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Please go back to the school website and to the teacher blog page. Once you are there, hit the refresh button or arrow to refresh the screen, then scroll over my blog and click on it. You should be brought to our new class blog! I hope this works. If it does not work, please email me at
achandelsman@cbe.ab.ca Thanks
Ms. Handelsman
Tuesday, January 7, 2014
Monday, January 6, 2014
Great first day of the New school year!!
Hello Room 75!
It was great to see everyone and to hear all your wonderful stories from how you spent your holidays with your friends and families. Thanks to the students who brought in their pictures to share with the class as this helped to add more of an understanding of their stories. One student even decided to make a collage out of his pictures from his break. Through his collage he was able to share a detailed story of what he did with his family while on break! Great work.
This morning we had a special guest, a grade 3/4 teacher from Canyon Meadows School. She teaches Spanish Emersion to her students and even shared some Spanish with our kids today! She and her colleagues were at our school today to learn how we use IRIS at school. Bruce, Ria and Marek did a wonderful job sharing their experiences, stories and goals with the teacher as well as the Assistant Principal from their school. They were given a message to say to their parents in Spanish, (hopefully they can remember what that message was and share it with you!)
We had a wonderful class meeting where we got to listen to each other share their stories of the holidays, followed by what each of our goal's are for the New Year! (Thanks again to the students who did their homework for today!)
After gym we started reading a new story by Andrew Clements called "The School Story". It is a about a young girl who has decided to write a story and would like to try and get it published. This is a great book for us as we will be writing stories throughout this term and by the end of the school year will have worked collectively with all grade 3/4 students to have written and published our own book as we work with an author! More information to follow. After listening to the story we discussed what type of school we would write about if we were to write our own "School Story". Ask your child to share their beginning thoughts with you.
In the afternoon we went to the library to sign out new books then we worked on math. We have begun our exploration of multiplication and division. Today we discussed how when we are asked to multiply we need to think of groups. We used the number of students in our class today, 20 as our starting point to work with and discovered many different multiplication sentences that we could make where the product is 20. We also learned that it didn't matter what direction you wrote your multiplication sentence in. For example 5X4=20 and 4X5=20. We learned that when we write 4X5=20 we are saying 4 GROUPS of 5 is 20. We learned about what happens when we multiply any number by 1 and any number by 0. Ask your child to share with you what they learned in math today.
We ended our day with French. Ask your child to share with you what they learned in French class and who their teacher was.
Important information.
Please see the attached calendar for upcoming dates.
Tomorrow the blog page should look different...
It was great to see everyone and to hear all your wonderful stories from how you spent your holidays with your friends and families. Thanks to the students who brought in their pictures to share with the class as this helped to add more of an understanding of their stories. One student even decided to make a collage out of his pictures from his break. Through his collage he was able to share a detailed story of what he did with his family while on break! Great work.
This morning we had a special guest, a grade 3/4 teacher from Canyon Meadows School. She teaches Spanish Emersion to her students and even shared some Spanish with our kids today! She and her colleagues were at our school today to learn how we use IRIS at school. Bruce, Ria and Marek did a wonderful job sharing their experiences, stories and goals with the teacher as well as the Assistant Principal from their school. They were given a message to say to their parents in Spanish, (hopefully they can remember what that message was and share it with you!)
We had a wonderful class meeting where we got to listen to each other share their stories of the holidays, followed by what each of our goal's are for the New Year! (Thanks again to the students who did their homework for today!)
After gym we started reading a new story by Andrew Clements called "The School Story". It is a about a young girl who has decided to write a story and would like to try and get it published. This is a great book for us as we will be writing stories throughout this term and by the end of the school year will have worked collectively with all grade 3/4 students to have written and published our own book as we work with an author! More information to follow. After listening to the story we discussed what type of school we would write about if we were to write our own "School Story". Ask your child to share their beginning thoughts with you.
In the afternoon we went to the library to sign out new books then we worked on math. We have begun our exploration of multiplication and division. Today we discussed how when we are asked to multiply we need to think of groups. We used the number of students in our class today, 20 as our starting point to work with and discovered many different multiplication sentences that we could make where the product is 20. We also learned that it didn't matter what direction you wrote your multiplication sentence in. For example 5X4=20 and 4X5=20. We learned that when we write 4X5=20 we are saying 4 GROUPS of 5 is 20. We learned about what happens when we multiply any number by 1 and any number by 0. Ask your child to share with you what they learned in math today.
We ended our day with French. Ask your child to share with you what they learned in French class and who their teacher was.
