Update on the Voicemail

Hi Everyone,

Great voicemails! I am learning all kinds of interesting facts about lion fish and men who can blow bubbles out of their eyes under water! I just found out that if you put an email address in the information at the start of the recording process, I am able to send a recording back to you. Since I haven't done a reply yet, there might be some glitches along the way that we will have to sort out. Speaking of glitches, some of you may have to update your flash driver, but that may still leave you with a technical difficulty - I am working on it and I will let you know when I find a solution.


Happy Holidays!
Mr. Carr

Happy Holidays!

Our World of Classroom Cheer

 

For something that seems to be,
At times so difficult to see;
With the world of news aloud,
Sending signs and sound of cloud.

 

Kindness floats about today,
In acts and words that stay,
In minds and hearts are meant,
The clouds of news are sent.

 

Today the sky seems clear,
With holiday song and cheer,
Your acts of kindness; you see,
Mean the world to me.

 Thank you and Merry Christmas!

Mr. Carr

Homework Message - No Pun Intended

Hello Everyone,

With this being the last week before Christmas, the regular homework sheet will not be coming home.  Instead, students have been encouraged to read every night, and then send a voicemail message through the blog (See the tab on the right of the page).  You will need a microphone to do this if your computer doesn't have one, or I can lend you one if you really want to try it out but you don't have a microphone at home.  There will be a sheet coming home tomorrow with the little bits of information I will be looking for in the recording, but here is what I am looking for:

• Your Name
• The book you read and the author
• Interesting Fact or what was the main idea of what you read
• A concluding statement

I think it will be fun...looking forward to hearing from you.

Mr. Carr

Pattern Math

                                                                                                                              

Josph

Joaph

 

                                                 Stewart and joseph m.

Cinquain Poem

We are writing cinquain poems in the class, and this is an great example of using word choice to establish mood.  The sinking of the Titanic was an emotional event, and I think this poet describes it well in 5 lines.

Shipwrecked

Titanic,

Screaming people,

Rescue boats afloat,

Falling beneath the waves,

Missing.

By: MacLaren

 

 

Pet Corral Enhances Positive Learning Environment!

Thanks to the Pet Corral in Saint John, the students in our class have a new pet.  This baby Crested Gecko arrived at the end of the day today amidst much anticipation.  It was a little camera shy when the picture was taken, but we are sure it will warm up to the spot light in no time!  This classroom pet would not have been possible if it wasn't for the help of the Pet Corral.  They donated the terrarium and all the things that make for a great gecko home; it arrived in the class with a smile on its face!  The smile was almost as big as the smile on the students' faces.  Thanks!

 

Please Check out the Facebook page of the Pet Corral.

Learning about the Colour Wheel

Multiplication Through Grouping

 

Array Strategy

Pattern Discussion in Math Class

Although you are not able to be part of the discussion, this is the result of the conversation in Math class today about extending patterns.  See if you can follow the information, or ask your child to explain what was discussed.  Have a good day.

Crossword Puzzle Updated!

Check out our latest crossword puzzle (scroll down to the bottom of the page).  We are still learning about prefixes, root words, and suffixes.  If you do the puzzle this week and figure out the pattern in the words, you will get a head start on the topic of our words for next week. 

Good luck!
Mr. Carr

These are GREAT Ideas!

These will be the images you will use for generating your ideas today when you work on writing.  I wish I was there to see what your ideas look and sound like, but I will have to wait until Wednesday.

 

Good luck, and remember; it is your imagination that creates the story.

 

From: Mr. Carr

Word Work Focus

We have been working in the class with words. The suffix, prefix, and root of each word provide clues to the meaning and spelling. Here is a chart we filled in during one of our classes to help build an understanding of the concept. The crossword at the bottom of the blog page uses these words as well.

Homework Delayed

Hi Everyone,


Sorry to not have the reading logs sent home tonight. The network was down on the weekend and this morning which prevented the printing of the sheets, and then I didn't get to it in time before the buses left at the end of the day. One of the students reminded me about the homework page - but it was as he was walking out the door to catch his bus this afternoon! I wonder if that was a coincidence.

 

I will be sure to send it home tomorrow.  Sorry for the inconvenience.

Mr. Carr

Amazing math strategy

 

Cool Strategy

A quick update...

