October 5 to 9

Important Dates and Information:

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 Thursday, October 8 = Science Demonstrations by students! Please help your child gather the basic materials required. For more info... Science-demo-information.

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October 9 - FIELD TRIP - to Creston Valley Discovery / Wildlife Center - to learn the hows and whys about bird migration. Also... dip netting and looking at creatures from the wetland, using a microscope. Please return permission forms ASAP along with $5.   

Note: Ms. Kelly-Anne's class is coming with us. 

Bring: Lunch, extra food, water bottle, and dress for the weather. APPROPRIATE FOOTWEAR ONLY – NO OPEN-TOED SHOES, NO SANDALS, NO CROCS, … RUNNING SHOES OR HIKING SHOES OR RUBBER BOOTS WORK BEST. 

The bus leaves at 8:40am. Please be at school on time. Bus returns around 2:40pm. 

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October 10 to 12 - THANKSGIVING - no school. 

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October 20 & 21   - Parent / Teacher / Student Conferences... SIGN-UP HERE!   to select a day and time that works for you.

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 Learning opportunities this week...
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Language Arts - we are on chapter 6 of ...
                           - reading THE LEMONADE CRIME
                           - students practice reading comprehension, analyze
                             characters, vocabulary, and events, summarize,

                             main idea, evaluate ideas, discussions and questioning, ...
                           - we read and respond to our reading, daily.

For those students who have been sick, please listen to the book starting at...CHAPTER 1 OF THE LEMONADE CRIME! and the following chapters until you are caught up to the class.

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Writing - Creative Writing - Under the Rug...

 

We are writing connected sentences to create a story based on the picture.

The goal is to keep working at increasing our accuracy of written communication.

 We will publish it on POWERPOINT!

* We work at our GRAMMAR PRACTICE booklets:

We are learning about complete sentences, sentence fragments, and the 4 main types of sentences. This leads to practicing which punctuation mark to use at the end of our sentences... ! or ? or .   

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 ~Word Work - Unit 4 - since students are starting from different levels of spelling, there will be different groups, according to where they are at, as observed in class. Students may increase or decrease in levels, depending on their written outputs. 

- All NEW units are handed out on Mondays and last week's unit is graded and returned with suggestions for improvements. 

- We work on them for 30 minutes, and then the rest needs to be worked on at home, if incomplete.

- Students who work at the word and letter patterns, connect the sounds letters make, understand what the words mean, know how to use them in sentences,... leads to spelling and vocabulary comprehension improvements! 

 *Students are responsible for bringing home their "working with words" handout at the beginning of each week. There are activities on the pages; practicing word patterns, meanings of words, etc,.. Students must return the page for grading on the last day of the week.

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Math -  Addition and Subtraction 

- up to 4-d + 4-d and 4-d - 4-d eventually. 

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Health ~ Keep Moving: 

~ learning about the 3 main types of physical activity...

Strength, endurance, and flexibility.

~ the importance of being active

~ health benefits and what physical activity does for your body.  

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

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Science -  The Scientific Method
- demonstrations of experiments on THURSDAY!

*We are also learning about the hows and whys of bird

migration in preparation for our Creston trip. 
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Socials - will begin soon!
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PE - team games & strategy games.
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Art -  Drawing migrating birds after our trip to Creston.

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Drama - various activities integrated where possible
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Technology Skills - learning how to use MS WORD effectively
                           

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Dance-mat-typing - Home row! 
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House Teams - Wear your colour and/or HUSKIES GEAR on the last day of the week!
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CONGRATS to MAKENZIE for earning WORKER OF THE WEEK last week and.... earning 25 house team points! Great efforts = great results!