Important information.
Please see the attached calendar for upcoming dates.
Tomorrow the blog page should look different...
Homework:
Read 30 minutes
Mathletics 30 minutes
Question for the blog (homework journal):
What book are you reading? Who wrote the book? What is your favorite part so far and why?
See you tomorrow.
Ms. Handelsman
Saturday, January 4, 2014
Happy New Year!!
Hello room 75!
I hope that you have had a wonderful holidays!
I just wanted to send a quick note to say hello and that I am looking forward to seeing you all on Monday morning!
Homework:
Read 30 minutes
Mathletics 30 minutes.
Please bring in three images (pictures) of something of significance that you did or happened over the holidays so that we can share them with the class and write about them as well.
Question for the blog (homework journal):
What is something you would like to get better at in 2014? How will you go about doing this?
See you on Monday!
Ms. Handelsman
I hope that you have had a wonderful holidays!
I just wanted to send a quick note to say hello and that I am looking forward to seeing you all on Monday morning!
Homework:
Read 30 minutes
Mathletics 30 minutes.
Please bring in three images (pictures) of something of significance that you did or happened over the holidays so that we can share them with the class and write about them as well.
Question for the blog (homework journal):
What is something you would like to get better at in 2014? How will you go about doing this?
See you on Monday!
Ms. Handelsman
Thursday, December 19, 2013
Happy Holidays!!
Hello Room 75!
Have a wonderful holiday! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Thank you for such a wonderful few months in room 75! It was great fun today, playing games, wrapping our gifts, eating snacks, watching a movie and singing Christmas Carols!
See you all on January 6th, 2014!!!
Homework over the holidays.
Please try to read and work on Mathletics each day for 30 minutes.
Please try to capture images of three events that you feel are significant to you or your family and bring them with you to school on January 6th. (take a picture, draw a picture etc).
Question for the blog: (to write in your homework journal.)
What is a goal you have for 2014? (What is something you want to get better at in 2014 and how will you go about doing this?)
Have a wonderful holiday with your friends and family and see you in the new year!!
Ms. Handelsman
Have a wonderful holiday! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Thank you for such a wonderful few months in room 75! It was great fun today, playing games, wrapping our gifts, eating snacks, watching a movie and singing Christmas Carols!
See you all on January 6th, 2014!!!
Homework over the holidays.
Please try to read and work on Mathletics each day for 30 minutes.
Please try to capture images of three events that you feel are significant to you or your family and bring them with you to school on January 6th. (take a picture, draw a picture etc).
Question for the blog: (to write in your homework journal.)
What is a goal you have for 2014? (What is something you want to get better at in 2014 and how will you go about doing this?)
Have a wonderful holiday with your friends and family and see you in the new year!!
Ms. Handelsman
Wednesday, December 18, 2013
Pajama day tomorrow!
Hello room 75!
I hope that everyone got home safely and are now nice and warm!
Tomorrow is our last day before the winter break!
A quick reminder that the students have decided to have pajama day and they want to bring a stuffed animal. They should only bring one animal that has been ok'd by you. If they do not want to dress in their pajamas, they can choose to wear their favorite shirt, that is appropriate for school, again ok'd by you. We will be playing board games, watching a movie and having snacks in the afternoon. Students can bring snacks to share with their class if they would like as well as a board game that they would like to play with their friends.
Tomorrow is a full day and students will be dismissed at their regular time!
Just a quick note that again yesterday someone was posting inappropriate comments on the blog. We had a very good class meeting this morning and talked about how it is not ok to write mean things on the internet and that once it is out there that it is difficult to take it back. Parents, please make sure that when your child is on the computer and on the internet that you are aware of what they are doing, writing or seeing. The students know that if they see something that is innapropriate they should tell an adult. Please talk to your child about the class meeting and ask them to share with you what we discussed, what they can do if they notice something inappropriate on the internet, and what they can do if they are having a problem with someone at home or at school, instead of saying or writing mean things. On that note, I will continue to use this blog until the holidays, but I will be blocking the ability for people to make comments, but instead ask the students answer the blog questions in their homework journal. If you would like to send a comment or question, please email me directly at achandelsman@cbe.ab.ca . Thank you for your support in helping your child to become responsible and respectful digital citizens.
We shared quite a few projects today and have just one more to go tomorrow!! Mykayla shared her powerpoint of her country, Scotland! She was very proud to be presenting in front of the class and of the research she did on the internet!Riley shared his poster of his interview with his dad about China! His poster included a great deal of images of significant locations and monuments in China, such as The Great Wall of China and the Terra Cotta Soldiers (both places I have visited as a child:) And Ria was excited to share her poster of India which included artifacts of significance, a variety of pictures and a great deal of information! And Cohen was pleased when his name was chosen to share his powerpoint on England!! His project included pictures from the past as well as the present and he even included a little dance as he finished his presentation! Way to go!
Ask your child to share with you something they learned from listening to one of their friends share today!
As I said we have one more to go tomorrow (maybe two!!) We will do this tomorrow morning before we go music!!
Important information:
Tomorrow is the last day of school.
January 6th is the first day back in the new year!
Homework:
read 30 minutes
mathletics 30 minutes
Question for the blog:
What will you be doing to celebrate Christmas this year? If you do not celebrate Christmas what will you be doing instead?
(PS remember to write your answer in your homework journal and bring in to school so that we can share with each other in the morning!)
Have a great WARM evening!
Ms. Handelsman
I hope that everyone got home safely and are now nice and warm!
Tomorrow is our last day before the winter break!
A quick reminder that the students have decided to have pajama day and they want to bring a stuffed animal. They should only bring one animal that has been ok'd by you. If they do not want to dress in their pajamas, they can choose to wear their favorite shirt, that is appropriate for school, again ok'd by you. We will be playing board games, watching a movie and having snacks in the afternoon. Students can bring snacks to share with their class if they would like as well as a board game that they would like to play with their friends.
Tomorrow is a full day and students will be dismissed at their regular time!
Just a quick note that again yesterday someone was posting inappropriate comments on the blog. We had a very good class meeting this morning and talked about how it is not ok to write mean things on the internet and that once it is out there that it is difficult to take it back. Parents, please make sure that when your child is on the computer and on the internet that you are aware of what they are doing, writing or seeing. The students know that if they see something that is innapropriate they should tell an adult. Please talk to your child about the class meeting and ask them to share with you what we discussed, what they can do if they notice something inappropriate on the internet, and what they can do if they are having a problem with someone at home or at school, instead of saying or writing mean things. On that note, I will continue to use this blog until the holidays, but I will be blocking the ability for people to make comments, but instead ask the students answer the blog questions in their homework journal. If you would like to send a comment or question, please email me directly at achandelsman@cbe.ab.ca . Thank you for your support in helping your child to become responsible and respectful digital citizens.
We shared quite a few projects today and have just one more to go tomorrow!! Mykayla shared her powerpoint of her country, Scotland! She was very proud to be presenting in front of the class and of the research she did on the internet!Riley shared his poster of his interview with his dad about China! His poster included a great deal of images of significant locations and monuments in China, such as The Great Wall of China and the Terra Cotta Soldiers (both places I have visited as a child:) And Ria was excited to share her poster of India which included artifacts of significance, a variety of pictures and a great deal of information! And Cohen was pleased when his name was chosen to share his powerpoint on England!! His project included pictures from the past as well as the present and he even included a little dance as he finished his presentation! Way to go!
Ask your child to share with you something they learned from listening to one of their friends share today!
As I said we have one more to go tomorrow (maybe two!!) We will do this tomorrow morning before we go music!!
Important information:
Tomorrow is the last day of school.
January 6th is the first day back in the new year!
Homework:
read 30 minutes
mathletics 30 minutes
Question for the blog:
What will you be doing to celebrate Christmas this year? If you do not celebrate Christmas what will you be doing instead?
(PS remember to write your answer in your homework journal and bring in to school so that we can share with each other in the morning!)
Have a great WARM evening!
Ms. Handelsman
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
The kids have decided...
Hello room 75...
The kids have decided to have Pajama day on Thursday! We put it to a vote and they decided to have pajama day for the entire day, as well as they can bring in 1 stuffy if they would like. If they do not want to dress in pajamas they can wear a favorite t-shirt and still bring in a stuffy. After deciding that we wanted to have a pajama day our buddies joined us and then we found out that they are also having pajama day!
We listened to a few more of our students share their origins projects today.
Cassie shared her interview of her mom about her great grandma who was from Scotland and emigrated to Canada in 1945. She did a wonderful job of reading what she had typed on the page and then showing the pictures of the flag as well as of her great grandma!!
Meghan was very excited to share her project about her family and included pictures on her poster of the many different countries her family is from. The countries included, Germany, the Ukraine and Poland. She enjoyed sharing some of the many pictures of her family members with the class!
Ethan was quite excited when his name was chosen to share his powerpoint of his interview with his mom about China! He made sure I knew when to press the buttons in the powerpoint so that his graphics could change as he was talking about different things, such as the different parks and different foods of China! Ask your child to share with you what Ethan's favorite part of his presentation was!
We still have a few more friends to listen share their projects and will do so tomorrow and Thursday. Remember if you have not finished and handed in your project to please do so ASAP.
During our Christmas carols we were pleasantly surprised to see that our friends in tone chimes were going to be performing some of the Christmas songs they have been practicing! Brooke, Ally, Ria and Meghan did a wonderful job reading their music and playing their tone chimes in front of the entire school! Way to go you guys!
Many of the students have been hungry in the afternoon and so we have introduced an afternoon snack. This gives the students an opportunity to finish up some of their healthy snacks and parts of their lunch that they may not have gotten to earlier in the day. If you are finding that your child is hungry, please make sure to send additional healthy and fresh snacks as these fill them up much better than processed foods and candies or chocolate. If you are finding that they are not finishing their lunches or eating all their snacks, hopefully the afternoon snack will help them to do so.
Important information:
Thursday is our last day of school. It is pajama and bring your stuffy day for us and our buddies! We will be watching a video as well as playing board games and eating snacks. If your child has a game at home that they would like to bring to school and you are ok with that please do so! If you would like to send a snack or treat to school you are more than welcome to. We have 21 students. We would like the snack to be healthy/ish if at all possible and as always no nuts please. Someone has already brought in a baked treat for the class that is sitting on my table waiting eagerly to be shared on Thursday!!
January 6th- return to school!
Fun lunch orders are due in January- The information is available through our website and weekly newsletters!
Question for the blog:
As 2013 comes to a close, what is something that you are most proud of having accomplished either at school or at home that you would like to share? (Please do not post about video games etc). If you are having a difficult time making sure your answer posts, please write it in your homework journal and bring to school tomorrow:)
PLEASE WRITE YOUR RESPONSE IN YOUR JOURNAL IF YOU WOULD LIKE AS I HAVE BLOCKED THE COMMENT OPTION FROM THE BLOG. WE WILL BE TALKING ABOUT THIS IN CLASS TOMORROW.
MS. HANDELSMAN
See you tomorrow,
Ms. Handelsman
The kids have decided to have Pajama day on Thursday! We put it to a vote and they decided to have pajama day for the entire day, as well as they can bring in 1 stuffy if they would like. If they do not want to dress in pajamas they can wear a favorite t-shirt and still bring in a stuffy. After deciding that we wanted to have a pajama day our buddies joined us and then we found out that they are also having pajama day!
We listened to a few more of our students share their origins projects today.
Cassie shared her interview of her mom about her great grandma who was from Scotland and emigrated to Canada in 1945. She did a wonderful job of reading what she had typed on the page and then showing the pictures of the flag as well as of her great grandma!!
Meghan was very excited to share her project about her family and included pictures on her poster of the many different countries her family is from. The countries included, Germany, the Ukraine and Poland. She enjoyed sharing some of the many pictures of her family members with the class!
Ethan was quite excited when his name was chosen to share his powerpoint of his interview with his mom about China! He made sure I knew when to press the buttons in the powerpoint so that his graphics could change as he was talking about different things, such as the different parks and different foods of China! Ask your child to share with you what Ethan's favorite part of his presentation was!
We still have a few more friends to listen share their projects and will do so tomorrow and Thursday. Remember if you have not finished and handed in your project to please do so ASAP.
During our Christmas carols we were pleasantly surprised to see that our friends in tone chimes were going to be performing some of the Christmas songs they have been practicing! Brooke, Ally, Ria and Meghan did a wonderful job reading their music and playing their tone chimes in front of the entire school! Way to go you guys!
Many of the students have been hungry in the afternoon and so we have introduced an afternoon snack. This gives the students an opportunity to finish up some of their healthy snacks and parts of their lunch that they may not have gotten to earlier in the day. If you are finding that your child is hungry, please make sure to send additional healthy and fresh snacks as these fill them up much better than processed foods and candies or chocolate. If you are finding that they are not finishing their lunches or eating all their snacks, hopefully the afternoon snack will help them to do so.
Important information:
Thursday is our last day of school. It is pajama and bring your stuffy day for us and our buddies! We will be watching a video as well as playing board games and eating snacks. If your child has a game at home that they would like to bring to school and you are ok with that please do so! If you would like to send a snack or treat to school you are more than welcome to. We have 21 students. We would like the snack to be healthy/ish if at all possible and as always no nuts please. Someone has already brought in a baked treat for the class that is sitting on my table waiting eagerly to be shared on Thursday!!
