Hello families
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
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