Grade 3/4 VHS Ms. Pearsall

Hard to believe that October is almost over! Tomorrow is favourite shirt day and Hot Soup! Can't wait to see everyone in their favourite shirts.  WE HAVE BEEN SO BUSY!  Language Arts: Reminder that we have our spelling test tomorrow!  Mathematics: Students created some really awesome creations out of base 10 blocks and used their number sense to the test to find out what the total value of their creations were! We then have been working on the difference between numbers in standard formation and in expanded form. Ask you child to write this number in EXPANDED form using place value.  12 359    OR    5831                                                            Science:  Day two of being engineers and room 2 created two types of beams and out them to the test. Students tested the weight of square beams and triangular beams. Ask you child which beam is the strongest!? Social Studies: Tomorrow students will be starting research centers for these regions to Alberta! Students will

Today is brought to you by empathy ! Students went into more depth about how empathy is more that helping someone when they need help. It also involves our actions, what we say and how we say it.  Language Arts-  Today we shared our mini writing projects with each other. Everyone who shared was so confident while reading. I cannot wait for you to read them too, they will be coming home soon! Math-  Using 10 blocks today students worked together to build a towers of certain values. Then, students were given the task to build whatever they please! Tomorrow we are continuing to build and next week we will determine the value of what they constructed.  Social Studies- Do you speak another language? If so, we want to know who you say "hello"! Look for a mini homework slip coming your way. We are working on a special project for the school!   

 Happy Wednesday and a mid-week check in. Lots of learning has been happening from Monday to today. We have been very busy! Language Arts - We have finished a writing project. Students were asked to complete a writing task to show and apply what they have learned about different types of sentences. They chose a picture to write a story to match it or to explain what was happening in the picture. Each student was given a success criteria check list and together we created a target to guide their writing. Today, we partnered up and students assessed each others writing and provided feedback- 3 glows and 1 grow. Tomorrow, students who are comfortable are going to share what they have written to the class.  Literacy centers are in full steam and all students are staying focused by working hard at becoming stronger readers and writers. We started a new novel that we are reading together, "Forth Grade Rats". Tomorrow we journey into chapter 6!  Check out our spelling list. We start

Hoping everyone had a great long weekend! Before we get into our learning for the day, just a few reminders.  Two letters were sent home today, one are some updates for our school and the other is about Hot Soup days. If you wish for your child to participate in Hot Soup days, please fill out and return that form before October 23rd. If a form is not filled out, then they will not receive soup.  Picture day is next Monday October 19th. These will be individual photos and no class photos will be taken at this time.  Now on to our learning! Physical Education: Room 2 has earned the FIRST classroom up in P.E. We get to display the plaque in our classroom for the rest of the month of October! Congratulations to room 2, myself and Mr. Pivarnyik are very proud. Ask your child what they did to win the classroom cup!   Literacy: We continued to learn about different sentences, and today we focused on complex sentences! Student identified what parts of these sentences are the independent claus

Have a wonderful and restful weekend. Oh... and happy thanksgiving! There is no school for your kiddos tomorrow or Monday, so see you on Tuesday.  Earlier this week, we talked about gratitude, what is means to be grateful, and how you can show gratitude.  Today we got to finish our gratitude pumpkin. This will be our reminder for showing kindness and for things we need to be thankful for everyday.  Here is what else we have learned today... Literacy: We sorted out sentences that were simples or compound sentences. Students were very successful in figuring out the difference between the two. See if your child can spot the compound sentences in this blog post. ;)  Math: Today was the last day for the math mystery. Detectives are still working hard to find out who poisoned the pizza, but all will be revealed on Wednesday.  Next week events: Spelling test on Friday (Oct 16),  patterning challenge, and a Social Studies project Take care! 

Literacy- we continued on with learning about sentence types, practiced our writing and spelling words during literacy centers, and built on to our reading stamina. While listening to the story "Third Grade Angels", we practiced a new center coming next week (listening to reading) where students will build their reading comprehension through a whole group novel study.  Here are the words we have been practicing this week. Next Friday, we will have our spelling test. Math- students are trying to solve who poisoned the pizza in math. Students are working hard at applying their knowledge or growing and number patterns. Stay tuned to see who poisoned the pizza!

 Good afternoon! Just a reminder before I get into some exciting things we learned today. There is no school for students on Friday and Monday- Happy Thanksgiving!  Literacy- We have started to dive into types of sentences. In the next couple of days, this will take us into grammar to help strengthen our writing.  Math- Today the grade 3's and 4's became Super Math Detectives!! Ask them about the Poisonous Pizza! 

 Ask your child, what animals the live in the grasslands? We explored these animals and voted on learning more about the Prong horned Antelope!  In math, the grade 3/4's put their knowledge or function tables and patterns to the test. We are working on creating quilt patterns. Watch out for an input/output table to show relationship or pattern that is in their quilt pattern.  Check out some finished quilts so far!  We also had our first spelling test today! I will be sending those home with your child on Monday!  Have a great weekend!