Kenneth D Taylor - Grade 4 - Miss. Willis

It has been a fantastic week of learning in our class!  Home Journals are coming home today, please read your child's entry, make a quick comment, and send it back to school for Monday morning.  Here is the web that students brainstormed that helped us to write our Home Journal: Please click on the link below to access our October Newsletter: https://app.luminpdf.com/viewer/icQtXG67jPTJRhA7P/share?sk=b587edd2-03dd-4b8f-88a2-e182b4c027ea Here is a message from the office: Hello Parents/Guardians,   The office has sent out an email today at 11:35 am with the subject heading “Weekly Dispatch ”.   If you have not received this email it indicates you have not subscribed to receive non-commercial emails from Ken Taylor School and the CBE.  Please follow the attached link in order to subscribe and stay informed.   http://calgary.schoolmessenger.com/cbe_subscribe   Thank you,     Barb Rocca Administrative Assistant,...

Hello Parents and Guardians   Ken Taylor offers noon supervision to all of our Grades 1-4 students.  In order for your child to be eligible for this service you must register using your My CBE account.   https://webapps.cbe.ab.ca/MyAccount/Account/LogOn?ReturnUrl=%2fMyAccount%2f .   Please be sure to register for the 4 day week service for $255.00.    If you do not register for noon supervision your child will need to be picked up over the noon hour. If your child rides the bus you will also need to register for bus service and pay the bussing fee of $355 for the school year.  When you register your child for the bus service they will  automatically be registered for noon supervision and both fees will apply.   Any family needing a waiver is encouraged to apply to the  City of Calgary Fair Entry Program  to prove income for a CBE waiver, as well as access other benefits of the program. This is optional fo...

- Students will have their first regular learning commons visit tomorrow, Thursday September 28th.  They will have the opportunity to take out two books.  If they have any learning commons books at home that they would like to return or renew, they should come back to school tomorrow. - Friday is Orange Shirt Day in recognition of "Every Child Matters".  We talked about the meaning of Orange Shirt Day in class today. - Friday is the Terry Fox Run at 11:15 am.  Students are encouraged to bring a Toonie for Terry all this week.

Hello Parents/Guardians,   The office has sent out an email today at 10:00 am with the subject heading “Weekly Dispatch Sept 25-29”.   If you have not received this email it indicates you have not subscribed to receive non-commercial emails from Ken Taylor School and the CBE.  Please follow the attached link in order to subscribe and stay informed.   http://calgary.schoolmessenger.com/cbe_subscribe Thank you and have a fantastic weekend!

Highlights: - Students have been working on creating their own Wacky Web Tales as part of work around the Parts of Speech.  As students complete their story, they are presenting them to the class and then filling out a self-assessment about how they think it went. - We have also been looking at the geographic regions of Alberta.  We started with the Canadian Shield, and moved on to the Boreal Forest today.  Students are making infographics to communicate what they have learned about these regions. - In Math, we have been examining different ways of expressing numbers, and looking at rounding as a strategy for estimating and mental math.  We have also been doing some assessment that will help us to break students up into math groups. - Students began learning French last week and have been learning vocabulary around greetings: Hello, What is your name?, My name is ..., How are you?, answers to "How are you?", thank you, you're welcome, and goodbye. - We have...

We have had a fantastic start to the school year!! In Humanities, we have been: looking at the Parts of Speech and are working on creating our own Wacky Web Tales; doing a class read aloud of the book "Gregor the Overlander," and are reviewing the ideas of "Visualizing", "Connecting", "Inferring", and "Transforming"; exploring the different geographic regions of Alberta, starting with the Canadian Shield. In Math, the students learned how to collect data and create a bar graph. The data is based on questions that helped the students get to know each other. We have also been reviewing the different ways to express numbers, and exploring a "Problem of the Week". Important Information: Home Journals will be coming home tomorrow. Please take a moment to read through them and write a comment. Journals should be returned to school on Monday morning. Students had their first Learning Commons visit this past Tuesda...