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January 31st, 2018

1/31/2018

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Thank you to everyone who remembered to wear blue or green today for Bell's Let's Talk Day. During Health today the students and I took time out of our day for guided meditation. In our class, we actually begin each day with a mindfulness activity. This is a daily practice for us. However, these are usually very short. Some days we need a little bit more. Remember, most of our guided meditations are available on our Grade 4 or Grade 5 Health page. There is a mindfulness playlist. Try them out at home when you need to find a moment of calm or come back to the present moment. I keep promising students I will add our daily practices to this playlist but I haven't recorded them yet, sorry! 

Thank you, also, to everyone who came prepared to give their Book Talk today. I love Book Talk days! It is so amazing listening to students talk about what they have been reading. You come away with a list of books that you would like to read next. I especially love seeing students trade or loan books to one another after Book Talk. Keep it up Grade 4 and Grade 5. You are amazing. We will have one more Book Talk in February before moving on to Book Clubs in March. 

Agenda
Language Arts:
- Read 20 minutes
- Spelling Test (February 1st)

Math:
- Multiplication Fact Practice (8x, 9x)
- Grade 4: 
- Grade 5: 

Science:
- Classroom Science Fair (March 7th)
- School Science Fair (March 14th)

Health:
- PEAK (Wednesday)

Other:
- Tech & Trades: Grades 4-6, Mondays, 3:15-4:15 pm
- Choir: Grades 3/4, Tuesdays, 3:15-4:15 pm
- Guitar Club: Grades 5/6, Thursdays, 3:15-4:15 pm
- Girls Basketball: Grades 5/6, Mondays/Thursdays, 3:15-4:15 pm
- Boys Basketball: Grades 5/6, Tuesdays, 3:15-4:15 pm
- Cooking Club: Grades 3/4, Mondays, 3:15-4:00 pm
​- Sharpen the Saw Club: Grades 5/6, Wednesdays, 3:15-4:15 pm
- CG Recyclers: Grades 4-6, Day 2, Lunch/Recess
- Chess Club: Grades 4-6, Day 3, Lunch Recess
- Hot Lunches, order at christinagordon.hotlunches.net 
- Reward Day: Snow Painting, Thursday, February 1st

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January 30th, 2018

1/30/2018

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Please see the following email from Mr. Thorne in regards to our upcoming Three Way Conferences:


Dear Parent/Guardian,

Wow! We have just passed the halfway point in the school year. This letter is to advise
​you of our upcoming Three Way Conferences. 

​GRADES 1-6
Feb. 7th from ​5-8​ pm
Feb. 8th from 4-7 pm

​KINDERGARTEN
Feb. 20th from 4-7 pm
Feb​.​ 21st from 4-7 pm 

​​You are encouraged to go online and set up appointments with your children’s teachers. Report Cards will be sent home in March.

​We believe that early communication with parents and children to discuss the child’s progress is vital, which is why we set up these meetings, usually mid-term. In doing so, parents and child have a discussion prior to the Report Card going home. This allows changes to be made if necessary,​ to ensure the child’s success. This is a more proactive approach than reacting to the Report Card. 

​In the case of Grades 1-6 students, just before the Three Way Conferences you will receive a brief progress report for your child (not to be confused with the Report Cards coming home later). This will be helpful to guide discussion at the Three Way Conferences.

We believe there is much benefit in both the parent and child sitting down and having these discussions, which is why we have Three Way Conferences involving all parents, student, and teacher, instead of the traditional Parent-Teacher Interviews. Please bring your child to these Three Way Conferences. For a number of reasons, ​including the fact that the Term 1 Three Way Conferences were later in Kindergarten than Grades 1-6, our Kindergarten Three Way Conferences are being held at a later time once again this term, on Feb. 20th and 21st.​

To book appointments ​for Kindergarten or Grades 1-6, please go to our school website or follow this link: http://christinagordon.fmpsdschools.ca/view.php?action=signin

If you haven’t already set up an account, you will be asked to do so at that time.  

