Happy Halloween!!!! (October 31st)

1) Grade 5 science - finish healthy eating chart
2) Work on your RRJ entry (section 1 and 2 due next week)

• students should be familiar with how to complete section one (appetizer, dinner and dessert). We will start learning how to do section two tomorrow 

3) Newsletter home today

I hope everyone had a blast during our Halloween Celebration. I had a lot of fun seeing all the wild Fruit Ninja skills on display in the classroom today. Be safe tonight and don't eat too much candy.

October 30th

1) Grade 4 Science due tomorrow

• ocean or creative food chain 

2) Grade 5 science due tomorrow 

3) Health assignment due tomorrow 

4) Rough draft (done in Google Documents) of extra-personal decalogue due tomorrow 

5) Social studies mind map (and advantages and disadvantages sheet for grade 4's) due tomorrow 

• Students read about a great lord or lady (Gr. 4) or different Greek roles in society. When reading students had to fill out a mind map about various aspects of their lives (shelter, daily tasks, role in society, jobs and responsibilities). Grade 4 students are only to pick a lord or lady to complete their mind map and advantages/disadvantages chart on. Grade 5's should pick a wealthy Greek, slave, farmer or craftsman. 

October 29th

1) Math test tomorrow
2) Math Homework - textbook

• grade 4 pg. 22 #3 and 5 
• grade 5 pg. 21 # 6 to 8 

3) Health assignment due Wednesday 

• By now, students should be done filling in their charts tracking their food consumption over the last week (Tuesday to Friday of last week). Students can fill in the total for each day at the bottom of their tracking charts. 
• We will review how to complete the assignment tomorrow. In addition, students will have the entire period tomorrow to finish their assignment. 

4) Grade 4 science due Wednesday - ocean or creative food chain

5) Where your costume or black and orange on Wednesday. Also remember, that any weapon or mask that covers your entire face is not allowed at school. Sorry! 

October 26th

1) Health due this WEDNESDAY.

• twe didn't have time to review some of the activities in the healthy assignment, so we will review them on Monday. 

2) Math test Tuesday 

• The questions assigned for homework should be a good review for the test. Also, please visit the next blog post that we created this morning. Together, we brainstormed all the skills we've learned during our patterning unit. Finally, if you want to complete extra questions to prepare, feel free to try and of the questions from the Problem Bank or Chapter Review. 

3) Math textbook homework 

• grade 4 pg. 24 #1 and 5, and pg. 25 # 2 and 4
• grade 5 pg. 18 #1 and 2, and pg. 19 # 6 and 7 

4) Practice French story this weekend 

5) Wear yellow and blue for our first pride assembly Monday 

Math Assessment Review

We will be having a math assessment this Tuesday. We discussed what we've learned and you can find our thoughts below.

S/A - we should know how to describe a pattern with a pattern rule. A pattern rule describes how it starts and how it goes on (PC).

K- we should be able to skip count to solve problems

DD - 2, 4, 6, 8, 10...

MZ - we need to be able continue the pattern

• TI - we can use different colours to extend patterns 
• SK- we can use a hundreds chart 
• HK - we can use T-charts to extend patterns 
• KW - we can use a calculator 
• SP - we can use some multiplication 
• AA - we can use pattern blocks or manipulative 
• DD - we can use numbers lines to help us skip count 

PC - we can answer questions use the APE (answer, prove, expand) strategy to answer questions
DK - we should be able to fill in missing numbers in a pattern
NG - we can use materials to show patterns

October 25th

1) Finish math clown problem for tomorrow
2) Finish connections page for tomorrow
3) Picture order forms due November 9th
4) Grade 4 science due Monday
5) Art portfolios due tomorrow
6) Continue to fill out your healthy eating charts in your assignment

1) Where blue and yellow for our first Pride Assembly on Monday
2) Grade four science due Monday (food chains)
3) Finish revising and editing your personal decalogues

Today, in writing we developed a success criteria to use when editing and revising our decalogues. This criteria is a simple list of things to 'look for' when revising. Hopefully, we'll get better throughout the school year at using these criterions.

