Hello everyone,
Take a look at the interesting things your child was a part of last week.

 In Math, we are applying what we know about patterns and organizing our data in table and chart form so we can determine a different term. Ask your child what are other words that may be used instead of TERM.

 Our time in the Learning Commons has transformed into some really cool music lessons thanks to Mrs. Sherwin. Ask your child to explain how a fitness ball can be used to produce sound.

Our focus in Health has shifted to oral care. Ask your child to list the 4 categories of teeth in their mouths and, more importantly, to explain the function of each of those categories of teeth. Some interesting observations and conclusions were made when we each had a mirror so small that the only thing to focus on was our teeth as opposed to looking at our whole face in a mirror.

SOME THINGS TO REMEMBER.......

• A Family Life letter is in your child's homework book. Please review, sign and return the letter outlining our next unit
• Review, sign and return the bottom portion of your child's report card
• French Pathways information meeting is March 4th at 4:30pm. Letter went home last week 
• French Pathway forms are due March 7th
• Student led conferences are on February 26th. Letter went home in report card envelope
• St. Rita Winter Carnival is this Wednesday February 27th in th pm weather permitting
• New pizza and Subway orders start in March

Hello Everyone,
A short week but yet so productive. Take a peek!

I hope your child has been telling you about the rich discussions we have during our math talks. The purpose of these 10 minute mini lessons is to uncover the many strategies that are used to solve math problems mentally, to gain practice in explaining and defending one's thinking, to make mistakes, realize how the mistake was made, then attempt to fix the mistake and to check for the reasonableness of an answer. WOW!
Here, I asked the class to estimate how much money they thought I was holding. Lots of great discussion on how they attempted to estimate the amount by using information they already knew. For example, no student predicted a value less than $2.00. Why? Answer: " I know that you already have 2 loonies because of the difference in colour and I see some coins that are large so I think they are quarters and I see some that are smaller but not too small so I think they are nickels there too.
A great example of working on critical thinking skills.

In Math, we have moved from money to creating and extending various patterns. Ask your child what are other words used instead of the word orientation for a pattern attribute.

We are still working on QAR in Language. We are practising how to answer our questions with evidence from the text or our own personal connections to support our answers.

A FEW THINGS TO REMEMBER......

• See and sign report cards that went home on February 13th
• See note about upcoming student led conferences that was in report card envelope
• Family Dance at Frank Ryan on Friday February 22nd. Yellow note went home last week.
• Last day to order pizza or Subway lunch on-line is February 21st
• French pathway form is due March 7th

Hello everyone,

Another great week was had by all. Take a look!

 Our  February bulletin board focus is how to show love at school and at home. Ask your child what they wrote on their heart and challenge them to commit to what they wrote down.

 In Language, we started our QAR unit. We have explored the differences between the 4 different types of questions. Next week, we will look at examples of each type of question and how to answer these types of questions with grade appropriate detail. Ask your child what is the easiest question to answer and, more importantly, why is it so easy to answer?

 In Music, the students jammed out with the ukuleles. We have some budding musicians in our midsts. They learned about the different strings, how to thumb strum and how to create different sounds by placing certain fingers on certain frets on the neck of the ukulele. Ask your child why is it easier to sit than to stand to play this instrument?

 The class took their everyday environment and turned it into a science experiment. As you can see on the top of this photo, our schoolyard was too dangerous for students to play in even though the temperature was above our -25 C benchmark.  Icy surface with no sand or salt would have little friction. We extended this thought to the hill. Ask your child who went down the hill faster and longer-- the child on the large plastic garbage bag or the child on the old towel and why?

Again, for Science we experimented with magnetic force. Ask your child what needs to happen for magnets to repel one another and what is needed for magnets to be attracted  to one another?


FIRST TERM REPORT CARDS ARE GOING HOME ON WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 13TH

The Gr 6 students will be selling raffle tickets

this week for a basket of craft supplies or

the Candy Guess. All tickets are .25¢ or 5 for $1.00

Proceeds go to supporting the Gr.6 End of Year Trip.

Draw will take place Wed. Feb 13th, end of day.

A few things to remember....

• Please see and sign report cards and return the bottom portion of page 4 to school.
• French Pathway forms are due to the school by March 7th.
• Pizza and Subway lunches can be ordered on-line until Feb. 21st
• Friday February 15th is a PD Day   No school
• Monday February 18th is Family Day  No school
• St. Rita School Dance is February 22nd at Frank Ryan School. Advertisement to come soon

Hi,
Come and take a look at all the happenings in our classroom.
In Math, the class has been working diligently to recognize the value of Canadian coins and bills and practising how to count it up to a $10 value.

 In the photo above, you can see a demonstration of 2 different ways students are counting money. One is to group the money amounts into common numbers that are easier to mentally count. The other is to keep a mental running total of the money being asked to count by crossing off which ones have already been counted. Ask your child which is the method they prefer to count money then practice it with them.

In the photo above you can see examples of how we continued to practice counting money. Some enjoyed one way over another.

In the photo above you can see how students are expected to take the knowledge they have of money and apply it to another part of the question to challenge their problem solving skills.

In Science, the class was exposed to four common types of forces. The weather interfered with our experiments this past week but I hope to be able to reinforce these concepts with more experiments this upcoming week. Ask your child what we were supposed to do outside last week in Science and what was the purpose of it.

We have taken a giant leap into music. Listen to our budding musicians and see if you can recognize the song. Ask your child what family of instruments our boomwhackers fit into and more importantly, why?

A few things to remember.....

 2nd term pizza orders can be ordered on-line. last day to order is Thursday February 21st, 2019

Please look for this in your child's agenda on monday February 4th. This is a document explaining the different pathways your child could possibly take next year in Grade 4.