Thorncliffe Winter Celebration!!

Please join us tonight as classes have created interactive displays highlighting traditions from around the world.  Our celebration will take place from 6:00 - 7:30.  
Don't forget to visit the Learning Commons to support the Bake Sale!

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Wishing all families a wonderful holiday season!  

See you all in the New Year!

Attention Parents

Room 5 now has their own blog page.  The link to Ms. Simon's blog page is:

http://thorncliffecbe3-4r5.blogspot.ca/

Alien In-Line Update:

All students in class are now able to stand and skate around the gym independently!!  We have a few new to skating and many that are really proficient.  Way to go class for demonstrating patience as you are gearing up, and perseverance as you learn new skills!!

We hope to have some pictures up in the near future
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You are invited to the Thorncliffe Winter Festival! 

Who: Students, parents and teachers of Thorncliffe School 

What: Interactive winter activity booths created by each class

Where: In the gym of Thorncliffe School

When: Thursday, December 21 from 6:00 to 7:30 

Why: To gather as a community and celebrate winter

Bring your family and come join us in the gym to celebrate winter and the holidays. Here, you will complete different challenges and tasks that relate to different countries and cultures. We hope to see you there! 

Reminders for School Events:

Thursday, December 7, 2017 dismissal time is 1:25 pm

Parent Conferences will be held Thursday, December 7 and Friday, December 8.  Please book your conference through the Thorncliffe School Website

http://school.cbe.ab.ca/school/thorncliffe/Pages/default.aspx

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Alien Inline forms due Thursday, December 7, 2017

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Fun Lunch Dec 20

Order online through the Healthy Hunger button on the Thorncliffe School Website

http://school.cbe.ab.ca/school/thorncliffe/Pages/default.aspx

I have added a second page with some various math resources.  The page is accessed on the right hand side of the blog.  There will be videos and practice resources added that will support students with the concepts of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
Additional pages for Literacy, Science and Social Studies will follow.

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Alien In-Line will be providing Grades 1 - 6 students with instruction to improve balance and technique when in-line skating.  This is a free program for all students thanks to the support of Thorncliffe's School Council Executive.

Alien In-Line will take place the week of December 11 - 15, 2017.

Acknowledgement of Risk forms came home with your students this week.  This form needs to be signed and returned for your child to participate.  Forms are due no later than Thursday, December 7.

Alien In-Line provides the skates, elbow, wrist and knee pads.  Some helmets will be supplied.  It is highly recommended that students bring their own helmets to school for this week.

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Parent Conferences are next week.  Please book a conference online through the Thorncliffe School Website  http://school.cbe.ab.ca/school/thorncliffe/Pages/default.aspx

Conferences will be held Thursday, December 7 in the afternoon/evening, and Friday, December 8 in the morning.

If you are experiencing difficulties booking a conference online, please contact the office.

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Mr. Koch's class continues to work through the design process while creating our project for the Beakerhead Ingenuity Challenge.  The class voted to address student concerns about organization within the classroom, and design a chair organizer to help solve some of these concerns.

Students were working as mini design teams to create a prototype of some possible chair organizers.  Here are some of ideas students created.

Class Photos came home today.  Please check your child's backpack

Mr. Koch's class was fortunate enough to be selected to participate in the BeakerHead Ingenuity Challenge!!

We have been tasked with identifying problems of design, organization and storage within our school community.  We were provided with a box of cardboard to be utilized in the creation of a solution to a problem our class identifies.

We have been working on a number of Design Challenges.  These problems allow us to work in teams to solve various design challenges.  Here are some images of the various stages of our plans to build a Gingerbread Man Trap.



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Scholastic Book Fair !!!

Friday November, 17 is a non-student day.  It is a Professional Development Day for teachers.  Enjoy the long weekend!

What a terrific job our grade 3 and 4 students did at our Remembrance Day Assembly.

We demonstrated respect by being active listeners.

Well done to the six grade 4 students in Mr. Koch's class who have been working hard during their weekly Choir Club rehearsals.  Your hard work was evident during your performance today!

Have a great weekend!!!