- Rick Thorne, Principal


Agenda
Language Arts:
- Read 20 minutes
- Book Talk (due January 31st)
- Spelling Test (February 1st)

Math:
- Multiplication Fact Practice (8x, 9x)
- Grade 4: pg. 34 #1-2, pg. 35 #1, pgs. 36-37
- Grade 5: pg. 90 #1-3, 5

Science:
- Classroom Science Fair (March 7th)
- School Science Fair (March 14th)

Health:
- PEAK (Wednesday)

Other:
- Tech & Trades: Grades 4-6, Mondays, 3:15-4:15 pm
- Choir: Grades 3/4, Tuesdays, 3:15-4:15 pm
- Guitar Club: Grades 5/6, Thursdays, 3:15-4:15 pm
- Girls Basketball: Grades 5/6, Mondays/Thursdays, 3:15-4:15 pm
- Boys Basketball: Grades 5/6, Tuesdays, 3:15-4:15 pm
- Cooking Club: Grades 3/4, Mondays, 3:15-4:00 pm
​- Sharpen the Saw Club: Grades 5/6, Wednesdays, 3:15-4:15 pm
- CG Recyclers: Grades 4-6, Day 2, Lunch/Recess
- Chess Club: Grades 4-6, Day 3, Lunch Recess
- Hot Lunches, order at christinagordon.hotlunches.net 
- Reward Day: Snow Painting, Wednesday, January 30th
- Bell Let's Talk Day: January 31st (Wear Blue or Green)​

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January 29th, 2018

1/29/2018

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Agenda
Language Arts:
- Read 20 minutes
- Book Talk (due January 31st)
- Spelling Test (February 1st)

Math:
- Multiplication Fact Practice (8x, 9x)
- Grade 4: pg. 84 #1-5
- Grade 5: pgs. 86-97 #1-6, 8, 10-11

Science:
- Classroom Science Fair (March 7th)
- School Science Fair (March 14th)

Health:
- PEAK (Wednesday)

Other:
- Tech & Trades: Grades 4-6, Mondays, 3:15-4:15 pm
- Choir: Grades 3/4, Tuesdays, 3:15-4:15 pm
- Guitar Club: Grades 5/6, Thursdays, 3:15-4:15 pm
- Girls Basketball: Grades 5/6, Mondays/Thursdays, 3:15-4:15 pm
- Boys Basketball: Grades 5/6, Tuesdays, 3:15-4:15 pm
- Cooking Club: Grades 3/4, Mondays, 3:15-4:00 pm
​- Sharpen the Saw Club: Grades 5/6, Wednesdays, 3:15-4:15 pm
- CG Recyclers: Grades 4-6, Day 2, Lunch/Recess
- Chess Club: Grades 4-6, Day 3, Lunch Recess
- Hot Lunches, order at christinagordon.hotlunches.net 
- Reward Day: Snow Painting, Tuesday, January 30th
- Bell Let's Talk Day: January 31st (Wear Blue or Green)​

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January 26th, 2018

1/26/2018

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In Math today, students practiced and had their weekly quiz on multiplication facts. Today our focus was on the 2x and 4x tables. Next week... 8x and 9x! So start practicing this weekend if you can. The Grade 4 students have started a new unit, Multiplication and Division Facts. We have started this unit by exploring doubling as a multiplication strategy. The Grade 5 students are working on their Multiplying and Dividing Whole Numbers unit. Yesterday and today we practiced using estimation to find products to solve problems. We will continue to practice the above lessons next week.

In Social Studies, students have been working daily on our ongoing regions projects. However, we have also been "investigating" the regions of Alberta more closely. We s started our Geography unit by looking at the provinces and territories of Canada closely. Now we are focusing in on Alberta. Students have been watching a new video each class and asked to use their knowledge of Alberta's geography to infer which region of Alberta the video features. Students are becoming better at using their knowledge of Geography to accurately infer which region we are examining. Students are also asked to look for: natural resources, landforms, bodies of water, and climate information from each video. You can see the videos we have studied on our Grade 4 Geography page. Don't forget, our Canada videos are still posted under Grade 5 Geography. 

Unfortunately, we were unable to go snow painting today due to the weather. We will reschedule our Reward Day for Monday. Have a great weekend everyone!

