6 days until Halloween! This last week our class has been busily trying to bring in non-perishable food items for The Barrhaven Foodbank, and stick to our goal of 12 cans per day (Day number (x 12) = Class Goal). We have also been busily working on number patterns, and have discovered patterns in nature, restaurant seating arrangements, the way birds migrate, music and many more. In reading, we have been engaged in The Wild Robot, and how Roz is adapting to her new environment. We even had a chance to skype with another junior class who is reading the same book. Through answering clues and asking questions, we discovered they are in New Jersey. We have been working on clearly communicating our thinking by giving proof from the text, and have done so through Padlets, Flipgrids and Google Slides. We are also working on creating commercials for our own favourite book of the month. In writing we have been building solid paragraphs with topic sentences and supporting details. We have been using these, along with powerful adjectives in our Personal Recounts.

*Personal Recounts are due Friday October 26th.
*Dance-a-thon pledge dues Thursday October 25th.

We will be carving our class pumpkin on Thursday for our St.Cecilia raffle on Friday. All raffle tickets are 25 cents each, with all proceeds going towards the Barrhaven Food Bank.

Don't forget to do your brain challenge this week and get it in by Friday!

This week! The weather has finally cooled off, and it is starting to look and feel like fall!

Some updates for this week:
Math - we have been working on choosing new bedroom furniture from IKEA, while staying within a specific budget, as well as planning road-trips around Canada using the distances in kilometers between various cities. Through all of this, we have been practicing skills of addition and subtraction of 4-digit numbers using various paper and mental math strategies.
*On Thursday October 5th, we have a Number Sense quiz. Review information can be found on the 'Math' tab of this blog, as well as in your Math Google Doc folder.

Writing - we have been writing personal recounts using proper organization and voice. We specifically have been focusing on using topic sentences to organize our paragraphs, as well as using compound sentences in our writing (main idea, comma, conjunction, second main idea - e.g. Next weekend is Thanksgiving, but I am sad to miss school for 4 days.)

Reading - We have excitedly been reading our library books as well as our new class books (YAY!), and discussing our reading using RAP - restate the question, answer it with details, prove our answer with information from the text.

Other important information:
We have been continuing our cross-country tryouts during the morning. Keep your eyes peeled for the Cross-country team list.
This Thursday is Picture Day.
Don't forget to bring in your cans for our WE SCARE HUNGER initiative.