September 30

 Hello Fabulous Fours,

This is the last post in Blogger. Please check out what we have been doing in the stream of Google Classroom.

We have completed a full month of school. Woo Hoo! I wonder what the next month will bring. What do you think we will learn next month? Thank you to Grade 5/6 classes for a great Orange Shirt Day assembly. Up-coming Events: Friday, October 9 – NO SCHOOL – Non-Instructional Day Monday, October 12 – NO SCHOOL – Thanksgiving Day Friday, October 30 – NO SCHOOL – Non-Instructional Day      Things we have done during our day: -Today, we were on computers for most of the day completing tasks and researching. (EW) -We had an Orange Shirt Day assembly and I learned to be kind. (DO) -In PE, we practiced more with our skipping ropes. (HM) -In PE, we had 8 minutes on the small park today after skipping for 20 minutes. (KB) -We read a little bit of The City of Ember and had some extra time to work on our pages. (SV) We learned that Doon Harrow is really observant. (JB) -Before PE, we watched some videos about skipping. (AW) -Today in Social Studies, we researched more about the Canadian Shield and learned more about the Canadian Shield. (EC) -We did a This or That activity on the computer. (ED) -We did math and we tried to find different ways to make 21 with three darts. (LB) -Today in handwriting, we learned how to do a ‘v’. (EW) Daily Challenge: Share with your family your thoughts about our assembly today. What did it make you think about?

September 29

 Hello Fabulous Fours,

Orange Shirt Day The Grade 5/6 classes will be hosting a virtual assembly on Wednesday, September 30 at 8:30am. Show your support by wearing ORANGE!       Things we have done during our day: -Today in PE, we used skipping ropes. (SV) -In PE, we got three minutes to play on the little park. (KB) -Some of us started writing our frog stories, some finished planning, and some finished writing our stories. (LF) -In handwriting, we learned how to write an ‘m’ and an ‘n’. (KN) -Today in music, we got our binders from last year and we got to decorate them. (EW) -We got a bag of some stuff to make music. -Today in music, we watched a video about line riding to a Beethoven song. (HM) -We started research on the Canadian Shield. (AW) We got our information from the text book. (ED) -We read, ‘Shin-Chi’s Canoe’, and how Shin-Chi adjusted to life in residential school. (JB) -Today, most of us finished our representing numbers in Math. Daily Challenge: Share with your family your thoughts about Shin-Chi’s Canoe. How did you feel during the different parts of the story? What might be a lesson to be learned in this story? How did you connect to the story?

September 28

 Hello Fabulous Fours,

Orange Shirt Day The Grade 5/6 classes will be hosting a virtual assembly on Wednesday, September 30 at 8:30am. Show your support by wearing ORANGE!      In 1973, six-year old Phyllis Webstad was gifted a brand-new orange shirt from her grandmother and wore it to the residential (mission) school she attended in British Columbia. Upon her arrival, school officials removed and discarded the shirt from her and replaced it with a school uniform. This greatly impacted the mental and emotional well-being of Webstad and symbolized that "her feelings never mattered."   September 30 was chosen as the date to commemorate all the children that attended residential schools as it was also the time of year that children had to leave their homes. Music Please remember to check out the Grade 4 Music Google Classroom. Mrs. Anderson has added some more information about our learning in music. Things we have done during our day: -In the morning, we did a Sudoku. (KN) -We came in this morning and Ms. Konno had rearranged the classroom. (BW) -We made new goals for the week. (SV) -We did the Rubber Chicken Challenge (Marathon) during Music Class. (AW) -Today, we read more of The City of Ember and we are on Chapter Three. (WF) -We played Hangman and the message was: “Stop, Think, then Do” (JH) -Today in handwriting, we learned how to do a lower case ‘b’. (EW) -In math, we learned the different forms to represent numbers, standard form, word form, expanded form, and Base-10 form. (KB) -We made new personal word lists for our Word Work. (OC) -We did Social Studies and we got some pages ready for research about Alberta. (HM) -In PE, we went to the small playground and we did a fitness quad with 30 jumping jacks as one of the corner exercises. (EW) -In SQUIRT, we had Pick a Book Day. (KN) -We changed up our play spots for recess and PE, our designated space is the small park. (ED) Daily Challenge: Share with your family what “Stop, Think, then Do” means. How will this help you with your learning? How will this help you outside of our learning space?

September 24

 Hello Fabulous Fours,

We had less frustration today while working with the iPads. Everyone was able to turn in something to the teacher. We took pictures of our written work or took screen shots of our work and then attached them. Some of us were able to just submit the activity. It is definitely still a work in progress. Upcoming Events: Sept. 23-24 – Parent-Teacher Conferences – Looking forward to connecting with families. Things we have done during our day: -Today, we did Word Ladder in Google Classroom. (KN) -We finished up our Bowling Alley Graph activity on the iPad. (KB) The hardest part of this activity was putting the answer into a full sentence. -We read the City of Ember and finished Chapter 2. (OC) -We did a fitness triangle and played Shadow Tag. (HM) -Today, we were on the iPads for most of the day. (EW) -In Language arts, we finished off our word work and some of us worked on our story writing. (EC) Daily Challenge: Share with your family what we notice about our shadows outside today. How were they different from when we usually play Shadow Tag during PE? Why might they be different?

