Weekly Update Oct 24-28

Happy (snowy) Friday! I can't believe the snow lasted the night....I am  not ready for winter!

General reminders:

• Please do not send treats on Monday to be shared with the class. The Chamois family will be supplying cupcakes that are safe for everyone to eat. Thank you Chamois family!
• Halloween Monster Bash is Monday. Students can wear costumes but please no masks, props and not too scaaaary

Language: Today is the last day for students to work on their comparative writing assignment. We are focusing on editing...edit, edit, edit!!

Math: This week we have focused on division and how it it used in the real world. Students had to solve problems related to a theater opening.
We will be having a math unit test on Tuesday (place value, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division) 

Science: This week we talked about the physical properties (ex. mass) of matter. Ask your child to name a few (we spoke about 8) and explain what they mean.

Have a great weekend !

Happy Friday!

Today we had the PGL teacher from St. Brother Andre come and run a STEM activity with our class and Mrs. Fahey's class. The challenge was to deliver supplies safely from Ontario to a depot on the other side of the river in Shoal Lake 40, Manitoba without contaminating the supplies in the contaminated river water.

Weekly Update Oct 17-21

We had a busy week!

Language:Nearing the end of our analyzing unit, we are working on writing a comparative essay. Students picked their topics and brainstormed supporting ideas today. We have a special guest coming in tomorrow and we will be continuing our writing on Monday.

Math: We have been using vertical learning spaces to practices our math skills. We can see students working collaboratively to solve multiplication problems.

 Science: Today we had our States of Matter Quiz. Earlier in the week we cycled through stations to solidify our knowledge on solids, liquids, and gases.

Weekly Update: October 11-14

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving and a wonderful long weekend. 

Language: This week we have been talking about the 1800s settlers and analyzing the hardships that the settlers would have had. Mr. Oh brought in a snowshoe made of real animal sinew.

Math: We have been working on multiplying this week. We rotated through stations working on different ways of multiplying. We will be having a quiz on Tuesday on:

• 2 digit by 1 digit  34 x 2
• 2 digit by 2 digit  56 x 72

Practicing making multiplication arrays using base ten blocks

Weekly Recap: September 26-30

Happy October !

Language: We have been working towards writing 3 BIG  MAC paragraphs about spiders. We started by asking questions that we would like answered and began our research using the chromebooks. Ask your child what makes a great paragraph (topic sentence, 3 supporting sentences, concluding sentence).

Math: We had our first quiz on Friday. I am asking that you please initial the quiz Monday when I return them to the students.This week we will be tackling multiplication and division...oh my!

Science: Ask your child why water is the most unique substance on Earth.

Have a great weekend & enjoy a few pumpkin spice lattes :)

Congrats to the boys' soccer team who had an amazing tournament on Wednesday.