Announcements
- Halloween/ Fall Spirit Day tomorrow
- Scrapbook supplies for summative due tomorrow
- Pizza Party on Friday
- Division Test Monday
Halloween/ Fall Spirit Day
Lost and Found Missing Items
- Scrapbook supplies for summative due tomorrow
- Pizza Party on Friday
- Division Test Monday
Halloween/ Fall Spirit Day
Tomorrow is Halloween Dress-Up/ Fall Spirit Day. Children can dress in their costumes or fall spirit colours if they don't have a costume. Please ensure no scary masks or weapons come to school.
We have gone through the lost and found and sorted items on carts in the Gym. Please come and check out these carts before November 8th as all left over items will be donated to the Salvation Army after this date.
Inquiry into Language
This morning students finished up their summaries from Chapter 12, then did some silent reading until all groups were done. Once all groups finished, we read through each summary as a class and highlighted the summary specific skills they did well: included transition words, only wrote about the important events, included important details, used punctuation and capitalization. While doing so, we also talked about information that was in the summaries to explain why it wasn't important to include that piece of information. The thinking question I often refer to is "If that information is important to the events that happened in the story, then that is important to include." If it's just a piece of information that elaborates on an event, but we don't necessarily need to know that information in order to understand what was happening in the story, then we don't need to include it.
Unit of Inquiry
Today we learned all about what self-esteem is and how it affects our well-being. We gathered together on the carpet as I read through an article that explained what self-esteem is, how the thoughts and behaviours of people with poor self-esteem differ from those who have high self-esteem, and how self-esteem develops. We also talked about what smugness is: having too much self-esteem (bragging). We went through some statements together to determine whether the person who said this statement demonstrated smugness or self-esteem. Then students came up with their own statements to share and the rest of the class had to determine whether they were demonstrating smugness or self-esteem. Throughout these discussions, we had the opportunity to reflect on our thoughts and behaviours to recognize if we have ever been smug, and when we may show that we have a high-self esteem and times when our self-esteem may be low.
Inquiry into Math
Today we learned how to take our 2-by-1 long division one step further by looking at how we solve 3-by-1 questions. We did some examples together, then students went off to work on their worksheet.
Some things to remember:
- When using long or short division, if your remainder is more than your divisor, then you need to keep dividing until your remainder is less than your divisor. (This was a common error today, especially when our dividend was 3 digits)
- Always make sure that you are lining up your digits. (ex. If you divide 49 by 7, your quotient should go above the 9 since that is the last place value of the digit you are dividing)
- The steps to follow are: divide, multiply, subtract and bring down. (emphasized in the video below)
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvQelzRQe7k
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcGB39f66RY
Agenda
- Read for 25 minutes
- Spelling Lesson 8 + Sentences
- Math Review due Friday (try to get it done tonight since tomorrow is Halloween)
- Math worksheet: first 3 rows
- My Stinking Thinking Worksheet
This morning students finished up their summaries from Chapter 12, then did some silent reading until all groups were done. Once all groups finished, we read through each summary as a class and highlighted the summary specific skills they did well: included transition words, only wrote about the important events, included important details, used punctuation and capitalization. While doing so, we also talked about information that was in the summaries to explain why it wasn't important to include that piece of information. The thinking question I often refer to is "If that information is important to the events that happened in the story, then that is important to include." If it's just a piece of information that elaborates on an event, but we don't necessarily need to know that information in order to understand what was happening in the story, then we don't need to include it.
Unit of Inquiry
Today we learned all about what self-esteem is and how it affects our well-being. We gathered together on the carpet as I read through an article that explained what self-esteem is, how the thoughts and behaviours of people with poor self-esteem differ from those who have high self-esteem, and how self-esteem develops. We also talked about what smugness is: having too much self-esteem (bragging). We went through some statements together to determine whether the person who said this statement demonstrated smugness or self-esteem. Then students came up with their own statements to share and the rest of the class had to determine whether they were demonstrating smugness or self-esteem. Throughout these discussions, we had the opportunity to reflect on our thoughts and behaviours to recognize if we have ever been smug, and when we may show that we have a high-self esteem and times when our self-esteem may be low.
Inquiry into Math
Today we learned how to take our 2-by-1 long division one step further by looking at how we solve 3-by-1 questions. We did some examples together, then students went off to work on their worksheet.
Some things to remember:
- When using long or short division, if your remainder is more than your divisor, then you need to keep dividing until your remainder is less than your divisor. (This was a common error today, especially when our dividend was 3 digits)
- Always make sure that you are lining up your digits. (ex. If you divide 49 by 7, your quotient should go above the 9 since that is the last place value of the digit you are dividing)
- The steps to follow are: divide, multiply, subtract and bring down. (emphasized in the video below)
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvQelzRQe7k
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcGB39f66RY
Music, French and Gym
Check out the blogs below to see what your child did during Gym and French
French with Mme. Rawan: https://mmerawansja.blogspot.com
Gym with Ms. Vasconcelos: https://msvphysed.blogspot.com/
- Read for 25 minutes
- Spelling Lesson 8 + Sentences
- Math Review due Friday (try to get it done tonight since tomorrow is Halloween)
- Math worksheet: first 3 rows
- My Stinking Thinking Worksheet
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