Monday October 30th 2017

Highlights

We had a very busy day today. We started with morning challenge and Math. In math, our lesson focused on counting by 5's and 10's using a number line. We created our own number line and used it to skip count. We started at a random number (i.e. 59) and added 5 or 10 each time. We had music and gym this morning. We have new spelling words. The list is in their green folder. Before lunch, we had Daily 5. After lunch we had writing. We're currently focusing on, how to write a proper sentence. We had Social Studies today. We were introduced to the first country we're learning about, India. Today we explored resources on India and discussed interesting facts we read. At the end of the day we finished our Frankenstein art.

Important Information:

We have a Rocks and Minerals presentation from Scientists in School on Nov. 9th. We are in need of 4 parent volunteers. This year, the school has decided to use Sign-Up Genius. Parents whose CBE Volunteer Security Clearance have been approved, will receive an email from Sign-Up Genius. Please email us with any questions regarding this. There will be more opportunities this year to volunteer so please go to the office to fill out the police security clearance forms if you're interested in volunteering this year! It is also a good idea to check with us or the office to see if your name has been cleared or if your clearance has expired. We have a few parents that have expired and a few that have applied, but haven't been cleared just yet. More information about the presentation will be sent home tomorrow! 

Reminders:

• Picture Re-takes: November 14th (Students will receive their proofs sometime this week)
• Colouring Club: Will meet on Wednesdays at 12:15 - There were only 3 spots/class. Priya, Talia and Grace were the students chosen from our class. There will be lots of other clubs to join throughout the year. 
• Healthy Hunger: To register your child for Fun Lunch, please visit www.healthyhunger.ca 
• Our class Library checkout day is every Thursday. Please return library books each week! 
• Tuesday October 31st - Orange and Black Day! No Halloween costumes please. Save them for Trick or Treating. 
• BOOK ORDERS - Due on Wednesday November 15th. You can pay by cheque, cash or online (follow the directions on the book order form) 

Homework:

~ Reading: Read daily for 15-20 minutes. 

~ Math: Work on homework pages that were sent home from Unit 2: Numbers to 1000. So far we have sent home pages for:

• Lesson 1: Read and represent numbers to 1000
• Lesson 2: Explore place value with 3-digit numbers using base 10 blocks.
• Lesson 3: Represent numbers in more than one way using base 10 blocks. 
• Lesson 4: No homework
• Lesson 5: Use place value to compare and order 3-digit numbers.

~ Spelling :

• Monday - country, countires, field, fields, light
• Tuesday - lights, dish, dishes, wishes, hope
• Wednesday - hopes, love, loves, look, looked
• Thursday - Quiz 

Ask Me About:

~ A sentence has two parts? What are they? (subject and predicate)

Thursday, Oct. 26th, 2017

Highlights
We worked on comparing 3-digit numbers using greater than and less than symbols in Math. (<, >) This was challenging for some students so please work on the homework sheet that will be sent home tomorrow. We took our spelling quiz and those will be marked and sent home tomorrow. In Science, we read an interesting article about a supervolcano in Yellowstone and a few more reading passages about rocks and minerals. Tomorrow, the students will take part in a few Mystery Science experiments that they'll be excited to talk about with you! 

Important Information:

We have a Rocks and Minerals presentation from Scientists in School on Nov. 9th. We are in need of 4 parent volunteers. This year, the school has decided to use Sign-Up Genius. Parents whose CBE Volunteer Security Clearance have been approved, will receive an email from Sign-Up Genius. Please email us with any questions regarding this. There will be more opportunities this year to volunteer so please go to the office to fill out the police security clearance forms if you're interested in volunteering this year! It is also a good idea to check with us or the office to see if your name has been cleared or if your clearance has expired. We have a few parents that have expired and a few that have applied, but haven't been cleared just yet. More information about the presentation will be sent home tomorrow! 

Reminders:

• Healthy Hunger: To register your child for Fun Lunch, please visit www.healthyhunger.ca 
• Our class Library checkout day is every Thursday. Please return library books each week! 
• Tuesday October 31st - Orange and Black Day! No Halloween costumes please. Save them for Trick or Treating. 

Homework:

~ Reading: Read daily for 15-20 minutes. 

