: Literacy night tonight from 6-7pm. This is an opportunity for your child to show you what they do in class to improve their reading and writing skills.
Randy Bottle (Saakokoto) visiting October 25

What did we do today?

We had a catch up class today. We had time to finish our writing prompt about where we would go with a friend and then had time to work on our Alberta Region pennants.
In Daily 5, some groups had to see Ms. Jones for guided reading or book club assignments. While she works with those students, we worked on word work, finishing our writing or went on Raz-Kids.
During computer lab, we went onto our IRIS accounts and posted a photo of work we are most proud of.
In gym, Ms. Jones had us perform a variety of soccer skills to mark us for our soccer unit. We start volleyball next week.