Month: February 2016

Hello Everyone!

Thank you to everyone for a great field trip today!

It was nice weather, the air was fresh, there were birds everywhere, and we had a great guide, Dan the resident biologist at the sanctuary. Many thanks to Candace, Fernando, Pin and Gary, our parents who accompanied us today. Thank you to all the students for great behaviour, as well. I really enjoyed being outside with you all today, and I was glad for the opportunity to share a special place with you, as it is one of my favourite places for relaxing outdoors in the Lower Mainland.

TURNING IN WORK:

I have finished marking all the work for term 2 report cards. Many of you were responsible about keeping up with your assignments, but some of you are still working on turning things in and putting a name on papers without help from me. Next term, Ms. D will not go through assignment by assignment with you, so you will need to be more independent in order to receive marks and to check in with me yourself if you are wondering whether or not all work has been turned in.

REIFEL BIRD HOMEWORK:

There isn’t any homework for the weekend; however, you need to respond to this blog post using your Burnaby ID and answer these questions:

1. What did you enjoy most from the field trip today? (full sentences, please)
2. Name at least three birds you saw today (impress me if you saw and remember more than that!)
3. Name three interesting facts about the bird sanctuary.
4. Name something you learned related to animal migration.

Have a great, relaxing weekend!!!

IMPORTANT: Tomorrow we are going to Reifel Bird Sanctuary! Please be here at 8:50 AM on time for school so we can get organized and load on to the bus. You will need to bring:

• Rain Jacket
• Warm clothes in layers, in case it is cold or gets warm while you walk.
• Waterproof shoes (boots, hikers, etc.)
• Disposable snack and lunch. (no eating of snacks on the bus or on the trails, so we will snack when we get there)
• A small pack (not your regular backpack, though, and nothing too heavy) to carry anything you bring.
• Camera or binoculars

When we arrive, we will have snack and then go in for a 20 minute session inside the museum area they have there, so they can talk about migration of birds and the sanctuary. Afterwards, we will be walking around with a guide. Before we leave, we will have lunch. We should be back by 1PM for music and the rest of our day.

Remember, the birds and animals are in the sanctuary because it is a protected place.  You need to keep your voices down, not run around, and be quiet in order to fully enjoy the space. We talked about exploration and observation. Please use your listening and visual skills to get the most out of our walk together. Take some photos, but also spend time feeding the birds and just enjoying the walk. And listen to our guide, because he or she works at the sanctuary, and they are usually very good at spotting wildlife for you!

Go read some of the articles on The Reifel Bird Sanctuary Site

Also, if you have not turned in your PE lesson or Game Instructions, please finish them and bring to school tomorrow. Any work sent home, please bring it back signed as soon as possible.

Thank you and see you tomorrow morning!!

Hi Daniel here I will be writing the blog entry today.

Board Game-This morning we had some time to add the final touches to our board games and designed our rubrics in order to evaluate other people’s board games as we will play them in the near future.

Discussion on Bullying- We had a great discussion about the difference between being rude,mean and bullying e.g. rude:ignoring someone,sometimes not intentional; mean:hitting someone,intentionally; and bullying:mean but repetitive to one person or a group. It was “Pink Day” at school so we discussed this to better understand the word “bullying.”

Puppet Pals Presentations-We watched some people’s Puppet Pals presentations today and they were all wonderful! There were some great sound effects!

French Work:-We had some time today to finish up some French work (packets 1-4)These are due tomorrow and there will be some time tomorrow to finish.

Math Test-There was a math test today on angles,coordinates,finding area,circumference and perimeter on a circle and area and perimeter of rectangles. There were also some challenge problems for people who were advanced in math and had finished early on surface area and pythagorean theorem.

PE Lessons-Near the end of the day we had some time to finish up the plan for our PE lessons where we will demonstrate and teach skills to one another in groups.

Reminders-A reminder for the Reifel Bird Sanctuary field trip on Friday: Bring a camera (if you have one,not required), a rain jacket, snack, lunch (with a disposable bag), and some rain boots. The weather says cloudy, but no rain; however, it will be cold in the morning. Dress warmly!

