Dates

The Spirit Days for November are:

Friday, November 3 - Red and Black Day (for Remembrance Day)

Friday, November 10 - Wear a Poppy

Thursday, November 16 - Animal Day

Friday, November 24 - Twin Day

Cookie Orders - Due back to school November 6th

INTERVIEWS - Wednesday, November 15th (late), Thursday, November 16th (not late) and Friday,  November 17th (morning)

Upcoming Dates

Interviews are scheduled for Thursday, November 16th and Friday, November 17th.  Forms went home this week for oyu to suggest a time to meet.  If these dates don't work for you please make a few suggestions and we can work it out.

Friday, October 27th - Orange and Black dress up day

Tuesday, October 31st - Halloween!  We are having a celebration in the middle block (11:45-1:25).  Students can choose to bring in games and snacks to share with the class.  Students are welcome to wear their costumes if you feel it is appropriate (please no weapons).

November 2nd - The Grade 5 students will be traveling to Midland to participate in the Race Against Drugs program.  Forms went home this week and the cost is 45.00.  Grade 4 students will join a buddy class for part of the day.

Barrie Colts Visit

Today we had 2 Barrie Colts players and Charlie Horse visit us at Tay Shores Public School.  It was a great day and the players picked students to play a mini hockey game and a Ninja Challenge.
We re getting ready for our Barrie Colts game day on October 26th.  Tickets can be purchased through the school.

October 2- 13

LITERACY Update:  We are currently working on creating amazing hamburger paragraphs and making reading connections.  A hamburger paragraph involved a topic sentence, 2-3 supporting details sentences and a conclusion sentence.  In reading we are trying to make text-to-self, media, world and text-to-text connections while reading.
MATH:  In math we just finished working on collecting, interpreting and representing data.  We surveyed classmates and presented our findings through graphs and observations.
We have moved on to representing, comparing and ordering numbers, using place value.  Check out this song to help with place value.

HEALTH:  We are discussing a variety of ways to maintain personal safety in the real world (including online and anti bullying messages).  We will will be creating our own commercials to demonstrate our knowledge of personal safety.

September 22nd

MATH - We are working on Mode, Median and Range in data management classes for the next  few days.  Check out the mode toads.

ORANGE SHIRT DAY
Today we read "When I was Eight" and discussed some of the experiences indigenous children had at residential schools.  It was an amazing class discussion about empathy and just wondering why?  Our class decided that today was about recognizing a wrong and trying to make it right.

WELCOME new Team Elson Members!

Welcome to the 2017-2018 school year!  I am very excited to meet all of the students who will be joining me on this amazing journey this year!
In our classroom we are a team.  As a team we need to work together in all aspects of our day.  From recess, to subjects and clean up, we are a team.  We all learn together, we all laugh together and we all grow together.
Currently we are a Grade 4-5 class in the portable.  If you are looking for supplies to purchase for a student in our class, please feel free to buy a pencil case, pencils, erasers, pencil crayons, markers and ear buds.  Clean, indoor running shoes and a change of gym clothes are always required.
Keep in touch through Twitter @teamelson and @TayShoresPS.
See you soon!

What's Happening!

We are rapidly approaching the end of the school year!
Please remember to check our Twitter feed for updates.
This week we continue to work on persuasive writing and in math we are working on fractions and decimals.
Our class trip next week, June 21st is to National Aboriginal Day at Ste. Marie Among the Hurons.

 CAMP KITCHI
Our week at Camp Kitchi was amazing!  So many positive experiences happened and new friendships within our class, school and with our sister school James Keating.

This week we are hard at work.  In MATH we are practicing division strategies.  In LITERACY we are finishing our reading strategy of synthesizing and practicing summarizing our reading and then we will move on to writing to persuade an audience.  Within Social Studies classes we are building a Minecraft world that replicates one of the Ancient Civilizations discussed in class.
We just received our permission form for the WYE MARSH on Friday, May 26th.  Please return the form as soon as possible.
Our class is responsible for creating a candy basket for the SPRING FLING.  All candy items can be sent to class by Friday, May 26th.

DATES:
Friday, May 26th - Wye Marsh Field trip (free, all day, bring lunch, hat, running shoes, sunscreen, bug spray, water bottle, etc.)
May 31st - June 5th - Book Fair
June 1st - Recognition Assembly
June 2nd - Jump Rope day (outside)
June 8th - Return all library books today
JUNE 8th - SPRING FLING

Mat 15th

CAMP KITCHI BOUND!
Tomorrow we are Camp Kitchi bound!  Please have your students at the school for 8:45 AM and be prepared to drop them off and say goodbye.  The bus is leaving promptly at 9:15 AM.
We will be returning to the school on Thursday, May 18th around 11:30 AM.  Please check my blog and/or Twitter @teamelson for updates regarding our return time.
Another packing list was sent home today as well.
Camp Kitchi Video

Week of May 1st

Monday, May 1st our school will celebrate the official opening of the Paul Delaney room with an assembly and the remainder of the day will be Me to We sessions.  Our version of Me to We Day includes 3 40 minute sessions about topics that cover the world.  Topics are to show how one person can make a difference in the world.

