January 27-30

Reminders:

There is no school tomorrow due to PD day.
Scholastic book orders and home reading are both due Friday February 7, 2020.

Students are welcome to bring a Valentine for every child in the classroom. Here are the names of the 24 children in the class: Abdullah, Hibbah, Taimoor, Jasmine, Bobbi-Ann, Ekam, Dilraj, Ishaan, Sonit, Reet, Parry, Waniya, Abi, Jodha, Gurnoor, Jaskaran, Steven, Zeina, Jotsaroop, Arsalan, Adian, Simrit, Avneet, Manjot

Math:

This week we continued to use number lines to solve 3 digit subtraction questions.
This strategy will help students with building their mental math skills. Other strategies we have learned in class are:
1. Draw regrouping blocks
2. Number line
3. Vertical subtraction
4. Break apart (decomposition)
5. Hundred, Tens, Ones chart
6. Thousands chart

Music:

Students can practice our song for the concert using the link below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpqV3dzYOgk

Language Arts:

We continued to develop our persuasive writing through the use of strong adjectives. We also reviewed the sounds "ch, ou, th, ir, er, ur, ou, ow and sh." AMA what inferring means.

Inquiry:

We took our jot notes and began writing our persuasive paragraphs. We will continue this next week. During read aloud we are learning about the life of a child activist named Malala. AMA how her right to education and freedom was taken away.

Art:

This week we focused the artist books and techniques of Barbara Reid. We practiced using plasticine to make clouds, background, grass and people.

Health:

We looked at the words inspiration and goal setting when discussing the life and positive things Kobe Bryant and Malala did and have achieved.

January 20-24

Reminders:

Monday is Pizza/Pj Day

Happy Chinese New Year to those who are celebrating!

Students are welcome to bring in Valentines on February 12th. I will post the names of the students in the class next week. Including the teacher, there are 24 students in this class.

Home Reading was sent home today and is due next Thursday. Next Friday, January 31st is a PD day so no school for children!

Language Arts:

Students picked their favourite right of a child to begin their persuasive writing activity. AMA my favourite right and reasons for its importance.

Inquiry:

Students continued to explore the various responsibilities that accompany the different rights of a child. Below is a picture of an activity students worked on. Students also began thinking about their art piece for inquiry relating to the rights of a child. AMA my drawing.

Math:

Students used 1000's charts and number lines to solve 3 digit subtraction questions and then used vertical subtraction to check their work. Below are some pictures of the types of questions: 

Home Reading

Due to a poor turn out for handing in homework this week, I did not give back folders. I will send home reading on Friday to be brought back on Thursday January 30th.

January 13-17

It has been a COLD week and students still have been happy to come to school!
Home reading is due Monday.
If students want to play a math game called Prodigy at home, they are more than welcome to! There is a link on this blog.

Here are the highlights from this week:

Math
Students began exploring 2 and 3 digit subtraction using place value mats and base 10 blocks. A really good link to practice is http://www.learnalberta.ca/content/memg/division01/base%20ten%20blocks/index.html
This shows the regrouping/borrowing. Please see the pictures below to see the different strategies students learned.




Language Arts
We started to explore persuasive writing more this week. As a class, we composed a persuasive piece of writing that included introduction, reason1, example 1, reason 2, example 2, reason 3, example 3 and a conclusion.

When reading, students focused on the following letters sounds: th, ar, sh, er, ir, ur, ow, ou




Inquiry
Students learned that children all over the world have rights but with these rights come responsibilities. See the example in the picture below.

Reminders!

Here are a few reminders for this week:

1. Home Reading is due Monday.
2. Tomorrow HAT DAY
3. Pizza orders are due this Thursday
4. Book orders are due this Friday

January 7-10

Welcome to the NEW YEAR! It was wonderful seeing all children after a long and restful break.

Reminders:

Report cards went home yesterday. Please sign and return the envelope as soon as you can.

Home Reading was sent home on Tuesday and is due on Monday.

Wednesday January 15 is HAT DAY! Be creative and have fun!

Book orders are due next Friday

Pizza forms were sent home today. Please send them back to school by the due date if you are ordering.

With the cold weather approaching, please ensure students are dressed for the weather; unless it is -19 or below, students will go out at lunch time

Highlights this week:

Math
This week we reviewed 2 and 3 digit addition using our "Break Apart" strategy in the pictures below. We used "numberless" word problems and learned the importance of reading and identifying relevant information in math questions. Students also reviewed estimating and rounding to the nearest ten/hundred using 2 and 3 digit addition with a number line (if needed).




Language Arts
Fact or opinion?! We began this week continuing with persuasive writing and focusing on the different between research that is fact and true vs. opinions that are thoughts that can be argued. We read a book called, "Duck Rabbit," that thoroughly made students ponder the difference between the animals.

Inquiry
After reviewing quality of life and needs and wants, students began learning about the rights of children all over the world. Ask your child what rights children are supposed to have equally around the world.

Stay warm and enjoy the weekend!