Movie Night Tickets / Hot Lunch: Ticket orders are due Thursday; Hot Lunch orders are due Tuesday.

Have a good night!

 

 

 

Hello guys! Today, I (Brian) am doing the blog post. Sorry about the confusion about who is doing what. Everyone who volenteered to do the post will be bumped forward one day. Thanks for understanding!

Exploration – This morning, we did Exploration #4 and #27. We did #4 in the morning, which was all about documenting the sounds we heard in our classroom. Later on in the afternoon, we went out to take a walk and found 10 different abstract art peices that weren’t meant to be there. Both involved observation and thinking skills practice!

Lemoncello Game – We had two periods of project time to work on our board game. The board game was due today. If for any reason you have not finished your game, you need to do it at home, and it should be turned in tomorrow. We also read three more chapters of the Lemoncello book and hope to finish soon!

Puppet Pals – Today, we finished their puppet pals and recorded them on our iPads. We also had a rubric we had to fill out. If you do not have this rubric, get it from Ms.D tomorrow. Your notes need to be turned in with it. Thank you!

Math – We will have a math assesment tomorrow, so please study! The quiz will have:

• Angles
• Coordinates and Mapping
• Circles:
  • Finding Area
  • Finding Circumfrence
  • Findind Radius
• Rectangles:
  • Perimeter
  • Area

You will be allowed to use a calculator for this test. You are all set if you can remember all the formulas and review your Skyscrapers Homework.

Also, unit quizzes were passed back today (unless you were absent and still finishing) and need to be signed.

Have a good day and this is the Tuesday Update!

Hello Everyone!

Tonight I will do the blog entry, and then we will get some volunteers to write for the next few nights, okay?

Today we had a great brass quintet concert as part of the Young People’s Concert Series, which took up most of our morning. We then had project, math and gym time throughout the day.

Puppet Pals: It really saves time when you are recording if you have practiced your script or storyboard out loud before doing it. Please do this at home. Reminder that you will need to turn in your notes, with sources, along with the rubric (I have copies on my desk) once you finish recording.

Game for Lemoncello: Hoping these are finished by end of day Tuesday. We had YPC today, so more time was given. Everyone had a bit of homework tonight for this, whether it was making some game pieces, cards, typing rules, etc.

Math Review: I gave a packet that was part review and part challenge. The first pages on circumference and area of circles, coordinates, and perimeter, were part of reviewing for the math quiz Wednesday. The latter portion on surface area, concentric circles, and finding out angles without a protractor are challenge pages. Please complete some review and two pages of practice.

Auditions Tomorrow! Be sure to bring your form and hopefully you signed up outside of Ms. H’s room

Pink Day Wednesday: Wear a pink shirt Wed!

Green Notice/Movie Night: Tickets must be purchased by Thursday, Feb. 25th.

Field Trip Friday: Look for that camera, rain clothes, warm stuff to wear in prep for our field trip on Friday. Please get here on time at 8:50 AM so we can be ready to go.

Have a good night!

Hello Everyone,

No School Tomorrow!

Quick Update of our projects and work status:

• Math quiz on Wednesday
• Puppet Pals scripts and prep is complete, but we will continue recording on Monday and Tuesday as only so many students can do it at one time
• Games are in progress and more time will be given on Monday; we will see where we are at then, with the hope of finishing by end of day.
• Scale Building Project for Math: Draw another version of your design in your grid book with one section open, so we can see the inside of the building.
• French: Finish two more pages of packets. End product will be writing about ourselves using this vocabulary and grammar as a guide. We went over conjugation today.
• Exploration: Continue writing down things for the explorations in your new green journal. Remember you are keeping a record over the next three days.
• Journal Descriptive Writing: Lots of time was given for this in class, so most finished, but if not done, please finish for Monday.

Anyone in the Leadership Camp tomorrow (anyone who submitted an application) please meet at Burnaby South main entrance at 8:50 AM (not the theatre entrance) and pick up is promptly at 3PM.

Science Games teams please do your homework as related to the projects due before March 5th, the day of the games. If you do not know what you should be doing, please contact your team members.