Success Criteria for Personal Decalogues 

• Write with detail 
• Exciting words (verbs, nouns, adjectives) 
• Help the reader visualize, by describing how you did things. 
• Capitals at the beginning and periods at the end of sentences. 
• No spelling mistakes or grammatical errors
• You should have TEN ideas that are different 
• Start every sentence with a different word
• I’ve tried my best to share as much about myself as possible

4) Keep your Healthy Eating Assignment charts up to date
5) Milk order forms home
6) Halloween letter home

October 23rd

1) Grade 4 science due tomorrow
2) Finish math textbook work

• Grade 4's, pg. 22 #1-2
• Grade 5's pg. 16 #1-2

3) Start working on health assignment - DUE Monday, October 29th

• Today, students started a health assignment in class. We'll talk about it more in class tomorrow, but tonight and tomorrow morning students should be recording what specific foods they have for snacks, dinner and breakfast. Charts should be used to fill in specific details about the foods they will eat. 

3) Finish your 5 sentences on your Ten Times Challenge sheet. 

Today, in class we reviewed our personal decalogues. We then found the 'weakest' sentence (usually the shortest) and rewrote it five times. This is a simple revision technique to try and make us think about alternate ways we can structure a sentence(s). There is no right way to do this.

Below you will find my weakest sentence (in red) and the nine revisions that the class came up with. 

Once, while riding my bike I fell off and hit my head extremely hard.

1. One day while riding my extremely cool bike, I fell and smashed my head like a rock. 
2. One time while riding my fancy bike, I fell and smashed my head, and needed several stitches. 
3. While riding my extremely cool bike, I stumbled off my bike and I needed stitches. 
4. While riding my bike, my bike tripped over a huge rock. I fell off and got really injured. 
5. A day that I was riding my I then fell on my head extremely hard and needed help.
6. I was riding my bike on an extremely hot day. I was looking up at the sun and wasn’t paying attention to where I was going and then fell. 
7. One day in the afternoon, I was riding my bike alone and I was riding on a street and I fell off my bike and smashed my head on the bars of the bike. 
8. One day I was riding my bike and I let go of my peddles and fell down and had to go the hospital. 
9. Looking down at the pavement, I knew I was in for a hard landing. Unfortunately, my head was going to hit the pavement first, and it did. The thud was weird, the blood gushing out of my forehead was even worse. 

My Cat Says Hello - Meow

We've Changed our Look, but Everything's Still Here!

To be honest, I grew a little bored of the look of our class blog, so I changed it! Everything we need is still here, but may be in a different place. The most important links for students are now on the righthand side.

Decalogue Writing Activity

Our class has started writing decalogues. A decalogue is simply a list of 10 ideas or beliefs that someone has about something. The most famous decalogue is the Ten Commandments. This weekend, you should complete the ROUGH DRAFT of the PERSONAL decalogue you started today (Friday).

Below is a list of ideas for our decalogues. We brainstormed together and came up with this great list. The list is composed of dot jots (bullet points). I have also put an included my rough draft of my own decalogue if you're having a hard time not knowing where or how to start. Finally, please try and use our class success criteria when creating your decalogue.

Success Criteria 

• I have written ten detailed points 
• All my sentences are about the same topic 
• I haven't created a favourites list (Eg. my favourite sports, my favourite foods) 
• Each new point starts with a different word 
• I have only used the word I to start one of my sentences 
• I have a list of TEN points about me 

My Example that I shared with the Class (this is a rough draft!) 

The Ten Things I’ve Done in my Life to Look Silly 

1. The giant rug burn on my nose made me look very silly. I thought I was Super Man and jumped off my living room chair. 
2. Falling on my back in a massive mud puddle when playing flag football with my grade 7 students made me look very very dirty. 
3. When I first got my license I accidentally drove the wrong way home when trying to drive from Toronto to North Bay. I ended up in London, Ontario before realizing I was driving in the wrong direction. 
4. I once ran full steam into a jungle gym with a sweater tied around my face. OUCH! 
5. My dad sat me down and told me he was disappointed in me, I was extremely embarrassed. 
6. Once, while riding my bike I fell of and hit my head extremely hard! 
7. Walking up the stairs, then tripping is really hard to do for a grown man. I still managed to do this with a full cup of coffee once. Needless to say, I had coffee all over me! 
8. There was a giant gash in my hand after accidentally driving a riding lawnmower into a huge rock. I was looking down at the ground to make sure I didn’t run over a tiny shrub, and failed to see the massive chunk right in front of me. 
9. Scoring on your teams’ own basket in basketball is a great way to lose favour with your teammates. 
10. Jello streaming out of my nose was one of the most bizarre experiences of my life. Laughing while wolfing down Jello is never a good idea. 

