Dear families,
That was quite the action-packed week! Halloween is probably the most epic day of the year at Lord Lansdowne and this year was no exception. The costumes were amazing, the spooky snacks were tasty-fun, our in-costume class dance party was full of impressive moves, and best of all, the room 109 mystery story sharing was ( and continues to be) the celebration of much hard work and creative writing Talent. We will be putting all the stories together in a book for the class to enjoy throughout the year. A few students have yet to submit their stories. Please support them with completing this assignment. If possible, I would like each student to type his or her story as a chance to practice typing skills. ROM Trip Our first field trip of the year was success. We enjoyed having a warm day to walk there and back through the Gothic sections of the U of T campus. The grade 4 rock and mineral session I was with was well designed. We started off with a session in the lab to have a hands-on exploration of many different types of rocks and minerals, and then we had a guided tour of the dazzling rock and mineral collection. A good follow-up questions at home could be... What are the three different types of rocks and what are examples of them in your home/neighborhood? Next Week Next week is Treaty Recognition week in Ontario. We will be exploring themes around Indigenous treaty rights in Ontario during this week and at other points throughout the year. Please see these short videos for more info: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt5tdGo1_vQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVVD9yYCKiI Our next unit in English writing is nonfiction, informational and paragraph writing and we will be using themes around treaty recognition to explore these writing forms. We will be having a Remembrance Day assembly on Friday beginning at 10:30. Our class will be reciting a poem in French and singing a bilingual version of Blowing in the Wind. Families are welcome to attend. Homework We are nicely into our math unit on Division. The homework this week is to find many different possibilities for dividing Halloween candy. Students can by all means use their candy to sort out equal groupings (a less distracting option could be beans or buttons). We will be starting long division next week for both grades with more advanced questions for students in grade five. I'll send videos in next week's blog post with ways to make long division more fun and the steps easier to remember. Bon Weekend! M. Quigg
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