We went through all work that has been due over last month to ensure everyone had turned it in. Report cards are coming up soon, and we will be doing some self-assessment together next week.

Have a great Friday! Ms. D is presenting to teachers about the new curriculum and about making units like the ones we do in class!

Next blog contributor is Brian!!!

Hello everybody! My name is Jay. I am from Ms. D’s class and I will talk about what we did today.

Unit Work:  First, in the morning Ms. D gave us a handout that told us how to be an explorer. Inside the packet were some activities to do to become more aware, to become better observers, and to lead to new discoveries. The first activity was to list ten things which you didn’t notice before you sat down. The second was to make a survey of five questions and ask everyone in the class these questions (questions should not have a yes or a no answer.) We recorded these in a new Exploration Booklet and will keep doing exercises each day.

LA: Then we read Lemoncello again and did READING POWER visualizing. We had to think of a picture in the story and write descriptive words about it. We found out today that Lemoncello has a book #2 that just arrived at the library!

Math: What we did in math was reviewing what we did in this unit. There will be a QUIZ ON THE UNIT next week on Wednesday. Homework is to study for the quiz. The main part on math was measuring circles and getting the area, circumference,  diameter and radius. (These will all be on the quiz.) We also looked at some architectural renderings and scale models Ms. D brought in as an introduction to our own project of creating a scale plan and model of a building.

Puppet Pals: After lunch we had Puppet Pals and Game work time. For puppet pals practice your script at home so you can record it tomorrow. The due date for it is Thursday EOD. Homework is to bring game pieces and other materials for your game or work on it a bit at home. The game is due EOD Monday. More time will be given tomorrow.

PE:  During P.E. today we partnered up to make a lesson together about a cardiovascular sport or activity such as soccer, basket ball, martial arts, etc. Homework is to make the topic you are doing if you haven’t yet.

The Caribou test is TOMORROW so if you haven’t practiced yet start practicing here.

Have a great night!

Hello, Michael here. I will be doing the blog entry for today.

To start off the day we had a competition to see what table could name the most adjectives. Using those adjectives we then described a place or a painting of our choice.We practiced “showing not telling” to make a photo with words. This will help us create a personal narrative for the migration unit and language arts.

Then we did French until recess. Homework is to do two pages of whichever packet you are on.

After recess we read for fifteen minutes.

Then we worked on puppet pals till lunch. The project is due Thursday end of day.

After lunch we read the stories about immigrants that came into Canada which you should read some more about, here:

Immigrant stories Pier 21

US Migrant Stories

Then we worked on our board games till the end of the day. This project is due Monday end of day.

Goodbye! Hope you have a great night.

Hello everyone, I am Peter in Ms. DeTerra’s class. I am going to write your blog post as Ms. DeTerra was not here today. Before I tell you about the day I would like to say thank you to Ms. Talib for substituting for Ms. DeTerra.

First, we gave each other our valentines candy or cards.

Then, we worked on our French. For homework, try to finish at least 2 more pages. While you are doing that, try to say the words out loud to practice.

At 9:50, we went to the Scholastic book fair in the school library where you can buy books, stuff for school, kits(science, spy, etc) and posters.

After we came back, we had silent reading until recess. After recess, we worked on puppet pals. Some people are ahead of others on the work, so if you haven’t finished an outline or storyboard, do it for homework. At 11:30, we had a choice of working on math or continuing puppet pals.

For lunch, we had an inside day where we played, but some people were quite loud. After lunch, we went to Mrs. Lee’s grade 2/3’s as we made math flashcards for them since they are learning math.

After that, we went to gym where we did stretches, bloods, military jumping jacks, running and a fun round of dodgeball.

Finally, we read 2 more chapters of “Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s library.” This time we drew a picture and wrote words that led to that picture.

For homework:2 more pages of french. Find materials for your game if you need materials at home.

Note: A notice was sent home today on the upcoming spring musical.

Note: No school on Friday, pro D day.

Reminder:Book fair is going on for the whole week, it is open at recess, lunch and after school until 4 PM.

Bye everyone! Hope you have a good but rainy night!