Agenda
Language Arts:
- Read 20 minutes
- Book Talk (due January 31st)
- Spelling Test (February 1st)

Math:
- Multiplication Fact Practice (8x, 9x)
- Grade 4: 
- Grade 5: 

Science:
- Classroom Science Fair (March 7th)
- School Science Fair (March 14th)

Health:
- PEAK (Wednesday)

Other:
- Tech & Trades: Grades 4-6, Mondays, 3:15-4:15 pm
- Choir: Grades 3/4, Tuesdays, 3:15-4:15 pm
- Guitar Club: Grades 5/6, Thursdays, 3:15-4:15 pm
- Girls Basketball: Grades 5/6, Mondays/Thursdays, 3:15-4:15 pm
- Boys Basketball: Grades 5/6, Tuesdays, 3:15-4:15 pm
- Cooking Club: Grades 3/4, Mondays, 3:15-4:00 pm
​- Sharpen the Saw Club: Grades 5/6, Wednesdays, 3:15-4:15 pm
- CG Recyclers: Grades 4-6, Day 2, Lunch/Recess
- Chess Club: Grades 4-6, Day 3, Lunch Recess
- Hot Lunches, order at christinagordon.hotlunches.net 
- Reward Day: Snow Painting, Monday, January 29th
- Bell Let's Talk Day: January 31st (Wear Blue or Green)​

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January 25th, 2015

1/25/2018

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You are invited to Christina Gordon’s Annual Family Literacy Night What is your Superpower?

Who: All Christina Gordon Students and Their Families
What: Celebrating Family Literacy!
When:  Thursday January 25, 2018 from 5:30-7:00 pm
Where: Christina Gordon School Gymnasium and Atrium

We hope you will join us in promoting family literacy at our Super Readers event. We are encouraging all families to come dressed up as their favourite superhero and show off their love of reading. We will be hosting several interactive reading opportunities. There will be a photo booth, crafts, physical activities, healthy snacks and fun door prizes! What is your superpower?

Agenda
Language Arts:
- Read 20 minutes
- Book Talk (due January 31st)
- Spelling Test (February 1st)

Math:
- Multiplication Fact Practice (2x, 4x)
- Grade 4: pgs. 32-33
- Grade 5: pg. 86 #1-3

Science:
- Classroom Science Fair (March 7th)
- School Science Fair (March 14th)

Health:
- PEAK (Friday)

Other:
- Tech & Trades: Grades 4-6, Mondays, 3:15-4:15 pm
- Choir: Grades 3/4, Tuesdays, 3:15-4:15 pm
- Guitar Club: Grades 5/6, Thursdays, 3:15-4:15 pm
- Girls Basketball: Grades 5/6, Mondays/Thursdays, 3:15-4:15 pm
- Boys Basketball: Grades 5/6, Tuesdays, 3:15-4:15 pm
- Cooking Club: Grades 3/4, Mondays, 3:15-4:00 pm
​- Sharpen the Saw Club: Grades 5/6, Wednesdays, 3:15-4:15 pm
- CG Recyclers: Grades 4-6, Day 2, Lunch/Recess
- Chess Club: Grades 4-6, Day 3, Lunch Recess
- Hot Lunches, order at christinagordon.hotlunches.net 
- Family Literacy Night: January 25th, 5:30-7:00 pm
​- Book Swap: January 25th
- Reward Day: Snow Painting, January 26th
- Bell Let's Talk Day: January 31st (Wear Blue or Green)​

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January 24th, 2018

1/24/2018

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Thank you to all of our Grade 4 students for all their hard work getting ready for their Math test. We spent time today allowing students to work through the test at their own pace. Afterwards, students worked on assigned work in Mathletics and then this afternoon, in Language Arts. 

Thank you to all of our Grade 5 students for being so patient and kind today. It isn't easy to work from your seat quietly while another grade is writing a test. The Grade 4's did it for us last week and I was so proud that the Grade 5 reciprocated this week. Like the Grade 4's, Grade 5 students worked on assigned Mathletics work and then work in Language Arts. 

In Language Arts today, students were focused on finishing to type a paragraph that we have been working on. I am really excited that we are going to be publishing these paragraphs so that they can be shared with others, through our classroom website. Stay tuned for students' Google Sites where they will be creating a writing portfolio to share their work throughout the year. It will take us a while to get up and running, but I can't wait to see students finished work. 

