Ms Burton Snow's Blog

Hi everyone, I was just reading my e-mail messages and I saw that Ms. Sullivan asked me to let you know that the flutes and clarinets have band tomorrow, October 1st. She will give you a band schedule tomorrow.

Today Eric said something really funny.  We have begun our Art study by looking at lines.  We talked about zigzag lines, vertical, diagonal, dotted and squiggly lines.  Eric told us not to forget blurred lines.  Ha!!!  Good connection to real life, Eric!

Please note:  I did not always highlight the outcome.  I wrote a note to each student at the top of the page to let them know what needed to be done.   September 17, 20 13 Dear Parents and Guardians, Welcome to Grade 5!   For the first several days of school we reviewed some Math concepts covered in Grade 4.   Attached to this letter you will see a booklet of work that your child recently completed.   We reviewed the booklets at our grade level and decided that we would send home the work that your child completed so that you can see the areas that your child will need to work on at home in order to be prepared for the demands of the Grade 5 Math curriculum.   Below you will see a list of the outcomes that were targeted with the booklet.   If a child experienced difficulty in an area we have highlighted that outcome.   We suggest you review the pages in the booklet focusing on that outcome as well as have your child complete the supplementary pages that we have chosen.

Many thanks for all the food donations that have been sent in already.

From now on I will be posting notes that I give my class under the NOTES section of this blog.  If you click on NOTES you will see this message. September 24, 2013 Dear Students, Parents and Guardians, On __________________ , 2013 the Grade 5 students will be having a French quiz on their colours and numbers to 30. To prepare for this quiz the students should know their basic colours in French.   They will be asked to color some small pictures.   Each picture will be labeled with a color.   Here is a list of the colors that the students should know:   rouge-red, bleu-blue, jaune-yellow, brun-brown, blanc-white, noir-black, violet-purple, vert-green, orange-orange. For the second part of the quiz, I will be calling out a number between 1-30 and the students will need to write the number that I say.   Please note that students will not be asked to write the number in words .   Please visit http://mqpschool.net/ , click on Teachers and then scroll down to the website f

Erin getting an up close and personal view of a mussel.

Here is what Sebastian told us today about realistic goals.  "Realistic goals- stuff you can accomplish" Good job, Sebastian!

Today was the big day, the day when Ms. Sullivan held her band auditions.  Everyone was pretty excited today as they awaited their turn for the much anticipated meeting with Ms. Sullivan. Everyone in my class has registered for the band.  They must be a musical bunch!  I am looking forward to hearing them play.

Last week I began reading the novel "Because of Winn-Dixie" to the students.  Each student has a copy to follow along so this read-aloud is going quite well. Today we came across the word potluck.  The word potluck proved difficult for some students and only a few stated that they had been to a potluck before.  If you can think of a time that your child attended a potluck please discuss the experience with them.  Perhaps we will need to have a class potluck when we finish reading this novel.

Congratulations to Kate who showed us how to scan QR codes today.  The students completed interviews on each other using questions that they learned from QR codes.

Last year my students invited the Grade 4's to our French café.  We charged each student $1.00 and the money raised was used to buy food and supplies for the animals at the SPCA.  This summer I took the money and Grace to the SPCA to drop off our donations.  Raising money or collecting items for charity is one of our Grade 4 Religion outcomes.

Today we began our Health program.  The students proved that they knew a great deal about the difference between strengths, talents and abilities. Shout-out to the following students: Tyra for remembering standard form and Matthew for remembering expanded form!!

Have a look at this link: http://vimeo.com/28170845

We had a great first day!  We spent some time getting to know each other today by completing an icebreaker activity.  The students learned who went to a wedding this summer, who likes Math a lot, who has allergies, who went camping over the summer and many other things. We also decided on our class rules.  The list that was suggested looks like this: No hands, No feet! Raise your hand No running No swearing Rewards! (and punishments (yikes!)