Tuesday February 5th, 2019

Here is what we did today:

Happy Chinese New Year!

French: Please see Mme. Stella's blog for more detail. https://stjudesfrench-stella.blogspot.com

UOI: We wrapped up our writing unit with a reflection.

Reading Buddies: We went to our friends in Ms. King's class to read today!

Inquiry into Language: Today we practiced our summarizing skills. We did an exercise about summarizing a story called 'Somebody, Wanted, But, So, Then'. It is a method to help us determine what information needs to go into the summary. It is a basic organizer in which we can add more information afterwards but this helps us stay on track with some information that is unnecessary. We read a book called "The Fox Factor" and completed the organizer together.

Recess/Lunch

UOI: We began our new UOI unit! We started with watching a video that defined and explained the differences between urban, suburban and rural places. Here is the link to the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBjB_BlIr7U

The students were very excited. We discussed places we know and categorized features of them with the knowledge we gained from that video.

Book Fair: We attended the book fair!

Inquiry into Math: We started the lesson with a review from yesterday's homework. I could see we were having some trouble with quarter past and quarter to. We learned that if it says "past" or "after" the hour does not change. If it says "before" or "to" then the hour has to be one number lower than stated.

Recess/Lunch

Inquiry into Math: Today we learned about estimating time! We looked at activities and with our table groups decided what was the reason amount of time this activity would take. They had a lot of fun with this concept, they chose partners and did a time estimating activity as well. When we are estimating we must remember to include the word "about" to distinguish that it is an estimation. We looked at the start time of an activity and the end time of an activity and learned how to estimate the length of time and then give the exact time.

Agenda! 

Dear Parents and Guardians,

Just a friendly reminder that re-registration packages are due by Monday, February 11.  After this time, spots will be opened up to the public and your child will not be guaranteed a space for next year.  We look forward to seeing you back for next year!

 

 

Monday February 4th, 2019

Here is what we did today:

French: Please see Mme. Stella's blog for more detail. https://stjudesfrench-stella.blogspot.com

Music: Please see Mrs. McMillan's blog for more detail. www.mrsmcmillanmusic.blogspot.com

 

Inquiry into Language: We worked on Lesson 19 in our spelling notebooks and our spelling sentences. When that was complete, we did a language drill! It's been such a long time! The children thoroughly enjoyed it. After that, we did a creative writing activity. I gave them three words that they had to use in a paragraph. It could be about anything they wanted, there was to be no editing, no stopping... just writing! We created some very funny paragraphs. 

Recess/Lunch  

Math: Today we worked on telling time. To start off the lesson we played a matching game. The groups had to match the digit time with the analog clock. We earned some house points for doing it correctly and cooperatively.

Then we reviewed that the hour hand is the small one and the big hand is the minute hand. I reminded them that they can use colours to help them distinguish between the two. Next we learned how to know which hour it is. We learned that sometimes the hour hand is not always going to point to directly to the hour so we have to figure out which two hours it is in between. We also talked about time terminology and how we use fractions on a clock. When the minute hand is pointed at the 3 that is quarter past means it is a quarter way through the clock. When the minute hand is pointed at the 6 is is half way through the clock which means it is half past the hour. Finally when the minute hand is pointed at the 9 it is the quarter to THE NEXT HOUR. For example, quarter to 9 is not quite in the hour of 9. So we go to the hour before and that is 8. I know that the minute hand is pointing to the 9 for quarter to so that means it is 8:45.

Our friend, Aryana, came up to the board to teach us a strategy on how to figure out the minutes in an hour. She labeled the clock by 5s starting at 1 and taught them to look at the minute hand to see where it is pointing. From there count up from the nearest multiple of 5.

We watched a video which was a fantastic addition to the lesson. Here is the link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaOc-4TA4lk

Book Fair: We made our wish lists for the book fair!

Recess/Lunch   

Gym: Please see Ms. Yustin's blog for more detail.  http://sjaayustin.blogspot.com

 

Agenda!

Dear Parents and Guardians,

Just a friendly reminder that re-registration packages are due by Monday, February 11.  After this time, spots will be opened up to the public and your child will not be guaranteed a space for next year.  We look forward to seeing you back for next year!

Lesson 19- Grade 3

Grade 4

Friday February 1st, 2019

Here is what we did today:

French: Please see Mme. Stella's blog for more detail. https://stjudesfrench-stella.blogspot.com

Inquiry into Language: We practiced our speeches for the last time.

Speeches: We started our in-class speeches.

Recess/Lunch

Speeches: We continued our in class speeches

Recess/Lunch

Speeches: Fantastic Work Grade 3s! I am so proud of all of you! They worked so hard and it paid off. Special congratulations to Arya, Julia and Emily for making it to the next round!

Agenda! 

Read 25 minutes!

Dear Parents and Guardians,

Just a friendly reminder that re-registration packages are due by Monday, February 11.  After this time, spots will be opened up to the public and your child will not be guaranteed a space for next year.  We look forward to seeing you back for next year!