~ Math: Work on homework pages that were sent home from Unit 2: Numbers to 1000. So far we have sent home pages for:

• Lesson 1: Read and represent numbers to 1000
• Lesson 2: Explore place value with 3-digit numbers using base 10 blocks.
• Lesson 3: Represent numbers in more than one way using base 10 blocks. 
• Lesson 4: No homework
• Lesson 5: Use place value to compare and order 3-digit numbers. *Will be sent home tomorrow (Friday). 

Ask Me About:

~ igneous rocks, sedimentary rocks, metamorphic rocks, weathering and erosion, minerals, crystals and the layers of the earth. 
~ Check out this website as a family: Rock Website! 

Monday October 23rd 2017

Highlights
We started our morning with morning challenge and math. Today's lesson focused on interpreting a problem and selecting an appropriate strategy. There is no homework for this lesson. We had music this morning and recess. After recess, we had spelling (new lists and last weeks quiz are in their green folder). We had 2 rounds of Daily 5 today. In writing, we're currently writing about ourselves. Today we did some planning and tomorrow we will be using the plan to write a piece of writing. After lunch, we continued with writing. We earned an extra recess because we collected enough character cubes over the past two weeks. We had Social Studies and continued to discuss our rights and responsibilities. 

Reminders:

• Colouring club will meet on Wednesdays in November from 12:15-12:38 (during lunch recess). The interested students were given a form today. Please sign and return it as soon as possible. 
• If you ordered apples and pumpkins, vouchers are in their green folders
• There are still 2 'must fill' position for the casino fundraiser. Please contact Parent Council if you can volunteer.
• Healthy Hunger: To register your child for Fun Lunch, please visit www.healthyhunger.ca 
• Our class Library checkout day is every Thursday. Please return library books each week! 
• Tuesday October 31st - Orange and Black day! No Halloween costumes please. Save them for Trick or Treating

Homework:

~ Reading: Read daily for 15-20 minutes. 

~ Math: Work on homework pages that were sent home from Unit 2: Numbers to 1000. So far we have sent home pages for:

• Lesson 1: Read and represent numbers to 1000
• Lesson 2: Explore place value with 3-digit numbers using base 10 blocks.
• Lesson 3: Represent numbers in more than one way using base 10 blocks. 
• Lesson 4: No homework

Ask Me About:

~ who did you play with at recess today?

Friday October 20th 2017

Highlights
We started our morning with morning challenge and writing. Today we worked on creating 4 star sentences. These are sentences with lots of details (verbs, adverbs, adjectives and prepositions). We had gym and our spelling test. The tests will go home on Monday. We had Daily 5 and Social studies. In Social studies, we discussed our Rights and Responsibilities. We talked about how they are the same and how they are different. In the afternoon we had art. We're working on an oil pastel picture of pumpkins at night. 

Reminders:

• Healthy Hunger: To register your child for Fun Lunch, please visit www.healthyhunger.ca 
• Our class Library checkout day is every Thursday. Please return library books each week! 
• Tuesday October 31st - Orange and Black day! No Halloween costumes please. Save them for Trick or Treating

Homework:

~ Reading: Read daily for 15-20 minutes. 

~ Math: Work on homework pages that were sent home from Unit 2: Numbers to 1000. So far we have sent home pages for:

• Lesson 1: Read and represent numbers to 1000
• Lesson 2: Explore place value with 3-digit numbers using base 10 blocks.
• Lesson 3: Represent numbers in more than one way using base 10 blocks. 

Ask Me About:

~ my rights and responsibilities as a child

Tuesday, Oct. 17th, 2017

Highlights
In Math, the students are learning that there are many ways to represent the same number using base ten blocks. Example: 236 can be built using 2 hundreds, 3 tens, 6 ones OR 1 hundred, 13 tens, 6 ones. 

The students had their first 'choice' day for Daily 5. They chose to go to either Read to Self, Work on Writing, or Read to Someone for 25 minutes today. 

We read the story "Country Frog, City Dog" and made connections from our 3 brain pockets (fact, memory, imagination). The connections were related to a feeling from the book, the story itself, a character from the story or from a picture in the book. This led to some great discussions as a class. 

