T.W.A.S. by a student!

T.W.A.S.

Dear parents.

This week at school in ELA we started a new book. It is called, “The Best Worst Halloween Ever.” It is by Barbra Robinson. It is about a kid that is telling the stories about Halloween with the Herdsman’s. The Herdsman’s are trouble makers that always sabataush everything and steel everything that is not nailed down.

This week at school in math we did the rounding song. It helps us memorize how to round thousands hundreds and tens. It is really quite easy if you remember how to do it. We also did social studies we did a lot about landscape and thinking about what landscapes are all the provinces. For instance which provinces are mountains and which ones have coastlines.

This week in music we sang hall of the mountain king. Then we acted it out. The story behind that song is that there is a man wondering a forest and he sees a giant mountain and he walks into a cave and sees a whole city inside. And he stays there for a long time and the people that live there are trolls. And one day the king of the mountain asks the man to merry his daughter. But the man has never met the king’s daughter. So that night he tries to escape from the mountain but he gets caught by Guards and never makes it out.   

          

The Rounding Rap

I found this little ditty online from another teacher blog.  The students are using "The Rounding Rap" to learn the rules of rounding.  Songs like this make it easy for us all to remember new information, aside from being FUN!

The Rounding Rap!

Find the place value and underline the digit.

Move to the right and circle it, get it?

Zero through four—Stays the same.

Five through nine— Add one is the game.

Now flex your muscles, like a hero.

Digits to the right, change to zero.

All the other digits stay the same.

Yo! You’re a winner in the rounding game!

 

 

And here the students are practicing rounding to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000.

  

Science Design Project

Please note that our design project for our sound unit was sent home Monday.  The students are asked to design and construct a musical instrument.  All the work for this assignment is done at home.  Of course, you may assist and guide the student through the process but please do encourage them to use their imaginations and use trial and error to get it right! 

I'm excited to see the instruments next Friday, November 2nd.  Good luck students, I know you'll work hard!

This Week at School...by Ms. D

The week has flown by, yet again!  I think we're all getting used to having four-day school weeks at this point. I was away at a French Professional Development yesterday, so I was only here for 3 days!  The students worked hard this week and completed their first spelling test.  I hope they all had time to study over the last week and a half.
In French, the students are gaining new vocabulary everyday.  They are able to do the calendar in French, and ask and respond to many questions.  Ask your student, "Comment ca va?" today to see how they are.  They may also be willing to share a song with you..."Bonjour mes amis"   The students are using French only to ask to go to the bathroom, or get a drink of water.  They're doing great and we've been having fun!
In science, we completed a design project.  They were asked to design a device to help them hear sound better using only 3 materials.  We had some interesting gadgets!  Most of the students designed objects that not only projected our voice at a higher volume, but also allowed us to hear better if we held it by our ear.  Way to go scientists!  Our next big project is coming home on Monday.  The students are eagerly waiting to begin this...they get to design and build a musical instrument.  I can't wait to see all the imaginative designs that they create. 

I hope everyone has a great weekend.  Students, see you Monday!

Art-Fall Leaves

Here are a couple of examples of the students' Fall Leaves art.  This was a two-step painting process which means it was quite messy!  (But well worth the mess I might add.)  They created this art by first painting using 3 different colours for leaves, and one for the trunk and branches.  As a second step, they added texture to their colours by using acrylic paint and tools such as sponges, cotton swabs, wooden sticks, etc.  They had a lot of fun with that!  After the paint dried, they had to use only their hands (no scissors!) to tear and glue all the pieces to make a beautiful and unique fall tree.  Here are just two examples of the great artists in our class: 

I hope to get all of our art on Artsonia soon.  I hope everyone enjoys these snowy fall days and has a warm and Happy Thanksgiving wherever you may be!

TWAS Oct 4 By Alyssa P.

TWAS     

This week at school we did ELA.   In ELA Ms. Dodds  read a chapter of the BFG. The chapter was called the palace.  It was a really good chapter.  

This week at school we did math. In math we did a pattern test review for our test on Tuesday.  This week at school we did social studies. In social studies we did mapping provinces.      I finished the first page and me and Nicholas coloured another page. This week at school we did science in science we did sound wave drawing. That meant that it would say what would a soft and low pitch look like?  Then you would draw what you think.  It was fun.             

This week at school we did a little bit of French.  We learned some of the colours.  I know that vert means green.            This week at school we went to gym.  In gym we played 2 games that were the same kind of the same idea but it was called mat ball.  1^st we played with mats and then we played standing on a bench.   It was very fun.  This week at school we had a scavenger hunt in the library and I was partners with Emmy.   It was awesome.      This week at school we had a sub.  Her name was Ms. K.   She was really nice.     I also had flag football on Tuesday.  It was very fun.   We did something where  people on every base line and there were lots of footballs and people in the middle in the red circle  and you tried to throw a football to the other side and the people in the middle need to bloke your throw. 

                  THANK YOU FOR READING      

BY ALYSSA

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