Happy Monday everyone!  It looks as though students are successfully submitting homework on line.  As always, if you are having difficulty please let me know.
We had a very successful trip to church to celebrate Mass as a school. We were very fortunate that the weather cooperated for this trip. We hope the weather will also cooperate on Friday as it will be our Terry Fox run during last block.  We are asking that each student please bring in a toonie this week in order to help us achieve our school donation goals.
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Please see the updates below:
Math: We reviewed place value but will spend much more time on this later.  Grade 3s have been working on describing number patterns using math language (e.g. "It is a decreasing pattern that starts at 25 and counts back by 2s to 11.")
Grade 4s have been working in partners to identify commonalities and differences in number patterns in a set of given patterns and describing them using math language.
Language: The students have loved listening to books About a Day and About a Night to work on their descriptive language skills and visualization.  They are working in small groups to create dictionaries of powerful descriptive words to use as a resource for future writing activities.
Science: We are very fortunate to have a wonderful volunteer engineer come into our class to help us explore our science units.  This guest, Mr. Ball, will begin visiting in October.
Visual Arts: The students have been practicing shading using dots to create some wonderful scenes.  They will continue with this along with an independent exploration using lines and dots.