Grade 3/4 VHS Ms. Pearsall

 Happy Wednesday!  Please look in your child's backpack for the October calendar. There is important information about Halloween celebrations this year.  Today we were very busy with our learning. It was Orange Shirt day and we took the day to think about the survivors of residential schools. We reflected about what makes us feel like we belong.  For Math, it was Word Problem Wednesday (W.P.W). Can you use an input/ouput table to help you solve this problem?

 I just wanted to say thank you to all families for taking the time to chat with me on Thursday and Friday about your children. It was great getting to know you and your children a little bit more.  Just a reminder to families that no special and personal items from your kids are allowed at school. The reason for this is to reduce the spread of COVID within our cohorts.  I will be emailing out google classroom logins to parents within the next few days, so please be on the look out for that email. If you are isolating, please let the office or myself know, and I will post lessons/ learning materials for your children through google classroom.  Here are some things that we learned today!  Literacy- Ask me about prepositions!? And how these words relate to the nouns within a sentence. We also had a great day with literacy centers where students practiced their weekly spelling words (see list below), participated in writers workshop, built reading stamina, and started guided reading with

 Good afternoon,  Just a few reminders for families. Thursday room 2. will be running our Terry Fox run during our gym period in the afternoon. Please make sure that your children are dressed for the weather, have a water bottle and appropriate footwear. Each grade will just be running with their class to ensure social distancing.  Also, parent teacher conferences are this week and don't forget to book a time for me to call you on Thursday night and Friday morning.  Looking forward to chatting with you! 

 Today the grade 3/4s were introduced into parts of speech and reviews nouns. In math, it was our first try at "Word Problem Wednesday" and most of us were successful at using the CUBES strategy to solve their problems. Ask you child what landforms and vegetation the grasslands region of Alberta! A letter was sent home today about parent/teacher conferences. Please take a look and email me if you have any questions.  Happy Wednesday! 

 Hoping everyone has had a restful and wonderful weekend! Room 2 has been very busy! Math- we are learning about increasing and decreasing patterns. So far, we understand how patterns are in our daily life and are extending patterns by identifying pattern rules. Language Arts- Our "All About Me" autobiographies and coming along and most of us are on the publishing stage! We cannot wait to share them with you. Room 2 also has been reading "Third Grade Angels" together and it is turning out to be an exciting book. Ask you child why the characters in the book are on a mission to be 'angels'.  Social Studies- We started a unit last week on Alberta's Natural Regions. We have located where they each fall on the map of Alberta and today we learned about grasslands different landforms.  Health- Having a growth mindset is important more than ever and together we have been working on positive affirmations to tell ourselves when times get tough.  Reminder to famili

Ask me about what "The best part of me" was! Today we looked for where math was in our every day life and in pictures. Room 2 earned another part of a hockey stick in gym with Mr. Pivarnyik! We earned it by being good listeners and participators in gym. We also started writing an autobiographies. I cannot wait to read!

 Happy Friday!  It was another great day in gr. 3/4! Today we did some GROWTH writing by making goals for ourselves for this year. We also did "ketchup" and finished an art activity. We wrote wishes to our teacher(s). For math, we learned about Ms. Pearsall and tried to figure her out with math questions. THEN we tried to trick Ms. Pearsall with making our own.  Reminders: There is not school on Monday, it is a long weekend. Enjoy! We will see you on Tuesday. Next week is a full week. Please bring a pair of indoor shoes (if you haven't already done so). 

 Hello to all families and students! Welcome back to Vista Heights and to room 2's blog. We are so happy to have you back! Yesterday the grade 3/4's had a great day learning about our "new normal" here at school and enjoyed some literacy and math activities. They were so flexible with this new learning. This blog will the source for daily communication from me; i.e. reminders, upcoming events and what is sent home etc. You will also discover what we have been learning in the classroom! Please make sure that you can check in daily to updates.  If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to email me at anytime (capearsall@cbe.ab.ca) or call me at the school after 3:20 pm (403-777-6000 ext. 2).  See you Friday!