Math Quiz Pattern and Relations October 15

We will be having our first Math assessment of the year for the unit on Patterns and Relations on Thursday October 15. A practice test is being sent home, along with some work samples from the unit, and possibly some work that your child may not have been able to finish in the allotted amount of class time. This is not "homework" in the sense that it needs to be handed in, though students have been encouraged to complete it , to ensure that they have a full understanding of the concepts and time to ask questions around their comprehension before the test. Answer keys have been included for the work samples as well. 

If the practice test didn't make it home this weekend and you would still like to practice, you can email me at slywkam@fsd38.ab.ca and I will send it to you. 

October book orders have also been sent home and are due October 15. 

Homophone and Vocabulary Quizzes have been sent home. If you have not yet signed and returned them please do soon as soon as possible.

Students need to bring in an empty shoe box or Kleenex box to make pinhole cameras for science next week. 

Quiz- Prefixes Thursday October 7, 2015



Students will be required to provide/match/ write the meaning of the prefix and then provide examples of words that contain the given prefixes. Students might also be required to form sentences or define words based on the prefixes provided.

Students will be assessed on their ability to provide many examples of words and an understanding of the prefixes listed below. 

The Vocabulary and Homophone Quizzes have been marked and are coming home in today's take home folder to be signed by parents and returned.

On the Learning Path

We have gotten ourselves organized and have started getting into the good stuff...

Thank you for those of you who have signed up for the Remind 101 app!

If you haven't yet filled out and returned the green, salmon and pink coloured sheets, please do so as soon as possible.

Magazine sales are also under way. Please look in the take home folders for more information.

We are working on Habit 1 of the 7 Habits of Happy Kids, following Stephen Covey's "The Leader in Me" program.

We have had some important discussions around our responsibilities at school, home, to ourselves and to the environment. 

In Math, we have been working on building number patterns, determining and creating the pattern rules.

Here are some websites with some practice problems:
https://www.teachervision.com/tv/printables/Math_4_PN_2.pdf

http://www.mathworksheets4kids.com/patterns/number-line-recognize-large.png

Our current science unit is Light and Shadows. Students will be building Kaleidoscopes and experimenting with making shadows in the near future. Please have them bring in a flashlight and batteries and an empty paper towel roll. If you have any sequins, small shiny objects, colourful beads or objects of interest that we could add to our kaleidoscopes, please send those too! 

We learned about the spectrum of the rainbow. Here are our ROY G. BIV characters:

In Language Arts, we have been spending time building our stamina for reading and writing by ourselves. We have also started a novel study together with the Newberry winning book " The Whipping Boy" By Sid Fleischman. We are focusing on different strategies for  reading comprehension such as making mental pictures, check for understanding and replacing new vocabulary words with other words that would make sense in their place.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Whipping_Boy

Homophone Quiz -Thursday October 1, 2015

Homophone Quiz - Thursday October 1, 2015

Students will be required to know the different meanings of the following words with the same sounds:








Your- belongs to you
You're- you are
Their- belongs to them
There- a place
They're- they are
Its- belongs to it
It's- it is
Two- more than one
Too- also
To- for/ direction

Meet - introduction

Meat- animal flesh

Hear- with your ears

Here- in this place

Whole- entire

Hole- a pit in the ground

Know- knowledge

No- refusal

Which- make a choice

Witch- pointy hat

Terry Fox Run and Picture Day

Our class Photos will be on Monday October 5, 2015.

What we are learning about Alberta

We have been learning many new facts about our province. Here are some samples of our work for you to see... 

The Week of September 21-25

Here are a few highlights for the next week:                  

1. Bake Sale Tuesday September 22 at lunch.
2. Vocabulary Quiz Thursday September 24.
3. Book Orders due Thursday September 24.
4. PD Day- No school Friday September 25.

Magazine Orders are also in full swing. Please bring those in as soon as possible to the Learning Commons.

New Words, Book Orders

Vocabulary Quiz Next Week Thursday



We have been learning many new vocabulary words in our Novel Study, "The Whipping Boy." Throughout this novel study, we will have several quizzes to ensure we are retaining the new words we are learning. The strategies we have learned so far for vocabulary have been to:

1. Listen for interesting words while reading.
2. Ask someone to define the word.
3. Trade a word that makes sense in its place.
4. Keep a log of new words and definitions.

