Happy Halloween

Halloween

On Wednesday October 31, there will be a Halloween Parade at 1:00 in the gym for anyone that wants to participate. You may come get your child dressed during PODS at 12:40 if needed. We will not be dressing up until then. The morning will be a regular school morning.

In the afternoon we will be watching the movie “A Bug’s Life” which we will be viewing as part of our Science unit on The Diversity of Living Things. This movie is rated G. Students will be doing a viewing activity on this video for a Science mark. Students may bring a snack to watch the movie with, if they choose, but we will not be having a formal Halloween Party. Thanks!

Journal #9

You are immigrating to a new country. What are some possible reasons for immigrating and what are some possible challenges you might encounter?

Due Thursday November 1

Immigrating means to move to another country.

This week

Monday October 29 is picture retakes

Tuesday October 30 - WE Day for social justice students

Wednesday October 31 - Halloween day. Parade at 1:00 in gym
- spooky stories are due

Thursday November 1 - daily five visitors
- hockey reading and questions due
- milk program begins
- journal due


Friday November 2 - spelling questions due and test

Our class is going buggy!

Arthropod project

Here are a few of the designs we have seen so far. Some very interesting Arthropods!

Journal #8

What are your thoughts on the Bug Project and the use of the Design Process for planning and organizing your ideas? Be specific, did you find the design process helpful? Why or Why not? Would another method of planning work better for you? Explain.

Upcoming week

I am without a home computer so my updates may be a little behind!!

Lesson 7 power builder is due tomorrow.
Vegetable orders arrive Tuesday.
I am away at a training session Monday and Tuesday. I'll be back Wednesday.
On Thursday we are participating in an activity in the afternoon called "take me outside day"
Our journals and spelling questions are due Friday and the spelling test is that day as well.

Have a great week!

Veggie pickup

Anyone who ordered vegetables through the school may pick up their orders on October 23.

Journal #7

You are building a railway across Canada. What kind of difficulties do you think you would encounter and what would you do to try and solve these problems?
Due Thursday October 18.

Bring in your Extra Pennies and Plastic Grocery Bags

The social justice group is collecting pennies to take to WE Day on October 29. All pennies must be in by October 29. So if you have an extra pennies that you would like to donate to them you can start bringing them to school on Monday. The pennies will go toward providing clean drinking water for people around the world. $500 can give 20 people or 3 families water for a lifetime.

We are also collecting plastic grocery bags for the Bag Up Challenge. We are trying to rid our community of as many harmful plastic grocey bags as possible. We have until October 26 to bring in as many grocery bags as we can. We will receive a bird house made out of recycled material for participating and if we are one of the top schools collecting, we can win another park bench made out of recycled material!
Watch the video below about the Majestic Plastic Bag

Milk Program

MES will be offering a milk program this year. Forms have been sent home with students and are due back to school by Oct. 26.

BRING IN SCIENCE MATERIALS

We will be working on our arthropod projects tomorrow. Please remember to bring in the materials you will need.

Arthropod Project

Students will be creating their own Arthropod. An arthropod has an exoskeleton and some examples are insects, crustaceans, spiders, and other arachnids. Students will be making their bugs at school. They can collect some materials this weekend at home and bring them on Monday to school. This project must be completed at school.

Journal #6

You are stranded in the woods by yourself. What would you do to adapt to your surroundings?

There's an App for That!

For all of you out there that have i-pods, i-pads etc. there are some great apps for you to download. Try downloading some math facts or math flashcards that will help you practice your mental math skills. There is one called Fast Facts, AB Math, Math Flashcards and Kakooma. There is also a Mathletics app for i-pods and i-pads. Most of these are free! If you find anymore that would useful, please let us know so we can download them on our classroom i-pad and so we can let everyone else know. We are trying to master our multiplication facts up to 9. Our goal is to answer our facts from 1-9 in three seconds or less! Please help us practice our facts and give us a little test every now and again to see how we are doing. We have mastered the 2's and are pretty close to mastering the 5's and 9's, so keep practicing!

There is also an app for spelling city and if you search for Mrs. Zander in the teacher search, you will have access to our spelling lists that you can practice anywhere!

If you find any other apps that might be useful for us we would love to know about them! We have been having difficulty finding apps that assist our Science and Social Studies programs so if you are browsing the app store and come accross something that might fit, please let us know!
Currently, in Science, we are learning about living things, their adaptations, their environment, vertebrates, invertebrates, and the five kingdoms.
In Social Studies, we are learning about Confederation, Louis Riel and the rebellions, The Canadian Pacific Railway, The North West Mounted Police and the Gold Rush. The time period for this is 1867-1914! Wow!!

Magazines and Vegetables and More!

Magazine Sales have begun. The first day to bring magazine sales in is Tuesday. Don't forget to give your customer the pink copy!

Also, the PAC has organized a vegetable sale this year. Orders must be in on Wed. Oct. 10. There is no official date for pick up yet. We have been told they will be here before the end of October.

Tuesday is last day for picture orders if you still have them.

Wednesday Oct. 10 is the last day to let Mr. Marriott know if you are interested in the fun golf tournament on Friday October 12. This is an extra curricular, fun tournament. The tournament would start at 2:00 and I think they will be back before school lets out for the weekend. This is of course, depending on the weather! Yikes!

Thanks PAC for organizing the Subway Lunch day on Thursday. We LOVE it! And I think parents love not having to worry about packing a lunch that day!

Cross Country

Congratulations Adrienne!

Journal #4

Why do you think the RCMP was established? What do you think their role is today? Why do you think it is important to have RCMP presence in Canada? Due Thursday October 4