October 26th

This week we are finishing up our oral presentations about the book "Frindle."  Some students completed Adobe Voice projects and they were amazing!  Some student decided to do a tradition report style presentation and some students acted out their favourite character from the book.

In math we are working on Data Management and collecting, organizing and presenting the data that we collect.  The students have surveyed the class and are working on completing a bar graph, or pictograph to represent their finding.  We will be surveying the entire school to determine favourite flavours of popcorn - to prepare for our popcorn sales in November.

Remembrance Day is just around the corner and we are working on posters in class.  The students can choose ot enter the Legion contest if they want to.  Please check out this link if oyu are interested. Legon contest rules and past winners.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28th we will be celebrating Halloween in our class and school.  Please feel free to wear a costume, and/or orange and black.  We will have games and activities in the afternoon.  If your child would like to share a snack please feel free to share it during the last block of the day.  I ask that students please bring their own water bottle, or cup for the day.  We will not be wearing costumes or having a party on Monday, OCtober 31st.

Health Video

In Health class we have been studying internet etiquette (netiquette) and safety.  Check out our video.

Reading

Just a reminder to continue to read with your child nightly.  Better readers make for better writers and this is a big shift in the junior grades.  Read anything!  Online, magazines, childrens picture books, anything that interests your child.  read apart and together and talk about what you are reading.  Discuss the problem and solution in books and articles together and ask the WHY question a lot.  Why do you like this book?  Why is the character doing that?  Why did that person say/do that in the book?  Please don't just accept the answer "because."  Aks for more details about the answer.
Also here is a website that lists some books by grade that may be of interest to you.  It is not the only list out there but merely one of many.  Book/Grade correlation

Class Scarecrow Creation

All of Tay Shores Public School has been challenged to make a scarecrow out of recycled  materials.  Our class must have items that measure 10 cm, 55 mm and 1 m.  We would like to make a few mini scarecrows out of tin cans to go along with our big class scarecrow.  Please see the idea below.  Mini scarecrows should be no larger than 70 cm and no smaller than 10 cm.  Be creative and have fun!  This is not a required assignment but for fun.  Students can start bringing in items to build our scarecrow this week.  We will be making our creation on Thursday, October 20th.

Class Scarecrow Creation

All of Tay Shores Public School has been challenged to make a scarecrow out of recycled  materials.  Our class must have items that measure 10 cm, 55 mm and 1 m.  We would like to make a few mini scarecrows out of tin cans to go along with our big class scarecrow.  Please see the idea below.  Mini scarecrows should be no larger than 70 cm and no smaller than 20 cm.  Be creative and have fun!  This is not a required assignment but for fun.

Literacy

Literacy this week involves starting our novel study of "Frindle."
 
We are looking at the characteristics of narrative writing, to prepare for writing our own narratives.  In particular we are talking about how language changes over time.  Share with your child what words have different meanings today.  For example, sick, epic, the net, cell, etcc.
We also discussed today how words that we used when we were young might be a problem for other people that do not understand what we are talking about.  For example, some students in our class refer to a popsicle as a "pagawan," Old Fort Road is referred to as "Old Fart Road," Grandma is Yamma.

Math

In math we are working on rounding to ten, hundreds and thousands.  Check out an interesting video that helps us to remember when we round up or "let it rest."  Rounding
Help your child to realize rounding happens everyday when we make a cash purchase, or estimate in the real world.

Health

In health we are discussing Personal Safety with regards to internet and technology.  We watched a video that several students would like to share with you at home The Lost Princess.  We are talking about benefits and risks of technology and how we can be safer when using technology.  Please have honest conversations with your child about the safety concerns and ideas you have regarding technology.

Check out an interesting website

Take a look at this interesting website called Guys Read.