Agenda
Language Arts:
- Read 20 minutes
- Book Talk (due January 31st)
- Spelling Test (February 1st)

Math:
- Multiplication Fact Practice (2x, 4x)
- Grade 4: 
- Grade 5: 

Science:
- Classroom Science Fair (March 7th)
- School Science Fair (March 14th)

Health:
- PEAK (Friday)

Other:
- Tech & Trades: Grades 4-6, Mondays, 3:15-4:15 pm
- Choir: Grades 3/4, Tuesdays, 3:15-4:15 pm
- Guitar Club: Grades 5/6, Thursdays, 3:15-4:15 pm
- Girls Basketball: Grades 5/6, Mondays/Thursdays, 3:15-4:15 pm
- Boys Basketball: Grades 5/6, Tuesdays, 3:15-4:15 pm
- Cooking Club: Grades 3/4, Mondays, 3:15-4:00 pm
​- Sharpen the Saw Club: Grades 5/6, Wednesdays, 3:15-4:15 pm
- CG Recyclers: Grades 4-6, Day 2, Lunch/Recess
- Chess Club: Grades 4-6, Day 3, Lunch Recess
- Hot Lunches, order at christinagordon.hotlunches.net 
- Family Literacy Night: January 25th, 5:30-7:00 pm
​- Book Swap: January 25th
- Reward Day: Snow Painting, January 26th
- Bell Let's Talk Day: January 31st (Wear Blue or Green)

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January 23rd, 2018

1/23/2018

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Please see the email below in regards to some upcoming events and activities taking place at Christina Gordon Public School: 


Good afternoon,

Just a few updates on events and activities taking place at school. First, within the past week or so you should have received in the mail a survey from Alberta Education. We strongly encourage all parents to complete this survey. While we understand that completing surveys is not everyone's favourite thing to do, this particular survey is very important to help us provide the best education we can for your child(ren) at Christina Gordon Public School. It should only take a few minutes to complete. Sadly, there is not an online version of the survey, so the survey must be completed and mailed back to Alberta Education. Each year Alberta Education does a ‘check-up’ of the education system through the Accountability Pillar. This provides an opportunity for Alberta Education and school authorities to ensure that we are equipping students for success. The Accountability Pillar uses a set of 16 indicators. Data on these indicators consists of surveys of students, parents, and teachers on various aspects of education quality, student outcomes such as dropout and high school completion rates, and provincial assessments of student learning. In February, students and all teachers will be completing their surveys online at school. All surveys are anonymous and ask questions about experiences with your school. In addition to English and French, the parent survey is available in Chinese, Punjabi, Arabic, Blackfoot, Cree, Korean, Spanish, Tagalog and Urdu. Your participation in the survey is extremely important as it helps provide important information on the quality of education your child is receiving, so we encourage you to return your survey promptly. Survey results will be available to us at the school and district level in May, 2018. This information, which will be shared with the public, is very important in assisting us to develop our School Growth Plan, to continuously improve education at Christina Gordon Public School. If you have misplaced this survey, please contact the office as soon as possible so that they can make arrangements to have a second survey delivered to you. 

Second, a remind that this Thursday is our annual Family Literacy Night. All Christina Gordon students and their families are welcome to attend. We will be celebrating family literacy, this year with a superhero theme. Family Literacy Night is Thursday, January 25th from 5:30-7:00 pm in the Christina Gordon gymnasium and atrium. We hope you will join us in promoting family literacy at our Super Readers event. We are encouraging all families to come dressed up as their favourite superhero and show off their love of reading. We will be hosting several interactive reading opportunities. There will be a photo booth, crafts, physical activities, healthy snacks, and fun door prizes! What is your superpower?

Third, as part of Family Literacy Night, we will be hosting a Book Swap. Bring a book... take a book! It’s as easy as that! At our Family Literacy Night on Thursday, January 25th, we will have Book Swap tables set up in the atrium. Feel free to bring in any gently used, school appropriate books (ECDP to Grade 6) that your family may be finished with. Then you can pick out some new books to take home and enjoy! The swap will be book for book. Bring 5 books... take 5 books. Book donations are also welcome. We hope to see you there!

