November 30th

1) Book Fair starts Wednesday!
2) Work on your RRJ entry - due this week
3) Gr. 4 - Work on Zoo Assignment
4) Finish food label comparison chart and question for Tuesday
5) Finish last reading log entry for tonight

November 29th

1) Book fair starts Wednesday (see the note that went home)
2) Finish bullying graph if it's not done (some students finished in class)
3) Bar graph quiz tomorrow

• Students will be asked to construct a bar graph tomorrow. If you're not sure what to do for a bar graph, please find and review the success criteria on this blog. 

4) note home about extra school clothing 

5) Important letter home from Mr. Gardner 

6) continue filling out your reading log 

November 28th

1) Practice reader's theatre script
2) Grade 4's - finish ALL of the sheets on castles
3) Read out loud with someone at home and put it into your reading log
4) Grade 4 science - finish your zany zoology package

November 27th

1) Pizza orders due tomorrow!
2) Practice reader's theatre script
3) Finish social studies work

• grade 4's all castle pages done (try your best to fill in the labels on your diagram, but if you can't get all of them we'll finish them together tomorrow) 
• Castle Links (look for the Castle Terminology page)
• grade 5's finish the 2 story organizers on Hercules and Persophene and Demeter 
• Demeter and Persephone
• Hercules
• 4) Finish 3 food label comparison chart and summary question for Tuesday. If you want you can come in at recess to work on it with the iPad app 

5) Grade 4 science - steps 1-6 complete for Wednesday 

November 26th

1) Pizza orders due November 28th
2) Practice reader's theatre scripts
3) Fill out reading log
4) Grade 4 science - Steps 1-6 complete for Wednesday

November 21st

1) Pizza orders due November 28th
2) School council fundraising survey due November 30th
3) Finish math textbook work
4) Parent and teacher interviews tomorrow night or Friday morning
5) Scholastic book orders due Monday
6) Read out loud for 15 minutes with someone at home and fill out your reading log

November 20th

1) Review progress report, sign and return envelope
2) Parent and teacher interview form is in the progress report envelope
3) Scholastic orders due Monday
4) Finished your published draft of The Old Black Fly Landed on my Personal Treasure
5) Read out loud for 15 minutes
6) Grade 4 science assignment due tomorrow

November 19th

1) Important letter home from Mr. Gardner
2) Read for 15 minutes out loud and fill out your At Home Reading Log
3) Finish hand art for Monday
4) Grade 4's - Zany Zoo Science assignment due Wednesday
5) Complete and return fundraising form
6) Sign and return Arts Package form

November 16th

1) Complete and return the School Council Fundraising Survey
2) Sign and return Art Package Form
3) Finish 2 large graphs on our class' eating habits

Success Criteria for a Bar Graph (developed by our class)

• bars are the same width and evenly spaced out 
• clear accurate labels are used for the x and y-axis 
• a title is used that clearly says what the graph is showing 
• colour is used only used to enhance the organization of the graph 
• the scale that's used on the y-axis should count up by the same amount each time and the numbers should be evenly spaced 
• The scale for the y-axis should be reasonable (numbers to too high or too low) 

Students should use the data that I shared with them in Google Drive. They are to pick one or two categories to graph on the accurate side. The accurate side should show a graph that meets all of the success criteria points above. The inacurate graph should have one or two mistakes on it; like leaving a label off or making the spaces in between the numbers on the y-axis uneven. 

4) Get health and decalogue rubric signed

November 14th

1) Sign and return Arts Program Package by Friday
2) Sign and return parent and teacher interview form by Friday
3) Grade 4 Sibbald Point trip tomorrow!

• come prepared for the weather 
• bring your lunch 
• bring a mug and fifty cents for hot chocolate 

November 13th

1) Grade four students go to Sibbald Point on Thursday. Please dress for all the weather possibilities.
2) Finish social studies (see yesterdays blog entry for details)
3) Finish typing up your Old Black Fly on my Personal Treasure page (do this in Google Drive)
4) School Council not home
5) Grade fives - finish nike sheet for science

November 12th

1) Bring in empty cookie, cereal or cracker box
2) Finish social studies for Wednesday

• Grade 5's - finish Greek Gods page at recess if you're not done. This will need to be done in Comic LIfe at recess. I will make myself available over the next two days if you need time
• Grade 4's - Finish serfs package. This includes questions 1 to 5 in the package and the visual organizer that you should've picked up at the end of the day today. 

3) Finish DPA bar graph 

• Students should have some data recorded in their math journals. This data is on the number of laps done by our class during DPA. Students are to create graphs displaying this data. 

4) Finish your rough draft of The Old Fly Landed on my Personal Treasure page. 

5) Grade 5's finish Nike sheet for science 

November 9th

I am so proud of my students today. Each and every one of them did a fantastic job during our Remembrance Day assembly. They performed admirably and many parents, students and teachers commented on how great they were.

1) Bring in an empty cereal, cracker or cookie box
2) Grade 4's - finish your good copy of your coat of arms (should be coloured and very neat)
3) Fill out and return parent and teacher interview forms
4) Finish rough draft of your personal treasure

• Students are working on generating ideas in their writing. By picking 6 'personal treasures' that mean the world to them, they can communicate who they are while writing. Below, you will find an example of a personal treasure page. 

Example of a Personal Treasures Page

November 8th

1) bring in donation for your poppy
2) finish your post card for peace
3) line art due tomorrow
4) fill in and return parent and teacher interview
5) finish life treasure brainstorming

November 7th

1) Bring in empty cereal, cookie or cracker box
2) Work on RRJ entry
3) Fill out and return parent teacher interview forms
4) Practice your part of our Remembrance Day poems
5) Read November update on this site
6) Remembrance Day assembly this Friday at 10:20am , parents and family are welcome to attend