October 25 to 29

 Important Dates / Information   

MASKS: A reminder to parents to please pack masks for your student. We have a limited supply in the office, so we would really appreciate your help with this matter!

October 29 = Orange and Black Day / Hallowe'en Activities and costumes...

We are inviting our Huskies to wear their Halloween costumes to school on Friday the 29th. Please do not send any props as things can get lost or wrecked. We are also asking that no masks be worn as we are already required to wear our covid masks. If you are not comfortable sending your child to school in their costume, then please feel free to dress in orange & black 😊.

Wednesday, November 3rd  - MRS. BAIN IS RECORDING THE WREATH LAYERS... GRADE 4-6 is at 10:55-11:10. This is for Elliot and Joshua. Wreath layers wear red, white, or black for the recording. There will also be a recording of the audio and video for our class song/poems on NOV 3rd and...ALL students please wear red, white, or black on this day. Mrs. Bain has poppies that will be pinned for the recordings and will pass them back to teachers for students to wear on the 10th.

Wednesday, November 10 = VIRTUAL REMEMBRANCE DAY CEREMONY

Thursday, November 11 = REMEMBRANCE DAY = NO SCHOOL

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Learning opportunities this week...
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Language Arts - New novel study next week!

FSA READING, WRITING, AND NUMERACY FOR GR 4'S THIS WEEK WITH MR. JOHNSON. If you want more information, here are some links. The goal is to finish by the end of the week.

WHAT IS FSA?

FSA Samples

FSA Booklet Sample only

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~Word Work - Unit 7 - 3 groups - handed out on Mondays

                        and then the rest needs to be worked on at home. Students are

                       responsible for bringing home their list words.

                      - work at the word and letter patterns...

                      - HAND IN FINISHED WORD WORK PAPER ON the last day of each week.
                      - Unit #7 study all list words and the challenge words; TEST on Friday.


~ Writing sentences - we are working at increasing our accuracy when we communicate in writing                   

WRITING / GRAMMAR TIME PRACTICE THIS WEEK...

1. Lessons on AND, SO, BUT, BECAUSE.

2. Unity writing / staying focused on one topic.

3. Descriptive writing (Haunted House)

 We are using the Book Creator program to make writing more interesting. 

Your Haunted House descriptions are due on Thursday so we can use these and then move to haunted house story writing next week!  

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Math - ADDING AND SUBTRACTING WITH DECIMALS

Lots of 'MENU MATH' where we use real menus from local restaurants and order meals, make change,... FINANCIAL LITERACY.

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Health ~ NEW! Keep Moving unit 

            ~ promoting the importance of strength, endurance, and flexibility activities and the major benefits of regular vigorous activity each week! 

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Career Education - goal setting and how to achieve a long term goal 

                               - weekly planning in our agendas

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Science - The Scientific Method - Finished the unit

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Socials - Mapping Skills!

- pencil-to-paper booklets and...

online mapping...

PRACTICE THESE SITES at school and HOME!
 
1. Continents and oceans game

2a). Canada: locate the province / territory

2b) Canada: identify the capital city

 
3. Challenging World Geography

4. World-geography-games EXTRA CHALLENGING

 
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PE - inventive games / strategy games like Speedball
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French -  les corps in French - TEST Tuesday

 - NEW...

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Art - Name Tangles -due Thursday!

Hallowe'en ART on Friday!

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Drama -  The Case of the Missing Dentures = know your lines without looking at the paper... Performance day is next Thursday, Nov 4!
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Technology Skills - Mapping Skills

                              - using BOOK CREATOR

                              - MATHLETICS. TEAMS.
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CONGRATS to... ASPEN for earning WORKER OF THE WEEK last week...

and.. earning 10 house team points! Great efforts = great results!