Finally, the students have earned over 100 points on our classroom reward board. As such, we will be having a classroom reward day this Friday, January 26th. The students have selected snow painting as their reward. We will be going outside and using food colouring and water, decorating some of the snow around Christina Gordon. We are in need of some containers to make this possible. Plastic water bottles, reusable water bottles that can be squeezed, ketchup, mustard, shampoo, etc. any plastic bottle that can be refilled and then squeezed would be appropriate for this activity. Please send in any containers you have (the more we have, the more colours we can create) and make sure that your student comes prepared to be outside on Friday. 

Thank you so much everyone. As always, let me know if there are questions or concerns in regards to any of the above, 

- Ashley Barrington, Grade 4/5 Teacher


Agenda
Language Arts:
- Read 20 minutes
- Book Talk (due January 31st)
- Spelling Test (February 1st)

Math:
- Multiplication Fact Practice (2x, 4x)
- Grade 4: pgs. 76-77
- Grade 4: Whole Numbers Unit Test (TOMORROW)
- Grade 5: pg. 83 #5-9, 12, 13

Science:
- Classroom Science Fair (March 7th)
- School Science Fair (March 14th)

Health:
- PEAK (Wednesday)

Other:
- Tech & Trades: Grades 4-6, Mondays, 3:15-4:15 pm
- Choir: Grades 3/4, Tuesdays, 3:15-4:15 pm
- Guitar Club: Grades 5/6, Thursdays, 3:15-4:15 pm
- Girls Basketball: Grades 5/6, Mondays/Thursdays, 3:15-4:15 pm
- Boys Basketball: Grades 5/6, Tuesdays, 3:15-4:15 pm
- Cooking Club: Grades 3/4, Mondays, 3:15-4:00 pm
​- Sharpen the Saw Club: Grades 5/6, Wednesdays, 3:15-4:15 pm
- CG Recyclers: Grades 4-6, Day 2, Lunch/Recess
- Chess Club: Grades 4-6, Day 3, Lunch Recess
- Hot Lunches, order at christinagordon.hotlunches.net 
- Family Literacy Night: January 25th, 5:30-7:00 pm
​- Book Swap: January 25th
- Reward Day: Snow Painting, January 26th
- Bell Let's Talk Day: January 31st (Wear Blue or Green)

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January 22nd, 2018

1/22/2018

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Another busy day! We started our day with Math. Our Grade 4 students are currently reviewing for their Whole Numbers unit test on Wednesday. Today we reviewed: representing numbers (standard form, expanded form, base ten blocks), comparing and ordering numbers (less than, greater than, equal to, from greatest to least, from least to greatest), and sorting numbers (Venn diagrams and Carroll diagrams). Don't forget to keep reviewing tonight Grade 4. We will continue our review in class tomorrow. 

The Grade 5 students are adding to their growing repertoire of multiplication strategies. So far in this unit we have looked at: using mental math, drawing arrays, skip counting, doubling, and halving. Today we looked at multiplying by multiples of 10. Multiplying by a multiple of 10 is made easier when you know the trick.  

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Today we practiced using this strategy. We will be continuing to use this strategy tomorrow. 

In Social Studies we continued to work on creating the fact sheets for our regions as part of our current regions project. I have been so impressed with the level of work that the majority of students have been putting into their fact sheets. Some students have already moved on to the next part of the project, planning their train tour through their region. I can't wait to see what everyone learned on their trips. 

Today Girls Inc. visited us to work with the Grade 4 and Grade 5 girls. Grade 5 students and parents were informed at the possibility of working with Girls Inc. before the break. However, they were able to send an extra facilitator than originally planned so we would love it if the Grade 4 students were able to participate as well, to help foster the growth and development of positive relationships across grade levels and across classes as much as possible. 

While the girls were working with Girls Inc., the boys and I started a new program called "The Vault" through EverFi. This program is designed to teach elementary students about the basics of managing money (eg. opening a bank account, saving money, budgeting money, etc.). This program is new to me this year as well and I enjoyed learning alongside students today. We learned about wants vs. needs and strategies to budget and control spending. We will continue to work on this program in upcoming classes. 

