We were hit with another short 
week this week and boy, did it ever fly by!
We continued on our number sense journey this week by doing some work with addition to find out just how much you already know. What is great is that we found out that all of you can add up to three by three digit numbers with and without regrouping! As we discussed, if you can do that, you can do any large digit addition. Knowing that, it is important for you to “brush up” on your speed with addition as you are now in the intermediate grades. If you are still using your fingers,
it might be time to see if you can do some practice work on your own to improve your speed. Next up, we will challenge our addition skills with some problem solving using the mental math strategies we explored earlier this month.
Next week, we will be doing some similar practice with subtraction to see how your skills are in that area. Can you subtract with borrowing? Can you subtract three by three digit equations? Once we see where we are at, we will also challenge those skills with problem solving questions.
On Thursday, we had the opportunity to work with a partner on our GOW to prepare for an assessment next week. The GOW “Buddy Study” was focused around Pets and the data was already given to us. 
With your partner you discussed how to represent that data in fractions and then how to graph it using a pictograph and a bar graph. As always, there was a “Write On” component as well. This was also done in partnership so that you could discuss the best Topic sentence as well as five more informative and interesting sentences about pets in YOUR life. 
Your GOW assessment will be on MONDAY ( 28th), so take home your buddy study to practice!
This week we also worked on our School Wide Write samples and the Literacy FSA (grade 4’s). For all students, we used the in class time discuss and then to answer a question about either friendship or nature. All students writing the FSA will have their writing samples taken from whatever they wrote in the personal response portion of the FSA assessment. Everyone else in the class, during the FSA time, chose a question to respond to similar to the question from the FSA, and that writing will be their sample used in the School Wide Write assessments.
What is a School Wide Write assessment? That is a piece of writing that teachers will collect in all of the classes in the school. On the November 22 Professional Day, teachers will meet with all their grade group teachers to mark all the samples as a team. Doing this makes sure that all the 4/5 teachers for example, have the same expectations of all the students in those grades. This way, no matter what teacher you have, you will know we all have the same expectations of students in grades 4 and 5. Next week, we will finish our online Literacy FSA and move onto the Math sections.
A lot of you were able to have fun and explore Typing.com during the online FSA. While we had access to our computers, many of you played games and completed practice lessons using that website.
It was amazing to see how many of you are developing really great typing habits that will definitely help you as you move up in grades. Being able to type, with two hands on the keyboard instead of ‘pecking’ is an important skill. Please take some time at home to show your parents the website and show them what you can do! For many of you, printing is not easy so, using a computer to process your writing is a great choice! It can be quite quick and easy once you get the hang of it.
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Your Haunted Houses are coming along very well. Time is ticking as Halloween is almost upon us! We had a couple of building sessions this week and with only ONE more guaranteed building session next week, we really have to use our time wisely! 
Monday will be our last day to do major work unless Mrs. Gil is able to slot in a little more time on Tuesday or Wednesday for final touches.
Halloween is on Thursday! You may come to school dressed in costume as long as it follows these conditions:
- Culture is not a costume. So please do not dress up as a person from another country.
- Weapons are NOT allowed. If swords, guns, or other weapons are part of your costume, please keep those for trick-or-treating in the evening and don’t bring them to school.
- .If you are wearing a mask, make sure you can SEE CLEARLY with it on.
4. If you are dressing up as something scary or gory, please keep that for the evening and choose something else for school. 
One final note about Halloween: Many of you donated some Megabucks on Thursday toward our party. Our goal was to reach at least 40 MB to earn one hour of party time up to a max of 90 minutes which would cost 60 MB. With your generous donations, it gives us great pleasure to announce that the party is ON!! You donated a total of 71 Megabucks toward it, so that will give you the full afternoon on Halloween to enjoy some free time to play games. We’ll discuss this in more detail on Monday, but well done Division 7!
Your blog response for the weekend is this:
Why is “culture NOT a costume”? Why would dressing up as a person from another country/cultural group be inappropriate?
Have a great LONG weekend Division 7! See you again on Monday!
Mrs. Gil and Mrs. Davis
The school managed to get outside and organized in just under 5 minutes. Our class did a great job needing only a few reminders to line up straight and stay silent throughout the whole practice. On Thursday, we participated in The Great Canadian ShakeOut. 
The Great BC ShakeOut is an annual province-wide earthquake drill for everyone to practice how to protect themselves and to be better prepared in the event of an earthquake. Across BC, students practiced, dropping to the ground, taking cover by getting under a sturdy desk or table, and holding on until the shaking stops(or Mrs. Kimmie tells us it is over).
Also, as the earth rotates it is also orbiting (travelling around) the sun. I full orbit of the sun takes 365 days and is what gives us the seasons we experience. It was interesting to learn that not all places on earth experience all four seasons.
It’s Election Day in BC on Saturday! We continued to learn about the Provincial Government and how our system works. We learned about the number of MLA’s that are going to be elected and that they each represent a riding ( or area) of BC. We learned the name of the riding that Brentwood Park is in and who the candidates are that competing to become the MLA. 
Do you remember who the current MLA is? You all have election results homework this weekend, so if you are allowed to stay up on Saturday night, the final results should be in by 9 pm. If you aren’t, you sure will be able to “google” the results on Sunday.
of course, skill development. A lot of you demonstrated great skill at bouncing the ball while moving around the gym safely. We worked on passing the ball using the bounce pass and the chest pass as well. Basketball is a game that involves ball handling, shooting, defense, passing, and rebounding so before we can even play a game, we must learn these skills.
Our “maison hantee” projects have officially begun! We spent a good chunk of time on Friday creating our haunted houses. They are still in the very beginning stages… getting the basic framework/structure created as well as getting a coat of paint on them. 
