Update from Ms. R

The homework this week is to write a non-fiction story in the homework writing journal about one of the following:

Halloween OR The visit of Carol-Ann Hoyte (poet) to our classroom

Important Dates:

1. November 3-9 - Book Fair - Our class visit day is Monday Nov.3 and children are encouraged to bring money to purchase books.

2. November 11 - Remembrance Day Assembly - 10:45 AM - Our class will perform - families are welcome.

October 29 News

October 29 News by Nicole and Parsa

This week we wrote scary stories. Mine is about a boy who went to a haunted house and the ghosts and witches were not very nice to him (Parsa). My story is about a witch and she lived in a haunted house and the the witch did not like kids very much (Nicole).

In math we worked with numbers. We talked about addition and subtraction with two and three digit numbers. Addition is easier that subtraction!

In science we learned about magnets. We tried magnets on different things and we found out that most metal things stick to magnets. They didn't stick to the doorknob, Ms. R's keys or the front green blackboard (but it did stick to the morning message blackboard!?). Today we made magnets by rubbing a sewing needle on a magnet and trying to pick up paper clips.

We learned a song for Remembrance Day called Peace. We will perform the song in front of the school.

We made spiders from styrofoam balls, black pipe cleaners, black paint, glue and googly eyes.

Our new student teacher arrived in our class. Her name is Ms. Adeodu. She is 22 years old and born in the country called Nigeria but grew up in Alberta, Canada. She likes to write poems and she read us a poem that she wrote.

An author visited our school. Her name is Heather Down and she read us a book called "Charity's Chirp" about a girl who ate birdseed.

Dwali, a Hindu celebration, started this week and lasts for 5 days. We had a sweet treat to celebrate.

Halloween is almost here and we now have skeletons in the window of our classroom door and long, plastic rainy things hanging in the doorway.

Good bye from Parsa and Nicole

Update from Ms. R

Important Dates:
1. October 24 - P.A. Day - no school
2. October 31 - Halloween - parade (AM) and class celebration (PM)
3. November 11 - Remembrance Day - our class will perform during the morning assembly (families are welcome)

This week's homework:

The homework this week is a math review sheet. This will be sent home with your child on Thursday.

October 22 News

October 22 News by Sophia and Alison

This week Edie taught how to use the drum. We tried to make sounds in two different ways. I tried the "jim-bay" (Sophia) and I tried the big drum with a stick (Alison).

We said good bye to our student teacher Mr. Deacon. He read us his favourite book called The Important Book and we wrote the important things about us in our writing journals.

We listened to the story The Tales of a Gambling Grandma. The grandma in the story liked to play cards for treasures.

We made three dimensional pumpkins out of folded, orange paper with green and black paper to make jack-o-lanterns. These are now hanging from the ceiling outside of our class.

We made pictures to show rural and urban communities. The rural art was a drawing that we painted and the urban art showed buildings cut out of newspaper.

The students have been working hard learning their doubling facts and how to add and subtract quickly.

We saw a video about Halloween. Trick or treating started a long time ago and they did it by going to other people's houses and asking for food.

We listened to the spooky story called The Tailypo and we started planning to write our own spooky stories.

We practised singing the song lyrics we wrote to the song Boom De Ya Da. We each sing by ourselves the words that we wrote.

A person from Japan visited our class to learn about students in Canada. Her name is Rie. She will come back next week.

Good bye from Sophia and Alison

Update from Ms. R

This week's homework:

1. Math - Students will work at home to learn some math facts. Each child has made game cards in class to use at home. The focus is to learn the "double" addition facts and how these can help with addition and subtraction. These cards and a related worksheet will be sent home on Friday.

2. Language - Please write a fiction story about the robot in your homework writing journal.

Important Dates:

1. October 23 - Family Math Night (6-7 PM) - It's not too late to sign up! Forms were sent home last week. If you need another copy please contact me.
2. October 24 - P.A. Day - no school
3. October 31 - Halloween - school parade (AM) and class celebration (PM)
4. November 11 - Remembrance Day - our class will perform - families are welcome to attend

October 15 News

October 15 News by Cole and Sara
This week we celebrated Thanksgiving. Everyone brought in a vegetable. I brought in broccoli (Cole). We washed our hands and cut up the vegetables and made soup. We also made bread and butter. It was delicious and fantastic!
While the food was cooking we wrote about Thanksgiving in our classroom in our writing journals.
This week we each got our own pen pal. We worked with the hard-of-hearing students from
Pepper's class. We wrote letters on special "Domo" paper and made handprints using blue paint to give to our pen pals. My pen pal's name is Chloe (Sara) and mine is Benjamin (Cole).
Mr. Deacon taught us about urban and rural communities and we painted rural paintings and we glued newspaper rectangles on paper to make urban art.
We recorded us singing our Room 5 song (just click on the triangle below and listen to us singing!).




We made addition tables in math. It is like using a paper calculator.
We went to the gym and had Fun Atheletics Day.
We started to write stories about if our pencils could talk. My pencil would say it would cheat on the spelling test (Cole). My pencil said, "Can I have something to eat?" (Sara). Of course these are fiction stories!
Good bye from Sara and Cole

Update from Ms. R

What a great week this week! The highlight was our Thanksgiving celebration today. All the chefs-in-training in our class did a great jar making (eating and sharing) bread, butter and vegetable soup. If you would like the recipes for bread and butter, please visit my food blog at: www.thatsakeeper.blogspot.com (Oct. 9th posting).

This week's homework is to invent a new holiday and to write (and draw) how people would celebrate this holiday. A releated worksheet will be sent home with your child on Friday.

Important dates:
1. October 13 - Thanksgiving Day - no school
2. October 23 - Family Math Night (6:00-7:00 PM) *Please sign up to learn about how you can talk about math ideas with your child at home.
3. October 24 - P.A. Day - no school

October 8 News

October 8 News
By: Trinity and Gabriel

We have a new Alpha fish and another new fish called George the pleco. We made the covers for the pillows we are making this year. We also finished our marble art and it is on our board outside of room 5.

In math, we are learning about number lines and rounding. We played the picnic game that has a secret trick. The game's trick uses a pattern.

Tomorrow, we are going to celebrate Thanksgiving by making a vegetable soup and bread. We are going to make butter too!

In music, we listened to a song called 'Boom De Ya Da' and we made our own lyrics for the song.

We had the QSP assembly that was about a website http://www.qsp.ca/ and you can win prizes based on your magazine sales. Also, there is a scratch and win backpack.

We're done! Good bye! Have a good day and a great weekend! From Trinity and Gabriel

Update from Ms. R

This week's homework:

Students will complete a writing assignment this week in their homework writing journals. This journal will be sent home about once a month during first term. The journals will be sent home with your child on Friday, October 3.

Important Dates:

Oct. 13 - Thanksgiving Day - no classes
Oct. 23 - Family Math Night - more information to come
Oct. 24 - P.D. Day - no classes
Oct. 31 - Halloween