Tuesday, February 23rd.2021

                            

Language Arts:

                           -  We have started learning about  "Persuasive /Opinion" writing  and its use in daily life. There are different ways to use persuasive writing ; a letter, an article, and advertisement or a speech are a few of them. Ask me to give you some examples where you can use one of these ways  in daily life?

- We have our new spelling list for the next 2 weeks. The spelling test will be on Friday March 5th. 

Grade 3's focus is "j" sound of "g" and academic vocabulary .

Grade 4's focus is "sher" pattern and academic vocabulary .

	Grade 3	Grade4
1	important	split
2	children	totally
3	gentle	finally
4	giraffe	really
5	stage	crusher
6	engine	flasher
7	badge	fresher
8	ginger	balance
9	artic	bracket
10	adapt	percent
Bonus Word	community	community

Spelling test  being sent home today . Room 3 has done a greta job on the spelling test last week.Keep up the good work :) 

Math: 

                We have started working  on "Algebraic " understating of the whole number operations. Fro example , m+ 5=8 , x*4=8. Ask me what strategies you can use to figure out the missing number in the equation? One of the strategies we have learnt is to reverse the operation to get the answer in a quicker and efficient manner e.g m+5=8 . You can subtract 5 from 8 to get the difference 3. 

Science:

                            Today , we worked on learning about "Wheel and Axle". Ask me to give you examples of  wheels and axles from daily life. We will be building a moving object next week using wheels .Please collect 4 bottle caps or buttons of the same size to attach to the axles. The rest of the materials will be provided by the teacher. 

 

Reminders:

- Friendship assembly tomorrow at 2:30 .This will be a virtual assembly.Feel free to wear a pink shirt.

- Hot Soup- Tuesday and Thursday

Have a wonderful evening ! 

Tuesday,February.16th

Language Arts : 

                                    We have started learning about  rules of making singular nouns not plural  nouns.Please use this poster to keep practicing  the rules.

The spelling test is on Friday ,February 19th.

Grade 3's focus for spelling is sight words, " s" sound of "c" and academic vocabulary. 

Grade 4's focus for spelling  is sight words, "cher" pattern , and academic vocabulary. 

	Grade 3	Grade 4
1	together	plateau
2	group	sketch
3	often	rancher
4	space	richer
5	fence	pitcher
6	price	catcher
7	office	earthquake
8	police	scale
9	pencil	fault
10	dance	crust
Bonus Word	divisor	divisor

 Math:

                    We did a review of "Multiplication" .Room 3 students asked great questions about the connections between multiplication and division to understand the concepts in depth. Keep practicing your time tables to help you with  multiplication as well as  with division. 

Technology:

                        We did some reading on "Razkids" and "Methletics" . Also  did some more  typing  practice .

Reminders:

- Hot Soup- Tuesday and Thursday

Have a wonderful evening !

Wednesday,February.10th.2021

Language Arts : 

                                    We have worked very hard to complete our poems with similes and metaphor. Ask me to give you three examples of a simile and a metaphor.We are going to display these poems along with our "Little heart in Landscape " Art inspired by Jim Dine's painting technique.

Here is the new spelling list. The spelling test is on Friday ,February 19th.

Grade 3's focus for spelling is sight words, " s" sound of "c" and academic vocabulary. 

Grade 4's focus for spelling  is sight words, "cher" pattern , and academic vocabulary. 

	Grade 3	Grade 4
1	together	plateau
2	group	sketch
3	often	rancher
4	space	richer
5	fence	pitcher
6	price	catcher
7	office	earthquake
8	police	scale
9	pencil	fault
10	dance	crust
Bonus Word	divisor	divisor

Math: 

                    We  had some more practice  of solving division problems with 1 divisor and 1 dividend and 1 division and 2/3 dividends . Keep practicing  your times tables at home because our knowledge of multiplication  is very important to understand the division operation .

Technology :

                            We  had iPads today to practice math concepts on  "Mathletics"  and reading on "Razkids" . If you need your log in for "Methletics" please let your teacher know to print you one. 

Science:  

                      We are learning about "Wheels and Levers" in science. We will be making a moving object in the next few weeks.Please collect  some bottle caps /lids of the same size to be used in the project. The number of caps/lids depends on the kind of project you are building. We recommend collecting 4-6 caps .Bring them into school on Tuesday ,February 16th.

