Miss.Sturgeon's HAPPY HALLOWEEN VIDEO:

Click to view Miss.Sturgeon and Mrs. Varanda!

https://www.jibjab.com/view/make/quarantineoween-starring-you-clip/d278182e-ca0e-41e3-b8e5-a5084dd6e5e7

Our Door!

    We have entered our classroom door into the Halloween Door Decorate competition. Thanks you Sturgeonites for your art talent! All our science/art paid off! The door was assembled tonight by Miss.Sturgeon and looks AMAZING! Everyone's hand art is up and everyone did their bones properly in the correct places. Our phalanges and metacarpals look great...and spooky!

Plus we added some your Negative Space Halloween Spray paint art projects! Wow! The rest are inside our class.

Check it out!

HALLOWEEK! Spirit Week!

Halloween is next week, so we are having a Spirit Halloweek!

  

Here are the themes for spirit week:

Monday-School colours day (red, white, black)

Tuesday-Crazy hair day

Wednesday- Orange and black day

Thursday- Hat day

Friday- Wear your Halloween costume day!  **NEW!

Halloween and Covid

OPH has vetted these recommendations and supports these:

• Simple costume, no accessories, no costume mask (but regular mask)

• No makeup (interferes with regular mask)

• No change of clothes at school, come in your costume!

• No distribution or exchange of treats

• No parade to see other classes

• Continue to respect the distancing / cohort instructions

Math Test Study Helper

 This study sheet below will help you know what content is on our test. It is mostly an overview of basic underlying concepts dealt with in number sense so far. The more complex problems, number talks, regrouping with physical base ten blocks etc. are evaluated ongoing as classwork. This is a check up!

Math Test

Math Test will cover:

place value digit values (ones, tens, hundreds...etc)

expanded form of a number

written form of a number

rounding to nearest 10, 100, 1000

greater than and less than

compare and order

draw base ten

adding

regrouping

decomposing numbers into different parts ex: 256 is ________ tens and ______ones

different ways to pay for an item (ex: $12, 985 for a car. What ways can you pay? Make different combinations)

Math Test

 Since Miss.Sturgeon was away, she is moving the math test to Monday. Concepts to be covered will be posted here Wednesday evening. You can practice at home by studying the concepts and definitions. The test will be what is on the study guide, so there are no surprises!

Homework posted Tuesday

 Miss.Sturgeon is still feeling sick and should be back Wednesday. There will be homework posted Tuesday (not tonight) and it will be review practice for our unit math test on Friday.

Miss.Sturgeon away Monday

 Miss.Sturgeon is feeling very ill and will be away on Monday and is sad to miss the Terry Fox walk. Homework and Hapara work will be posted when she feels well enough. (Don't worry...she is not contagious, she is having a strong reaction to her flu shot.)

Times Table Focus

 We are trying to have all student memorize their times tables. Here is a link to a gaming site for practice:

https://www.multiplication.com/games/all-games

Try them nightly! Make flashcards to quiz yourself at home!

Thanksgiving Long Weekend

 Thanksgiving...what a great time to count your blessings. With the pandemic, it is even more important to try our best to focus on what positive, good things we have in our lives. Good is hiding everywhere and silver linings are abundant, we just need to train our brains to find them. Our class did a full day of GRATITUDE. We brainstormed and thought about things that make us happy and grateful...from tiny items such as cute cat paws, to big ideas like fairness and love.

Our class is doing a 30 day Gratitude Challenge beginning today. We will be finding the positive things we are grateful for that happened each day and reflecting on them before we leave school each day.

Try it at home before bed! It helps children sleep well to end the day with gratitude instead of complaints!

Miss.Sturgeon has posted some videos to get you started in the previous post. She is also posting her favourite song Baba Yetu (below). It is the Lord's Prayer sung in Swahili . It also happens to show Miss.Sturgeon's top gratefulness items: The beauty of nature and beauty of music!

Fun fact for any gamers out there: This song was composed and written for the video game Civilizations and is the first piece of music for a video game to be nominated and win a Grammy Award.

Gratitude and Being Thankful

 

Terry Fox Cancer Fundraiser Walk/Run

Our school is proud to offer a slightly Covid-altered Terry Fox Walk for Cancer! Once again we are fundraising for Cancer Research and Covid will not stop us----or Terry's Dream! Please support us, if not in finances, then in spirit, prayers and participation for those whose families are affected by cancer.

October 15th will be our date for being outdoors, with October 16th as our rain date.

Students At Home

 For students at home, waiting for Covid tests, or waiting for Virtual Academy placements etc. please make sure you are keeping up with our class by following what we are doing in your HAPARA workspace folder. All tasks and lesson goals are posted there weekly.