Room 4

Friday, November 30, 2018

Watch our CBC Music Challenge video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3iDCnD_IS4

Agenda:

Read 20 min
Homework: social research on provincial or national park to be finished by Monday (About: climate, landscape, animals, history, plants, water bodies, size; Fun Activities to do there)
Homework: complete this week's word work tasks

What did we do today?

For our Fresh Air Friday lesson, we went outside we looked for different fractions in nature. Each person had to find a fraction of a set and a fraction of a whole.
During our big pick up, Ms. Cowdy talked about what to do with a pizza box. There was wax paper in it, which goes in the landfill. The tin foil on the wax paper could be peeled and put into the recycling. The pizza box, since it has food and grease on it, actually goes into the compost bin!

Watch our CBC Music Challenge video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3iDCnD_IS4

Agenda:

Read 20 min
Homework: social research on provincial or national park to be finished by Monday (About: climate, landscape, animals, history, plants, water bodies, size; Fun Activities to do there)
Homework: grade 3 math- p. 118-119 #1-8
Spelling quiz tomorrow- please study your words, they were sent home

What did we do today?

In science, we started our animal ear research. Ms. Jones wanted us to look in books to find information about their diet and location.
In gym, we went on the traverse wall again and we played mirror mirror, where we had to copy the person who went first. After we played colour elimination.
Today during Daily 5, we had to complete a list of tasks. We had to complete both our rough and good copy about the best part of me. We also had time to finish our word work activities and if we finished those we could go onto Raz-Kids.
We had little buddies today! We helped them change their passwords, put Starfall as one of their bookmarks and log out.
In math, we finished our subtraction work from the textbook and if we finished early we played a game called What's the Difference.

Agenda:

Read 20 min
Homework: social research on provincial or national park to be finished by Monday (About: climate, landscape, animals, history, plants, water bodies, size; Fun Activities to do there)
Spelling quiz this Friday- please study your words, they were sent home yesterday

What did we do today?

We were given one last day to finish our internet research about a chosen provincial/ national park. If we finished, we started a Google Slides presentation on it. We also had to score ourselves using the rubric.
In journals, we had to finish our rough copy of our The Best Part of Me. If we finished and edited our work, we started writing our good copy.
Today in music, we saw the CBC Music Challenge videos from last year and this year. It will be uploaded by tomorrow.

Agenda:

Read 20 min
Spirit day tomorrow- wear a plaid shirt and bring a mug!
Spelling quiz this Friday- please study your words, they were sent home yesterday

What did we do today?

In science, we played the listening game, which is like heads up seven up. We made noises using objects we found in nature two weeks age and then we would guess what it was that made the sound. We were also given our animal hearing project, where we will have to research where it lives, the frequency they can hear and draw a picture with us and its ears.
In gym today, we did the climbing wall. Ms. Jones would eliminate a colour grip that we could not use. She eliminated green, which was really hard.
This morning in math, we started to solve subtraction questions using bigger numbers. Ms. Jones also challenged us to show two ways of subtraction in our work.
We had two Daily 5 blocks today. During our first Daily 5, we had to work on our word work activities, which are due Friday. In the second one we practiced handwriting and had library.
In computer lab, we did dance mat typing.

Agenda:

What did we do today?

For social studies, we researched information about and list the fun activities you can do at each provincial/ national park. Writing On Stone was home to the Blackfoot thousands of years ago. In Lesser Slave Lake, you can go kite surfing. And Lakeland Provincial Park was founded in 1953.
In art, we took a photo for our The Best Part of Me writing project. We learned how to crop photos using the iPad.
In music, we journaled about the CBC Music Project. We had to write about what we could do better and what we struggled with. We also watched a couple of other schools entries.
In math, we are starting subtraction. Ms. Jones showed us three different ways: the traditional way, counting down and using the base ten blocks.

Agenda:

Read 20 min
Save the date: Face-to-Face Conferences will take place tonight, November 22 and Friday, November 23, 2018.
No school Friday

What did we do today?

In science, Ms. Jones gave us a sheet with unfinished sentences about how we hear. We had to fill in the blanks using the parts of the ear to explain how sound waves become the sounds we recognize. We also brainstormed questions we want to research for our animal hearing project and we worked on our cartoon selves with animal ears.
We recorded our CBC Music video today for the challenge.
In social studies, we continued to research information about the parks in Alberta. Jasper National Park is the largest park in the Rockies. In Lesser Slave Lake Park, the north side of the park elevates up to the mountains.
We did the big pick up today since we have no school tomorrow.
In Daily 5, we worked on our journals and the word work assignments we were given.

Agenda:

Read 20 min
Save the date: Face-to-Face Conferences will take place tomorrow, November 22 and Friday, November 23, 2018. Please book an appointment asap, Friday times still available.
No school Friday

What did we do today?

We had two musics today. The first one was the rehearsal with all the grade 3-6's. The second music class we practiced our role in the performance and we watched three videos that had the same tune to them.
In math, we showed Ms. Jones what we know about addition with bigger numbers, place value and using rounding to estimate.
We had gym outside today with room 5 at the end of the day, as they missed their gym time due to the music practice.
In language arts, we started to write our journal entry about what our best part is and why. We used opinion sentence starters to add variety to our sentences and we learned to group ideas in paragraphs.
Ms. Jones read more from The Wild Robot. Bears attacked her after she stumbled into their cave. She also learned from a stick insect how to camouflage and to stay hidden on the island.