Monday October 28 - Thursday October 31

Thursday
🎃 BOO Happy Halloween!! 🎃
We quickly finished our buddy art from yesterday!
This morning we did a scavenger hunt of Halloween Facts between our classroom, Mrs. Campbell's classroom and the hallway - fact sheets should be in backpacks!!
Completed 4 rounds of Halloween themed math focusing on tell time
Set off our catapults in the Hawk's Nest 
Our buddies spoiled us with a Halloween Party (including yummy snacks) we will repay the favour before winter break
Do not forget there is no school as it is a Professional Development Day for staff 



Wednesday
- Did our final literacy station rotations!
- Put our knowledge to levers to use and built catapults for our (candy) pumpkins!! - Ask your child what was a success and what was a struggle for them during this activity
- Ms. Jonasson went home sick at lunch and plans to be back tomorrow for Halloween!!
with our guest teacher....
- Did some more writing about simple machines (a bit of review time)
- went to our buddies to do some art
- had some catch up time

Tuesday
- Today was another blue day (to start the day and our first recess)
- Continued literacy stations
- Did a logic puzzle in math with a Halloween theme to it
- Finally got to go outside after lunch for recess
- Read the story Scaredy Squirrel Prepares for Halloween and did some procedural writing about Halloween/Fall
- Had gym with Mr. J
- We had a much better day today!!!
Thursday is Halloween,  please be encouraged to come in your costumes!!

Monday
- Started a new round of literacy stations including: readers theatre, monster writing, halloween handwriting, non fiction research on bats and catch up work
- finished our mystery math - we know who the bad guy is...
- learned the final simple machine - levers. We took notes and did some testing in the Hawk's Nest
- Continued working on our French Halloween books. We will be sharing these with our buddies later this week

Monday October 21 - Friday October 25

Friday
- Started off with an assembly (Ms. Jonasson got to colour Mr. Wilson's hair)
- Got gym this Friday
- Went on our community walk to sketch the Rocky Mountains
- Did a craft with our buddies
- Tried to solve the mystery of the suitcase that appeared in the learning

We have been very hooked on our Math mystery this week. Lots of our resources/project ideas are bought and downloaded from a website called Teacher's Pay Teachers.
Our class has a wishlist if you wish to donate, but please do not feel obligated. Most resources cost around $4
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/ClassFund/Katie-Jonasson-23575



Thursday
Field Trip forms have been sent home today. Please sign and return ASAP
- In literacy we used descriptive writing to describe a monster we made up in our imagination. We needed lots of detail and juicy words. Next step is to draw our monster following our writing and then have a friend read our writing and try to draw our monsters
- Had a fire drill and we were awesome
- Continued our math investigation - needed to us our subtraction skills!
- Explored a special site in Alberta - Drumheller and took some notes on this area


Wednesday
HEAD UP we will be going on a community walk on FRIDAY. Please make sure your child is dressed for the fall weather.
- Finished our round off our literacy stations
- Continued time to the minute with a Disney theme (accompanied by Disney music🎵🎶)
- We have a mystery on our hands in math! Ask your child what the mystery is, what we have had to do to solve it and some of the clues we have so far...
- Started making French books using our notes

Tuesday
- Continued our next round of literacy stations - we have a new station this week, readers theatre
- Used our French notes on numbers to complete a crossword to practice our French numbers, we will be using our notes to create a Halloween/Fall French book
- Had Music with Mrs. Smith
- Worked on wedges and inclined planes to compare and contrast the two simple machines
- Continued our pointillism artwork of our regions in Alberta
- Read a few pages in the City of Ember ask your child what happened today...

Monday
- Worked on literacy stations in the morning
- learned some Halloween words in French and added them to our notes
- Worked on measure time to the minute and did an activity feeding animals at the zoo and labeling clocks
- Went outside for gym today
- Started researching our next region in Alberta

Tuesday October 15 - Friday October 18

Friday
Began creating artwork that illustrates our research on the Rocky Mountains and Foothills regions of Alberta using pointillism - key word for our artwork.... Patience
We also learned about George Seurat and how he is a famous artist who uses the technique of pointillism... he famous painting of "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte" took him two years to create
Met and read with our grade one buddies
Met with the Grade Threes in Ms. Yong's class to work on a math activity for our math afternoon!

