Friday February 28

Hello Room 4,

What a busy week we have had. Unfortunately we did not get to our spelling test this week due to unforeseen circumstances. We will return to this next week.

Today we had the opportunity to make our own ice cream to explore how freezing effects liquids as well as to revisit our exploring liquids unit from earlier this year.

This week we have been learning to solve addition word problems, writing 'in my heart' books and learning about Inuit traditions.

Check out some picture of our ice cream adventure:

Reminders:
- No school Monday

February 25, 2020

What a great start to the week!

Today we got to start our soap stone carvings, our buddies helped us use plastic knives safely to carve our bars of soap into masterpieces. We are hoping to finish these later this week. Check out our great work so far:

In language arts we have been working on making our own books using the book, 'In my Heart' as inspiration. It is so great to see how thoughtful we are when describing and identifying feelings.

In math we have been practicing addition, working up to our addition wrap up.

Spelling test will be tomorrow and new words will be sent home (next week is short). 

We have started arctic animal research projects with partners. 

In science we have been exploring reversible and irreversible temperature changes as well as sorting adjectives for hot and cold temperatures. 

Reminders:

Pink shirt day tomorrow

No school Monday March 2

New fun lunch online at healthy hunger

February 19, 2020 AKA 100's day!!

Hello Room 4,

We have officially passed our 100th day of school this year! Yesterday we spent the day dressed as old people & doing exciting 100's day work.

We started our day by writing about what we would do if we were 100 & what we would do with $100.

In math we did some work with identifying patterns in the hundred chart. We also played a quick game of race to 100!

We had a special visit from grade 5 students who put on a presentation about proper hand washing techniques and we also visited our school library.

In science we had a hands on learning experience, exploring how temperature can effect food. We heated popcorn kernels to make popcorn using the microwave in our staff room and froze juice in cups to make popsicles. We got to enjoy these delicious treats during our class 100's day party after recording our observations.

We had our spelling test and got new spelling words at the end of the day. These spelling words come with a great sheet for practicing. The words for the week are:

1. They
2. Eight
3. Break
4. Hay
5. Cake
6. Rain
7. Baby
8. Stain

Week at a Glance Feb.18-21

Hello Room 4,

I hope that you enjoyed your long weekend! Here is a quick glance at what you can expect to see in our classroom this week.

ELA

• Reading
• We are exploring the reading strategy Skippy Frog this week- this is a strategy where you skip ahead in your reading. We will explore this strategy in our group reading of fairytales.
• Writing
• We will be writing about what we will be doing when we are 100 on Wednesday for 100's day. Today we did journaling and sharing about our long weekends. At the end of the week, we will move into fairytale reading. 
• Spelling
• We will have our spelling test tomorrow to give people who have forgotten a chance to study, new spelling lists will go home tomorrow afternoon.

Math

• We will spend the week practicing basic facts for addition and subtraction as well as double checking our double digit addition skills before moving into double digit subtraction next week.

Social Studies

• We will be exploring Inuit culture and traditions this week, focusing on the language and games. 

Science

• This week we will cook popcorn in the microwave to explore how heat effects food. We will also freeze juice to make popsicles, to explore how cold effects food. 

Health

• We will have a hand washing  presentation tomorrow. We will also be exploring and identifying feelings using the book 'In my heart' this week.

Art

• We will be making soap stone carvings using bars of soap. 

Reminders:

• Pink shirt day February 26
• Miss Cox would like to bring a healthy snack for our 100's day party (popcorn, apples and juice) please let me know if you would like your child to not have this snack. 
• PLEASE return signed time capsules (if you did not receive one this is because I did not get your time capsule back last time, please return this so I can add to yours).

February 12, 2020

Wow what a busy short week!

This week we built valentine collection box's using our new understanding of making 3D shapes nets. Check them out :)

We also had our Miss.Cox store. Our buddies helped us to add up our totals, get our change right and took on the cashier role at the store. Check out our shopping experience:

In language arts we wrote Valentines letters to our families and made cards for our reading buddies. 

