October 1 to 4

Important Dates:

OCTOBER 3 - @ 9am until finished! ALL STUDENTS BRING IN SCIENCE MATERIALS TO FORMALLY DEMONSTRATE THEIR 'INDEPENDENT VARIABLE' EXPERIMENT.

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October 4 - The Terry Fox Run - whole school participates at different times
                       -Bring in a toonie (or more) ASAP and support cancer research!
                       - We have a collection container in 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.  

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

Forms went home last week. The bus leaves at 8:40am so please be at school on time. 

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October 14 - THANKSGIVING MONDAY - no school.

October 22 & 23    - Parent / Teacher Conferences... more info to come! PLUS BOOK FAIR! ...SO BRING MONEY IF YOU CAN AND BUY SOME BOOKS! MORE INFO TO COME. 

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Learning opportunities this week...
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Language Arts - we are continuing to read the book...
                           - 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.

INCLUDES LOTS OF DAILY WRITING PRACTICE!
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Creative Writing - Under the Rug...

 

Writing sentences - we are working at increasing our accuracy of written communication.

- we are using this as a guideline...

How To Write Complete Sentences

Criteria	Check
My sentence begins with an uppercase letter.
My sentence ends with a period, exclamation point, or a question mark.
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).
My sentence has at least one subject (the ‘who’ or what part of the sentence).
My sentence has a predicate (the details / what is happening part).

Correct grammar usage and proper spelling are essential pieces as well. 

Creative writing starts this week as writer's workshops with the theme called...

Under the Rug

Due October 22, in class, during laptop time.

- Hook your reader.

- Write on every other line.

- 2 to 5 pages double-spaced (from your draft copy).

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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 units are handed out on Mondays and then the rest needs to be worked on at home.

 *Students are responsible for bringing home their list words 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, or before, the last day of the week.

                      - work at the word and letter patterns, connect the sounds letters make,...

                      - HAND IN FINISHED 'WORD WORK' PAPER ON or before FRIDAY.
                      - Unit #4 study all list words; TEST on Friday.

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Math - Place Value Concepts / Number concepts

  - learning MULTIPLES, common multiples, and sorting multiples.

Click to practice...

Zap-A-Zoid MULTIPLES GAME

Number_ninja_multiples 

Try some games to practice your skills!

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Health - Keep Moving unit.

- the importance of physical activity and health benefits.

- the three main types of physical activity: strength, endurance, flexibility.

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

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Science - demonstrate YOUR experiments...

 Click here for student-led-science-demonstrations.

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Socials - will begin in one week = Mapping Skills!
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PE - various team games strategies, Fresher, Swamp Ball, Wolf Pack, and Speed Ball.
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Art - Name Tangles ART! DUE THURSDAY IN CLASS.

- start BIRD ART.

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Drama - various activities integrated where possible
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Technology Skills - learning how to use MS WORD and Power-point effectively
                              - on laptops

                              - "Under the Rug"is the second Power-point practice.

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House Teams - Wear your colour or HUSKIES GEAR on Fridays!
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CONGRATS to RILYNN for earning WORKER OF THE WEEK last week and.... earning 10 house team points! Great efforts = great results!