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