Please return the report envelopes ASAP.
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Pines Camp - Thanks to all those who brought in their forms and fees.Chaperones received their letters last week.
Mr. Brousseau (student teacher) continues to teach more and more in our class (this is his final week). Let's do something special on his last day (FRIDAY)!
May 11 = Highlands Track Meet at COTR. READ THE INFO CAREFULLY.
All students took home 4 handouts full of information / details about the day.
Return the permission form ASAP, signed, in order to participate in track and field events.
May 23 - class photos.
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L. ARTS...
- all students have signed out a mystery book from the library and should be making plenty of progress to finish that book by May 15th - we had to extend it.
~ WRITING = we are learning how to use quotation marks and other punctuation marks appropriately; We have written one story called "THE DUMP." Last week we wrote another one called "ICY ADVENTURE." Now we can add "EXPERIENCED PET SITTER" TO OUR LIST OF STORIES. That's our final one, for now.
"How is the dialogue writing going for the grade four class?" questioned Mr. Bartraw.
Mr. Brousseau replied, "Well, we are now ready to publish our best one on the computers."
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WORD WORK CHANGE...
NOTE: there are currently 9 students that will receive a different take home list. Ask your child if they have a take home list and practice using this paper copy.
Word Work - to save paper, for EARTH DAY (EVERY DAY) and the rest of the year... your list words are right here...
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Math - NEW! Moving on to decimals and their relationship to fractions: meaning of decimals, manipulatives, how to read, draw, and represent decimals up to 999/1000,... (Mr. Brousseau)
Tons of Decimal Fun! Decimals of the Caribbean
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Health: - TOBACCO focus (Mr. Brousseau)
- learning about dangers of other tobacco products... cigars, chewing tobacco, e-cigarettes,...
Nicotine Addiction Video
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Science - Local changes caused by Earth’s axis, rotation, and orbit
- the effects of the relative positions of the sun, moon, and Earth; including local First Peoples perspectives BC Science Curriculum 4
- More Mystery Science investigations!!!
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PE - Mr. Brousseau will teach more gymnastics
- Track and Field Skills
- track your skills on a form: times, distances,... and aim for PB's
- Highlands Track Meet is on May 11.
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Technology - integrated with mystery science, DIALOGUE WRITING, tobacco unit, and the fur trade.
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Socials - Mr. Brousseau is teaching the importance of the FUR TRADE in Canadian history
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Career Ed -final project upcoming in two weeks.
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ART - integrated into tobacco and fur trade units.
- perspective ART - top view, profile, back view, front view,... theme is HYPERBOLE!
~specific art elements practiced on FRIDAY
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Congrats to CALLIE for being the latest Worker of the Week!
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