Agenda
Language Arts:
- Read 20 minutes
- Book Talk (due January 31st)
- Spelling Test (February 1st)

Math:
- Multiplication Fact Practice (2x, 4x)
- Grade 4: pgs. 76-77
- Grade 5: pg. 82 #1-4

Science:
- Classroom Science Fair (March 7th)
- School Science Fair (March 14th)

Health:
- PEAK (Wednesday)

Other:
- Tech & Trades: Grades 4-6, Mondays, 3:15-4:15 pm
- Choir: Grades 3/4, Tuesdays, 3:15-4:15 pm
- Guitar Club: Grades 5/6, Thursdays, 3:15-4:15 pm
- Girls Basketball: Grades 5/6, Mondays/Thursdays, 3:15-4:15 pm
- Boys Basketball: Grades 5/6, Tuesdays, 3:15-4:15 pm
- Cooking Club: Grades 3/4, Mondays, 3:15-4:00 pm
​- Sharpen the Saw Club: Grades 5/6, Wednesdays, 3:15-4:15 pm
- CG Recyclers: Grades 4-6, Day 2, Lunch/Recess
- Chess Club: Grades 4-6, Day 3, Lunch Recess
- Hot Lunches, order at christinagordon.hotlunches.net 
- Family Literacy Night: January 25th, 5:30-7:00 pm
​- Book Swap: January 25th
- Reward Day: Snow Painting, January 26th
- Bell Let's Talk Day: January 31st (Wear Blue or Green)

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January 18th, 2018

1/18/2018

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Today was a busy day! The Grade 4 students started by practicing solving addition and subtraction problems today. We brainstormed some vocabulary that we might use as clues when problem solving. For example, "altogether" is a good clue that we need to add to find the answer to a word problem. Or we could see, "how much more" which might tell us to find the difference (subtract) between two numbers. When problem solving, it is important to look for vocabulary clues so that we choose the correct operation. Grade 4 students are now finished their Whole Numbers unit. We will be reviewing in class on Monday and Tuesday, but students should also be reviewing at home. Students can use their textbook, the classroom website, or Mathletics to begin reviewing for the test. Many students have already begun studying because we thought we might have the test this week. Great job to those students! Way to put first things first! 

The Grade 5 students are working on developing multiplication and division strategies. In multiplication we have discussed: using mental math, drawing arrays, skip counting from a known fact, and doubling. In division we have been looking at drawing arrays and using halving. Remember, it is important to be able to express your understanding of multiplication in a variety of methods, through pictures, words, and expressions, but it is important that we don't forget about mental math. Review your multiplication facts! Then review them some more. Then review, review, review. The more facts you know, the more strategies you will be able to use and understand. 

Both grades also completed their 0x and 1x table quizzes. Results will be posted to PowerSchool shortly. Still don't have access to the Parent Portal? Call the office or send me an email and we can sort out any problems. Next week, 2x and 4x tables. Start reviewing now! 

Both grades also had their biweekly spelling quizzes today. Results have already been posted to PowerSchool. 

In Art today, students continued to work on our tree collages. These collages are taking us a long time, but I am very happy with the effort that students are putting into their work and am excited to see the final result. This week we have been adding the silhouettes of trees overtop of the paper collages of warm or cool colours that we worked on before the break. Some students are still collaging their backgrounds... these students need to focus, stop talking, and get caught up during Art time. 

We have also started to publish some of our writing using Google Docs. We will continue to work on publishing our work next week. Stay tuned for more information on where you can view students' digital writing portfolios. 

Agenda
Language Arts:
- Read 20 minutes
- Book Talk (due January 31st)

Math:
- Multiplication Fact Practice (1x, 2x)
- Grade 4: pgs. 74-75 #1-3, 5-7
- Grade 5: pgs. 79 #5-8, 10-12

Science:
- Classroom Science Fair (March 7th)
- School Science Fair (March 14th)

Health:
- PEAK (Wednesday)

