Tuesday, 20 December 2011

Bus Info for Friday Dismissal

Friday Dismissal is 12:00.  Two important bussing changes for Friday only.  Students who normally take bus 104 in the PM will take bus 81 on Friday.  Also, students who normally take bus 99 will take bus 98.

Thursday, 15 December 2011

Santa's Workshop!




It was a great day at Santa's Workshop.  Thank you to all the volunteers who made it possible. If you want to see some of the favorite moments from the kids in this class, click on the comments at the bottom of the post.

Mr. Carr

Monday, 12 December 2011

Government Visit

Comic Create by Bob - Technology in the classroom

Today we had people from the government come in to see what effect the netbooks have on our learning. I believe they have a positive effect and I hope that the government thinks so too.
     When we have the netbooks we can play math games on the class website, write on Microsoft word and listen to reading on tumble books. Not to mention lots of other things that we can do on the netbooks.
     We have lots of fun, we enjoy ourwebsite, and we hope you liked being a part of our class as we used technology to help us learn.

From: Mr. Carr’s Class

Typed by:
Arthur



Our Blog - A Bulgarian Post For Some of Our Visitors

Уважаеми, посетителиБих искал да Ви посрещнем в нашия клас 4 клас блог. Ние имаме публикации в блога ни от началото на годината под файла нашия блог. Ние се публикуване на блог от първата седмица на училище. За домашна работа, ние просто трябва да се учат нашите правопис думи, но ако ние забравяме или искате да сортирате играе играта и проучване на думи, можем да отидем към блога, в долната част на страницата има кръстословица, която има нашата правопис думи. Ние първо трябва да разбера думата, след това го въведете, след като всичко, което прави натиснете проверите, за да се види, ако ги има право. Блогът ни помага да се научи, защото можем да прочетем на барабанни книги, Научете математика по математика връзки, и г-н Кар дори пуснати на Google Translate, тя ни помага със социални изследвания, защото можем да учат други езици, повечето от тези връзки са на една от двете страни в блога. Има още една връзка Харесва ми, тя се нарича Новини децата, че е почти като нов доклад, но по думите на децата, така че е интересно да.Блогът е наистина интересно, защото почти всеки ден има нов пост, за да коментирате. Харесва ми блог и се надявам да направите за да.

Friday, 9 December 2011

Student Writing Samples Coming Home Today

The student will be bringing home sample of a narrative today, as well as a sample of an appropriately written piece from another grade 4 student in New Brunswick.  The studenst were to write down the following instructions on their page, and we discussed the steps in class.

1.  Read your story to your parents (rough copy)

2.  Parents are to read "Butterfly Dancer" (photocopy)

3.  With your parents, compare both stories

4.  Directions will also be on the blog (and here they are)

First, I would like to draw you attention to the fact that the "Butterfly Dancer"  meets the expectations for the end of grade four.  We can use this example to help gauge the progress of each student, and make recommendations as we move forward with the lessons about writing.  With this piece of writing, there is a description of each of the 6 writing traits we are working on, and the rationale for "Butterfly Dancer being labeled "Appropriate".

In this assignment, student began with a comic strip to organize their ideas into a beginning, middle and end.  As well, they were instructed to create a problem and a solution.  From here, students used each block of the comic to generate paragraphs for a story with each paragraph focusing on only one block of the comic.  In some cases, students had to combine more than one block in a paragraph.

Students, with the exception of a couple, are bringing home a hand written rough copy.  This is a valuable piece of the writing process as it allows you to see the revisions and edits that may have been made.  If students were able to complete this process in due time, they were able to use Microsoft Word to publish it and/or an internet based program for publishing comics.

There have been numerous conferences with peers and the teacher during this writing process.  Students bringing this sample home is a continuation of this process since it is an opportunity to evaluate their own work.  Please return the signed writing samples, and on Monday the students will write in their journal about the home conference to record their thoughts.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.

Have a great weekend.

Mr. Carr

Thursday, 8 December 2011

Quotation Corrections - After a Technical Adjustment

For those of you who use various technologies often, you might appreciate the way one technology can malfunction only to be replaced by another technology.  Today, our projector decided to play dead, so our lesson on quotation marks hit a snag.  Luckily, our classroom blog is an established part of our classroom routine.  After making a quick, on-the-spot post, the students were back in business.

As you will see from the sentences below, not all correction are quotation marks.  This generated quite a few questions from the students, and required them to look closely, and think critically about the use of quotation marks.

"Have a great night!" exclaimed Mr. Carr.

Please correct these sentences:


Ryan said that he and Matt would play basketball after school

Mom said while you play basketball, I'll bake cookies

Ryan asked when Matt could come over to play

Mom answered that Matt could come over after lunch

Saturday, 3 December 2011

Sid The Kid Makes His Big Comeback















Click on the image of Sidney Crosby to read the news article.

Thursday, 1 December 2011

What is this?




Can you explain to me what this is?  Try to think of as many different ways to explain it in one comment.