In Language Arts we explored early forms of story telling.  Ask me the difference between a petroglyph and a pictograph.  Students began to create a story about their personal experiences that they think would be important to share with future generations.


We are very excited to have a math test coming up on Monday afternoon!  We will show off our knowledge of Place Value.  I have attached a couple copies of some review sheets to practice this weekend.  We will be tested on such concepts as place value, value of a digit in specific place value position, representing numbers with base-10, expanded form and written form.

Our Terry Fox Run was a huge success!  The weather was fantastic.  Students counted the number of laps completed.  We tallied the results for our class discovered we completed 297 laps as a class.  Way to go!
Here are some images from the run.




Please remember that tomorrow is Orange Day.  Please see our school website for additional information.
ORANGE Day  On September 30, you are invited to wear an orange shirt to commemorate, honour, and bring awareness to the experiences of residential school students.  TheSociety for Safe and Caring Schools & Communitiesis sponsoring this event – let’s paint Calgary orange tomorrow!

***Terry Fox Run is tomorrow morning***
The run will take place on our school field after our assembly at 9:30.  We will all be going outside no matter the weather.  Please dress appropriately!

Today we began to look at how knowledge and stories were told in Alberta hundreds of years ago.  Ask me why petroglyphs were important to the First Nation peoples of Alberta.


In Social, we began to study Alberta.  We brainstormed in our journals what we thought Alberta looks like on a map.  We included places and landforms we thought were in our province.  Ask me what I thought Alberta looks like!

Thank-you to the Fares family for donating headphones for every student in our class.  Much appreciated!
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FUN LUNCH!!

Our first Fun Lunch this year will be on Friday October 14th with Pizza 73.

-please visit our school webpage http://schools.cbe.ab.ca/b235/

-scroll down to Fun Lunch and follow the directions to order a lunch online

-If you have any questions with this process please contact Wendy at wendywschool@gmail.com

ORDERING CLOSES FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7

Today in math, we looked at representing numbers using base 10.

We also found the value of each digit according to its place value position.

In science, we learned some of the differences between a dump and a landfill.  Ask me how a landfill is preferable to a dump.  Here is a link with some games and videos about recycling.

eekoworld

Terry Fox Run - Sept. 29

Our Terry Fox Run has been rescheduled for Thursday, September 29.  We will be honoring the legacy of Terry Fox and his efforts to raise awareness and money for cancer research.  The grade 5/6 students will be coming around to each class this week to collect donations.

Orange Shirt Day - Sept. 30 

Here is a link with additional information from the CBE website. Orange Shirt Day

Today we explored Tumblebooks.  This is a great resource to help increase reading fluency and comprehension.  The username is Thorncliffe and the password is books.
Here is the link:  Tumblebooks



The grade 5/6 students are collecting donations for the Terry Fox Foundation.  Students will be coming to each class daily to collect any spare change you might have available to donate.  Our Terry Fox Run will take place Sept. 30.


***Reminder - No School Friday ***

*****French test tomorrow on the numbers 1-20******

We are working on co-operative games in Physical Education.  Ask me how to play "Chuck-the-Chicken."

Reminder there is no school on Friday because of parent conferences

This afternoon, we used our knowledge of place value to count a pile of math manipulatives.  Ask me the strategy we used to compute such a large total.

We also have a French numbers test on Thursday.  I need to memorize the numbers 1-20.  My test will be on correctly spelling the words and speaking the numbers orally.  Here is a link to Quizlet.  This website is a great resource to help me practice.


Quizlet

***Please remember to dress for the weather.  Bring rain jackets and umbrellas if you have them.***

Today in math, we began to explore place value.  We watched a video by MathAntics which helped us understand how place value positions work.

We also worked on completing our Silhouette Art so we can decorate the class.  When you come to conferences, see if you can spot your child's silhouette.  They included images of 5 things they like, 3 things that are important to them and 1 thing they can't live without.

**Don't forget to book a conference for either Thursday evening or Friday morning**

This morning we explored some wonders on the website Wonderopolis.  We looked at how mood rings were created and how sawfish catch their prey.





In Science, we learned about the 4 R's.  Ask me what they are, what they mean and give examples of how each can create less waste entering our landfills.

We were introduced to Thorncliffe's new Learning Commons this afternoon.  Each student is learning the routines to log on to both the Mac Desktop computers and the Macbook laptops.

If your child would like to use headphones, they must be supplied from home.  We will not be sharing headphones among students.

Tomorrow afternoon, students will write a brief math quiz to demonstrate their understanding of both increasing and decreasing number sequences.

Today in Language Arts we began to look at Reading Powers.  We focused on the reading power of Making Connections with our read aloud novel, "Wayside School"


In science we took an environmental survey to discover many of the concepts that we will cover in the unit.


Three important notices came home with your child today:

Yellow - Parent Teacher Conference booking information.

Green - Instructional Supplies and Materials Fee Form

Blue - Central Fee Payment Form

Many of these can be filled in on-line through the My Account and Parent Conference buttons on our school website.
http://schools.cbe.ab.ca/b/235

Throughout this year, we will be connecting our Grade 3 and 4 curriculum to the question, "What does it mean to be a global citizen?"  Today we welcomed back our students who celebrate Eid.  We began to study how it is important to recognize and celebrate our differences.

In math this week, we have been studying increasing and decreasing number patterns and figuring out the "gap" between a set of numbers.

Increasing Numbers

Decreasing Numbers

Welcome to our new classroom blog.

We will update our blog daily with what we have been learning in class, and also include any important announcements and dates.