Weekly reminder SAFETY NOTICE:
· ALLERGIES to **cashews, **pistachios, and **pets.
Please be respectful of this and be aware of what you bring in your lunch. Important Dates:
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September 23 - Individual Photos
September 23 - Paarlauf RELAY RACES - for grade 4, 5, 6 co-ed teams - at Laurie Middle School - 3:30 to 4:30ish. Students are responsible for their own transportation to and from this event.
***Permission forms will be going home this week.***
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September 25 - Evacuation Practice - 11:00 & September 25 - Open House! 5:00 - 6:00.
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September 26 - The Terry Fox Walk / 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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September 29 - Orange shirt day
- in support of positive aboriginal voices and
education about residential schools .
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September 30 - NATIONAL TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION DAY - no school.
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October 2 - Science Demonstrations in the morning - bring all your materials in this day.
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October 3 - 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 (or your lemonade donations).
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 OR RUBBER BOOTS ONLY.
- Forms will go home this week.
~ $5 per child.
~ Hopefully, those who had a lemonade stand will help us all pay for the trip!
The bus leaves at 8:40am so please be at school on time. Bus returns around 2:40pm.
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October 7 & 8 - Parent / Teacher Conferences... more info to come! You will be able to use "Sign-up.com" to select a day and time that works for you.
PLUS BOOK FAIR - 3pm to 7pm! ...SO BRING MONEY IF YOU CAN AND BUY SOME BOOKS! MORE INFO TO COME.
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October 10 to 14 - THANKSGIVING - no school.
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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.
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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 units are handed out on Mondays and then the rest needs to be worked on at home.
*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.
- work at the word and letter patterns, connect the sounds letters make,...
- HAND IN your FINISHED 'WORD WORK' HANDOUT ON or before FRIDAY.
- Unit #3 study all list words; Multiple choice TEST on Thursday this week.
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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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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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Math - Place Value Concepts / Number concept
this week - multiples, lowest common multiples,... factors, and prime and composite numbers.
Click to practice...
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 -
Demo Science Experiment!
Goal: to demonstrate any simple science experiment to the class explaining the concept of an ‘independent variable.’
You will:
· Need a partner.
· Research any simple experiment on the computers (at school).
· Make sure you have all the materials (we can supply some for you, if necessary and inexpensive).
· Perform the experiment exactly 3 times changing ONLY ONE item (this is your ‘independent variable’) each time.
· Clearly explain your ‘independent variable’ in your experiment while you present.
· TRY IT AT HOME FIRST TO ENSURE IT WORKS!
· Formally demonstrate it to your classmates.
· State the question, hypothesis, materials, procedure, observations, and conclusions to the best of your ability.
· No need to hand in a written component – verbal only. However, you may want to read from your planning page to help guide you.
· Be ready to share on Thursday morning, October 2, 2025. BRING IN ALL YOUR MATERIALS ON THIS DAY!
Hint: keep it a simple experiment like the first experiment we did in class with the small glass, water, and an index card.
Criteria Scale
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· Clearly demonstrated a simple experiment with an introduction, a question, hypothesis, materials, procedure, observations, and conclusions. |
*Precisely explained *Well-stated *Satisfactory *Basic understanding *Unable to explain |
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· Demonstrated and explained what an ‘independent variable’ is in their experiment and how it was ‘changeable.’
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*Precisely explained *Well-stated *Satisfactory *Basic understanding *Unable to explain |
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Socials - will begin in October
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Social Emotional Learning - SEL = Friendology Program (with Ms. Kathleen, our school counsellor)
- being kind to yourself - your inner ninja
- making friends
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PE - Tag games outside and strategy games.
Paarlauf - 9 grade 4's made the team and we have 4 alternate athletes if needed.
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Art - BIRD ART x 2
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Drama - various activities integrated where possible
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Technology Skills - learning how to use MS WORD and MS Power-Point effectively
- on laptops.
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House Teams - Wear your colour or HUSKIES GEAR on Fridays!
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CONGRATS to BAILEY for earning WORKER OF THE WEEK last week and.... earning 10 house team points! Great efforts = great results!
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