Wednesday Nov.12th, 2014

Students continued to work on choosing important information from 4 different articles about Grizzly Bears and writing jot notes in their information web. We will work on this one final time tomorrow. Students will then learn about how to take information from a video clip (pausing and playing) and using this to add to their webs in jot note form. This is to help them practice for when they are researching questions of their choice during our daily 5 'research a question' time and during our big inquiry work. 

In gym, students participated in a combination of 'drum fit' and physical fitness drills. 

In math students in Ms. Rauser's group are creatively sorting numbers from 100-10,000 using a venn diagram (string). They are required to use higher level thinking skills to work through what comparing strategies would work and what would not. Communicating and working collaboartively with their partner is another aspect of this! 

Students in Mrs. Cooper were introduced to adding 3 digit by 3 digit using a variety of strategies (base ten blocks, number lines for counting, blocks and manipulatives, etc.)

Thank you to those families that have already indicated their generous donations to our sponsored families!! What a great way to teach students about the spirit of giving. This will be our focus for this initiative over the next three weeks. :0) A reminder to leave a comment on your teachers (RAUSER or COOPER)' s 'Families Helping Families' blog post to let other families know what has been purchased/donated and where the need is still. 

SCHOLASTIC HOLIDAY BOOK ORDERS will be due by: November 14th, 2014

** We seem to have received another type of Xmas book order and will send this home by the end of the week as it has some really great books in it! This one will have a really quick turn around (deadline) so that we can make sure to get the books in before holiday break.