Mr. Wilson and Mrs. Schubert's Grade 3/4 Class At Tillicum School 2017-18: Tuesday October 20

Notices:

Friday Pro-D No School

Thursday we have a reptile show coming to our class. Very Cool

Next month's Hot lunch program forms went home

Scholastic Book order forms went home as well

We began the day talking about what makes a safe and good Halloween costume. The students then wrote about their best Halloween costume ever.

Today we began the next phase of our music listening program looking for the best halloween song. We had fox vs a brilliant skeleton song from the 1930's.. that was my vote, however the fox song won.

Halloween Safety program was held in the Library with our Police Liaison Officer, yes the one dressed like the prisoner. Ha Ha.

After recess we went to the computer lab and the students typed their Halloween costume story then had to make a Who Am I riddle with 5 questions about something. For Example:

I am yellow, white, orange, green or sometimes red

I weigh about 6 kilograms

My name comes from the Greek word ‘pepon’

I have many faces

You can cook me and make me into a pie

WHAT AM I

Answer A jack-o-lantern

We will continue doing this twenty question activity for the week, It is kind of like 20 Questions, although we are only doing 5 - 10, a classic game that has been played since the 19th century. One person thinks of an object and the others playing have 20 chances to guess what it is. A great game for long, boring car trips, study halls, or as a vocabulary expansion game for language learners.

At 11:30 the students went off to music with a couple going off to serve the hot lunch program.

After lunch we read for 20 minutes then carried on with our Social studies theme, Where we live, comparing different types of housing, modern and traditional. Today we looked at the tipi, doing a one page report on the roles men and women had in the community around the tipi. The students then made a 3-d model out of paper of a tipi . The folding and cutting was more complex for the students than I expected, however, after a few failed attempts, the students managed to get the hang of it and it turned out great. The students will add 3 dimensional extras tomorrow.