Thursday
Finished our last round of literacy stations
Continued measuring time in 5 and 10 minute increments
Continued our novel study - ask your child what is happening
Learned two new simple machines and tried to find those simple machines outside on our playground


Wednesday
Continued our literacy stations
Did some finishing work on our lighthouses - be sure to check them out if you attend literacy night (tomorrow)
Math - continued time to 5 and 10 minute intervals and were given a challenge in the afternoon (with questions like 45 minutes past 3:20)...
Continued our research of the Foothills region in Alberta
Continued reading City of Ember today Lina and Doon were trying the decipher the message
Thanks for all the fun PJs today! It was a fun and cozy way to spend our Wednesday!


Tuesday
Coming up this week -
Literacy Night Thursday from 6:00 p.m. until 7:30 p.m. Our theme this year is Canada, please feel free to wear and Canadian gear or jersey that you have! 
Friday is Crazy Hat Day
TOMORROW -  PJ Day - Students won beat the teacher two weeks in a row so please dress in your favourite Pajamas 

Literacy - Started a new round of literacy stations, ask your child which two stations they completed

French - reviewed the alphabet and starting working on numbers 

Math - worked on telling time in 5 and 10 minute intervals

Social Studies - took time to discuss why learning how to research is so important. Began researching our next region in Alberta 

Monday October 7 - Thursday October 10

Thursday
- Had our Thanksgiving Assembly, thanks Jenny and Daniel for being such excellent MCs
- Used laptops to further research facts about the Rocky Mountain Region of Alberta
- Did some review in math on addition and time with a Thanksgiving theme
- Tried to solve a Thanksgiving logic chart - it was tricky!
- Finished our work on Mindfulness with our buddies
Have a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend! See you back on Tuesday!


Wednesday
Ms. Jonasson was away today

Tuesday
- Did a specific literacy lesson on the proper use of commas and some rules with commas in our writing
- took notes on when to use commas and fixed some sentences that were missing commas
- Continued reviewing quarter hours on our clocks and recorded time on clocks using numbers and words
- Ask your child how much money Hawkwood School raised for the Terry Fox run (it will be posted on Mr. J's blog), as well as how many choice days we won!
- Continued researching the Rocky Mountain region of Alberta using a different tool of research today
- Read the city of Ember, as me what happened when Lina ran into Lizzie and what Doon found behind the secret door...


Monday
- Began reading and analyzing a poem about being Thankful and Grateful with the Thanksgiving weekend ahead of us
- Had our first practice lock down
- Reviewed time now looking to time up to the fifteen minute mark (used terms such as quarter past and quarter to - families are encouraged to use these terms at home too)
- Started taking notes in Social Studies on the regions in Alberta - ask your child which region we started studying today and if they can tell you any interesting facts
- Don't forget it is a long weekend ahead of us, no school Friday or Monday!!

Monday September 30 - Friday October 4

Friday 
- Today is Mental Health Friday we are preparing for our literacy night by using mindfulness in our drawing of Lighthouses
- Met with our buddies and discussed different ways to be mindful
- did some catch up work
- it was a nice, calm, peaceful day
Enjoy your weekend!

Thursday
- Finished our final literacy rotations for the week
- Continued learning about reading time on analog clocks (where the hour hand should be, where the minute hand should be, that it can also be called "half past)
- practiced our music skills on the xylophone
- did some word work with dolche words and grade four level words on whiteboards
- students are working on finishing their geometry art project and some have begun to conference with Ms. Jonasson and show off their shape knowledge and understanding
- Today our pictures went home - photo orders are due by Oct 11

Wednesday
- Continued with literacy stations - we have a new station this week - ask me what it is and what topic we are learning about in that stations (hint, it has to do with what we are learning about in Science)
- Reviewed clocks and interacted with our clocks in our math books and showed our understanding in our duotangs
- Continued working on throwing and catching in gym with Mr. J
- Reviewed our social studies terms from Monday and recorded the definitions in our Social Studies duo tangs so we can refer to the terms throughout the year
- Learned a new simple machine and got to define it and experiment and play with it in small groups

Tuesday 
- We were so lucky to have a mom from our class in who is a cartographer to teach us all about maps and some of her work with maps - big thank you to Courtney for your expertise, the students loved it
- Started a new topic in Math - Time, ask me what an analog clock is and how many hours are in a day

Monday
- We wrote about our novel study City of Ember we were asked to review what has happened so far and make some predictions as to what we think will happen next!
- Continued our geometry art project - we will be transferring our good copies onto card stock later this week!
- Did a check in for social studies - we are reviewing some terms such as region, landforms, non-fiction, identity, geography, natural resources and renewable resources

Save the Date!! Literacy Night is coming up!