We had SO much fun in Science today! Our question was: Why do some volcanoes explode? We investigated how differences in lava types explain differences in the shape and eruption patterns among volcanoes. We experimented with “lava” of different thicknesses to solve the mystery.

Extras from today: 

• Unity Assembly
• Birthday Candle Art
• Fire Drill

Reminders:

• Healthy Hunger: To register your child for Fun Lunch, please visit www.healthyhunger.ca 
• Our class Library checkout day is every Thursday. Please return library books each week! 
• Tuesday October 31st - Orange and Black Day! No Halloween costumes please. Save them for Trick or Treating. 

Homework:

~ Reading: Read daily for 15-20 minutes. 

~ Spelling:

• Tuesday: watch, away, any, many, end
• Wednesday: friend, mail, sail, bank, thank
• Thursday: grow, slow, dear, fear, hear
• Friday: Quiz

~ Math: Work on the homework pages that are sent home for Unit 2: Numbers to 1000. 

Ask Me About:

~ Why do some volcanoes explode? *Hint: Think about the bubbles/gasses, thin/thick lava, shape of the volcano vs. shape of the liquid. 

Friday October 13th 2017

Highlights
We started our morning wit hMath. We're continuing to learn about numbers to 1000. Today's lesson focused on Modeling 3 digit numbers. There is a lesson 2 homework sheet going home today. Please work with your child to complete it. We had gym today. We are also continuing our training for Daily 5. The students have been working hard to build their stamina! We had our spelling quiz today. It is marked and in their green folders. We are learning about wants and needs and goods and services in Social Studies. After lunch we glazed our personal shields with our grade 2 buddies. Reminder, there is no school on Monday. 

Reminders:

• Healthy Hunger: To register your child for Fun Lunch, please visit www.healthyhunger.ca 
• Our class Library checkout day is every Thursday. Please return library books each week! 
• No School Monday October 16th. 
• Tuesday October 31st - Orange and Black day! No halloween costumes please. Save them for Trick or Treating
• Parent Council thanks all the parents that have already signed up for the School Casino Fundraiser, if anyone would like to sign up, please visit the school blog for further information.  Tuesday, October 10th is the deadline for our fall fundraiser, please send back any orders.    Help us raise the additional funds needed to add basketball hoops to the school yard for our kids.  Additionally, we are finalizing the spirit wear orders, any additional orders should be sent back to school as soon as possible.  

Homework:

~ Reading: Read daily for 15-20 minutes. 

Ask Me About:

~ How many hundreds, tens and ones are in the number 862?

Math Test: Unit 1, Patterns

The math test was sent home today. Please review the test with your child. It is important they know what mistakes they made and how they could have answered any missed questions differently. We would like you to sign the test and return them to school at your convenience. It is important for you to know that this test is not their final report card mark for this unit. It is simply a snapshot of their independent work and test taking abilities. For many of our students, this is the first sit-down type of test they've completed in their school years thus far. 

In this unit, your child has learned to:

·      Identify, extend, create, and compare increasing patterns.

·      Identify, extend, create, and compare decreasing patterns.

·      Find pattern rules.

·      Display number patterns on hundred charts.

·      Use patterns to solve problems.

Patterns can be found all around us. Please continue to encourage your child to look for patterns around the home, and talk about them.

Here are some suggestions for activities you can do at home:

·      Look for patterns in your family’s activities as marked on a calendar at home. What activities do you do daily? Twice a week? Every week?

·      Use small objects like buttons or coins to make patterns that grow or shrink. Encourage your child to describe and extend the patterns.  (e.g. Start with ____, then increase/decrease by ____.)

·      Count collections of nickels and dimes by 5s and by 10s. Count pennies by 2s.

·      Find examples of geometric patterns in floor tiles or on game boards.

·      Complete the extra practice sheets we send home for homework.

If you have any questions, comments or concerns regarding your child's mark on their test, please write a note and attach it to the test when you return it to us. 

We will write our regular blog message tomorrow (Friday) as there was no school on Monday. Next week the blog will also be posted on Tuesday and Friday. 

Tuesday, Oct. 10th, 2017

Highlights:
Today we began a new unit in Math: Numbers to 1000! Pattern tests have been marked and will be sent home on Thursday for your review. In Science, we learned about landslides and the effect they can have on a community. They were asked: How could you survive a landslide? They learned a bit about what causes landslides and it opened up a lot of conversation around Alberta's own Turtle Mountain (Frank Slide).

