Thursday, October 8

Our morning began with music class with Mrs. Jones!  

Then we joined Mrs. Peterson's class to work on our Student Vote.  Today we learned that campaign literature can be worded or use different visuals to sway people to vote for one candidate over another.  We looked at the papers for the candidates in our riding and talked about what messages each candidate was sending.  Next, we worked on a Rights and Responsibilities activity where we looked at our rights here in Canada and then came up with the responsibilities that we felt went along with each!  We were so proud of the level of conversation and the excellent thinking going on!

We have been reading a great picture book called Unstoppable Me! by Dr. Wayne Dyer.  It focuses on 10 things that help us Soar Through Life!  Each day we read about a few ideas and discuss how these relate to both students and adults - in school, at home and out in the world.  This ties in with our work on regulating our emotions, brain learning and heading into building the idea of Mindfulness and developing a Growth Mindset.

After our quick body break, we came back into the classroom and worked on our Edward Tulane summaries.  We met and together listed the main events and places of the story which we will use to create story maps that track Edward's journey.

This afternoon was amazing!  We looked back and debriefed about the numbers that we can make using 12 base ten blocks. We added thousand blocks to the mix so our numbers changed and evolved. We looked at those numbers that we were able to make using 12 blocks and found two patterns:
1.) if we put them in order from lowest to greates - you could add 9 to them to get the next number
2.) if the digits added together came to 12 we could construct them with 12 blocks.

Kartik did a great job on adding up all of the money collected for Terry Fox.  He then created the number using the base ten blocks.  It was interesting to see $6 880.15 represented.

After we learned how to play a new game called Round and Round - we were introduced to rounding 2 - digit numbers.  Since we were just learning as mathematicians we used some of the tools to help make our thinking easier - metres sticks helped us see which ten was closer.

We read some more of our Wonder  book.  It is so good it made us laugh and make us think about how it would feel to be Auggie.




Invite others to wonder with you ~ Austin Kleon



IF you have not returned your salmon permission form for videoing for Flag of Canada Hometown Proud taping.  Students will not be able to participate in the video portion.  Please return tomorrow morning.
1.)  Tomorrow is our One World Drumming Presentation.  Students will be dismissed for lunch at 12:00.  We ask that students return to the school at  12:50 and come down to the classroom for our 1:00 pm performance.
2.)  Red and White Day or local jersey day for our O Canada taping
3.)  BYOD Information and Permission Contract were sent home today. Please read over and discuss with your child.  We will begin bringing devices of those who would like next week.
4.)  No School on Monday for Thanksgiving



What is one right that you have at school and what is one responsibility that goes with it?  Think about the Rights and Responsibilities that were discussed with Mrs. Zwack and Mrs. Peterson.