Terry Fox Week!

What wonderful weather for our Terry Fox Walk!!! 

It was a gorgeous day and I think we all enjoyed our walk, even if it was a bit hot!

A Few Reminders: 

- Book orders went home Friday, these are due next Friday, Oct. 8th. 

- Early Dismissal is next Wednesday. 

In Language Arts, we have been working with our sentence structure and how to build strong sentences that make sense! 

So far we have covered Person + Action sentences, using helping words and answering our question words (who, what, where, when, why?) and Thing + Action word sentences. The big understanding in this lesson is to ensure there is subject and verb agreement in their sentence. 

This week, to add variety to our sentences we started answering our question words at the beginning of sentences. This technique is called Question Word Starters. We altered our sentence about cows by answering our questions at the beginning. 

Original: The cow mooed at my farm in 1945 because he was running away from a bunny. 

WHAT: What kind of cow?

A big brown cow mooed at my farm.

A hilarious brown cow mooed at my farm. 

WHY: Why did they do it?

A cow was running away from a bunny and mooed all the way across the field. 

A hungry cow mooed at my farm. 

WHEN: TIME the object is doing something. 

October 16th, 1945 at 5:00 am in the morning a cow mooed at my farm. 

On a dark winter morning a big brown cow mooed at my farm. 

 HOW: HOW did it do the action?

Like a roaring God the cow mooed at my farm. 

Softly a cow mooed at my farm. 

Confused a cow mooed at my farm, "moooo?".

We will continue to work on this idea, working in the different suffixes (-ed, -ing) that change our tense. 

In Math, we are still working with patterns and have moved onto patterns in T-Tables. Students worked with word problems and use T-tables to solve the problems. These tables had patterns and students were able to identify the pattern, rule and extend the pattern. 

In Science - The threes are classifying rocks! Geologist classify rocks depending on certain characteristics, and the three we looked at this week were colour, lustre and texture. Students observed various types of rocks, looking at lustre (shiny, dull, metallic, or non metallic) and texture (rough, smooth, even, coarse, medium and fine). 

When a rock is coarse in texture you are able to see the different minerals that make it up, where as a rock fine in texture you would need magnifying glasses to see (if you can at all) any of the other minerals in the rock. They brainstormed words they used to describe these rocks and we wrote them down to make posters for us to reference later. 

The 4's this week explored the differences between opaque, transparent and translucent materials. 

Opaque material block out all light and create shadows. 

Transparent materials allow all light to pass through and objects are seen clearly through them. 

Translucent materials allow some light and objects cannot be seen clearly through them. 

Students were given three types of material and had to determine and sort which category they belonged to. Then they went on a hunt in the classroom for objects that feel under each category!