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:

News

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!

Today we completed our Place Value Composition.  We looked at the art created by Kandinsky and Albuquerque.  Ask me how I demonstrated scale and depth in my project.
Here are a couple examples from today.

Math and Art fun

Place Value: Math and Art!

We talked about scale, depth, place value, overlapping and spent time with Mr. Koch's class! 

We had a lot of fun today!

We also had a combined gym class today! 

Mr. Koch's class will have an assessment on Place Value on Friday of this week.
Students are responsible for knowing how to place numbers in a place value chart, give the value of a digit within a specific place value position, represent numbers in expanded form and base-10

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Today in Literacy we looked at Character Traits.  Ask me how to determine the difference between positive and negative character traits.
We continue to build our personal characters we will be using to star in our own Fairytales.

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****With the weather changing, please be sure your child has a pair of indoor shoes to wear.****

Daily News

Today was a cold one! We almost lost fingers! Kidding!

We worked on our Fairy tale characters.
Ask me all about Jurassic Park Tag!
Ask me how much my Place Value Art is?

Student Voice message:
Virtue for October is CONFIDENCE. We will be learning about confidence with our teachers this month.
October 31st: We are invited to wear a costume to school. It will also be Fun Lunch that day as well. Yummy Pizza.

Please do not bring weapons, wear scary masks, or wear capes or long dresses or tails. REMINDER: this is a regular school day. There will be no parties or candy that day. Please remember this is a peanut free school.