Monday, September 23 - Friday September 27

Friday
- Many of us spent time outside this morning at our muffin breakfast, thank you to all the wonderful volunteers for putting it together
- Had our Terry Fox assembly with Dr. Kelly our special guest speaker - she has been cancer free for 35 years!!
- Braved the cold and snow and ran our Terry Fox Run! Our class ran 84 laps!!
- Helped our buddies with some fall art!
Amazing fact - look below at Hawkwood's contributions to the Terry Fox foundation below 
as a school over the past 20 years we have raised over $60 000 for cancer research!
Our class this year has raised almost $300 - donations are still welcome early next week if you missed out

Monday is ORANGE shirt Day

Thursday
- Wrapped up our final literacy stations (we were all working so hard)
- Continued working on days of the week in French
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVHzu60QVKI (this was the song Ms. Jonasson used growing up to learn the days of the week in French)
- Created a rubric to show our learning in geometry in math to make our very own art project - stay tuned, this project is going to take lots of time!
- Played Indiana Jones in gym
Money has began trickling in for the Terry Fox run. Please remember our Muffin Breakfast tomorrow! As well as our Terry Fox Assembly and run! It maybe chilly, so dress for the weather!

Wednesday
- Continued our literacy stations
- Introduced the days of the week in French
- Completed a math checkin to review the concepts of symmetry and 3D objects and their attributes tomorrow we will be moving on to a new math project!
- We are still reading City of Ember - Ask me what is happening
- Explored the bodies of water in Alberta - the link below has some fast interactive facts about the regions in Alberta
http://www.learnalberta.ca/content/sszi/en/
-  Reminder - Terry Fox run is Friday - please bring in toonies for Terry!

Tuesday
- Today we started literacy stations again. Ask we what stations I worked on and one success story
- Finished building nets - ask me what 3D solids I built today
- Explored the simple machine wheels and axle...
Ask me
- What a wheel and axles are
- examples of them
- I can compare wheel + axles and rollers and give examples of where they are used


Monday
- Today we got our pictures taken - we were all here so no one missed out!
- In literacy, we worked on personal narratives. We took the chart we used last week to come up with our own stories. Ask your child to tell you what they wrote about
- Build 3D shapes in a new way today using nets - ask me what a net is
- Got to go outside for gym with Mr. J. Remember - Terry Fox run is FRIDAY - rain, shine or even snow! Please dress for the weather
- We will be collecting donations for Terry Fox - we have a school goal of raising $3000!!
- Worked on mapping the regions of Alberta using our textbooks - ask me what region Calgary is located in!

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Monday, September 16 - Thursday, September 19

Monday, September 16 - Thursday, September 19

Thursday
- Please have any book orders in by Monday (you can place orders online)
- Today we finished our final literacy stations (we completed six this week)
- In math we built 3D shapes with marshmallows and toothpicks and listed their attributes (ask me what shapes we needed to build)
- built some amazing stamina reading independently
- explored fall outside with our buddies - check out the scavenger hunt we needed to try to complete
- Remember NO school tomorrow - teachers' have a PD Day
Monday is Picture Day📷
PS - Congrats - The Grade 4s were working so hard this week and being such caring citizens of Hawkwood School that they beat the teacher! Ms. Jonasson owes them a bonus movement break outside next week!!

Wednesday
- Continued with our 3rd and 4th literacy stations
- Heads up - tomorrow afternoon we will be doing a scavenger hunt across the street in the community garden. Please dress for the weather!
- Continued learning about attributes of 3D solids and were we see them in our world - tomorrow we will be building our own 3D solids
- Began discussing personal narratives. We were given a new template that will help us to organize our ideas and thoughts to plan our own personal narratives throughout the school year!
- Ask me about the story we read Owl Moon to familiarize ourselves with the template we will be using for personal narratives


Tuesday
- Looking forward to next week... Monday is Picture day - remember to bring your best smile 😀
- Friday September 27th is Muffin breakfast day - see notice that went home today
- Please take time to verify information on the purple student demographic pages the also went home today
- Practiced our French Alphabet. Check out the video below to listen to the new song we learned
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KC6UHDqqKQ
- Had a science challenge to move a textbook with little force using classroom supplies - ask how your child did!


Monday
- Ask me what a libretto is...
- We had a special guest today who took some of our ideas to write the script for our Opera ...
- Started working on 3D solids/shapes
I can... Describe the characteristics of 3-D objects
- ask me some of the 3D objects we learned about....
- Got to go outside and play during gym class today
- Had our first fire drill!