The Rounding Rap

It's that time again...we're learning how to round in our classroom!  This rap is fun and it helps the students to easily remember all the steps to rounding. Ask your student to rap for you :)

 

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!

3-2-1 Update Oct. 24 by: Rowan

3-2-1 update

This week at school was awesome. This is some stuff I learned: when we had a recycling presentation, I learned that glass bottles get melted and get poured underneath the road. Here’s another thing I learned: we did research on owls and I learned that their vision and hearing helps them a lot with their hunting.  It’s fun to learn about owls.  The last thing I learned was: at gym we learned how to bump and serve in volleyball.  I think I’m really good at volleyball.  I really, really like serving in volleyball.

This is something I enjoyed: we did a Thursday sketch.  We did a tiger and it was hard.  But in the end, it looked good.  The last thing I enjoyed was on Thursday after announcements we went to the library to count all the bags.  The people brought a lot of bags in.  We counted two thousand three hundred eighty bags. 

My goal for this week is still to learn to type the proper way and not to search and peck.

Thousands of Plastic Bags!!

Today our class helped count the plastic bags that the whole school has been collecting in October.  We counted about 2 500 bags just today, bringing our total over 3000!  Mrs. Dent Scarcello has set up this recycling initiative once again to benefit not only the environment, but also our school.  With the bags that we send to recycle they will produce something that we can use here at the school.  It's win-win!  Keep sending all your plastic bags to school, we're collecting till the end of October!

Classroom Expectations

We worked together in room 26 to brainstorm ways we want to: Be Safe, Be Responsible and Be Respectful in our classroom.

The students came up with unique guidelines they want our class to follow.  Here is our finished poster that is now up in our room:

Great job following expectations so far grade fours!  Keep up the good work!

Autumn Leaves Watercolour

We just finished our autumn art project.  The finished products are now on Artsonia.  Here is a sample of the beautiful paintings from the students:

Check out our Autumn Leaves Watercolour art here.

Cross Country Run

 

Run meet!!! By Aria McIntyre

    On Thursday some of the kids in the school that signed up for run club got to go to the run meet at Birds Hill Park! And my best friends Angela and Sara and I got to go too. When I just got to school (at regular time because on Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays we get to school for run club early) I went to my classroom first and then I went to gym. When I got to the gym I had to get a birds hill t-shirt because I don’t have one.

   When all the kids in grade 3-6 got a shirt we headed outside to go to the buses so we could get there. I thought that we would need 2 or maybe even 3 buses to get all the kids there but it only took 1 bus! When we started driving away it got really loud. But our gym teacher said that when we got to the park that we were really quiet in the bus! Me, Angela and Sara sat together on the bus and started laughing because we thought that that was funny. Then I asked Angela if that was a joke.

   When we got out we walked towards our tarp that we were going to put our backpacks on and got settled there. Soon after, the races began.  Grade 3s raced first and we raced in order all the way up to grade 6.  Some grades had 2 or 3 different races for girls and boys.  Bird’s Hill had a lot of top ten finishes!  We did really well.  When we weren’t racing we got to hang out with our friends and play with gym equipment in the field.  It was a really fun day!

3-2-1 Update by Katelyn

3-2-1 Update   Oct 4 /13

This week at school was busy. In ELA we wrote a little bit about a picture. I wrote a full page. In math we had a mental math power builder. It was pretty hard. In science we talked about forest, desert and coast habitats. We talked about if the main animals left the forest, what would happen to the other animals.  It was pretty easy.

 One thing I enjoyed was the race yesterday for run club.  It was at Bird’s Hill Park. I came in second place for grade four girls.  I also enjoyed the rest of the day because I got to do anything I wanted to do.  I got to throw the football with my friends and play Frisbee.   

One goal I have is to be a better typer. It is easy when you get the hang of it.

By: Katelyn