Day 36

Calendar- the special helpers put up the date, counts down to 100 days of school, and tells us what the weather is like today.

UOI with language focus- 
Today after we wrote our spelling test we worked on using adjectives to create scary monsters!!! We used a graphic organizer to help us organize our thoughts and then we drew from there.

Agenda - 

• cursive books up to page 55
• bring back recorders
• Halloween costumes on Monday - please no scary masks or weapons (even fake)
• Art reach payment and form
• Please return spelling test book signed 
• Math test sent home 
• Reading homework sent home 

Gym - visit: http://mrhpypphysed.blogspot.ca

Math - 
Today we continued our new unit on time, temperature, and money. Students completed an activity requiring them to sequence events in time order.


UOI -
Today we worked on an art project that we will finish Monday. Students used q-tips to create a dinosaur fossil picture!

Daily Five
Word work 
work on writing
read to someone
read to self 
listen to reading 

French -  visit: http://mllehousja.blogspot.ca

Congratulations to Justin our Knowledgeable award winner!

Day 35

Calendar- the special helpers put up the date, counts down to 100 days of school, and tells us what the weather is like today.

UOI with language focus- 
Today we wrote a journal entry about our trip to the ROM. We wrote about things we learned and saw.

Music -Visit:  http://mrandreisja.blogspot.ca

Agenda - 

• cursive books page 49-52
• bring back recorders
• casual day tomorrow
• Art reach payment and forms 
• After care payments due 
• spelling sentences due tomorrow
• spelling test 

Gym - visit: http://mrhpypphysed.blogspot.ca

Math - 
Today we started or new unit on time, temperature, and money. Students completed their pre-assessment to show me where they are in their learning. We then worked on sequencing events in time order.


UOI -
Today we looked at pictures of dinosaurs and placed them in a chart of Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. If you notice on our chart we have no Triassic dinosaurs. Students who are able to tell me a Triassic dinosaur tomorrow will receive 300 house points!

Daily Five
Word work 
work on writing
read to someone
read to self 
listen to reading 

We added new work to our daily five activities including work on nouns and verbs. Fall sentence writing. Rhyming words. Proper grammar and word sequencing.

French -  visit: http://mllehousja.blogspot.ca

ROM

Day 33

Calendar- the special helpers put up the date, counts down to 100 days of school, and tells us what the weather is like today.

UOI with language focus- Today we learned what an adjective was. We talked about how adjectives describe a noun. We then looked at a picture of an an ice cream cone and brainstormed adjectives to describe it. Afterwards we completed a cut and paste activity to sort adjectives and nouns. 

Music -Visit:  http://mrandreisja.blogspot.ca

Agenda - 

• cursive books page 47-48
• bring back recorders
• ROM trip Wednesday - send in disposable lunch labelled with your child's name - please be at school before 9am tomorrow. The bus leaves at 9 am sharp.
• Dress Uniform tomorrow 
• picture day thurs dress uniform again
• casual day Friday

Gym - visit: http://mrhpypphysed.blogspot.ca

Math - 
Today we completed our math test for unit 2 on number sense and numeration


UOI -
Today we continued to work on our group pictures of Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous period. Yesterday we looked at pictures of how the land looked like for each period. We then were put into table groups and each group was given a piece of chart paper. Each table (3) was responsible for drawing one of the dinosaur periods.

Daily Five
Word work 
work on writing
read to someone
read to self 
listen to reading 


We added new work to our daily five activities including work on nouns and verbs. Fall sentence writing. Rhyming words. Proper grammar and word sequencing.

French -  visit: http://mllehousja.blogspot.ca

Day 32

Just a few reminders for our trip on Weds. 

• Please ensure you are at the school before 9 am as the bus leaves at 9am sharp
• Please ensure you send a disposable lunch, with your child's name written on it
• Please send your child in FULL dress uniform  - WE will have our CASUAL day on FRI. instead =)

St. Jude’s Academy is excited to welcome back to our school the talented artists from ArtReach Mississauga to lead exciting art workshops for our students.  Students will have a chance to join the ArtReach professionals for a two hour workshop at SJA that focuses on engaging and comprehensive visual art activities. ArtReach will be joining SJA onNovember 30^th, December 1^st and December 2^nd. The cost of the workshop is $15.00.  This cost includes the workshop fee, and all materials.  Forms and fees are due back to the school by November 3^rd, 2016.

Day 31

Calendar- the special helpers put up the date, counts down to 100 days of school, and tells us what the weather is like today.

UOI with language focus- Today after our spelling test we continued to work on what a verb is - an action word, something you do. We then played a game of charades, where students had to pick a slip of paper out of a bag that had a verb written on it. They had to read it and act it out. We found this very funny. 

Music -Visit:  http://mrandreisja.blogspot.ca

Agenda - 

• Math test review sent home
• Reading homework
• cursive books page 45
• bring back recorders
• math test Tuesday 
• lunch orders due Oct. 24 
• ROM trip Wednesday - send in disposable lunch labelled with your child's name 

Gym - visit: http://mrhpypphysed.blogspot.ca

Math - 
today we continued reviewing for our test which will be next Tuesday. Today we reviewed using a two part mat in the sense of base ten - ones and tens columns.

UOI -

We recited our Palaeontologist poem, reviewed what a fossil is and then became Palaeontologists ! Students had to cut out a fossil puzzle and put it together to create a dinosaur fossil. 

Daily Five
Word work 
work on writing
read to someone
read to self 
listen to reading 

French -  visit: http://mllehousja.blogspot.ca

Day 30

Calendar- the special helpers put up the date, counts down to 100 days of school, and tells us what the weather is like today.

