News forum

Monday, November 7, 2016

 
Picture of Sherisse Norris
Monday, November 7, 2016
by Sherisse Norris - Monday, 7 November 2016, 3:12 PM
 

Important Dates and/or Reminders:

  • Lochside Trail walk is on Wednesday, weather permitting. This week we will be visiting Outerbridge Park with our Kindergarten buddies. Feel free to join us by signing up here.
  • Our Remembrance Day assembly is on Thursday at 10:00am. The Grade 4/5s will be singing a song together that we learned with Mrs. Alexander during our music class on Fridays. As we are performing, we have asked the students to wear a white top and dark bottoms. Feel free to join us for this assembly on Thursday.
  • Students will be given a poppy on Thursday. Our class is taking donations for the Legion.
  • Book Orders went home last week. If you are putting in an order this month, please have it in by Thursday.
  • No school on Friday, November 11th for Remembrance Day and Monday, November 14th. Teachers only in session on this day.

Spelling

  • Lesson 9 focuses on the letters 'sc' which can make the /s/ sound as in scenery, /sk/ sound as in scalding, or the /sh/ sound as in luscious.

Reading Studio

  • This week we will be having a scavenger hunt looking for non-fiction features and talking about how they are useful. We will work in groups and create a video using Adobe Voice to share our learning.
Writing Studio

  • We are finishing up publishing our stories and will also be publishing a poem we wrote today for Remembrance Day. Today we learned that writing can take many forms: story, letter, and summaries are ones we've tried so far. Today we tried out poetry and throughout the year we will add biography, research report, comic strip, and review.

Gym

  • We will finally start our soccer tournament this week. We will be in groups, come up with a team name, and play the other teams in this tournament.

Numeracy

  • We have been working with 3 and 4-digit numbers and trying out different mental math strategies to add 3 and 4-digit numbers. We have been looking for 10s, using a number line, using a hundreds chart, and adding by place value to help us. Later in the week we will move on to adding larger numbers.

Social Studies/Science

  • We will be starting our research on a human body system this week. Each student has chosen a system and will be becoming an expert on that system to share with others.