Lesson 31 Spelling Words

Grade 3:

Grade 4:

nonsense
prepaid
control
returned
impractical
nonstop
conduct
preview
report
imperfect
nonprofit
refills
construct
immovable
precaution
predict
convince
impersonal
impure
reaction

Tuesday May 22nd, 2018

Here is what we did today:

French: Please see Mme. Stella's blog for more information.

Novel Study: We continued to read our novel study book, "The Secret Garden." We completed some comprehension and reflection questions independently as DRAs were taking place.

Recess/Lunch

Art's Night Rehearsal-- Please practice the dance moves we added in!

Math: Today we reviewed the parts of a 3D shape. We learned about the edges, faces and vertex. We explored different shapes with our table groups and worked on a math package describing 3D shapes.

We described the difference between a prism and a pyramid.

Recess/Lunch

UOI: We reviewed the different layers of soil and worked on our soil art.

Homework and Important Updates:

Thursday May 17th, 2018

Here is what we did today:

French: Please see Mme. Stella's blog for more information.

Gym: Ms. Downey took the students to play various activities in the gym today.

Lunch/Recess

Math: Ms. Cass looked over the grade 3s as Ms. Ross and I were at the Art's Night Performance with the choir. She reviewed the names of various shapes and the students worked on a math package that reviewed concepts from this geometry unit.

 
Recess/Lunch

Reading and packing up for the end of the day!

Art's Night for the JKs to Grade 2:

Homework and Important Updates:

*Math Package if not completed
* Read twice this weekend!
* Practice for Art's Night
**No school tomorrow and Monday

JK to Grade 2 Art's Night

Here is some information on arts night tomorrow:

Tomorrow, Thursday May 17th, the choir students need to bring their choir clothes with them or wear them in the morning. They also need to wear these clothes for the evening performance.

Choir students need to be dropped off at the city church (2700 Argentia Road) tomorrow night at 6:15pm. The show starts at 7:00. There will be no bussing in between the city church and the school during the evening. They need to be dropped off directly at the city church in the evening. They can be picked up when the show finishes at 8:15.

There is also a performance at 1:30 tomorrow during the day. They will be bussed from the school to the city church. 

We encourage all parents to come to the JK-2 arts night! It is a great show!

For our own performance on May 30th, the students will be wearing pjs and oneies to look like babies! As we are singing about being babies. Please ensure that everyone is practicing the song at home! It is coming up very quickly!

If you have any other questions please let me know.

Wednesday May 16th, 2018

Here is what we did today.

Spelling Bee: Ruhaan came in first, Maxime came in second and Pranati came in third. Great work everyone!

 
Lunch/Recess

Choir Members: Went to The City Church to rehearse for Art's Night.

Gym: Please see Mr. B's blog for more information.

Math: To remember what we learned during yesterday's lesson, the students had partners and create riddles about quadrilaterals. They had so much fun creating riddles and asking others to solve them. Today they also learned about similar figures. This means that figures are the same shape but not the same size. They have been doubled in size so we multiply all of the sides by 2. They worked with partners to match up similar figures and then completed some textbook questions.

 Lunch/Recess

Practice for Art's Night: My class took this opportunity to practice for our upcoming Art's Night performance.

Homework and Important Updates:

-Math Worksheet
-Study for Spelling Test tomorrow
-Read or RAZ Kids 25 minutes
-No school Friday or Monday 

Tuesday May 15th, 2018

Here is what we did today:

JK to Grade 2 Spelling Bee! Congratulations to all the winners!

Recess/Lunch

Art's Night Performance: JK to Grade 2-- Such a fantastic show!

Recess/Lunch

Math: Today we learned about the attributes of different quadrilaterals. We played a matching game to try and figure out what examples match the attributes. We even solved a few riddles. We loved the quick lesson today!

Homework and Important Updates:

Monday May 14th, 2018

Here is what we did today:

Presentations: We completed the remaining presentations for our Forces UOI.

Agenda/ Morning Meeting

Gym: Please see Mr. Beresford's blog for more details.

Language: We started our new novel study. We are reading the famous novel, "The Secret Garden." The students are so excited to begin a new story adventure! They made so many connections to our last novel study book as well.

