Hi Parents!

It's been a while since I have posted. Sorry it has been very crazy!

Tonight is our Christmas Concert it starts. Students are asked to be back at school by 6:30pm. Please drop them off at Mrs. Hocevar's room before the Performance. Our noon performance today was a great success! Please stay a little after the 7pm performance to bid on our Christmas baskets and grab a refreshment from our bake sale!

Students will be receiving Holiday homework tomorrow. Our new math unit when we return is Multiplication and Division. Mrs. Hocevar and I request that students use internet games to practice their multiplication and division skills.

Today, students had a practice in the morning and then had the performance after lunch. In the afternoon students watched the Grinch and relaxed before they went home.

We are all looking forward to a few weeks of relaxation and minimal work. Tomorrow is regular school day and students are able to dress for the Christmas (in red in green colours).

Extra Math Practice:

Top Marks
Math Playground
Multiplication.com
Cool Math Games

5 days of school left until our Holidays!

Christmas concert costume: Students are asked to wear a green shirt and their grey SJA dress pants/skirt along with a hat and scarf.

Our food drive is on unit December 21st! Please start bringing in unused Toys and canned food items!

Candy Grams have been sent out! Orders are due by December 16th!

Math: Students began their survey assignments. They asked the other grade 4 class what religion they practiced. The are required to create two graphs and draw conclusions from the graphs. Assignments are due December 20th. 

We spent a lot of the day in the Auditorium practicing for our Christmas concert. The students worked so hard on their math assignment. Not to mention of quiet and respectful they were!

 UOI: Today we worked on the religion Buddhism. We discussed the idea of meditation. Students started an assignment to create their own meditation and they will be presenting it tomorrow.

Spelling/ Language: Spelling lesson 14 is due Friday.  French- Spelling test on Friday

Reminders:

-Please sign your child's agenda every night

-Christmas concert on December 21st!

-House ties on Friday!

-Christmas Food Drive! Bring in canned items!

-January Lunch Forms due Dec. 16th!

7 days of school left until our Holidays!

Christmas concert costume: Students are asked to wear a green shirt and their grey SJA dress pants/skirt along with a hat and scarf.

Our food drive is on unit December 21st! Please start bringing in unused Toys and canned food items!

Candy Grams have been sent out! Orders are due by December 16th!

 UOI: We continued learning about Judaism today. We learned about the festivals and traditions and watched a video about Hanukkah. We learned why men wear the Kippah and the differences between a bar mitzvah and a bat mitzvah. Students made connections to other religions, and we also "lit" the first two candles of the Menorah and two candles on our Advent wreath which Christians use to count down to Christmas. Lastly, we had students in our class who mentioned today is Prophet Mohammad's birthday so we celebrated their Islamic tradition as well. 

The Story of Hanukkah
Info on Judaism

Math: Students used the data from yesterday's math lesson to create their own bar graphs and pictographs. We also worked on creating a survey question and how to properly collect data in a chart so they can transfer it correctly into their graphs. Later this week students will be conducting their own surveys and handing it in as a final assessment mark. 

Extra Practice:
Nelson Math- Data Management
http://www.kidsmathgamesonline.com/numbers/mathdata.htmlhttp://www.gamequarium.com/data.html

Language: We continued learning about how to write a recount. We read the story "The Paper Bag Princess" and placed it into a graphic organizer so it then could be properly written into a summary. After, we read "David's Father" and the students students complete their own graphic organizer as well as a summary to show their understanding. 

Spelling/ Language: Spelling lesson 14 is due Friday.  French- Spelling test on Friday

Reminders:

-Please sign your child's agenda every night

-Christmas concert on December 21st!

-House ties on Friday!

-Christmas Food Drive! Bring in canned items!

-January Lunch Forms due Dec. 16th!

Happy Monday!

Our food drive is on unit December 21st! Please start bringing in unused Toys and canned food items!

Candy Grams have been sent out! Orders are due by December 16th!

 UOI: We started learning about Judaism today. We learned that Abraham made a convenant with God. We watched a short video and then wrote our name in Hebrew.

Story of Abraham 

Math: We began working on Data Management. Today we learned how to draw pictographs and bar graphs.  We learned that graphs need a main title to pertain to the graph. As well as a scale, choices and the axis need to be labelled. As for a pictograph, the graph needs to have a key. To build our graphs today we raced cars and graphed the distance they travelled!!

