Good afternoon everyone!

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend!

Please remember to sign your child agenda every night.

I am still waiting on some signed student handbook pages. Please sign the back page of the handbook, along with your child, and return to me as soon as possible. Thank you!

One form of classroom management I use is Class DoJo. It is an online way of tracking your child’s behavior at school. I have sent home a login for each child. Please login and if you have any trouble please let me know! Thank you to those family members who have already done so!

Important information and reminders:

Welcome Back BBQ will take place on Thursday, September 15 from 4-6 PM. This is a great chance for staff, students, and parents to interact and get to know one another. Forms were sent home on Friday and are due back, along with money, by Wednesday, September 14.

Our first Unit of Inquiry is called O'Canada. We will be filling our UOI board with post cards from different provinces and territories in Canada. Students are encouraged to ask friends and/or family that live in another province or territory to send them a post card to add to our UOI board. We have already received some, but would love to add more to our board!

LANGUAGE:

Today for language we had our first spelling lesson on Consonants. We did a small lesson on what a consonant is, wrote the words in our agenda, and complete the corresponding activities. Our first spelling test will be on Friday, September 16.

UOI:

Today we began our very first UOI unit of grade 4, O’Canada. We began with a small pre-assessment using a blank map of Canada. Students had work with their table groups and do their best to fill in the provinces and territories. Then we began to create a title page.

MATH:

Today we began to learn about patterns in a hundreds chart. We looked at positional patterns (left to right, up and down, or diagonal going left or right). We also began to use some vocabulary such as using a pattern rule. An example of a pattern rule would be ‘start at 2 and add 2 each time.’ This was our first lesson and we were a bit rusty! Any support at home during homework would be greatly appreciated.

Have a great night!

Mrs. Hocevar J

 

Working on our table map quiz!

All of our post cards!

Our name labels!

Working on our title pages.

Working hard on DRA's!