September was a busy month, and now it seems as though the middle of October is just around the corner. Students have been busy working on building strategies for addition and subtraction, finding various ways to represent numbers to 1000, and solving problems that require ordering and comparing numbers. Did you check out the new Math game called "Circle 99?" It is really challenging, but it forces you to use your Mental Math strategies. In Language Arts we have been using a descriptive paragraph to build an understanding of how word choice has an impact on a writer’s voice. As well, we have been practicing adding details that build and develop the main idea. If all goes well (technology can be a challenge sometimes) we will have these paragraphs printed and sent home tomorrow. If you look at the bottom of the blog page, you will also see a crossword puzzle. We will be working with these words for couple more weeks to gain a better understanding of prefixes, root words, and suffixes. I hope all is well; but as always, if you have any questions please feel free to contact me. Mr. Carr

Unlocking the Pyramid - Thanks National Geographic

For Social Studies - some food for thought.

Faux Pas Internet Lesson

This is a video for the end of the day lesson. After we watch it, we will discuss how the lessons apply to our classroom since we spend much of our time working on the computers. Think of our Code of Conduct; Be Respectful, Be Responsible, and Be Safe.

Power Lines 2

Once you get the code from Power Lines 1 you can go explore Power Lines 2.  Check it out in the Math Challenges on the right pane of this page...Good luck!

Here is a link for a Graphing Tool that we will be using in science class.  It will help us analyze our data that we have been collecting outside.  I think you are going to like it!  http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph/

Welcome to Our Open House!

This is the second year for this blog, and I am excited to see how it continues to grow.  The blog is not so much created by me; rather, it becomes an extension of the classroom and the collective effort of the students.  I am excited.  I hope you find the time to visit often and interact with us by commenting on our efforts.

We are glad you came to visit.

Mr. Carr

Our First week Back!

In Math this week, we played two Math games.  One game was a game called MADdition, a game similar to Jeopardy, and the other game was a dice game.  Both games used different strategies for finding the sum.

We wrote about our favourite challenge and goal for the year to let Mr.Carr learn a little more about us.  We also started a graphic organizer about the favourite thing we did this summer.  The graphic organizer was a garden gate that we wrote our ideas on and it is going to help us write a recount.

We learned that our Code of Conduct is "Be Responsible, Be Respectful, Be Safe."  We made posters in groups of 4 to show the code of conduct in action when in our classroom.  This way, if you are new to the school you can read the Code of Conduct and you will understand how to be safe, responsible and repectful.

Feels nice to be back in school.

Welcome Back!

Wednesday is the fist day back to school, and it looks like it is going to be a wet one.  I can't wait to get started, and I am excited to keep you up to date with the blog.  If you are new to the blog, have a look around.  Much of the content has been hidden for the time being since it is early in the year, but the blog will grow and change as the year progresses, so check back often.  Have an excellent day!

Mr.Carr

grade 5 talent show

On fun day all the students I.V.S went to the gym to watch the talent show.  The teachers probably thought since the grade fives were leaveing for grade 6 they would do a grade 5 talant show.  All the singing was great but DeeDee was really good. There was also dancing, guitars and comedy.  It was a good show.

fun day!!!! :)

                         

            On June 14, 2012 Island View School had fun day. There were lots of fun activities that we did. One of my favorite activities was the slippery chicken relay. I liked it because it got harder as we got further along in the race. There were 3 different rounds that we had to do and there were 2 teams. The first one you had to run to a bucket that had water soap and a chicken in it. Then you have to take it out and run back to your team and give it to the next person. If you weren’t the first person then you would have to when you got the chicken run to the bucket dip it into the bucket and run back then you keep doing that until all of your team is done. Then one the 2^nd round you had to run to the bucket get the chicken out and run backwards, then hand it to the next person who had to take the chicken dunk it into the bucket then run backwards hand it to the next person in line. The 3^rd round if you were the first person in line you would have to run to get the chicken pick it up from the bucket and put It between your legs. Then you had to hop back and give it to the next person. Then the next person carries it in their hands to the bucket. Then you have to dunk it and hop with the chicken between your legs. Then you had to give it to the next person then they would keep doing the same thing until it was done and everyone had gone. Then whoever got the most wins won. Both of the teams won one, and the final round was a tie. So our teams tied. That relay game was really fun and I am looking forward to do fun day again next year. :)

The Dunk Tank

Dunk tank I loved the dunk tank because we got to dunk bridgets mom and sean   hit  it first

Junk in the trunk

On June 14^th we had fun day. We did a event  called junk in the trunk and I broke the record for the school with the time of 3.20 seconds. We had a Kleenex  box that was tied to are waist while we had to shake 10 little golf balls that we had to get out in enough time. Two people would go up at once had who ever had the quickest time. If you lost you could still go again. Then we moved on to the next event.

