Important Dates and Information:
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September 28 - FSA - opens for all grade 4 students in the province.
We will start FSA TESTS within the next two weeks...
What are the FSA TESTS?
Info: option to withdraw from FSA TESTS
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September 29 - Orange shirt day
- in support of positive aboriginal voices and
education about residential schools
September 30 - NATIONAL TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION DAY - no school.
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Oct 1 = Floor curling @ 12:50 to 1:20 for our class
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October 9 - FIELD TRIP - to Creston Valley Discovery / Wildlife Center - to
learn the hows and whys about bird migration. 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 Conferences... more info to come!
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Learning opportunities this week...
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Language Arts - we will start a new literature study... book two...
- 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 - each day we work on this... in all classes.
How To Write Complete Sentences
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Criteria
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Check
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My sentence begins with an
uppercase letter.
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My sentence ends with a
period, exclamation point, or a question mark.
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All lowercase letters are
formed correctly (tall letters are tall, short letters are short, and letters
that are supposed to be written below the line are written below the line).
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My sentence has at least
one subject (the ‘who’ or what part of the sentence).
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My sentence has a
predicate (the details / what is happening part).
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* 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 3 - 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.
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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 - Place Value Concepts / Number concept
- Focus on estimating and then rounding numbers to the nearest 10, 100, 1 000, and 10 000.
QUIZ ON rounding on FRIDAY!
Click to practice...
Rocket-rounding
Half-court-rounding-online-game
Try some games to practice your skills!
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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
- learning how to describe the process and
carefully record all information in "lab write-up"
- 1 more lab this week.
*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 - flag football skills
- proper techniques of throwing, catching, flag tackling,... leading to games.
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Art - Name Tangles:
Due Thursday, Oct 1st.
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Drama - various activities integrated where possible
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Technology Skills - learning how to use MS WORD effectively
- on laptops... "Joy"is the first assignment.
WANT EXTRA Practice? Improve your typing skills at home!... by clicking below...
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 CONNOR for earning WORKER
OF THE WEEK last week and.... earning 25 house team points! Great efforts = great results!
