Agenda:
1 Read
2 Have fun and be safe trick or treating if you are going out tonight.
3 Please look below for some WOW#7 Student Work Selfies!! Thanks to Dhvani, Akshita, Angelica, Chelsea and Evelyn for sharing their good copies of WOW#7 - Describe your Halloween costume without giving it away.
Highlights
What did you learn today?
We did our pumpkin estimating activity today.
How did you show what you learned?
We examined the pumpkin and then our main task was to take out all the seeds and estimate how many were in the pumpkin. We chose a referent to help us make an estimate. One group was only 7 seeds away from their estimate!!! There are some pictures of our exploration below!
What do you need to learn next?
We made some mistakes today, which is great because we can grow our brains. Here are some that we made and fixed:
-our groups were not as big as our referent group so we had to start over.
-when we made our piles we missed some seeds, so our estimate was way off
-lots of our seeds fell off the table so our estimate was wrong also
-we at first counted the exact number first, when we should be estimating.
Agenda:
1 Read
2 Greg Tang Halloween Challenge - you can fill in the board game at home as well as during school time. Last day to do the Challenge is Nov 1
3 You may bring your Halloween costume tomorrow. We will have time to dress up after you get in from lunch recess. The parade will start at 1:15.
Highlights
What did you learn today?
We learned how to estimate the number of jellybeans in jars by using strategies of layering for 3D and 2D shapes and using fractions. We also learned that making mistakes makes our brains grow because more synapses are fire.
How did you show what you learned?
We had to guess how many marbles were in a jar. It ended up being 257 marbles in the jar. A student from room 4 won the prize for closest guess. Her strategy was counting by 25s.
What do you need to learn next?
We are going to estimate how many seeds are in a pumpkin tomorrow.
Agenda:
1 Read
2 Treat Day is tomorrow - bring $0.25 if you would like to purchase a treat
3 Halloween Parade is on Wednesday - please bring your costume to school to wear after lunch
4. Math homework (red duotangs)
Highlights
What did you learn today?
We learned about editing our writing with juicy word, different sentence starters, and including an introduction.
How did you show what you learned?
We brainstormed ways to start sentences with transitions, how to write an introductions, and using different juicy words (nouns/adjectives/verbs) for our Halloween costume journal entries. Then we started going through our journal entries to look for areas where we could make them more interesting.
What do you need to learn next?
We need to edit the journal entries and embellish it with at least one juicy noun, verb and adjective, and make sure our sentences are not repetitive by using different sentence starters. We will then write our good copies.
Agenda:
1 Read
2 Please remember to bring in your own headphones
3 No school tomorrow
4 You are welcome to purchase a treat on Oct 30th for Treat Day
5 You are invited to bring a costume for Oct 31 Halloween Parade
6 We are still accepting T-shirts for Green Team masks
Highlights
What did you learn today?
We learned about verbs, nouns and adjectives.
How did you show what you learned?
We read a story as a class (The Scarecrow's Dance) and picked out extraordinary verbs for our Ideas Bank. Then, we read a story book to a partner and looked for more juicy words to define and add to our Ideas Bank.
Finally, we identified and sorted various words into the categories of verbs, nouns and adjectives.
What do you need to learn next?
We might need to learn about other types of words like pronouns and adverbs.
Agenda:
1 Read
2 No School on Friday
3 Please bring headphones to school in a plastic bag or some kind of container by Monday. We need these for computer work that we do.
4. Bring t-shirts for Green Team Superhero masks
5. Return School Council forms by Monday if participating
Highlights
What did you learn today?
In music, we learned about the music notes and we are going to make the two pianos into big yellow taxis and the gym into a parking lot for the production.
How did you show what you learned?
We, split up into the following teams: production, singing, instruments, and started to figure out our roles.
What do you need to learn next?
We need to practice playing our different parts together as a whole class.
Agenda:
1 Read
2 Bring in any t-shirts you want to donate for Green Team mask making
Highlights
What did you learn today?
We learned that there is a lot of garbage thrown on the field and around the school which should be put into the proper bins for landfill, compost, or recycling.
How did you show what you learned?
We sorted through the garbage that we picked up from around the school and categorized them into groups. We counted the total number of items in each category and identified common brands of garbage found.
What do you need to learn next?
We need to figure out what we can do to prevent further waste from being littered on the ground.
Agenda:
1 Read
2 Scholastic book orders will be placed at the end of the month
Highlights
What did you learn today?
We learned about instruments such as the snare drum, french horn, double bass, saxophone, and trombone. We also learned more about the CBC music contest.
How did you show what you learned?
We finished listening to student presentations on the various instruments in music. And we got placed into groups for the CBC music contest. Each group is responsible for a different instrument and musical part for the contest.
What do you need to learn next?
We still need to get our music parts and learn to play it with our instruments.
