December 19th

1) PJ movie night notice home
2) Read our poem! We're on tomorrow!
3) Wear blue and white tomorrow for our performance
4) Wear green and red for the the spirit day on Friday
5) Eat a light breakfast on Friday as we're having our class breakfast

December 18th

1) Make sure you wear blue and white on Thursday for our performance
2) Math test moved to tomorrow
3) finish publishing your autobiography
4) Smencils on sale tomorrow!

December 17

1) Wear blue and white tomorrow and Thursday
2) Math test tomorrow

Spiral Book Review

Gr. 4 pg. 28-29
Gr. 5 pg. 28-31

3) Read and practice our class poem
4) Complete further hard copy revisions to your autobiography

December 14th

1) Math test TUESDAY

Items on the Math Test

Know how to:

• Read bar, pictograph and line graphs (line graphs for grade 5's) and use the APE strategy to explain your conclusions about them
• Understand all the elements on a graph 
• Use a stem and leaf plot to organize and analyze data
• Find the mean (only for the 5's), median and mode of a set of data and explain which what best describes it 
• Use intervals to sort and graph data on a bar graph

Review Work

Grade 4's

Textbook pg. 78 #1-4, pg. 81 #3-4
Spiral book pg. 23

Grade 5's

Textbook pg. 86 #1, 3, 5
Spiral book pg. 23

2) Wear blue and white on Tuesday for the dress rehearsal
3) Science - grade 4 bring in a flashlight for science (if you have one)
4) Breakfast note home
5) Read poem to someone at home

I am Winter, King of Seasons

RHPS' Website up and Running

Our new school website is now up and running. There was a note about it in the last school newsletter, but I thought I'd also post a the link here as well. The link is on the right-hand side bar and also below. Please check it out, we're very proud of it.

RHPS Website

December 13th

1) Milks orders due Friday
2) Bring in food for the food drive
3) Finish all 6 of the 'it says, I say, so..' inferencing tables that we started in class (this means completing both sides of your worksheet)
4) Finish social studies research page.
5) Science - grade 4's bring in a flashlight
6) Breakfast note home (please read and volunteer an item or your time!)

Winter Break Breakfast!!!

Dear parent(s)/guardian(s), 

The Winter Break is almost upon us and we want to celebrate a successful first four months at RHPS. So, we will be having a celebratory brunch the morning of Friday, December 21st from 9:30 to 10:30. 

I will supply pancake mix, berries and chocolate chips for pancakes. I am hoping a few families can provide some juice and maple syrup. In addition, I am looking for a few electric griddles, mixing bowls, serving trays and spatulas to use Friday morning. Finally, I hope to have a few parents or guardians come in and help serve our students. If you are able to donate anything or lend us your kitchen wears or time, please make a quick note below. 

Thanks for your time, 

Mr. Martyn 

I can donate some orange juice  I can donate some apple juice  I can donate some milk	I can lend an electric griddle  I can lend a mixing bowl  I can lend a serving tray  I can lend a spatula and spoon
I can volunteer my time Friday morning to help make and serve pancakes!

*** A HARD COPY OF THIS WILL BE GOING HOME FOR YOUR TO FILL OUT***

December 11th

1) Milk order due FRIDAY
2) Bring in food for food drive
3) Put your foot measurements into a stem and leaf plot. Use the handout I gave you today as an example if you're not sure of how to put data into a stem and leaf plot
4) Science due tomorrow - check previous blog entries for more information
5) Social studies due tomorrow -  check previous blog entries for more information
6) Read over our class play

I am Winter, King of Seasons

December 10th

1) Finish rough draft of your autobiography for tomorrow. Our success criteria should be shared with you in Google Drive. Also, we will have time in class to work on editing, revising and publishing. You should only be finishing your rough draft!
2) Important letter home from Mr. Gardner. PLEASE READ.
3) Finish both sides of food package table. This table was designed to help us look for certain elements of food packaging (brand, specific food, nutritional claims, top 3 ingredients, etc.)
4) Science

Grade 4's - Zany Zoology due Wednesday
Grade 5's - Diagram presentation due Wednesday

5) Social Studies

Grade 4's - finish chart on medieval jobs (you have to do atilliator, cottar and blacksmith, but can choose any other two once your done those three)
Grade 5's - finish Olympics research page

6) Read over our winter break poem

I am Winter, King of Seasons

December 7th

1) Please bring in food for Mrs. Leung's class fundraiser

Math

Grade Five Math Questions to Answer

Answer the following questions using your triple-line graph that you created after our experiment.

1) What beaker of water boiled that fastest?
2) At what time were the 1 tsp. beaker of water and the 1 tbs. of water the same temperature?
3) Between what minutes did the beaker filled with 1 tbs. of water increase the most in temperature?

Grade Four Math Homework

Using the APE strategy and our success criteria, finish the 3 questions for your MLB, NHL, and NBA double bar graphs.

Language Arts 

Try and upload a few images to use for your autobiography. Use Google Drive to upload your images.

Watch the YouTube video below to learn how to upload images.

Health

Complete both sides of the chart that we used in class to analyze food packaging. Complete both sides and all six rows please.

Science 

Gr. 4's Zany Zoo assignment due Wednesday 
Gr. 5's Human body presentation due Wednesday 

December 5th

1) Important letter home from Mr. Gardner
2) Math

Gr. 4's - finish 2nd and 3rd sports graph
Gr. 5's - textbook page 84 #4, and page 88 #1

3) Science

Gr. 4 - work on Zany Zoology assignment (good copy due Wednesday)
Gr. 5 - Diagram presentation due Wednesday

December 5th

1) Graph bar graph assessment signed
2) Math

Gr. 4's - complete ONE sports team double bar graph
Gr. 5's - complete experiment triple line graph

3) Milk orders due December 14th
4) Science

Gr. 4's - Good copy of Zany Zoology assignment due Wednesday
Gr. 5's - Diagram presentation due Wednesday

This is an example of a double bar graph students in grade 4 should be creating. We also created a success criteria in class to use when creating double bar graphs. NOTE: there is one important thing missing from this graph, can you tell me what it is? There are one serious problem with the actual data, can you tell me what it is?

December 4th

1) Book fair starts tomorrow
2) Work on your RRJ entry - due this week
3) Grade 4's - Pictures for zoo science assignment due tomorrow
4) Newsletter home
5) Get graphing assessment signed

December 3rd

1) RHPS Book Fair starts this Wednesday!
2) Work on RRJ entry (Section 1 and 2 due this week, and 4 sticky notes)
3) Grade 4 Zoo Assignments due Wednesday
4) Finish food label comparison and question for tomorrow
5) Finish APE activity for the book Trouble Talk
6) Get OBFLOMPT rubric signed

Using the APE Strategy 

The APE strategy is a form of answering questions that we've practiced in class. We read aloud a book called Trouble Talk. This book was about a girl that had a case of 'trouble talk' that hurt the girl's and boys around her. We started a practice response on this book. Below, you will find an outline of what we used to complete our APE entry

Using the A.P.E. Strategy to Practice Appetizer #3 for Our RRJ Entry 

A - Answer the question directly. 

• This book is about a group of girls named Keisha, Maya, Bailey and Hua. One of the main characters is  named Maya, and she has a case of 'trouble talk'

P - Prove your answer 

• In this section try and use specific examples, specific character names and quotes when possible to PROVE that Bailey has a case of 'trouble talk'
• Try and use as many specific examples you can to support her having 'trouble talk'

E - Expand on Your Answer 

Here, you can do two things:

1) You can make a connection to Bailey's trouble talk
2) You can explain how Bailey changed by the end of the book