Agenda:
1 Read
2 Spring Break Starts Tomorrow and we are back on April 1, 2019.
3 Parent Teacher Conferences Tonight and Tomorrow.
Highlights
What did you learn today?
We learned about measuring using references.
How did you show what you learned?
We filled out some worksheets on using references to measure.
What do you need to learn next?
We need to learn other forms of measurement like Kilometers, meters, centimeters and millimeters.
Agenda:
1 Read
2 No School on Friday
3 Parent Teacher Conferences tomorrow and Friday
4 Scholastic Orders Due April 19
Highlights
What did you learn today?
We learned how to play a new game on scooters.
How did you show what you learned?
We played Dodge Ball while on scooters. Ask me about it!
What do you need to learn next?
We need to do our last game with the scooters tomorrow.
Agenda:
1 Read
2 Library tomorrow
3 Parent Conferences - Thursday 4pm-8pm and Friday from 8am-12pm
4 No School on Friday
Highlights
What did you learn today?
We learned about creating a character today. We talked about character traits. Ask me what those are!!!
How did you show what you learned?
We had to put some details about our character by writing 5 character traits that we imagine them having.
What do you need to learn next?
We need to write about characters in our robot story.
Agenda:
1 Read
2 No School on Friday!
3 Grade 4's have math homework if they didn't finish it.
4 Parent teacher conferences Thursday and Friday.
Highlights
What did you learn today?
We learned about different dinosaurs from each others presentations.
How did you show what you learned?
We presented our slides to the class.
What do you need to learn next?
We need to finish watching the presentations on other dinosaurs.
Agenda:
1 Read
2 Opinion Writing was due today, please hand in on Monday
3 Dinosaur Slides are due - finish, check the checklist, mark the rubric and share it with me kjcowdy@educbe.ca
4 Teacher conferences bookings are open this weekend - check this week's worth mentioning for the exact times.
Highlights
What did you learn today?
We started learning about measurement.
How did you show what you learned?
We went outside with a string that was about a meter long and measured things that were about a meter and recorded it in our FAF journal.
What do you need to learn next?
We need to learn about different units of measurement (cm, mm, m, km, dm)
Agenda:
1 Read
2 Opinion writing (good copy) is due tomorrow so take your black duotang home
3 Word Work is due tomorrow - spelling test tomorrow
4 FAF tomorrow - please dress for the weather
Highlights
What did you learn today?
We are doing vocabulary work and answering comprehension questions about our guided reading books. We have discussed the importance of using the words from the question in your answer.
How did you show what you learned?
We are practicing this in our guided reading groups.
What do you need to learn next?
We need to try and do this in all subject areas.
Agenda:
1 Read
2 Fun Lunch - tomorrow
3 Red duotang corrections
Highlights
What did you learn today?
We learned 7 different ways to start our stories. Ask me what they are!
How did you show what you learned?
We wrote different story starters for our robot story that we are going to be working on. Today we learned about setting, character and something weird.
What do you need to learn next?
We need to share our beginnings with you (parents) at conferences and we need to identify what kind of story beginnings that authors use in 10 different books. We also need to identify what our problem and solution is in our robot story. Please be thinking about this over the next week.
Agenda:
1.Read
2.Fun Lunch is on Thursday
3.
Highlights
What did you learn today?
We learned how to do editing for our Opinion Writing.
How did you show what you learned?
We practiced how to use COPS to edit our rough copy.
What do you need to learn next?
We need to learn how to edit 'step by step'.
Agenda:
1 Read
2 Treat Day tomorrow
3 Library Day tomorrow
4 Fun Lunch is on Thursday
5 If you did your corrections and your blue duotang homework and forgot it please bring it back tomorrow.
Highlights
What did you learn today?
We continued working on our art timeline of Alberta.
How did you show what you learned?
We continued to draw creatures and the ocean bottom from the paleozoic era.
What do you need to learn next?
We need to do the next part of our timeline which is the Mesozoic Era - includes the dinosaurs.
Agenda:
1 Read
2 Please bring back red and blue duotangs on Monday with your completed work inside.
3 Just a reminder that at Dr EW Coffin, we do not share food that we bring for lunches or otherwise.
4 Next Thursday is fun lunch.
5 Room 5 is hosting Treat Day next Tuesday, March 12.
Highlights
What did you learn today?
We learned how to play the dinosaur game. We also tried to make life size dinosaur footprints in the snow, but we had some technical difficulties.
How did you show what you learned?
Ask me about it!
What do you need to learn next?
We need to repeat the footprint activity with some adjustments.
Agenda:
1 Read
2 Blue Duotang Literature Circle/Guided Reading group Work. Some students have homework to complete for Monday.
3 Red Duotang - Problem of the Day - Due Monday. I have put stickies on the pages that students need to do corrections on. The problems have been posted to the blog. Winter Problems 1 and 2 is posted starting Nov 26. It is an expectation that students are doing corrections on a regular basis. This is not happening for all students. Gentle reminders for students to bring their red duotang home and do corrections would help out immensely. The stickie placed on the side of the page indicates that I need to mark the correction. Thanks for your help.
Highlights
What did you learn today?
We learned about whether you should keep the dinosaur fossil you find or whether you should give it to the government to be put in a museum.
How did you show what you learned?
We read through the textbook about different opinions or points of view about the issue of finding a fossil. We then decided whether each of the viewpoints supported keeping it or giving it to the government. We then chose which viewpoint we agreed with. Ask me what I chose!
What do you need to learn next?
We need to finish our rough copy of our opinion writing and then create our good copy. Ms Cowdy will share this with you at conferences in a couple weeks.
Agenda:
1 Read
Highlights
What did you learn today?
We learned how to write exclamation and thoughts and feelings story starters.
How did you show what you learned?
We took the starter sentence, "This is the story about the time I built a robot in my basement." We have rewritten in three ways now to try to grab the reader's attention.
What do you need to learn next?
We need to do the last type of story starter which is the sound effect one.
Agenda:
1 Read
2 Please bring signed Science tests back
3 Bring in your mini book reviews
Highlights
What did you learn today?
We started our dinosaur project today. We picked our dinosaurs.
How did you show what you learned?
We made some google slides. We have a page that tells us what each slide should have on it. There is also another page with a rubric on it. A rubric tells you how it is going to be marked. We have to mark it ourselves before Ms Cowdy marks it.
What do you need to learn next?
We need to practice marking ourselves so that we know what we need to make better, what level we are at and we know what the teacher expects.
Agenda:
1 Read
2 Library tomorrow, please bring back your books.
3 Please have your parents sign your science test and return it.
Highlights
What did you learn today?
We learned about the paleozoic era which was 250 million to 600 million years ago. We learned that Alberta was mostly underwater during this era.
How did you show what you learned?
We drew a picture of what Alberta would of looked like.
What do you need to learn next?
We are going to draw a bunch of different eras in Alberta's history and create a timeline. The next era we will be doing is the Mesozoic era.
