Sunday 21 October 2018

Week 8: October 22-26

Congratulations, St. Clare Community! Together, we raised over $3300 for Cancer research during our Terry Fox walk! As a result, on Friday afternoon, 8 teachers (including Mme Mitton) were pied in the face by the top fundraising students. It was a blast! Check out the pictures on Twitter.

Next week, the Eco Team is encouraging Litterless Lunch days for the week as part of their Waste Reduction Initiative. They are also collecting gently used clothing and textiles on Wednesday, to donate to charity.

Grade 4 students should have brought home an invitation that they made for you to invite you to the Bible Blessing Ceremony on October 30 at 9:30 a.m. in the gym. Please join us if you are able.

On Wednesday, we welcomed a new teacher candidate from the University of Ottawa, Ms. Rhodes. Our previous teacher candidate, Miss Robert, has had to defer her placement for medical reasons and is therefore no longer with our class.

This week, we will begin patterning in math in both grades. Here is what they need to learn: 
Grade 4 are expected to: • describe, extend, and create a variety of numeric and geometric patterns, make predictions related to the patterns, and investigate repeating patterns involving reflections;

Grade 5 are expected to: • determine, through investigation using a table of values, relationships in growing and shrinking patterns, and investigate repeating patterns involving translations;

In Language Arts, Grade 4 students are presenting their "All About Me" presentations. Grade 5 students are presenting their second biography about someone they admire, and working on their "Sell This Haunted House" persuasive writing activity. Both groups have finished their first CASI reading test, and I now have a baseline idea of their knowledge, thinking, application and communication skills on a grade level text.  

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