September 23

Hello Fabulous Fours,

Parent viewpoint Please see link below to fill out a Parent viewpoint. Thank you for sharing information about your child. This will help me connect with your child as we learn together.

Parent Viewpoint Fab Fours Room 2

Upcoming Events: Sept. 23-24 – Parent-Teacher Conferences – These are telephone conversations, Thursday afternoon/evening and Friday morning. If these times do not work for you, then please email me and we can see if we can set up another time to connect. Things we have done during our day: -In the morning, we played Boggle. (KN) -In handwriting, we learned to write the letter ‘k’. (JB) -We learned to count to 10 in French. (SV) **see link on our stream in Google Classroom for the song we felt worked the best for us counting to 10: “Une Chanson des Chiffres” -We did PE and we ran some fitness triangles and we played Everybody’s It Shadow Tag. (HM and WF) -Today, we read more of The City of Ember and Lina was sent with a message for the mayor. (EW) -We made a story plan using a picture prompt. (DO) **in Google Classroom -We played a new math game called, “Who’s in the Middle?” (WF) **in Google Classroom -We had social studies and we learned some definitions about Alberta - Story of the Land and put them into our visual journals to get ready for Alberta research. (EW) **in Google Classroom -We had SQUIRT time and many of us worked on our Word Work. (SE) Daily Challenge: Share with your family our new math game called, “Who’s in the Middle?”. The skills we practiced are least and greatest numbers and numbers in between using 2-digit numbers.

September 22

Hello Fabulous Fours,

Things in backpacks: Overdue notice slips – these are from last year, please try and find them and return them. Upcoming Events: Sept. 23-24 – Parent-Teacher Conferences – These are telephone conversations, Thursday afternoon/evening and Friday morning. Things we have done during our day: -Today, we did Make-a-Word. (KN) -In handwriting, we learned how to do an ‘h’. (SV) -In French, we learned more greetings like “Salut” and “je m’appelle. . .”. (OC) -Today, we did social studies and we did a map and we wrote down all the provinces and territories. (EW) **in Google Classroom -Today, we had music and we practiced our dancing. (AW) -We did more Terry Fox Run and then played Hula Rock Paper Scissors. (ED) -We read a little bit more of The City of Ember. (HM) **new reading in Google Classroom -We did math and we practiced using base 10 blocks and finding the numbers. (KN and ED) We did a math card with darts and we had to find 11 using three darts. (HM) **in Google Classroom -Today, we had SQUIRT time. (EW) Daily Challenge: Using the dart board from our problem today, how many different ways can you make 9 using three darts. Predict if you will have more combinations or less than the problem we did this morning. If you cannot remember the dart board, check it out in Google Classroom.

September 21

 Hello Fabulous Fours,

Today’s word for the day was FRUSTRATION. We worked with iPads and tried to work in Google classroom. This is definitely a work in progress. We are making progress and some of us have actually submitted some work. We will get another chance to practice on Thursday. Upcoming Events: Sept. 23-24 – Parent-Teacher Conferences – Please check your emails for information how to sign up for a conference. Things we have done during our day: -We did Word Ladder in the morning. (KN) This one was harder than the other ones we did. **This is in the Google Classroom -In PE, we learned a new game, Hula Rock Paper Scissors where we had to jump through hoops to get to the other side to get points. (JB) -We read a story called, The Most Magnificent Thing by Ashley Spires. (OC) We answered 5 questions from the Story Question Board (in Google classroom) -We made new goals for the week and stored our old ones in our visual journal. (HM) -We read more of the novel, The City of Ember. (ED) -Today, we had music and we made “hope” notes out of whole notes. (EW) -We tried to do a math problem (answering question using a bar graph) using google classroom and google docs. We will look at this problem again on Thursday. (HM) There were some issues trying to get the two to communicate to each other. We think we have it now. -We had some SQUIRT time before PE. (EC)

-We did some Word Work with our personal word lists. Remember if you were not here, then I will be emailing you your list (educbe.ca account). If you have not been at school and have not made a list with the teacher, then choose 10 words you want to spell better from your writing. We will be working on this throughout the week. -There were other things scheduled for today but we ran out of time. Technology was not so much our friend today. We are learning to have lots of patience, to go with the flow if it is not working quite right, and to consult experts in our school.

Thank you to Ms. Gilbank for helping us with our work. Daily Challenge: Share with your family some of the things you put on your ‘Hope Note’ today in music. What would be some things your family would want to put on a ‘Hope Note’?