Mr. Koch's class has a spelling test Friday on the French numbers 0-30.  Students will be told the number in French, and asked to spell it correctly.  Students were given their journals to bring home and review the numbers.  Please ensure they are returned each day.

Here is an interactive website called Quizlet that has some online flash cards that you can use to review.


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We are wrapping up our Plant Life and Changes unit in science.  Please ensure your students are confident with the definitions and concepts of the page below.

Some additional resources can be found on the following website.

2Learn.ca

We have been working towards composing writing with strong sentences.  Here is some additional grammar practice with nouns, verbs, subjects and predicates.

Stay Warm This Weekend!!  Please remember to set your clocks back one hour before you go to bed on Saturday.


Those in class today received their login information to a math game called Prodigy and a reading support program called ReadTheory.  Both these programs are accessible from home.

Prodigy - https://www.prodigygame.com/

ReadTheory- https://readtheory.org/

Happy Halloween!

Stay safe and warm if you head outside tonight

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For tomorrow:

We will be collecting and analyzing data

Each student needs to come to class with at least one strategy about how they sorted their candy.

Bring to class an estimate on the number of treats you collected.  If you are not trick-or-treating tonight, please estimate the number of people that will come to your house asking for candy.

Tomorrow is Halloween.  Students may choose to wear a costume to school during the day.  Masks may be worn in the classroom.  Please leave any other accessories at home.

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Tomorrow is our Pizza 73 Fun Lunch!  All students eat in the class at 12:15.  If you did not order a fun lunch on-line, please send a lunch with your child.

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Thursday, November 2 we will have a test on identifying nouns and verbs in sentences and paragraphs.  Here are some additional practice sheets for you to review.

Today we learned how to complete Magic Squares.  All horizontal, vertical and diagonal sums must equal the magic number.

Here are some to complete this weekend for homework!!

Attention:  

Library is tomorrow!  Please bring your library books to school so they can be returned or renewed

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Happy Birthday to Picasso!

Today we learned about Pablo Picasso.  We looked at how Picasso turned realistic art upside down with Cubism.  Have me explain what cubism entails.  

Here are some examples of the progress we made creating art in the style of Picasso.

Today in math we learned a new method to solve addition equations with up to 5 addends.  Let me show you how I use base-10 method to calculate the following equations.

7 + 5 + 3 + 9 + 13 =

56 + 17 + 32 + 44 =

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Today in Social, we had a great discussion about basic human needs.  We will be comparing the similarities and differences of quality of life for people living in Peru and our own.

What are the basic needs we need to survive?  Why?



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Tonight is the last night to order Fun Lunch!!

Important Notice!!

LAST day to order online from Healthy Hunger, Pizza 73 is Tues, Oct 24, 2017.

If you order online the Fun Lunch day is Tuesday, Oct 31, 2017.

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Today we transferred our beans from our baggies to a planter.  We observed several parts of a plant.  They are:  stem, roots, leaves and the seed.  

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Math Homework - due tomorrow

Create 2 addition equations using 12 and 4 as the addends.

Create a subtraction equation using a minuend of 37.

Create a subtraction equation with a subtrahend between the numbers 3 - 13.

Some of us brought some place value homework that was not finished in class yesterday.  Please ensure it is done for tomorrow.

We have been looking at the inverse relationship between addition and subtraction.  Here are some additional questions that can be done for review.

 Tell me the inverse operation you can use to solve for the unknown value:

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Fun Lunch:

Who:     This is optional for any Grades 1-6 students

What:    Pizza 73

Where:  On Fun Lunch Days all students eat in the classroom at 12:15 – students who do not order from Pizza 73 bring their own

lunch and eat in the classroom

When:   Tues, Oct 31, 2017  Eat at 12:15 go out to play at 12:35

How:     To order online go to the school webpage http://school.cbe.ab.ca/school/thorncliffe/Pages/default.aspx

               Scroll down to “Useful Links” and click on “Healthy Hunger” and place your order.

*Oct 24, 2017 is the LAST day to order. 

Child safety brochure. Please read.

We planted our beans today. We are hoping to keep them alive...fingers crossed. 

Parents, try out our Math question today. 

