Important Dates:
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September 22 - Individual Photos
TUESDAY, September 22 - Paarlauf RELAY RACES - for grade 4, 5, 6 CO-ED TEAMS (girl and boy teams) - at Laurie Middle School - 3:30 SHARP! Ends at about 4:30. Students are responsible for their own transportation to and from this event. A permission form went home last week to those who have qualified.
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September 23 - Lockdown drill 1:30pm
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September 25 - The Terry Fox Walk / Run - whole school participates
-Bring in a toonie (or more) ASAP and support cancer research!
- We have a collection container in our class
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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...
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
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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 started our literature study... we are on Chapter 9 on Monday...
- reading THE LEMONADE WAR
- students practice reading comprehension, analyze
characters, vocabulary, and events, summarize,
- daily writing about the story is part of this.
main idea, evaluate ideas, discussions and questioning, ...
- we read and respond to our reading, daily.
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Writing - each day we work on this... in all classes.
How To Write Complete Sentences
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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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~Word Work - Unit 2 - 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 - Place Value Concepts / Number concept
- reading, writing, representing large numbers, comparing and ordering numbers, rounding, multiples, standard and expanded forms,... up to 6 digits for grade 4.
MATH TEST on the above on Friday!
Click to practice...
https://www.abcya.com/games/comparing_number_values
Try some games to practice your skills!
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Health - starting soon...
~ Keep Moving unit.
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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"
- 2 more labs this week.
The Scientific Method
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Socials - will begin in October
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PE - flag football skills
- proper techniques of throwing, catching, flag tackling,... leading games.
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Art - Minecraft Selfie started on Thursday.
Due Tuesday.
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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 SHELBY for earning WORKER OF THE WEEK last week and.... earning 25 house team points! Great efforts = great results!