Stay Warm !!   

We will see you on Tuesday, February 16th. 

Reminders

• Teachers Convention- NO SCHOOL- February 11, 12
• Valentines Day- February 14
• Family Day- NO SCHOOL - February 15

                          Monday,February.8th.2021

Language Arts : Today we learned about  figurative speech using similes and metaphors . The use of similes and metaphors enhances the writing and stimulates the reader to use vivd imagination. Ask me what is a smilie and metaphor? Can you give 3 examples of each?

We read :

Ask me about the book.

Math: We continued working on division. 

Grade 3's are required to demonstrate an understanding of division (limited to division related to multiplication facts up to 5 × 5) by: 

•  Representing and explaining division using equal sharing and equal grouping 
• Creating and solving problems in context that involve equal sharing and equal grouping 
• Modelling equal sharing and equal grouping using concrete and visual representations, and recording the process symbolically 
•  Relating division to repeated subtraction 
• Relating division to multiplication

Grade 4's are require to demonstrate an understanding of division (1-digit divisor and up to 2-digit dividend) to solve problems by: 

• Using personal strategies for dividing with and without concrete materials • estimating quotients • relating division to multiplication.

Reminders

• Teachers Convention- NO SCHOOL- February 11, 12
• Valentines Day- February 14
• Family Day- NO SCHOOL - February 15
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STAY WARM,

Friday February 5th, 2021

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Math

We worked on division. We are learning strategies such as the partial quotient and long division.  

Social Studies

We are starting a new unit. It is called Communities in the World. Today we watched some videos that showed us the following communities: 

1. Peru

2. Ukraine

3. India

4. Tunisia 

We are also working on learning some new vocabulary to help support us with the unit.  

Literacy

We started our day with our spelling tests. Ask me about my results. Our tests are marked and in our backpacks. We will get our new words next week. 

Reminders

• Teachers Convention- NO SCHOOL- February 11, 12
• Valentines Day- February 14
• Family Day- NO SCHOOL - February 15

Thursday  , February ,4th.2021

                                       

Congratulations Room 3 for winning the second plaque for showing sportsmanship in gym!!  

 

Important : If you are sending valentines to school , they need to be at school by Friday February, 5th to have enough time for quarantine .Valentines can not be anything edible e.g candy.

Language Arts: 

               -  We have been learning about writing a paragraph and the important components of it e.g topic sentence, relevant details, rocking beginnings and the closing sentence. 

- We have also been learning on different writing styles   such as " narrative, opinions, persuasive and expository " .

- Today we wrote our "Narrative " paragraph. Ask me about the narrative style of writing. 

- Spelling test  is tomorrow . 

Grade 3 is focusing on "sh" and academic vocabulary.

grade 4 is focusing on "use" pattern and academic vocabulary.

	Grade 3	Grade 4
1	shall	discuss
2	pushed	request
3	sharp	structure
4	shock	furniture
5	crash	departure
6	showed	capture
7	shoulder	figure
8	shoes	creature
9	product	view
10	multiplication	thirteen
Bonus Word	emphasis	onomatopoeia

Math: 

         -We have wrapped up our multiplication and now moving onto "Division". We have learnt that  division is the opposite of multiplication  and we can use our  multiplication knowledge in division.  Grade 4's have learnt a new method of doing division.Ask me to tell you about "Partial quotient" method for division. 

*Keep practicing times tables at home *   

Science:  

- We are learning about " Wheels and Levers" .We made a hypothesis about rollers and then did an experiment to see how rollers work. Here are some of our observations after the experiment:

Kemi:The glue stick is even and rolls smoothly.

Mori: The pencil rolls better than the glue stick. More pencils work best as a roller for the pencil box.

Stella: The pencil rolls easily on the floor because there is more mover around space.

Bentley: The glue stick rolls fas and it is smooth to roll the science duo tang.

Sydney: 13 pencil crayons worked really well to roll a thick book.

Aisha: The pencil worked best to roll an eraser.

Amer: 1 pencil crayon was not enough to roll the pencil box.

Aluel: 24 pencils to roll the pencil box and it went well.

 

 

Reminders

- Please dress for the weather. (snow pants, boots, mitts, hat, warm jacket)

Hot Soup- Tuesday and Thursday

Have a wonderful evening !