Fun Day

On June 14 the whole entire Island View School went to Fun Day. There were a bunch of stations and my favorite one was the one with the obstacle courses and there was a bunch of different stations, in that one station so you could choose when you want to go to each one. I Loved It! The first one I went to was the ladder on the floor so there was a latter on the floor and you have to jump through it but you had to put one foot in and one foot out of the ladder and they time you. The other two are you had to stand on a mat and you would get two golf balls and you throw them so that, they land on the red mat and you win a prize. The last one is you go across the balance bean on a flimsy water noodle then you go on wood it is so fun. Well it is Fun Day!

Fun day

                                  Fun day

On Thursday we had Fun day, I am doing my part the fun day blog post on Sack races. We went to the sack races after Junk in the Trunk. The sack races are where you get in a sack and hop to the pylon and then race back. It is hard because you can fall. We raced for a while in different sacks and had a lot of fun. That was a fun day at I.V.S. :0)

Marigolds and Field Trip!

Thursday we will be planting our class marigolds, and Monday we will be going to the museum and bowling.  I can't wait!  Let me know if you have any questions.

Mr. Carr

cool

Watch my dancing dude!
This animation took 40 frames and took around a hour to make.Hope you'll enjoy it as much as I do!

By ALICE:D

These are ideas for storys. Can you come up with storys for each? Which one do you like more? 

By ALICE:D

Found at www.acbya/animation.fun.com

Geocaching

Geocaching By Ross
Geocaching is a treasure hunt that uses a GPS. A GPS provides co-ordinates that will get you to the treasure. If you like walking on nature trails or just even walking in the city you can find geocaches in many different places.
There are different kinds of caches that you can find - normal or traditional geocaches, mystery geocaches, multi caches, virtual caches, event caches, and Earth caches are the main ones. Normal geocaches are ones that usually involve a container with a log sheet to sign, Mystery caches is where you have go somewhere and find something out to get to the cache, Multi caches is when you have to find more than one geocache to get to the final part. Virtual caches are where you have to  take a picture and answer  questions. Earth caches are special places that  people can visit to learn about a unique feature (like a landmark with a historical plaque) and you might have to answer questions about the spot.
Geocaches can be many different sizes and are almost all the time camouflaged with camouflaged tape . The smallest cache is called a micro and it could be something like a pill bottle. The second smallest one could be a peanut butter jar. The third largest size is something like an large container. The biggest size is a very large ammo box. The most usual size you would find is a micro or a peanut butter jar. You can usually find ones like ammo boxes a little bit off a main trail.

Examples of traditional geocaches: 

This is a example of what a camouflage peanut butter jar that is hidden in a tree. A tree is one of the many different places that it would usually be hide.

These next 2 pictures are of a unique kind of geocache  that has a Pepsi can and then at the bottom is the part where the geocache is.

This a picture of a little micro that is called a nano stuck on this sign.

This is a example of a micro that is a film canister that has a magnet that is hidden on a guard-rail where you could sometimes find them.

This is an example of a larger container and this one sometimes would have a lot of stuff inside of it that you could bring on to another geocache.

Step 1
	Before you start doing it, think to yourself  would you rather be on a hiking trail or would you like to be on a city street doing this. If you don’t like walking then if you have an ATV or if you don’t have one than you could easily use your car and drive as close as you  can get from the place that you are at.
Step 2	Once you have found out which one you would rather do, you head for the car and start to follow your gps where it tells you to go.
Step 3	Once you have arrived at the area then and start to look around for the geocache. If you find it - take out the log book and sign then take something inside it if you want to. Or if you did not find it then you can go on geocaching.com and say that you didn't find but if you don’t want to do it that way than don’t go on geocaching.com or put you didn't find it on the smartphone.
Step 4	Then return home and if you enjoyed doing it then you can do it again another day.

Spelling Words May 24th

I am a little late posting, but here are the words for this week.

writeing ideas

      

Writing ideas

In L.A we are writing ideas  on a little piece of paper and we would write our  intro,rising action,climax,falling action and conclusion.  

       We write  for all the paragraph  and you don’t have to make big long paragraphs you  just  describe it all.

This week in Art

This week in Art we made faces that had to be symmertical and they had to be differnt colours on
the left side and on the right side. The eyes had to be differnt colours but we had to make sure that they were in about the same spot that of the other eye,also the lips had to be attached with differnt colours.

Worlds Stinkest and Biggest Plant Growing

You know how stink can be so unbearable that sometimes it makes your eyes water.  If you do then you might not want to travel to Niagara Falls because that is where the worlds stinkiest (and biggest) plant is growing as you are reading this post.  On April 29^th it was measured at 88.5 inches.

