September Nifty Thrifty Fifty

Here are the words for September

• composer
• encouragement
• musician
• unfriendly
• discovery
• hopeless
• richest
• impossible

Welcome to a New Year!

Welcome to Grade 3/4!  I am sure that God has a great year planned for us.  I just wanted to send out a little note to familiarize you with what our class will be like for the year.  I am expecting that this will be the best year ever!

Class GPS

To get somewhere, you need to know where you are going.  There are five things I would like our class to be.

Christ-Honouring: He is the reason we are here and He loves us and has work for us to do in His name.

Safe Community: Students should feel accepted and loved, and they should feel safe to make mistakes.

Love of Learning: I hope to instill and develop a love of learning in students.

Growth: We want to grow as people and improve our skills this year.

Interesting Lessons: I have challenged myself to bring passion, creativity,  and enthusiasm into the classroom.

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Computer Assignment

Your job is to use Open Office Impress to share things about yourself.

1. You need to make 3 slides.
2. Your slides need to have a picture and some words.
3. To get an A+ you need to have some animations.

Possible Slide Topics:

- My favourite animal
- My favourite sport
- The best book I read this year
- The worst book I read this year
- Something we did in class that was great
- Something that we did in class that I didn't like
- Your choice...

Accelerated Reader Team Challenge

There is a program called Accelerated Reader.  When a student reads a book, they can take a quiz on that book.  Accelerated Reader keeps track of your progress and gives you points for the books that you read.

Our class has been divided up into 5 teams.  Each month we have a competition to earn points and get correct answers.  

The winning team for May was Team Sweeden.  (Other winners were team Russia, and team USA.) Way to go!

Persuasive Homework Assignment

This weekend you have a job to do.  Your job is to find a persuasive article, ad, or commercial.



If you have a commercial, you need to email the link to me, Mr. Lee.

Here is a video we watched in class to introduce the idea of persuasion...

Wordo

We sometimes play a game called Wordo. This game 1) has kids practice spelling and reading the Nifty Thrifty Words, and 2) has kids practice listening for prefixes, suffixes, and root words.

I will say a word and the students cover all the words on their card that have the same prefix, suffix, or root word.  When you have three in a row you shout "Wordo".

Here are last week's winners.