Here are the words we have learned so far, some of which will appear on the quiz next Thursday September 24.

*Students are only required to know what the words mean and be able to chose correct definitions, complete sentences etc. Spelling is not being assessed on this quiz.

Shrieked- pg 1 - screamed

Fetch -pg 2 -get, bring

Defiantly - pg 2 refuse, refusal

Contrite - pg 4 understanding and sorry

Exasperation - pg 4 disappointed and frustrated

Gloat - pg 4 laugh

Obliged - pg 4 thankful

Breeches pg. 5- pants

Duds- pg.5- clothes, outfit
Ferrets-pg.5  weasel, sick furry things
Reckon- pg.5 I think, I figure
Scholar- pg.5 student
Sums- pg.6 addition, adding
Spite- pg. 6 hate, to get even

Chamber pg.7- bedroom

Manservant- pg 7 slave, servant, maid, butler
Moat- pg 7 a water filled pit (river)  around a castle.
Protested- pg 7 complaining, whining,
Gory-eyed fit- pg 7 spaz
Astonishment- pg 8 shock, surprise, stunned
Scragged- pg 8 handle roughly, beat up

Double-mounted pg- 9 two people riding on a horse

Cobbled-pg.9 street paved with small stones
Sewers pg-9 waterway under the city for disposing of waste
Halter pg 9 leather piece for horses
Insolent pg.11 rude
Cutthroat pg. 11 cruel, murderous

Here is our version of VIncent Van Gogh's wheat fields. This compliments our social studies unit on Alberta and landscape.

Book Orders were sent home today and are due Thursday September 24. 

http://www.scholastic.ca/clubs/clubsonline/

Science supplies needed!

Our light and shadows unit has quite a few projects that will be using items that can be found around the house. Your help in collecting these over the next few weeks will be much appreciated!

On Thursday, students will need pictures from their cameras or magazines, printouts from the computer, supplies, items etc...to demonstrate their understanding of transparent, translucent and opaque on a poster type display.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/7_8/light_shadows_fs.shtml

We are also collecting empty paper towel rolls, shiny, metallic, colourful, transparent, beads, sequins and reflective objects to make kaleidoscopes with. 

Students are also asked to bring a small flashlight they can use to explore shadow  making.

And within the next few weeks, students are asked to bring a shoebox or small box that they can use to make a pinhole camera with. If you have extra, those are welcome too😬

Welcome Back to School!

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Hello Joe Clark Students and Families,

Welcome back! I am looking forward to starting an exciting year of learning with you!

Our school is attempting to go agenda free by next year. I have taken the plunge and this is the first attempt at going agenda free and putting together a classroom blog. It is my hope that this page will become a hub for classroom calendars, reminders, events and activities, homework, links and will give us a chance to showcase our learning. Though there will be writing, work samples and photos, in teaching kids about internet safety, your children's names will never be posted in conjunction with their picture and their last names will not appear on this blog. Ever.
There is a bit of a learning curve and I have not figured out all the kinks just yet. Your patience through this process is very much appreciated.

I can always be reached by email : slywkam@fsd38.ab.ca
My school gmail account is slywkam@gm.fsd38.ab.ca

This is a link to the September calendar:

https://www.google.com/calendar/render?tab=oc&pli=1#main_7%7Cmonth

Please note that field trip information cannot be posted online for the safety of our students.

Students will also have a calendar in their take home folders that they can add to as necessary.
In addition to calendars, take home folders will contain field trip forms, newsletters, corrected work etc...

I will also be trying out a phone app called "Remind 101". This is an app that upon signing up,  will send important reminders directly to parent and student (optional) phones, devices or email. Example "Math test on Thursday", "Wear your Joe Clark t-shirt tomorrow", "Field trip forms due Tuesday."

Here is a link with instructions on how to join:

http://remind.com/join/45sly

Clear as mud? Questions are always welcome! We can learn together:)

Yours in Learning,

Michelle Slywka