Happy Thanksgiving!

Continuing the work about identity, the students wrote about the best part of themselves, based on the book The Best Part of Me.  This allowed the students practice in writing out a plan prior to writing a draft.

After we finished our draft, we read our work through to make sure it made sense and said what we wanted it to say. We then modeled how to revise our work by adding in more details, using the prompt ‘tell me more’ or changing words to be more specific or interesting. We read our work again to see if it still made sense.! We also modeled where to add punctuation. We talked about when we read our work through we notice the natural pause when we read our work out loud. This can mark where the periods go. Last we checked our work for spelling mistakes.

We decided that good work that required a lot of thinking looks messy! Our published copy looked really neat as we really worked really hard on our printing.

In math, we have been practicing adding and subtracting 10, 9 and 11. We have also been practicing saying three digit numbers without saying ‘and’ so that we say, for example, three hundred forty two. We have played lots of games to help us understand place value, such as ‘write a three digit number with a 4 in the tens place’ or pull apart 127 to show it in expanded notation (100 + 20 + 7). We have also been practicing adding and subtracting two and three digit numbers. Most of us still find adding and subtracting with regrouping very challenging so this is an area that we will be spending some more time.

In science, we thought about how scientists need to make careful observations. The students learned about the story of Edward Jenner and how he invented the first vaccination by looking carefully at cows! Ask your child that story as they practiced retelling this story. They did a great job summarizing the main events in their journals.

The highlight of our week was finding cool rocks right on the school property. We still can’t believe the variety we found! Like us, each rock truly is unique!

Have a safe and Happy Thanksgiving! See you on Tuesday.

HOUSEKEEPING:

-Picture Day form went home earlier this week
-Book Truck form home. Please fill out and return the bottom section.

-Library on Friday 

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Jacket Racket

Dear Parents, Jacket Racket is a volunteer organization with the goal of ensuring that every child from Kindergarten to Grade 12 has a warm winter coat to wear to school. 90% of donations come from schools. The jackets are then distributed to children in schools where there is a need. This year we are inviting our students and parents to participate in a coat drive for Jacket Racket.  They accept gently used warm winter coats, snow pants, hats and mittens for all ages. Often whole families are outfitted, so any size is welcome. A box will be set up in the Embassy for collection from October 10, 2017 to October 24, 2017 We encourage you to generously support this worthy project. It is a great opportunity to help students who may be less fortunate.           www.jacketracketcalgary.com Thank you for your support. Student Leadership Group and Mrs. Fraser