You will have some more time next week (maybe one session with Mrs. Gil, another on Thursday with Mrs. Davis, and final touches will need to be put on during the week of October 28th. Mrs. Davis will be here on the Monday, and then there may be one last chance to finalize your haunted house before showcasing our creations on Halloween Day!!
The boys were involved in both a farting contest in their class and a vomiting prank that turned out very wrong. The chapters we read this week were definitely laugh out loud funny! What was NOT so funny about “bathrooms” this week was the challenge our class is still having with following the rules!
This is a great chance for you to explain to your parents what problems we are having with the bathroom situation in Division 7. This is also going to be your BLOG RESPONSE question this week………
Time sure is flying by, don’t you agree? We are already through our first week of October and Halloween is just a few weeks away! 
This week was a short week because of the Professional Day on Friday. Next week is also a short week because of Thanksgiving on Monday. In the blink of an eye, we will be into the middle of October.
We took things a step further and practiced some mental math strategies for addition using place value as well. Some of you finished the practice work in class, but most of you have some work to do over the long weekend. We want you to learn these strategies 
so you
Happened; Book 2″. Gordon got the boys into a real mess with the class pet. I felt really sad about how the gerbil died, did you? Maybe tell your family the story. The football story was pretty funny as well. I can just imagine a dog and a turkey playing football with the kids. I am not sure how Paulo’s dad felt about it at the end though.
will dive deep and try to understand how the Earth’s movements cause changes that we experience around us everyday. We will discover how the motions of the Earth and the moon cause patterns that affect both living and non-living things. This is sure to be a fun exploration!
Our Social Studies unit was introduced this week as well. We started with an “anticipation guide” to get our brains engaged and thinking about what the topic of study could be. You were shown a bunch of images and were asked to answer questions about each image. You discussed with a partner and then wrote your guesses down. There was no “wrong answer” as this was just to see what our background knowledge was. After that, you read a piece of text that incorporated those images and explained what how they connect. We will continue to work on that next week. Can your parents guess what we’ll be studying be based on these three set of images?
We will be helping them learn to read, we will read to them and with them, and we will definitely be making some cool projects together too! They are so lucky to have such great student role models!
. Goal setting is an important way to help us grow as students so we have begun exploring our hopes for the year ahead. This week you chose a single word that is going to help you focus and reach your goals. Next week, we will begin to look and short and long term goals and how we can best set ourselves up for success.
This is a great place for you to connect with each other in positive ways from your homes after school and on weekends. It is also a place where you will be completing and turning in your weekly Blog Responses. 
This weekend will be your first chance to complete on online assignment, so…. good luck! As the year goes on, we will be using the TEAM and Office 365 in many different ways. During our computer time, we also explored Typing.com. 
That is a website you can use anytime, if you want to improve your typing skills. You do not need to sign up for an account, there are a lot of games to play that are really fun and help you practice.
On Thursday you finally were able to begin the planning stages of our first creative design project: A haunted house! Since we are connecting it to French, it’s called “La Maison Hantee”. 
The room was a BUZZ as you chatted, exchanged ideas, and began sketching your plans onto paper. You have taken this home for the weekend, so that each of you can think of ideas. Next week on Thursday and Friday, you’ll combine your ideas, finalize your plan ( for outside and inside the house) and then move on to the building stage of this project.
What are you thankful for? List 5 things that you are grateful for: 
Wow! Here we are in October already! Autumn has officially started and the signs of this season are beginning to show. 
Cozy sweaters, leaves changing colour, and a crispness in the air are all evident these days. We’ve been pretty lucky with the rain…and umbrellas, although ready, haven’t been needed as much lately.
Our first blog post was submitted and it was great to see that 25 out of the 28 of us got our response done and handed in! The 5 MB certainly motivated us to get that one in! Let’s see if we can keep that incredible record going!
We spent a good chunk of our week preparing for our Terry Fox run on Friday. We completed a flip book about Terry and completed a few more activities in it. We did two writing activities: one paragraph explaining the 5 words we would choose to describe Terry. Compassionate, caring, determined, heroic, and self-less were some of the words that we came up with. The list was LONG. It is so great that even after 43 years, Terry Fox continues to inspire us so that his dream continues to live on. We used this long list to also create an acrostic poem about Terry. Finally, we designed a running shoe in honour of Terry with the slogan “No Matter What”. 
Did you know that 4 years ago, Adidas released a runner in honour of the 40th anniversary of the Marathon of Hope? Our run on Friday was great! It looked at first like we were going to be running in pouring rain–but the rain stopped and our run was DRY. Thanks to all the parents ( and those from Division 7) who helped out and encouraged us along the route! 
Thanks also for all the donations! Division 7 ended up donating $106.00!! That really is incredible and helped Brentwood easily reach and EXCEED our target goal! Way to go everyone!
We started French this week and have been focusing on greetings. Hello, What’s your name? My name is ____ , How are you? I am feeling ____ were only some of the many salutations we practiced. We really enjoyed singing the “Bonjour, Bonjour” song and many of us are humming that around the room too! It’s a catchy tune and has already gotten stuck in our heads! French is all about giving a new language a try. We spend lots of time speaking, listening, repeating, and practicing. Participation is key and with practice, our pronunciation will continue to improve.
Mr. Maroney was in our class for a day and a half this week, as Mrs. Gil was away for a half day on Wednesday and Mrs. Davis was away on Thursday. Thank you Division 7 for making Mr. Maroney’s time with us enjoyable. He had a great report for us about how you were fun to spend time with.
Your blog response for this weekend will need to be done on a piece of paper and given to Mrs. Gil on Monday