Mr. Pressey

Remember tomorrow is Halloween dress up and fun lunch. Also please remember that there is no school on Friday because of a teacher professional development day.

End of the Week October 21- 25 REMEMBER MONDAY IS PICTURE RETAKES This week we have been doing lots of work with graphing in Math. Both grades have been exploring how to ask questions and record data using tally charts. The grade 3's have been looking into making pictographs using one-to-one ratios The grade 4's have been making many-to-one ratios with their pictographs and bar graphs. During our reading time we have been continuing with our class novel and looking at the comprehension skill of visualizing. We learned that good readers make movies in their minds while they read to help them to understand. During our guided reading Mr. Pressey has been helping us to make connections, code break and summarize paragraphs. Keep up the great work that you have been doing with your home reading, last week was the best week that we have had all year. We have finished writing our Talk For Writing defeating fear stories.  We are currently typing up our stories and a

Oct 25 Ask me how we decided to decorate our class door for Halloween. October 24th Tomorrow is the last day to score some home reading points for this week. October 23rd Today we started our new spelling after the fall break. We began by sorting our words. We have almost finished typing up our defeating fear stories and they can be accessed on Google Docs.

October 7th-10th October 8th Today we were looking at the 6 regions of Alberta. Jarad from from the footy club was here but we had to practice in the gym because of the snow. During Language Arts we almost finished our story plans and completed our problem paragraphs. In Math, we have been looking at counting patterns when counting by 25's so please ask your children to practice at home. Make sure that you are doing your home reading. October 9th We have a Pizza 73 fun lunch on October 31st. We worked really hard today and finished up our defeating fear stories.

End of the Week September 30th - October 4th This week, we had our first snowy week of the year. We had lots of fun building snowmen and we even made a snow dinosaur one day. On Wednesday, we linked the snowmen to our work in math by estimating the height of the different snowmen and snowballs around the school. Our main focus this week, during our guided math, was to learn about patterns. We explored patterns counting forwards and backwards by 2's and 5's starting from both even and odd numbers. We made observations about what we noticed about how the ones and tens digits changed. Some of us even explored patterns counting by 25's. Here is an online game if you would like to practice recognizing and extending patterns.  https://www.free-training-tutorial.com/pattern/towncreator/tc-pattern.html In Physical Education class we put all of the basketball skills that we have learned together so we could play some 3 on 3 games. Mr. Pressey was assessing a bunch of skills t