Artistic Cooperation

Mrs Goguen's grade 5 class and our class partnered up during a couple of Art classes to create Works of Art using only basic shapes and colour.  Using geometric shapes and a variety of colours for expressive and representational purposes, students were able to create unique examples of artistic cooperation.

Weekly Spelling Words

The students will be bringing home new spelling words for the week, and they will also be bringing home the spelling test from last week to be signed and returned.  If a student spelled a work incorrectly on the test, then those words are added to his/her "Words to Retry" list in their Word Work book.  Then, when the student is choosing words for the "My Words" section of the list, they should choose first from the "retry" list.  Here are the 10 common words for the week:

by, bye, can't, could, don't, regroup, addition, subtract, map, Math

Happy studying!

What Are Meal Worms?

A couple of meal worms...
maybe looking for that perfect piece of oatmeal.

In a little plastic dish in the back of the class sitting quietly beside the fish tank, meal worms lay waiting for their next stage of life while eating carrots and oatmeal.





Go to Mrs. Dick's Class site for more info!

Announcement

Hi Everyone,

Spelling test tomorrow since there is no school on Friday.  Also, Picture Day will be October 18th.

Have a good evening!
Mr. Carr

Spelling Words

Students are bringing home their spelling words today so they can study for their spelling test on Thursday.  The little list sheet in their communication folder can stay at home.  The student will have 10 common words, and they will have 5 words they have chosen for just themselves.  Here are the 10 common words:

Science, habitat, survival, crayfish, shelter, also, everything, laughed, next, knew

Why Do We Regroup?

We will continue to discuss the idea of regrouping in class.  Today, we learned how to use an interactive online application to see regrouping in action.  Ask your child to create an addition question and explain regrouping using the link called "Base Ten Addition" on the top right of the page.  When you open the link, you may have to read the instructions if you are having trouble with it; I had to read them to remember how to work the application.

Addition and Subtraction In Grade 4

Here is another image from the grade 4 curriculum document that speaks to the difference in the Math curriculum between grade three and four.  As you can see from the homework sent home tonight, we still review the addition and subtraction of 3-digit numbers.