Canada is happy

Volunteers/Flower Power Instructions

Notice for Parent Volunteers 

The parent volunteer tea is coming up May 31 so if you helped out with school activities than your welcome to come.
Our class is making special flowers for the tea. A student (me) is making super special origami roses for the volunteers.
Flower Power Instructions:
Materials: square origami paper,and pipecleaner.
1. Fold across the paper diagonally so the corners touch
2.Unfold and repeat then unfold. You should have a X across your page.
3. Hold the opposite corners push forward and shape into a triangle.
4. Make the triangle so the point is facing you.
5.Fold the outer edges to the middle crease. Turn the paper over and reapeat on the back.
6.Curl the 4 points at the top over a toothpick or pencil.
7. Poke your finger inside andspread the flower open.
8. For the stem,curl one end of a pipecleaner and pierce a tiny hole in the bottom of the flower.
9. Insert the stem from the top.
If you are a volunteer please come and see the flower and super special roses and comment.

Graph

We have been reviwing graphs in the graff above I used our favorite types of animals and as you can see the most popular animal was the dog. I put the infrormation about which animal we liked most and turned that information into a graff.

                                                        Made by:Bob

No Homework Sheet This Week

Hi everyone,

Due to many scheduled events this week both in the school and out of the school, there will be no homework sheet coming home this week.  If you are looking for some extra exciting questions to work on, students should continue to work though multiplication questions that are 3 digits by 1 digit, and division questions that are a 2 digit number divided by a 1 digit number.

Tomorrow night will be our school performance of the Wizard of Oz, and it looks to be a great performance.  Good luck!

Spelling words will be coming home tomorrow for a quiz on Friday.  We have been working to improve the word choice in our writing, and these 10 words will be a selection of the words our class feels are some of the most effective words for different situations.

As always, contact me if you have any questions,

Mr. Carr

bye bye

June 6 we'll be releasing the salmons! June 6 we'll be releasing the salmons! June 6 we'll be releasing the salmons! June 6 we'll be releasing the salmons! June 6 we'll be releasing the salmons! June 6 we'll be releasing the salmons! June 6 we'll be releasing the salmons! June 6 we'll be releasing the salmons! June 6 we'll be releasing the salmons! June 6 we'll be releasing the salmons!

Hooray!We will miss the little buddies!

                             Our Salmons big step!

Our salmon are getting bigger and stronger; soon they are going to bury themselves under the rocks. There yolk sacks are getting smaller, and smaller, each day. You can see their heart when you look at them and blood vessels, it’s really cool. Also they’ve been practicing breathing for when they lose their yolk sack so they can actually breathe. Soon there going to be fry’s.

multiplacation word problems

                                Math word problems                                           on the week of May 7^th in Mr. Carr’s grade 4 class we did multiplication word problems.

                                This is a example

                                   345x6=

                       (300x6)+(40x6)+(5x6)

                                 =1800+240+30

                                 =2070

So that is how we did it. Except there would be a word problem and a sentence answer.J

raz-kids

Math this week

 Math this week

In math this week we made 3D shapes with play- dough. One of the shapes we made were triangular prism and we had to somehow find a way to make them look has good has we could. The two colors’ that we had were rather blue or green. Whe also had to make two different play- dough triangular that didn’t look alike.

One of the other things we did in math this week was creating math problems and are 2 math equation rather had to be division or multiplication and they had to be 2 digit by 1 digit or you could have also have 3 digit by 1 digit.  We would rise are hand and say a question that would be grade 4 acceptable.

Another thing that we did in Math was using a mira to make the same shape on the other side that would reflect on the other side of the picture and try to draw it on the same shape.

Math we did this week

Math We Did This Week J

This week for math we learned about symmetry. Symmetry is when you have a drawing of something and another drawing of something that looks the same. When you fold the drawings together, they have to match each other. We also had to draw the symmetry line. If the drawings don’t add up then you don’t write down a symmetry line. It also works if one drawing is symmetrical or not symmetrical. If you ever try it, it is very fun. Trust me.  So a way to see where the line of symmetry  is, is you draw a shape and you fold the paper in half  and see if on both sides you the exact same shape and if you don’t then that isn’t the line of symmetry.  And that is what we learned about symmetry.

Drawing Trees

Sorry for the ads on this video - I am not sure if I can remover them or not.

Area For Salmon To Be Realesed

Spelling Words May 7th

long wall!

Bees in the hives

The Running Dogs

Math Word Problem May 1st 2012