Reminders:

• Healthy Hunger: To register your child for Fun Lunch, please visit www.healthyhunger.ca 
• Our class Library checkout day is every Thursday. Please return library books each week! 
• No School Monday October 16th. 
• School photos - Individual Photos - Thursday October 12th
• Class Photos - Friday October 13th
• All apple/pumpkin orders are due in tomorrow morning at the latest, as the order needs to be submitted to the supplier in the afternoon.  NO late orders will be accepted.

Homework:

~ Reading: Read daily for 15-20 minutes. 

~ Spelling:

• Tuesday: into, look, write, people, than
• Wednesday: first, call, their, now, find
• Thursday: been, long, down, today, good
• Friday: Quiz 

Ask Me About:

~ Landslides! 

Thursday, Oct. 5th, 2017

Highlights:
Today the students finished their first Math test on increasing (growing) and decreasing (shrinking) patterns. They will be marked over the weekend and sent home for your review next week. We also took the spelling quiz today and they were marked and sent home. We did a Thanksgiving art project today using a guided drawing technique and water colour pencil crayons. The students did a great job! This afternoon the students were tasked with the question: Could a volcano ever pop up in your backyard? We mapped out volcanos around the world and learned about the Pacific 'Ring of Fire'. The students earned an extra recess with good character this week so we took advantage of the beautiful weather today and went outside at the end of the day!

Happy Thanksgiving!

 These were from the first 4 finishers! 

Our Class Thankful Turkey Art

Reminders:

• Healthy Hunger: To register your child for Fun Lunch, please visit www.healthyhunger.ca 
• Grade 3 & 4 Family Movie Night is TONIGHT, Oct. 5th from 6:45-8:15pm.  
• Our class Library checkout day is every Thursday. Please return library books each week! 
• No School Friday October 6th, Monday October 9th and Monday October 16th. 
• School photos - Individual Photos - Thursday October 12th
• Class Photos - Friday October 13th 

Homework:

~ Reading: Read daily for 15-20 minutes. 

Ask Me About:

~ My grade 7 buddy(ies) that we met this past Tuesday! Tell a bit about your new buddy from the games we played with them. 
~ Could a volcano ever pop up in our backyard? 

Monday October 2nd 2017

Highlights:
What a crazy way to start October. The students had indoor recess today. Normally, student's do not stay inside unless it is -20'c (with the wind chill) but because many student's didn't come dressed for the weather and also because it is extremely windy outside, the student's stayed inside. 

We started our day with math. We used a calculator to create an increasing number pattern and then we reproduced that pattern onto a 100's chart. The students worked with a partner and tried to see if their partners could find the missing number to their pattern. We had music and gym this morning. After gym, we had Daily 5. We're continuing to train and build stamina. The student's had 5 new spelling words today. After lunch we worked on a special art project with our grade 2 buddies. We're designing our own shield out of clay. It was messy but so much fun! 

Reminders:

• Book Orders are due Thursday, Oct. 5th.
• Healthy Hunger: To register your child for Fun Lunch, please visit www.healthyhunger.ca 
• Grade 3 & 4 Family Movie Night is on Oct. 5th from 6:45-8:15pm. Tickets are $2.50/person and an adult must attend with children. Ticket and food orders must be placed by Sept. 30th. Please email phschoolcouncil@gmail.com or call 403-777-6061 ext 3111 with any questions. 
• Our class Library checkout day is every Thursday. Please return library books each week! 
• No School Friday October 6th, Monday October 9th and Monday October 16th. 
• School photos - Individual Photos - Thursday October 12th
• Class Photos - Friday October 13th 

Homework:

~ Spelling words:

Monday - would, could, should, are, was

Tuesday - did, will, that, some, one

Wednesday - does, about, said, asked, other

Thursday - Quiz 

~ Math: Pattern Test Review - We will be sending a review package home tomorrow (Friday). We have included the answer sheet for your information as you work through the problems with your child. 

• The math test will be next Wednesday, Oct. 4th. 

~ Reading: Read daily for 15-20 minutes. 

Ask Me About:

My personal shield and making a clay shield with my grade 2 buddy.