Ideas for Personal and 'Extra-Personal' Decalogues 

Extra-personal	Personal
the reasons why I respect my father	things that make me nervous
things I appreciate about my mother	times in my life when I looked silly
why my best friend Ted is a great guy	things or times that make me scared
ten things that are amazing about my family	things that make you jealous
what my sister is afraid of	skills that I’m really great at
why most adults like coffee	things that make me mad
how adults are different from kids	What your idea of a game or good time is
why my friend is helpful and picks me up when I am down	my favourite sport**
why I wish everyone the best	things I do in my free time
	how I can help people
	favourite shoes***
	favourite TV shows
	weaknesses
	ten things about how I look or how I am unique

 

October 19th

1) Grade 4 science work due Wednesday
2) Look over and return index card ASAP
3) Rough draft of personal decalogue due Tuesday. This can be done in Google Drive, on paper or in Word.
4) Art portfolios due Friday

October 19th

1) Grade 4's come up with as many food chains as you can for animals that you'd find in our local environment
2) Look over and verify that all the information on your student index form is accurate. 

October 16th

1) Fill in science chart for Wednesday
2) Spooky spaghetti Day order forms due October 27th
3) Finish brainstorming your 15 personal and 10 extra-personal decalogue ideas

A personal decalogue is a list of 10 ideas or rules that you live by. The most famous decalogue is the 10 Commandments. Decalogues will be written in class with the idea of sharing information about one another.

Today we simply brainstormed a list of ideas for our decalogues. For homework students had to finish their dot jot brainstorming in a simple two column chart we created in class.

Extra-personal	Personal
1) the reasons why I respect my father	1) things that make me nervous
2) things I appreciate about my mother	2) times in my life when I looked silly
3) why my best friend Ted is a great guy	3) things or times that make me scared
	4) things that make you jealous
	5) skills that I’m really great at

 

4) Letter home about autism workshop 

October 15th

1) Fill in science charts for Wednesday
2) Spooky Spaghetti orders due October 27th
3) Finish large verb sheet for tomorrow
4) Reading response journal entries due this week 

October 12th

1) Work on section 1 of your RRJ entry
2) Photo day this Monday
3) Math - textbook

• Gr. 4 pg. 8-9, #1-4
• Gr. 5 pg. 7 #1-4

October 11th

1) Art due tomorrow
2) Work on section #1 of your RRJ entry - due next week
3) Picture day is Monday, October 15th 

October 10th

1) Art due Friday
2) Math test signed by tomorrow
3) Work on section 1 of reading response journal entry.

• you can read your novel to get reading for writing in your journal 
• you can work on your appetizer, dinner or dessert 
• remember what day your entry is due NEXT WEEK (no entries due this week)
• use the exemple I gave you to see how long your piece should be

1) Finish art for Friday
2) Get math test signed by Thursday
3) Math - Spiral Book

• Gr. 4 page 2 and 3 
• Gr. 5 page 1 and 2 

4) Social studies house sale page due tomorrow

• Students should write an advertisement for either a medieval or Ancient Greek house. Grade 4 students filled out two visual organizers that they can use to get ideas/facts. Grade 5's have some readings to do before completing one of the house sale descriptions. The advertisement should sound like an ad for a house that you'd find in a newspaper or on MLS. Students can share where the house is located (made up), how many rooms it has, the building materials used, special features or anything else they feel is worth sharing. 

1) Clothing order due tomorrow
2) Finish space station math problem tonight - due tomorrow

October 3rd

1) School clothing orders due Friday
2) Visit class blog (you are here!)
3) Published word ladder due tomorrow 

October 2nd

1) School clothing order form home - forms and money due this Friday
2) Finish social studies package for Wednesday

3) Published word ladder due Thursday 

October 1st

1) Math test tomorrow - please see review slip for more information
2) Finish all social studies sheets that were handed out today by Wednesday

• Gr.4 - feudal system chart and questions 
• Gr. 5 - all worksheets (except comparison between modern Greece and ancient Greece) 

3) October newsletter home in addition to important information about Google Apps and a form for bringing in your own electronic device to school