MATH - we have just finished practicing addition and subtraction with larger numbers (to thousands).  We will be moving on to a review of multiplication and division for the next few weeks.

LITERACY - We are continuing to work with poetry and the reading strategy of SYNTHESIZING (aka using all of our reading strategies to put together information from the text).  this week we will be creating our own poems about ourselves, "The Best PArt of Me."

SOCIAL STUDIES - We are continuing our overview of 5 ancient civilizations (Ancient China, Egypt, Rome, Greece, Mesopotamia and the Middle Ages).  Our culminating task will be to create either a 3-D model (diorama), or a Minecraft version of one of these civilizations.

CAMP KITCHI - Camp Kitchi is rapidly approaching.  Please complete all paperwork and send in the payment ASAP.  We go to camp on Tuesday, May 16th until Thursday, May 18th.

Google Doodle

Check Google Doodle contest.  We will be working on this in Art class.

This Week March 27th - 31st

MATH - In math we have moved on to Patterning and Algebra.  We are extending and creating patterns, graphing patterns and finding the missing term in addition, subtraction, multiplication and division questions.  There are some games to play on our Google Classroom.
LITERACY - We are working on media and commercial making for our science projects.  We made musical instruments that we now have to sell in a commercial.
ROBOTICS - We continue to work with Mrs. Gray in the library weekly with DASH the robot.  We are learning to code the robots and complete a variety of challenges.
GYM - In gym class we are learning the basics of badminton (serving, passing, moving, etc.).

What's Happening?

Things to watch for in the upcoming days:
1.  Science and Media MUSICAL INSTRUMENT Assignment.  I sent home the rubrics for this assignment on Tuesday.  Students are to create a musical instrument that makes at least one pitch and has at least one volume.  This instrument will be used to create an in-class commercial to sell their creation.
2.  Probability experiments are happening all around our classroom.  Ask your child about what makes a FAIR spinner, or game of chance.
3. In Gym classes we are exploring badminton as a great way to exercise, work together and use our hand/eye coordination.

KITCHI Meeting

On THURSDAY, March 9th, 2017 please make every effort to attend our GRADE 4 CAMP KITCHI meeting in the Tay Shores Library at 7:00 PM.

ANGLES

We are learning about ANGLES in math this week.  An ACUTE angle can be found with a barely open door and book, a small slice of pie and pizza.  An OBTUSE angle can be found in a vary open door and book and an open pizza box.  A RIGHT angle or 90 degree angle can be found in almost everything!  Corners of desks, walls, floor tiles and anywhere a line meets up with another line in a point is a right angle.
Here are some videos we have been watching to help us understand angles.
Angles RAP
Cat and the Hat Angles Song

Valentine's Week

What a wonderful week here in the portable.
We have been working on completing and saying our speeches in class this week.  Students who want to be considered to compete in the gym are saying their speeches on Wednesday and Thursday.
MATH - We are wrapping up time and elapsed time and we will be moving on to mass, capacity and volume.
ROOTS of EMPATHY - We continue to be involved in Roots of Empathy and today we discussed safety concerns in the home, car and in general.  Our class had several ideas to share.  We look forward to our next baby Emma visit on February 22nd, 2017!
ZOOTOPIA is playing in our gym tonight at 6:30 PM.  Come out for a fun family night with popcorn.  Bring blankets and snacks and enjoy a movie at TAY SHORES!

Week of January 16th UPDATE

We are officially back and at it in our portable!  I hope that everyone had a wonderful break and we are all ready to get hit the ground running at school again.
LITERACY
In literacy we will be working with a new reading strategy of INFERRING (making an educated guess while we read).  We will be working towards backing up our inferences about a text with evidence from the text selection.  Some of our students in class will be writing CASI (a reading competency test) again this month, while other will continue to receive benchmark scores.  Our focus for the next few weeks in WRITING will be to write to inform our readers, in particular about how to complete a procedure.  In ORAL LANGUAGE we will be starting to discuss speeches by the end of January.  We will be partnered with a Grade 6 class from Wyevale Central Public School to hear some of their speeches and give feedback along the way.  In MEDIA studies we continue to discuss media in our lives and how we can become more educated media consumers.  As always keep reading daily.  Better readers make better writers!
MATH
Our math classes for the next few weeks will revolve around multiplying and dividing and then lead into exploring area and perimeter.  There are several links in our Google Classroom to help you practice your multiplication and division skills.