UOI with language focus- Today we continued to work on what a verb is - an action word, something you do. We then read sentences and circled the verb in the sentence. 

Agenda - 

• spelling sentences due 
• spelling test tomorrow 
• cursive books page 45
• bring back recorders
• math test Tuesday 
• lunch orders due Oct. 24 
• ROM trip Wednesday - send in disposable lunch labelled with your child's name 
• Picture day Oct - 26 - Full Dress uniform 

Gym - visit: http://mrhpypphysed.blogspot.ca

Math - 
today we began reviewing for our test which will be next Tuesday. Today we reviewed 1 or 2 more or less then a given set of objects. A review package will be sent home over the weekend.

UOI -

Today we talked about our new unit of inquiry! We discussed what a Palaeontologist is, and what they do. We then discussed what a fossil is and how they are formed. We then watched a video clip from Bill Nye the Science Guy that taught us all about fossils and palaeontologists. Mr. Foster's class joined us as well!!

Daily Five

Word work 

work on writing

read to someone

read to self 

listen to reading 

French -  visit: http://mllehousja.blogspot.ca

Day 29

Calendar- the special helpers put up the date, counts down to 100 days of school, and tells us what the weather is like today.

UOI with language focus- Today we continued to work on what a noun is - person, place, or thing. We also learned what a verb is - an action word, something you do. We then completed a noun and verb sort of given words. 

Music -Visit:  http://mrandreisja.blogspot.ca

Agenda - 

• spelling sentences 
• spelling test 
• cursive books page 44
• bring back recorders
• math test Tuesday 
• lunch orders due Oct. 24 
• ROM trip Wednesday - send in disposable lunch labelled with your child's name 

Gym - visit: http://mrhpypphysed.blogspot.ca

Math - 
today we began reviewing for our test which will be next Tuesday. Today we reviewed 1 or 2 more or less then a given set of objects. A review package will be sent home over the weekend.

UOI -

Today we talked about our new unit of inquiry! We discussed what a Palaeontologist is, and what they do. We looked at books of dinosaurs and described their features. We discussed arms, legs, necks, tails, claws, jaws. We then decided upon a two legged or four legged template. We drew our own dinosaurs based on the features we described. 

Daily Five
Word work 
work on writing
read to someone
read to self 
listen to reading 

French -  visit: http://mllehousja.blogspot.ca

Day 27

Calendar- the special helpers put up the date, counts down to 100 days of school, and tells us what the weather is like today.

UOI with language focus- Today we worked on our spelling workout book. Students learned the spelling words of the week. Worked on using their meaning and rhyming words with them. 

Music -Visit:  http://mrandreisja.blogspot.ca

Agenda - 

• spelling sentences 
• spelling test 
• cursive books page 41
• bring back recorders

Gym - visit: http://mrhpypphysed.blogspot.ca

Math - 
today we continued our math unit. We worked on reading word problems and writing out number combinations.

For example:

You have a backpack with 7 items in it. Some are snacks and some are books how many of each  could there be.

Ex. 3 snacks 4 books 3+4=7
or 1 snack and 6 books 1+6=7

UOI -

Today we talked about our new unit of inquiry! We made a KWL chart. We wrote things we already know about dinosaurs and things we would like to know about dinosaurs. 

Daily Five
Word work 
work on writing
read to someone
read to self 
listen to reading 

French -  visit: http://mllehousja.blogspot.ca

Day 26

Today I was up at our sister school The Maples Academy!


Mr. H taught our class today this blog post was written by him

Journal entries - students wrote a journal entry about Fall. They filled in the following template:

I love fall because_________

Also because ____________

As well as because ________

Lastly because _________

These are the reasons I love fall. 

 

Math Journal - We went through the weather graph, 100 day count, and ten frame count accordingly.  

 

Agenda

• Movie day ticket purchases extended until Monday!!!!!
• Rom money due 
• Cursive page 40 
• Lunch orders due Oct. 24th 

 

Math For estimation we talked about the fact that estimation is just a guess based on what they see and I had them on the carpet and used counting blocks instead of drawing on the board.  I put different combinations of coloured counting block in one of your small green containers and had them estimate how many.  For fun, I even just grabbed a handful of blocks from the bin, showed them, and then had students estimate how many they think they saw.  I also discussed with them the fact that just because an estimate may be wrong, it doesn't mean that the estimator is wrong completely, it's just that they didn't have all the information to know the exact amount.  

 

UOI - Anshi's game, 

 

Students then had a little bit of time to work on their portfolio covers drawing the pictures of themselves.  I emphasized the detail and also making it big enough to fill the space provided but some of them could use more work. 

 

Day 25

Calendar- the special helpers put up the date, counts down to 100 days of school, and tells us what the weather is like today.

UOI with language focus- Today we completed the post assessment for the Ontario Writing Assessment. Students were required to write a list of recess rules. Students reviewed the elements of list writing before we began. 

Music -Visit:  http://mrandreisja.blogspot.ca

Agenda - 

• spelling sentences tomorrow 
• spelling test tomorrow 
• movie form from parent guild due Friday
• ROM trip forms
• cursive books page 39
• Developmental Reading assessment sent home 

Gym - visit: http://mrhpypphysed.blogspot.ca

Math - 
Today we worked on learning estimation. We looked at a jar filled with red and white blocks and estimated the amount of red and the amount of white and the total amount. Some of us had very good guesses.

UOI -

Today we continued to present our summative assessments and their rules. We played a few of our board games too! We will play more tomorrow.