Headphones

To help students with their learning on specific websites such as Raz Kids and ABCYA.com, it's best for students to participate in these activities without noise distractions. If possible, please send a pair of headphones to school (not earbuds) in a ziplock bag by next Monday.

September 27 Update

September 27, 2019

Field Trip forms and money are due as soon as possible!Only 5 students brought back home writing (it was due today). Please make sure students bring it in on Monday!Monday September 30, 2019 is ORANGE SHIRT DAY. AMA (ask me about) why we are wearing orange. If you do not have an orange shirt, consider any accessory that is orange (headband, bracelet, etc).

What an amazing day for the Terry Fox Run! Students ran in support of Terry Fox's legacy and foundation. Thank you to all those who donated to our "Toonies for Terry" program.

Here are the activities we were busy doing this week:

Science
-students explored how sound travels in different objects
-students explored how we can muffle sound using cloth, wool, etc.
-AMA (ask me about) how we can protect our ears from damage
-AMA how sound that can damage our ears


Language Arts
-students continued to focus on spelling and sentence structure
-students are using checklists to assess their writing
-AMA the checklist and different components of it
-we focused on writing pieces and using adjectives to describe Terry Fox (perseverance, brave, strong, courage, etc.)


Math
-students continued to explore numbers to 1000
-in small groups, students created a class number chart to 1000
-students explore different patterns in the chart (starting at different points and skip counting patterns)
-AMA our daily Number of the Day activities


Buddies
We taught our buddies how to use iPads to login to their Raz Kids accounts. Some of us helped our buddies read the words of the book.

Tomorrow September 26

Reminder: Terry Fox Run is tomorrow morning. Please have children dress for the weather and in layers. They can take a water bottle labeled with their name outside with them to use during the run.

Scholastic book order were due today. If there are any last minute orders, please send them to school tomorrow.

Field trip forms went home today. We are heading to the Bell Studio Center on October 10th, 2019. Please use Power School to pay for the field trip and send the forms to school as soon as possible!

Terry Fox Run

We will be doing The Terry Fox Run on Friday, September 27.  The assembly will start at 8:30am with the run to follow afterwards.

We are collecting "Toonies for Terry" and you can donate to the cause for cancer research if you would like. 

Please have your child dressed for the weather, bring a water bottle, put on sunscreen, wear runners and a hat. If the weather will not allow us to be outdoors (right now it is supposed to snow on Friday), alternate plans will be made by the school. 

Reminder: There is no school Friday, September 20! Book orders are due next Thursday!

This week students explored science stations. Our class created a model of ear using plasticine with Mrs. Gill. They learned about pitch and volume with Mrs. Root and I. Ask your child how a panpipe can be used to demonstrate pitch.

Math:

Students explored how place value using the following different ways:

-standard form

-word form

-expanded form

-base 10

In addition, students learned how to represent numbers by adding 10 more, taking away 10, adding 10 or 100 more, subtracting 10 or 100, adding 1 and subtracting 1.

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