Lee was writing out her numbers up to 20. She wrote out 17 digits and took a rest. What was the last number she wrote?

REMINDER: Picture day on THURSDAY. Please bring form. 

Fun Lunch:

Who:     This is optional for any Grades 1-6 students

What:    Pizza 73

Where:  On Fun Lunch Days all students eat in the classroom at 12:15 – students who do not order from Pizza 73 bring their own

lunch and eat in the classroom

When:   Tues, Oct 31, 2017  Eat at 12:15 go out to play at 12:35

How:     To order online go to the school webpage http://school.cbe.ab.ca/school/thorncliffe/Pages/default.aspx

               Scroll down to “Useful Links” and click on “Healthy Hunger” and place your order.

*Oct 24, 2017 is the LAST day to order. 

Reminders

Monday October 16th is a Profession Development day.
Thursday October 19th: Photo day.
Tomorrow is early dismissal.
Grade 5/6 fundraiser. $40 for a box of veggies etc. Due Monday October 16th. (Which is a PD day so bring it by Tuesday)

• Parents, you will be asked to do a math challenge question. Please follow the rules.
• Numbers 1-5, cannot repeat number, and vertical/horizontal must equal the same number. They will show you the rest.

This is a math challenge we worked on today.  Work with me through the challenge.  I need to explain my reasoning for the number I come up with.

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In Social Studies, we are studying quality of life.  Make a list of the qualities you feel contribute to you having a positive quality of life.  These could be qualities at home, school, community etc.

Today we reviewed nouns and verbs.
We composed sentences using both.  Have me identify the nouns and verbs in the following sentences.
1.  The shark ate a fish.
2.  We flew to Australia together.
3.  I walked my dog at the park.
4.  Meg rides rollercoasters.
5.  I like swimming at the swimming pool.

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Child Safe Canada Resource Guide came home today.

****Grade 5/6 Outdoor School Fundraiser came home****
-please support this great cause to offset the cost of outdoor school for the grade 5/6 students!

What a busy day!

***Library: Please bring books back. We will be returning them in the morning.

• Today we had our first Lockdown. It went very well. Everyone listened and behaved accordingly. 
• Today the grade 4's had their first fitness day. Ask them to do a wall sit! 
• Our scientific word is  HYPOTHESIS. How many small words can you make? 
• We learned a new game in gym. Roller hockey. 
• Let me ask you a question in French!   1. Comment t'appelle tu? 2. Comment ca va?  3. Comment t'allez vous?   4. Quel age a tu?
• Our beans actually grew? Here are some questions and hypothesis' we had: Will my bean grow a flower?, Will my bean grow in soil?, Will it grow somewhere in our class other than the window?
• Some reasons my bean grew: The sun, water, light.
• Why my bean did not grow: the heat vent, didn't get enough sun, not enough water.

***Please do Math review, it is due tomorrow

Math question: 

Stretched out Steven asks you to stretch out these numbers: (expanded form!)

8923

464

567

Pizza 73 Fun Lunch will be held October 31.  Please visit Healthy Hunger to place your order.

Healthy Hunger Fun Lunch Registration Info

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Photo Day

What a busy day!

Today was the first day of choir for grade 4!

We are going to tell you all about:

• What's inside of a bean? 
• We took the beans and put them in a bag. We are hoping they will grow! Fingers crossed.
• We logged all our information in our Journal. 
• Ask me about observations about the soaked bean.

Question: 

What is the difference between 452 and 323? How many numbers are in between them? How did you solve the question? 

***If you add 1000 to 323, what is my new number? If I subtract by 12 what is my new number? 

PHOTO day is Thursday, October 19.

A beantastic adventure!

Today we became scientists! Both classes did bean observations!
Ask me what an observation is.
Some of our findings:

• Beans have a smell
• They have a texture
• We put them in bags with water....We wonder what we will do with them next.
• We cracked some open and it was pale and soft inside
• There was black stuff on it (eye)

Grade 4's- remember there is choir tomorrow.

No Library for Ms. Han's class, as we did it today. But if you have a book please bring it back.

We also finished our place value art!
Ms. Han's class: there will be a review of place values next week so practice, practice, practice!