Mr. Wilson and Mrs. Schubert's Grade 3/4 Class At Tillicum School 2017-18: Catching up, Haida villages, Handwriting and the Buffalo

Notices:

5 Students need to bring back a signed lunch form

or it will be
No Soup For Them
tomorrow.

We began the day going over all the work that needs to be finished before next Thursday in time to be counted for the upcoming Report card.

Those students who are up to date on all their Socials

Those students who are up to date on all their ME writing

After M.E. the students went to library where they looked at news reports on the Highway of Hero. The students then had a library exchange. The students are allowed to have two books out at any one time, one should be a chapter book for their daily silent reading. (they can also have a chapter book from home)

After recess we read chapter 12 and 13 from the Fantastic Mr. Fox (there are 18 chapters). The students retell the chapter in their own words and add a small picture to go with it.

Students were read the book, If You Give A Cat A Cupcake, by Laura Numeroff where he'll ask for some sprinkles to go with it. When you give him the sprinkles, he might spill some on the floor. Cleaning up will make him hot, so you'll give him a bathing suit . . . and so on and so on.... the students began a mini-book based on the book

In socials there was a bonus one page report on the Haida Villages. Coastal people lived in villages with as few as two or three houses or larger villages of up to 15 or 20 houses. People traveled during the spring, summer and autumn but usually spent winters in their villages.

We then had an extra Gym period with the grade 5's. It was lots of fun and the students worked up quite a sweat.

Close to lunch our grade 4 servers headed off to give out the hot lunch program to the rest of the students in the school.

After lunch students had time to finish work or read for 20 minutes. After reading the students practiced their handwriting, they had to write a word for every letter of the alphabet. The words had to be a minimum of three letters long. Most students chose longer words. Nice to see most students do not take the easy road.

We spent the remainder of the afternoon talking about and watching video's on the Bison also know as the buffalo. We will be examining the multi uses of the buffalo by the plains peoples, followed by the seal for the Inuit and the Cedar tree for the West coast.