Other:
- Tech & Trades: Grades 4-6, Mondays, 3:15-4:15 pm
- Choir: Grades 3/4, Tuesdays, 3:15-4:15 pm
- Guitar Club: Grades 5/6, Thursdays, 3:15-4:15 pm
- Girls Basketball: Grades 5/6, Mondays/Thursdays, 3:15-4:15 pm
- Boys Basketball: Grades 5/6, Tuesdays, 3:15-4:15 pm
- Cooking Club: Grades 3/4, Mondays, 3:15-4:00 pm
​- Sharpen the Saw Club: Grades 5/6, Wednesdays, 3:15-4:15 pm
- CG Recyclers: Grades 4-6, Day 2, Lunch/Recess
- Chess Club: Grades 4-6, Day 3, Lunch Recess
- Hot Lunches, order at christinagordon.hotlunches.net 
- Family Literacy Night: January 25th, 5:30-7:00 pm
​- Book Swap: January 25th
- Reward Day: Snow Painting, January 26th
- Bell Let's Talk Day: January 31st (Wear Blue or Green)

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January 17th, 2018

1/17/2018

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Please see the email below that was sent home this afternoon in regards to our upcoming classroom and school Science Fairs:

Good afternoon,

It’s that time of year again! Christina Gordon Public School is looking forward to our upcoming school Science Fair. Science Fair logbooks were sent home today. Students are required to use these logbooks while conducting their experiments. The logbooks contain the steps needed for students to follow the scientific method, the rules, and the specific forms that are needed to be filled out depending on the topic of the Science Fair project. Please read through the logbook with your child this evening, and let me know if you have any questions. Students will be given time this week to do some initial brainstorming and researching about their projects. This is a good opportunity for them to develop their essential question. I also recommend that students work on this project well ahead of the due date. A sample schedule of a student work schedule is included below:

January 24th - Research, Essential Question
January 31st - Essential Question, Hypothesis
February 7th - Variables, Procedure, Materials
February 14th - Data Collection
February 21st - Data Analysis, Conclusion
February 28th - Display Board, Complete Project
March 7th - Classroom Science Fair (Project Due) 

Students are NOT required to follow the above work schedule, and may work on the project at their own pace, but students need ensure that they are not leaving this project until the last minute. I will also be allowing students to bring their logbooks to school and to ask questions or advice about what they have completed so far and next steps on their projects.  

Our Classroom Science Fair will take place on March 7th and our School Science Fair will be on March 14th. Students are assessed on their Science Fair projects, so please review the rubric located in the Science Fair logbook. Students have the choice to complete their projects on their own or with a partner. If working with a partner, please ensure that the students are able to meet outside of school.   

For further information and tips on the Regional Science Fair please see http://wbrsf.ca/links/. This resource provides students and parents with websites that they can use to help design, plan, organize, and present their projects. You can also visit our Classroom Website and click on the Science Fair link (under Grade 4 or Grade 5 Science). 

​Thanks everyone! 


Agenda
Language Arts:
- Read 20 minutes
- Book Talk (due January 31st)
- Spelling Test (TOMORROW)

Math:
- Multiplication Fact Practice (0x, 1x)
- Grade 4: pgs. 71-72 #1-4, 6
- Grade 5: pgs. 78-79 #1-4

Science:
- Classroom Science Fair (March 7th)
- School Science Fair (March 14th)

French:
- Les Numeros Worksheet (Thursday)

Health:
- PEAK (Thursday)

Other:
- Tech & Trades: Grades 4-6, Mondays, 3:15-4:15 pm
- Choir: Grades 3/4, Tuesdays, 3:15-4:15 pm
- Guitar Club: Grades 5/6, Thursdays, 3:15-4:15 pm
- Girls Basketball: Grades 5/6, Thursdays, 3:15-4:15 pm
- Boys Basketball: Grades 5/6, Tuesdays, 3:15-4:15 pm
- Cooking Club: Grades 3/4, Mondays, 3:15-4:00 pm
​- Sharpen the Saw Club: Grades 5/6, Wednesdays, 3:15-4:15 pm
- CG Recyclers: Grades 4-6, Day 2, Lunch/Recess
- Chess Club: Grades 4-6, Day 3, Lunch Recess
- Hot Lunches, order at christinagordon.hotlunches.net 
- Family Literacy Night: January 25th, 5:30-7:00 pm
- Reward Day: Snow Painting, January 26th

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