Extra Practice:
Nelson Math- Data Management
http://www.kidsmathgamesonline.com/numbers/mathdata.htmlhttp://www.gamequarium.com/data.html

Language: We continued learning about how to write a recount. A recount is a summary of something that happened in the past and at the end we are able to tell about our opinion about it.  Students wrote another journal entry about their weekend. 

Spelling/ Language: Spelling lesson 13 is due Friday.  French- Spelling test on Friday

Reminders:

-Please sign your child's agenda every night

-Christmas concert on December 21st!

-House ties on Friday!

-Christmas Food Drive! Bring in canned items!

-January Lunch Forms due Dec. 16th!

Happy Thursday!

Parent teachers interview tonight!!

Our food drive is on unit December 21st! Please start bringing in unused Toys and canned food items!

 UOI: We started our art today. We can wait to show you the final results! 

Math: We began working on Data Management. Today we learned that that pictographs and bar graphs can have the same information but be shown in different ways. We learned how to read both types of graphs and that more pictures or bars show that there are more of that item.

Extra Practice:
Nelson Math- Data Management
http://www.kidsmathgamesonline.com/numbers/mathdata.htmlhttp://www.gamequarium.com/data.html

Language: Today we began learning about how to write a recount. A recount is a summary of something that happened in the past and at the end we are able to tell about our opinion about it.  Students will begin writing journals once to twice a week to practice their summarizing skills.

Spelling/ Language: Spelling lesson 13 is due Friday.  French- Spelling test on Friday

Reminders:
-Please sign your child's agenda every night

-Full winter uniform is in effect!

-House ties on Friday!

-Christmas Food Drive! Bring in canned items!

-January Lunch Forms due Dec. 16th!

Happy Wednesday!

Our food drive is on unit December 21st! Please start bringing in unused Toys and canned food items!


 UOI: Today we learned about the different festivals and traditions that Christians celebrate. We created chart papers to be able to see all the information that was available to us. We also learned why at Easter we use eggs and what they represent for Christians. 

Math: We began working on Data Management. Today we learned that data is information that we collect and that a table helps us organize and understand the data. 

Area and Perimeter Assignment is due tomorrow. 
Extra Practice:
Nelson Math- Data Management
http://www.kidsmathgamesonline.com/numbers/mathdata.htmlhttp://www.gamequarium.com/data.html

Spelling/ Language: Spelling lesson 13 is due Friday.  

French- Spelling test on Friday

Reminders:
-Please sign your child's agenda every night

-Full winter uniform is in effect!

-House ties on Friday!

-Christmas Food Drive! Bring in canned items!

-January Lunch Forms due Dec. 16th!

-Interview time forms has been sent home!

Happy Tuesday!

Our food drive is on unit December 21st! Please start bringing in unused Toys and canned food items!

Interview time forms have been sent home!

 UOI: We began learning about Christianity today. We learned about who Jesus was to the Christian religion, their Sacred Book (the Bible) and that Jesus was the Son of God. We all made some GREAT connections to different religions such as Islam and Judaism. We also plan on creating a wall of the different names for God in all the religions we practice.  Title page for this unit is due Wednesday.

Math: We began working on Data Management. We completed our pre-test and tomorrow's lesson will be reading and interpreting charts.

Extra Practice:
Nelson Math- Data Management
http://www.kidsmathgamesonline.com/numbers/mathdata.htmlhttp://www.gamequarium.com/data.html

Spelling/ Language: Spelling lesson 13 is due Friday.  

French- Spelling test on Friday

Reminders:
-Please sign your child's agenda every night

-Full winter uniform is in effect!

-House ties on Friday!

-Christmas Food Drive! Bring in canned items!

-January Lunch Forms due Dec. 16th!

-Interview time forms has been sent home!

Good Ol' Monday!

Today we had November Awards and a House game! Congratulations to Riaz for winning the Thinker award this month!

 UOI: We began our new unit today. We will be learning about different religions. We will learn how they were founded as well as their traditions and festivals. Title page for this unit is due Wednesday.

 Math: We took up our math quiz and began our math assignment. We will beginning our next unit this week. We will begin working on Data Management.


Spelling/ Language: Spelling lesson 13 is due Friday.  

French- Spelling test on Friday

Take a look at some of our Scientists in the School photos!

Reminders:
-Please sign your child's agenda every night

-Full winter uniform is in effect!

-House ties on Friday!

-Christmas Food Drive! Bring in canned items!