Oct 20-24

Another short week is upon us!  Short for students that is.  Teachers will be at school Thursday afternoon and Friday to learn and to work, but students will be let out on Thursday at 11:45.  With that in mind, you will not receive a Friday letter this week.

In the Classroom:

• Math - patterns are finished with for now, but we will come back to them later.  In the meantime, we will be working on adding and subtracting up to 4-digit numbers.
• Splash Math activities to help: Round Numbers (for help with estimation), Addition up to 100 000 and Subtraction up to 100 000 (even though we only go up to 4-digit numbers in grade 4).  Also, Math Facts practice in addition and subtraction up to 9 will be very beneficial.
• Language Arts 
• Writing - we are getting closer to writing our suspense stories.  My goal is that the students have completed their story plans by Thursday.
• Spelling - new words are coming home this week.
• Reading - Thank you for supporting your child's at home reading and helping him or her to log their reading time.
• Science - we will not spend quite as much time on regular science classes this week as we have Scientists in School coming tomorrow.  This program will cover pretty much the whole unit in one afternoon and is a great supplement to what we are teaching.
• Social - today we began learning about the Foothills Region of Alberta.

This Week's Schedule:
Monday:

• Clothing exchange - students will be shopping this afternoon, and the gym will be open to the public after school

Tuesday:

• Scientists in School - we have Scientist Anne, a remote sensing scientist, coming to work with us all morning to teach us more about lights and shadows!
• Library books due 
• No Tone It Up Tuesday

Thursday:

• School ends at 11:45 a.m. - teacher learning day in the afternoon

Friday:

• No school for students - teacher learning day