Reminders

• No school Feb.13,14 or 17
• Fun lunch is available for purchase online at healthy hunger, subway lunch.
• Dress like a 100 year old February 19th for 100s day
• Pink shirt day February 26
• Miss Cox would like to bring a healthy snack for our 100's day party (popcorn, apples and juice) please let me know if you would like your child to not have this snack. 
• PLEASE return signed time capsules (if you did not receive one this is because I did not get your time capsule back last time, please return this so I can add to yours).

Week 16 Spelling List

Here is the Week 16 Spelling List

Week 16 Spelling

‘Ai’ family

1. Said
2. Braid
3. Laid
4. Paid
5. Maid
6. Paint
7. Faint
8. Waist
9. Wait
10.  Mail

Valentines List

For those of you wanting names for valentines cards. We will be having a valentines day exchange tomorrow. Handing out valentines is optional, but if you wolf like names.. here they are :)

1. Arash
2. Zainab
3. Ginny
4. Ethan
5. Alex
6. Sage
7. Declan
8. Evan
9. Rastin
10. Nevaeh
11. Lydia
12. Hailey
13. Huzaifah
14. Ella
15. Joey
16. Owen
17. Mina
18. Adele
19. Ava

February 10-12

Hello everyone,

I hope that you had a great weekend and that you are ready for a very short but busy week!

Here is a quick update on what to expect this week:

Math: We will continue practicing counting coins and double digit addition. Additionally we will be looking at 3D shapes to create a box for valentines exchange Wednesday. We will also have our class store on Wednesday... students get ready to shop till you drop with all the Miss.Cox Cash you have earned (last week to earn Miss.Cox Cash for the store).

ELA: New spelling list today, 'AI' family. We will be focusing on writing letters this week as it ties nicely with valentines day coming up. We will be making our grade 6 buddies cards to thank them for helping us with our reading. We will also be doing a class read along (we all help read the book) using 3 popular fairytales.

Science: We will explore methods of heating a cooling as well as safety precautions for hot and cold temperatures.

Social: Looking at landforms and bodies of waters found in Iqaluit.

Health: Working with others, exploring group/partner work strategies.

Art: Creating valentines cards for our buddies.

Reminders

• No school Feb.13,14 or 17
• Fun lunch is available for purchase online at healthy hunger, subway lunch
• Coffee with the principal February 12 (7:45-8:45) come get coffee and chat with Mr.Hebert!
• Dress like a 100 year old February 19th for 100s day
• Pink shirt day February 26
• Miss Cox would like to bring a healthy snack for our 100's day party (popcorn, apples and juice) please let me know if you would like your child to not have this snack. 
• PLEASE return signed time capsules (if you did not receive one this is because I did not get your time capsule back last time, please return this so I can add to yours.

February 5, 2019

Hello Room 4,

I apologize for the delay in blog posts this week, unfortunately I was quite ill the last 2 days, but after taking the day to recover yesterday I am feeling much better!

We have been very busy this week preparing for the arrival of our new class pet... Sea monkeys! We will be hatching our eggs tomorrow and are excited to see our new friends. Today we predicted what the sea monkeys will look like and did a procedural writing task about how to care for a sea monkey. I must say this writing/drawing was very cute! Check it out:

  

We have also been working on reviewing our skip counting and double digit addition in preparation for the big Miss.Cox store next Wednesday! We are excited to use our skills to shop for some great prizes using our Miss.Cox cash!

In Social Studies and Science we have been discussing human adaptations to climate. We are exploring the Inuit as well as how we adapt to the changing Calgary temperatures ourselves. 

Come check out our new beautiful documentation of learning board tomorrow at math night to find out how we have been using spaced practice in our math learning. 

Reminders:

1. Spelling test will be tomorrow as next week is a 3 day week and we will have the spelling test for the upcoming spelling list the week of February 18th.
2. Time capsules will be going home Friday... unfortunately there was an error in printing these so I have had to re-stuff them for each student.
3. MATH NIGHT tomorrow 6-8pm please come check out the living board game in our room and try to crack the mystery math night code to win PRIZES!!!
4. No school Feb.13 and 14 or 17th
5. New fun lunch (Subway) available to order on healthy hunger.