Kenneth D Taylor - Grade 4 - Miss. Willis

Happy Friday! Students added a new entry to their blogs yesterday.  Here is the learning web that we created to help us with our writing: We had an exciting week!  We returned to Simon Fraser to see their amazing performance of Alice in Wonderland! And today we helped our Kindie Buddies build some leprechaun traps (I don't think that the leprechauns stand a chance!). Important Dates and Reminders: - Every Thursday is Home Reading and Learning Commons book exchange - The last day of classes before Spring Break is this Thursday, March 22nd.  This will be an early dismissal day, students are done at noon.  - Spring Break is from March 23rd to April 2nd - Thursday April 5th - In class presentation to get us ready for our field trip to Harmony Ridge on Tuesday April 17th - Wednesday April 18th will be the Steve Hammer Friendship Show assembly - Thursday April 19th and Friday April 20th will be our second round of Student-Le...

We didn't have time to do our blog posts yesterday, but students have added a new entry today! Here is our learning web for today: I hope you have a fantastic weekend!  Don't forget to turn you clocks ahead one hour on Saturday night :)

I hope that you have had a chance to check out our first blog posts on Weebly!  There will be another Week in Review coming up tomorrow!  If you are having any problems accessing the site, please do not hesitate to let me know. https://students.weebly.com/?session-expired=1&redirect=edStudentHome.php#login There have been lots of fun activities happening in the classroom.  We have been learning about conventions (sentence structure, capitalization, commas, apostrophes, and quotation marks), we started our unit on "Building Things That Move" by doing some coding, and we had an awesome presentation from Canadian singer/songwriter Michael Mitchell.  Please check out the classroom Twitter feed to see some pictures and videos: https://twitter.com/MissCLWillis I have been asked a few times if I could send extra homework for Humanities and Math.  If you are interested in having your child do extra work at home, here are some websites that you can look at an...

Here is the learning web that we used to create our very first blog entries today! Students are brining home their username and password so that you can see their websites! Volunteers Needed!! We are going on a field trip on April 17th and need volunteers.  You will need to have volunteer clearance and you will need to be willing to drive yourself to the site.  Please email clwillis@cbe.ab.ca if you are available. Please return forms for the Simon Fraser trip and Alien In-Line skating as soon as possible (if you haven't already).  Both of these will be happening next week.  Forms for the Acorn fundraising went home yesterday.  Orders are due back by March 6th. Have a great weekend!