November News - It has been a busy start of the month...

We graphed with our partners.  We used data from our Zones of regulation talk to indicate how many students were in each zone.

We also learned a lot when we went on our tour and visit to the Public Library at Village Square.

Each of us were given an "It's a Crime Not To Read" book bag and we chose new books from the library as well as toured the back rooms of the circulation desk.

It was pretty awesome too, when Constable Kim put our teacher in handcuffs to show us how they work and why sometimes she needs to use them.

Learning about landforms has been fun, and we have been working on a presentation using a jigsaw technique, where everyone had a different job and we are presenting different regions.  The many different pieces of the jigsaw connects us, and we are able to show a bigger picture when we work together.... stay tuned for more when our presentations are finished!

October 2016

The students in rooms 12 and 14 have started stamina reading.  This means that we have been timing ourselves in class to practice focused reading on our own.  We have worked up to 7 minutes this week and we are charting our progress.  Our teachers have been giving us lots of time to practice reading to ourselves and we know that reading will make us better learners.

Our wall of decay has come down, and our class has identified that moisture added to decaying food items causes them to decay faster than items that were vacuum sealed.  The above photos are of MacDonald's french fries that decayed at different rates because one bag had moisture added.

When the grade three class was taking the SLA with Ms. Greaves the grade four class made clocks to practice telling time with. When there is time at home, please practice finding the small hand to see what the hour is.

                

October Has Arrived!!!

 Room 12 & 14 October 2016

 The students have been working hard on creating word families and next week we will shift our focus to include some poetry reading and writing.  In science the students have learned about decay and what happens during decompsition in the  Waste in Our World unit so be sure to ask them what they saw in the bags of collected items that we watched decay. The students also painted birch trees, where the students learned about painting and tape resist to create contrast.
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