Mr. Pressey

October 1st Today we had Constable Josh from the Calgary Police Department come and visit our school along with some wonderful ladies from the Saddletown Public Library for It's a Crime Not to Read program. So far this week our class has read 20 times. Keep up the great home reading. There were two important notes that were sent home with the students today. Remember we have our weekly visit to the school library tomorrow so make sure you return your books. September 30th Please bring back Crime Not to Read books. Please look at our blog from last week.

We started this past week with a special guest. Jarad came back to our school and taught us more skills related to Aussie rules football. We learned  to pass back and forth using hand passes and how to kick goals. We have started learning how to write a narrative story called a defeating fear story. This is a story where the main character has to overcome their fear to help someone. Mr Pressey has been using a story called Skeleton Meets the Mummy to learn all of the parts of the story. Then we have been practicing remembering the story and repeating it back using pictures to help us remember. Our goal is to write our own stories and to share them with our kindergarten buddies next month. During Math we have been learning all about place value. We have been exploring how numbers change and some numbers stay the same when we add and subtract different numbers from different place value spots. We also use think boards to help us represent numbers in various ways. Here is a great link

September We raised $730 for Terry Fox. Ask me what Mr. Pressey did. September 25th Please help me make Mr. Pressey eat something gross and raise money for cancer research. We are hoping that each student could bring in $2 to help us reach our goal of $1000. Today we watched a video all about seeds. We took notes to help us remember what we learned. Mrs. Pelletier  came in to our class and taught us all about Terry Fox. Mr. Pressey started our Talk for Writing and we began learning how to orally tell the story of Skeleton and Mummy so we could learn how to write a defeating fear narrative. September 24th I have book orders I have new spelling words. . September 23rd Today we had Jarad from Aussie Football come in. Ask me how seeds trick us into moving them. Please bring in donations for our Terry Fox run.

End of the Week September 16th - 18th We had a really exciting week in Room 8. Mr. Pressey was away with the grade 6's at their Tim Horton's camp so we had Ms. Hoblak in with us. On Monday we started our Math groups. Some of us worked with Mr. Pressey, before he left, learning about place value. The rest of the class was split into 3 groups and we were playing different Math games. In Social Studies we finished using Zooming in Alberta to research the six different regions. We researched about the different animals, plants, cities and landforms in each of the six regions. After that Ms. Hoblak did an art project with us all about the Parkland region. We painted a picture that include lakes, cattails, and a city background. Our paintings also included some ducks because the Parkland region is know as the "duck factory." In Physical Education we were continuing with our basketball unit and we were do all sorts of shooting games. We learned that a good shot has t

Math After learning all about measuring perimeter and using rulers. We have moved onto learning about mass. We found out that mass is measuring how much something weighs. We found out that grams (g) don't weigh very much but that we can use them to measure pencils and erasers and small things. We also learned that we use kilograms (kg) to weigh heavier things like people and dictionaries because they are 1000g. We started our new spelling lists this week. Some of us were working on long and short vowels. Others were working on some initial spelling blends. There is a group who is learning that the suffix ed can make a d sound, a t sound or an id sound. One group was learning about the suffixes ion and ian .

Agendas September 9th - 13th September 13th Please remember to bring back your notes and to register for parent conferences. September 12th I have a big important note. September 11th Ask me about our plant science experiment. Please register for parent-teacher conferences. Tomorrow is the last day for pictures. September 10th Today we had some guest teacher who showed us some Aussie rules football skills. September 9th Today we talked about gratitude and we started taking care of our plants. Parents you can register for Parent-Teacher Conferences on Thursday September 19th.

Room 8 September 3rd - 6th This week in Math we continued to develop our measurement skills. We learned about using cm and mm to measure around 2D shapes. Later in the week we discovered how we can use mm, cm and m to estimate length and height. During Language Arts we started our reading groups. We were split into five different groups and we rotate stations. We rotate between guided reading, reading games, partner reading, silent reading and computer literacy activities. In gym, we were working on passing during basketball. We learned how to do bounce passes and chest passes. We learned that chest passes were the fastest passes and bounce passes were to get past a defender. For Science, we learned how to take sketch notes. Sketch notes are when we use words, pictures and diagrams to help us remember information. We used our sketch notes to take notes from a Magic School Bus episode about the needs of a plant. Later we used sketch notes to remember important information

________________________________________________________________________________ September 5th Ask me about the Amazon Rainforest and what I learned about plants. ________________________________________________________________________________ September 4th I have library tomorrow. In Math we were learning about making estimations using cm and mm. ________________________________________________________________________________ September 3rd Today was our first It's a Crime Not to Read. We were working on measuring all around a shape to find out its perimeter. If you would like to place your book orders online I have activated my Scholastic Bookclub account.