Grade 3/4 Mountain Plover/Swift Fox (Paterson/Cox)

Dates to remember:  Friday September 30- No School We have been using our place value mats to practice reading and writing numbers up 100 000. Using Alberta's cities to show real life representation we ordered the population from greatest to least. Glenbow Ranch - Pond Dipping Sage Inquiry Making Memory Pouches for Orange Shirt Day

    Important Dates To Remember: -Student Photos September 27 Bring your best smile  -September 28-Glenbow Ranch   Please be sure to hand in your field trip forms as soon as possibe and dress for the weather! -September 29 National Day of Truth and Reconciliation -No Classes We made our own place value chart to practice reading and writing 4 and 5 digit numbers as well as represent numbers in four different ways. These include, standard form, written form, Base Ten form and expanded form.   Not only have we been writing personal narratives, we have also been working to make our writing even stronger by using 'juicy' words.  What other words can you think of for the word ' eat ?' When you think of Alberta, what kind of landforms come to mind? During a class discussion, we questioned whether a glacier counts as a landform? We discovered that yes indeed, a glacier is in fact a landform along with many other interesting facts about these hudge masses of i...

Week of September 11-15 Dates to remember: -Welcome to EHS Parent Event Thursday, September 21 - 5:30 - 7:00 -September 22 Non - Instructional Day  -Student Photos September 27 -September 29 National Day of Truth and Reconciliation -No Classes We had a fun an successful Terry Fox run with Twelve Mile Coulee School on Friday!  Special thanks for all of the Terry Fox donations, our parent volunteers and to EHS Parent Council for for providing our runners with a snack!    In math this week we have been looking closely at what place value is. We have determined that place value is the position of a digit in a number. For example, the place value of the 2 in the number 3265 is hundreds, i.e. 200. We have also been representing numbers various numbers.  Our learners we excited to represent the value of Base Ten blocks through art. They planned and created robots, machines and animals out of Base Ten blocks and added up the total value of their creations.  In scie...

  Upcoming Dates: Welcome to EHS Parent EventThursday, September 21 - 5:30 - 7:00 Terry Fox Run - Friday, September 15th 9:00-11:00 (at TMC) Please bring good running shoes for outdoors all next week Bring a donation "Toonies for Terry" if you are able to do so Snack provided by School Council Volunteers Requested!  Link to come Wear blue or orange (school colours) Terry Fox Donation Link We had a fantastic week getting to know our students.  We've been continuing our friendship work and today we started to discuss the rights of a child.   In math this week, we were looking at, "Math About Me".  Students were challenged to write equations for numbers about them, such as adding the digits of a phone number, writing and equation for the year they were born, etc.  We are discussing, what an equation is, what is a sum, what are the different strategies we can use, why does our work look different from one student to another, etc.  We will be working o...

 Welcome To the 2023-24 School Year! We sure had a great couple of days and so excited for the year ahead. This week we focussed on getting to know our learners and helping them get to know us.   We did some fun STEM challenges, art, writing about friendship, made friendship bracelets with all of the 3/4 classes, read some fantastic books (First Day Jitters & No One But You), played outside, made some name tags for our coat hooks and wrote about our "first day jitters".   Thank you families for ensuring students had indoor shoes, water bottles and healthy foods! We have an amazing group of students and can't wait to get the year rolling. We will be posting class updates on this blog weekly and share a few photos, samples of work the students are doing and upcoming classroom events.  For most important school wide dates/events it is best to check Connect message and school website. Please let us know if you have any questions, or would like to share any ...