Recess/ Lunch

Math: Today we explored angles in quadrilaterals! We talked about how squares and rectangles have 4 equal angles, parallelograms and rhombuses have opposite equal angles and lastly all kites have 2 equal angles. To show that angles are equal you draw matching arcs. We did examples on the board and a few textbook questions for practice.

 
Recess/ Lunch

UOI: We completed our soil experiment! We drew out the last stage of the experiment. Today we also learned about the different layers of soil. We watched a video and discussed what is included in each layer. We started our rough copy of an art project for the different layers of soil.

Homework and Important Updates:

 Parents are welcomed to watch the Spelling Bee on Wednesday in the auditorium at 9am!

Sorry my blog has been reporting an error every time I tried to post but it should be back to normal now!

Friday May 11th, 2018

Here is what we did today:

Spelling Bee: We had our in class competition! Congratulations to Sachi, Pranati, Amber and Maxime!

Surprise Activity!

Recess/Lunch

Math: We started working on angles. We went through it step by step on how to use a protractor. We also learned that a right angle is 90 degrees and that is the angle we use to compare against, less than a right angle or more than a right angle.

We did some work with our partners and practiced using them in the textbook.

Now everyone had their own protractor and practiced using them. here are some tips and things I told them.

• Put a coloured dot on the corner they are measuring. This will help them to see where the cross inside the circle goes.
• If you can see the line of the angle through your protractor, then it is not lined up properly
• Look which way the angle is facing. If it is facing the right, then you look at the inside line. If the angle is facing left, you look at the outside line.
• If you are unsure if your answer is right, lightly draw a vertical line up from the corner to see if you are more than a right angle or less than a right angle
• Do your numbers match? If your angle is really bigger than a right angle and your number is 50 degrees... then you know you have gone wrong. Check again.

Recess/Lunch

UOI: We did our soil experiment! We went outside and got soil in our jars. Next we put water in them and drew a picture of what it looks like now. Next we shook them and waited five minutes. Then we drew a picture of what it looks like now. On Monday we will look again and see what has changed!

Homework and Important Updates:

**Reading Comprehension due Monday

Thursday May 10th, 2018

Here is what we did today:

French: Please see Mme. Stella's blog for more information.

Agenda/ Morning Meetings

Gym: We did gym with Ms. Ross' class!

Recess/Lunch

Math: We did two easier math lessons today. First we talked about congruent figures. They remembered that congruent means same shape and same size; position doesn't matter. We also talked about using several congruent figures to create one larger shape. For example, using three congruent triangles to form a trapezoid.

Our second lesson was on recognizing quadrilaterals. We learned that a quadrilateral is a four sided shape. We talked about the use of hatch marks to tell us which sides of the shape are the same. These are small straight lines.

Next we talked about parallel lines. If two lines are parallel that means they can go on forever and never touch. We also use hatch marks to show parallel lines. These lines are arrows. Finally we talked about how some shapes can also be classified as another. For example, A square is rhombus because it has four equal sides and two pairs of parallel lines.

Recess/Lunch

UOI: We talked about photosynthesis! We watched a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1Ymc311XS8&t=13s

 
Next we talked about what photosynthesis is and then we made a leaf in order to show what comes into the leaf and what goes out. It was such a fun craft!!

Homework and Important Updates:

*Read 25 minutes/Raz kids
*Presentations Monday
*Math worksheet
*Spelling bee May 11

*Mason jar for friday

Wednesday May 9th, 2018

Here is what we did today:

Language: We had a lot of reading and working on spelling/language drills time today because French was cancelled.

Gym: Please see Mr. B's blog for more information.

Math: We worked on our Math test.

Recess/ Lunch
 
Math: We worked on our Math test.

Music: Please see Mr. Oliver's blog for more information.

Presentations: We continued our UOI presentations. We will continue them throughout the week.

Recess/Lunch

UOI: Today we learned about soil! We discussed the importance soil and what soil is made up of. We read through some passages and with partners they answered comprehension worksheets. We took them up as a class.   

Homework and Important Updates: