I cannot believe how fast the day goes!
It was funny, this morning we started with three students absent, and then by Gym we were a full class again!
It was during gym that we had a fire drill. We were able to practice evacuating the school if we were in gym during the fire alarm! Ask your child how we evacuate and where we go.
In Math we worked on Mathletics. Students worked on completing their assigned tasks before competing against each other on LIVE MATHLETICS. The goal for our students when on Mathletics, is to compete at at least level 2. Many students are choosing level 1 only, because they feel that level 2 is "too hard". We talked about how the more we practice and work at something, the more familiar and then easier it becomes.
During our story and snack time, we watched a few videos for Remembrance Day. Many of the students in grade 4 remember the song they performed for last year's Remembrance Day Assembly and we (tried) to watch the video of this song. Unfortunately, we were having technical difficulty and it kept freezing on us. Here is the link to the video if you were interested. Highway of Heroes.
In word work students shared with partners and then the class the many different sentences they created for homework!! We had many students work on their homework and bring it in today! Way to go room 75. Their homework for tonight is to work with the "My Pattern Words to Study." First they should write each word three times to become familiar with it. Then for their sentences, they are to generate a sentence using at least one of the words from their list and try to make a change to their word. For example: I was framed, but they still sent me to jail. The word they are working with is frame, but in this sentence they are using it as the root word and adding an ending to it (ed). This way they are becoming familiar with the words on their list and what they need to do when their word is plural, or the tense of their sentence changes. They are to write at least three sentences and underline the word from their list that they used. Here is the list we are working with tonight.
After lunch we met with our buddies from Mrs. Sloane's class. Room 75 did a wonderful job working with their buddies to create their multi-step poppy for the Hope Wing Hallway's wreath. Check out the link if you want to see what steps we took to create our POPPIES.
Students in room 75 worked really hard to finish their acrostic poem for Remembrance day! All students finished writing, editing and then typing their work onto the computer. Once they had typed their work, they were able to go and edit their work even further. Ask them what they needed to include in their poetry writing. Now we will print them and put them together!
Tomorrow is our Remembrance Day assembly. This will be at 1030 in the morning. Unfortunately as the school is so large and space is limited in the gym, only family members of students who are participating in the assembly are welcome to attend.
Important information.
Monday, November 11th, NO SCHOOL- Remembrance Day
Friday, November 22nd, NO SCHOOL- PD day
Thursday, November 28th- FUN LUNCH!
Homework:
read 15-30 minutes
mathletics 15-30
writing homework (see above for reminder instructions, in case you forgot what was discussed in class).
Question for the blog:
What was your buddy's name? What did you enjoy the most about our buddy time today?
See you tomorrow,
Ms. Handelsman