January 6th- return to school!
Fun lunch orders are due in January- The information is available through our website and weekly newsletters!
Question for the blog:
As 2013 comes to a close, what is something that you are most proud of having accomplished either at school or at home that you would like to share? (Please do not post about video games etc). If you are having a difficult time making sure your answer posts, please write it in your homework journal and bring to school tomorrow:)
PLEASE WRITE YOUR RESPONSE IN YOUR JOURNAL IF YOU WOULD LIKE AS I HAVE BLOCKED THE COMMENT OPTION FROM THE BLOG. WE WILL BE TALKING ABOUT THIS IN CLASS TOMORROW.
MS. HANDELSMAN
See you tomorrow,
Ms. Handelsman
Monday, December 16, 2013
3 more days!
Hello room 75!
What a great Monday! Students are very excited as the holidays are approaching! Many are choosing to write letters to Santa during Daily 5! We continue to be listening to our friends share their origins projects. Today we listened as Kareem shared his powerpoint on Egypt. In his project he included a video of him interviewing his dad and asking him many questions. Then he shared a variety of foods that are from Egypt, many of which he has eaten himself! This afternoon we listened to Bailey share her report on Germany, and she was proud to pass around an artifact from home. An extremely old book written in German! Jullianne shared the book she made about her country of origin, The Philippines. She included a variety of pictures to add to her report on the information she got from interviewing her mom. Ask your child to share with you the greeting that young people give to their elders as a sign of respect. Wilson shared his powerpoint project on his country of origin, England. He included a picture of his great great grandpa in his project. He also included the birth signs with each of the famous people he included in his report, which lead to all the students wanting to know that theirs is. (Mine is aquarius.)
Remember, if you have not finished your project, please do so and bring it in so that you can share it with your class. We will continue to decide who will be presenting, by random draw!!
This morning we met with our buddies from Mrs. Sloane's class and we started to work on our ornaments. Ask you child to share with you who their buddy is and what their ornament is that they are creating.
We ended the day by coming together as a school and singing Christmas Carols. Tomorrow we will be singing the songs at 11, then again on Wednesday at 230...
important information:
Thursday is a full day of school. It is our last day of school before the holidays. We return to school on Monday, January 6th, 2014!!
Fun lunch orders due Jan 10th.(The information about the fun lunches went out in the weekly newsletters.) The students's yellow communication folders will be coming home tomorrow.
Homework:
Read 30 minutes
Mathletics 30 (everyone has new assignments!)
finish your origins project if you have not already done so
Question for the blog.
What was your favorite Christmas Carol that we sang together?
Have a great evening.
Ms. Handelsman
What a great Monday! Students are very excited as the holidays are approaching! Many are choosing to write letters to Santa during Daily 5! We continue to be listening to our friends share their origins projects. Today we listened as Kareem shared his powerpoint on Egypt. In his project he included a video of him interviewing his dad and asking him many questions. Then he shared a variety of foods that are from Egypt, many of which he has eaten himself! This afternoon we listened to Bailey share her report on Germany, and she was proud to pass around an artifact from home. An extremely old book written in German! Jullianne shared the book she made about her country of origin, The Philippines. She included a variety of pictures to add to her report on the information she got from interviewing her mom. Ask your child to share with you the greeting that young people give to their elders as a sign of respect. Wilson shared his powerpoint project on his country of origin, England. He included a picture of his great great grandpa in his project. He also included the birth signs with each of the famous people he included in his report, which lead to all the students wanting to know that theirs is. (Mine is aquarius.)
Remember, if you have not finished your project, please do so and bring it in so that you can share it with your class. We will continue to decide who will be presenting, by random draw!!
This morning we met with our buddies from Mrs. Sloane's class and we started to work on our ornaments. Ask you child to share with you who their buddy is and what their ornament is that they are creating.
We ended the day by coming together as a school and singing Christmas Carols. Tomorrow we will be singing the songs at 11, then again on Wednesday at 230...
important information:
Thursday is a full day of school. It is our last day of school before the holidays. We return to school on Monday, January 6th, 2014!!
Fun lunch orders due Jan 10th.(The information about the fun lunches went out in the weekly newsletters.) The students's yellow communication folders will be coming home tomorrow.
Homework:
Read 30 minutes
Mathletics 30 (everyone has new assignments!)
finish your origins project if you have not already done so
Question for the blog.
What was your favorite Christmas Carol that we sang together?
Have a great evening.
Ms. Handelsman
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