Happy Halloween or "All Hallow's Eve" October 31st

Happy Halloween!



We had Library time in 2 parts today to fit it all in...first the Kindergarten parade!! Then off to Music
and then we came back to the Library so Mrs. Kidd could read us a cool new spooky story with lots
of juicy words and interesting illustrations...and the author and illustrator are coming to visit us DECEMBER 4TH at 11AM. Here's a note from Mrs. Kidd

We will be hosting Jace Jax and Henry Hama who write and illustrate the Kidsburgh Chronicles. You have heard the Halloween story this week; there is a Christmas story as well!  This will be for the whole school.  Parents are welcome.

Both presentations will be in the learning commons.

Please add these exciting events to your schedule.

For Math, we did some 100 block work with subtraction...we had to trade 100 block for 10's and 1's to figure out subtraction problems using cards.

We watched a mystery movie with the grade 3/4's called The Curse of the Were Rabbit starring Wallace and Gromit. Ask me what it was about, what the problem was, attempts made and how they finally solved the mystery and the wrap up!

REMINDERS: 

FALL BACK ONE HOUR (turn your clocks back before you go to sleep Saturday night! )

SWIMMING MONDAY November 4th and WEDNESDAY November 6th, Wednesday November 13th

REMEMBRANCE DAY MONDAY NOVEMBER 11th, no school. 

FIELD TRIP TO GLENBOW MUSEUM on Wednesday, December 11th more details to come. We will need 3 or 4 volunteers.

HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!



All the teachers were dressed like dominoes...Mr. Pedenko dressed up like Dominoes pizza - oops!!

Here's some of the perfectly carved pumpkins...thanks to all who contributed to our Pumpkin Parade!

Tuesday, October 29th (SWIMMING tomorrow!)

Math Daily Warm Up - 
With our math word problems we are learning to show 5 things: 

1. Highlight the important information.
2. Write the number sentence.
3. Show my thinking. 
4. Show the answer clearly.
5. Write the word sentence

Here is Word Problem #7
Frankenstein has twelve pieces of candy that he wants to share between himself, Dracula, and the Mummy How many pieces of candy will each monster get. 

Can you show the 5 things?

Guided Reading -
We started guided reading this week! Some of us will read with Mrs. Armour every day and some of us will read with her once a week. If we aren't with Mrs. Armour we will be working on our Spooky Stories or moving on to Literacy Centres (practice with spelling and sounds and creating sentences). 

Social Studies - 
Here's the link to the video we watched today and discussed (you can copy and paste this into your browser.)

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5YHZqa82xaiPHgKHOZvUOTtnzx2mv0NW

We will be watching a series of these to understand and appreciate the history of our Calgary community.


Swimming tomorrow - 
we are still in need of male volunteers if there are any Dads, uncles, grandpas that have their police clearance and volunteer forms filled out, we would love to have you!

Library has been moved to Thursday morning because of our and Mrs. Kidd's schedule. 

HALLOWEEN PARADE: Thursday, October 31st at 1:20pm

Halloween costume expectations and parade details – be respectful of the costumes you are choosing for your child to wear to school We also discourage violent type or extremely scary costumes.  Do not bring all of the props or extra items that go along with your costume.  Leave props at home. (Except if you are part of MK after school). The Halloween parade will start at about 1:20 pm.     

Non-instructional Day: Friday, November 1st

Friday, October 25th - Fresh Air Friday Art Walk

MATH - we are understanding increasing (growing) patterns! Check out
out our different ideas and ask us if we can give us the rule.

Start with _____. Add ______ each time.




WRITING - we continued writing our Spooky Story and used "cops+j" to edit using different coloured highlighters and moved to our "middle - attempt #1 and #2" Our goal is to complete our stories by next Thursday (Halloween). Ask me what step I am on.
1. Story Plan
2. Beginning - story starter
3. Edit
4. Middle
5. Edit
6. Ending
7. Edit
8. Good Copy
9. Illustrations (Pictures of Character)

SWIMMING - Such a fun afternoon! We will be swimming Monday 28th/Wednesday 30th/Monday November 4th/Wednesday 6th/Wednesday 13th.

We will be splitting up the first levels to make them smaller classes.



Today we did an ART WALK around Brentwood Community. We watched a video advertising the Film https://vimeo.com/34300352 Called to Walls about Mural Painting. Our question to think about was What is important to people in Brentwood? Ask me what I sketched and how I answered that question.


HALLOWEEN PARADE: Thursday, October 31st at 1:20pm

Halloween costume expectations and parade details – be respectful of the costumes you are choosing for your child to wear to school We also discourage violent type or extremely scary costumes.  Do not bring all of the props or extra items that go along with your costume.  Leave props at home.   The Halloween parade will start at about 1:20 pm.     

Non-instructional Day: Friday, November 1st

Tuesday, October 22nd

Today in Math we practiced creating increasing (growing) patterns. We are learning the difference between a beautiful, interesting pattern and a growing pattern. The words we use to create a "pattern rule" 
are START with ______. ADD ______ each time. Ask me to give you an example. 
Here are some of our examples.



This afternoon we did a science review with Room 4 playing a jeopardy game with questions
about Light and Shadow. 
We are bringing home our green science books today to share and review what we know with you.
Tomorrow we will have a "science check". Thanks for returning the green books. 

THURSDAY is SWIM DAY. Wear clothes that are easy to put on and off and a separate bag with swim suit and towel. We could still use some volunteers, especially on the Mondays, Oct 28/Nov 4.

Today was Treat Day. Thank you Room 2!

We learned about COPS today for editing our spooky stories. Ask me about the colors, highlighting and what the letters stand for.

Friday, October 18

Happy Birthday to Lily!! 

Today we looked at maps and found the borders of Brentwood - North, South, West, East. Ask me if I remember the names of the roads!!

Then we walked today with Rooms 4, 5 and 6 and the guest teachers in training. We walked a long way!! All the way to Charleswood - Great job everyone!


Here we are gathering our data from our survey. Ask which "place" was the most popular.
We are now working together to put the information into graphs.



We will continue working on our Spooky Stories and Literacy centres during writing time.
In Science we are reviewing Light and Shadow and will have a "check that you know" on Wednesday.

In Math, we continue to work on patterning and on graphs for Social Studies. 

Thursday is our first swim day. Thanks for getting your forms in! Thanks for all the volunteers who have signed up!
We could still use some more volunteers on MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4th and dads or grandpas for all days with police clearance. Thanks so much.