Hello Everyone,
Last week your child participated in two special assemblies hosted by Mrs. MacAulay as well as our regularly scheduled subjects. She read a story and made many connections to how important everyone's social emotional well being is and how it relates to learning. She also presented a refresher on using your WITS when dealing with a conflict or a difference of opinions. Ask your child to explain the green, blue, yellow and red zones of regulation to you.

 In Math, our focus is skip counting by 2s, 5s, and 10s forward and backward starting at different entry points. Take a look below to see us practising. Ask your child what the 2 math tools we used to help us with the counting.

We have moved on to non-fiction writing. Our class looked at many features. We COMPARED many features to notice the similarities and the differences between many of them.

 Then, the students went on a hunt to look for examples. Ask your child what is the difference between an index and a glossary.

We are wrapping up our lessons about volleyball. Ask your child to explain what move this student is doing. Is it a volley, a bump or a serve?

A FEW THINGS TO REMEMBER........

• We are in need of The Citizen newspapers for a Science experiment. Can you please send any that you have in with your child ASAP.
• If possible, please label or mark your child's winter clothing items especially if they look generic (black gloves)
• Cake Walk is this coming Friday November 29th. The note and tickets were sent home last week for purchase. Tickets and money (8 tickets/$2) will be collected up until the day of the event.
• Please look in your child's homework book to sign some corrected math assessments which will be used as part of your child's mark for that unit.

Have a great week. I know we will.

Hello everyone,
This past Monday your child was able to participate in our school's most meaningful Remembrance Day liturgy organized by the grade 4 students. Our class dug a little deeper. We read books about Remembrance Day to gather information and we looked at the popular poem In Flanders Fields to name a few. We did our best to connect all these past events to our lives now. I think many students understood that Remembrance Day is not just one day and is forgotten but, instead, a valuable lesson learned to keep the peace in our school, in our communities and in our world. We had lengthy discussions about what a peace keeper is and why Canadians leave their families to go overseas to help other countries to try to find peace.

 The students had an opportunity to write to our members of the Canadian Armed Forces to thank them for their service and to demonstrate how each student can be a peace keeper at school and in their homes. The main message was to embrace love and understanding instead of solving problems with hurt and violence.

As part of our Religion and Family Life unit, each child presented a "trophy" to another student in front of the class to acknowledge each of our God given talents and how we recognize and celebrate them with one another.

We have come to the end of our Data Management unit. Here, we looked at some EQAO questions to challenge our thinking. The students needed to use the skills and concepts they practised in this unit and apply it to a multi step question. We solved this question together as a class. See if your child can explain to you how they would have answered the question.

A FEW THINGS TO REMEMBER......

• An extra set of mitts and socks tucked into your child's school bag is always a good idea for these winter months ahead.
• Your child's library books are always due back to school by Wednesday.
• Pizza/Subway day is always Tuesday unless it's a snow day.Then, it will be the next day-Wednesday.
• Monday is a big agenda day. Please see and sign your child's spelling book, notice the new word wall words and see what homework has gone home.
• Please check your child's agenda daily and initial.

Have a great week. I know we will!

Hello Everyone!
Lots of conversation starters below to encourage discussion between you and your child about how their school week unfolded.

 We have successfully completed our 3 sessions of Swim to Survive. So much progress between our first and last session. The same children who were jumping off the diving board during the last session were those who did not even want to get into the deep end of the pool.

In Math, we continue to look at Data Management. Last week was spent making conclusions with the data that was presented in either a bar graph or a pictograph. Ask your child why the KEY or  the SCALE is so important to understand when making conclusions.

After all the reading, modelling and shared writing, our class is now ready to start writing our descriptive writing paragraphs. Here, is a graphic organizer your child has been using and the success criteria or checklist to ensure your child has completed all the necessary parts to a good paragraph. Ask your child what his/her favourite place is and what senses they used to describe that place.

In Science, we investigated  what happens to structures that are under tension or compression. Ask your child which is an example of tension or compression in the photo.

Thanks to Mrs. MacAulay, the whole school got a chance to learn about the sport of curling. Ask your child to explain how points are awarded in the game.

In Art, we used mixed media to create our bulletin board for Remembrance Day. All are invited to our school's liturgy on Monday at 10:30am in the gym.

A FEW THINGS TO REMEMBER......

• A note went home in your child's agenda last Tuesday regarding how to sign up on-line for an interview time to discuss the progress reports. These will occur this Thursday November 14th.  If you are having difficulty please let me know or call the school office and someone will be happy to walk you through the steps.
• Special lunches are always on Tuesday UNLESS it is a snow day at which time the Subway or pizza lunch is postponed.
• Library is always on Wednesday for us so please ensure all library books are returned.
• Homework is usually due every Friday UNLESS it's a short week. 
• There is no school this coming Friday so the homework is due this Thursday

Have a good week. I know we will!

Hello everyone!
Take a look and see what your child participated in this past week.
In Math, we learned about a math tool called a venn diagram.

 We practised using the Venn as a whole class, then......

......the children sorted various things in the classroom based on two attributes independently.

Constructing a good survey questions was next on our list. We looked at what makes a survey question a good one.

Your child had a chance to collaborate with classmates to build a good survey question.

Below are the finished products...... We surveyed our class and the 2 other grade 3 classes.

Be sure to check back next week to see what kind of conclusions we came up with.

In Language, our class continues to work on descriptive writing but the focus last week was on interesting LEADS (introductions).

We did more experiments in Science. Our goal was to see how one piece of paper could be ALTERED to support a 200g load.
We had some failures........

....which made us try again.......and were SUCCESSFUL the 2nd and 3rd time around!

This past week we also had another amazing swimming lesson, a phenomenal spirit week and an interesting discussion about how Hallowe'en really is the eve of All Saints Day and All Souls Day which are 2 very important days in our Catholic culture.

A FEW THINGS TO REMEMBER......

• Our last Swim to Survive is this coming Tuesday.
• Subway Day is also this coming Tuesday.
• Please continue to check your child's agenda daily.
• Please continue to ensure your child has done their weekly homework and you have checked for any assessments that need to be reviewed and signed.
• If you haven't already done so, please sign and return the bottom portion of your child's progress report card in the envelope.
• Please stay tuned for the electronic sign up process for the interviews which will take place on Thursday November 14th.
• Have a great week. I know we will!