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Holy Moly - It's Almost JUNE!

5/26/2022

Isn’t it hard to believe that it’s already June! This year has flown by and I have been so impressed with the growth, learning, and maturity that you have all demonstrated as we’ve moved through this year. June is an awesome time to take stock of your learning and your year at school. For your blog post this week, I’d like you to look back at the year we’ve had. Perhaps you go onto Twitter to see the photos of things we’ve done, perhaps you have some ideas already but I want you to create a top 5 list of things that you’ve learned, projects you’ve done, or best times that you’ve had in class. After each thing you’ve listed, say why that thing made your top five list! Can’t wait to hear about your best reflections!

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What Would You DO?

5/19/2022

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I have been so proud of each and everyone of you over the past two weeks. As a class, you are truly kind, caring, and compassionate. You work hard in class and stay focussed. I have been incredibly proud of the dedication and effort that you put into your daily routines, the excitement and engagement I’ve seen as you take on difficult math problems, as well as your efforts with your inAnimate Alice Projects! Thanks so much for being so great! As we think about inspiration, iteration and ideas of pushing ourselves forwards let’s continue that idea for your blog post. I want you to think to yourself, what would you try if you could not fail? What would you try that was different, what would you be, how much further could you go if you knew that you couldn’t fail? Is fear of failure or rejection stopping you from accomplishing something you’ve always wanted to do? Shoot for the stars and this week, tell us,

“What would you try if you knew you couldn’t fail?”

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Your Favourite Vacation!

5/12/2022

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Next weekend is May Long Weekend, a time when some people go away on their first outdoor vacation of the year. Some people camp, some go to cottages and some go out into their garden to begin planting and preparing for the upcoming summer season. Your task this week is going to ask you to dive into your memories and think back to an amazing vacation you’ve had with your family. Perhaps you went on a big trip somewhere amazing, perhaps it was at home and you all did something that really sticks out in your mind. Use your descriptive writing skills to help you write a paragraph about your favourite vacation. If you cannot think of a vacation that you’ve ever been on, you can describe your dream vacation.
For example:
The birds are chirping and the sun feels warm as it shines through the top of my tent. I roll over in my sleeping bag and begin to wake up. As I get out of the tent, my family also wakes up with me. We head out of the tent and begin to make a fire. As the sweet smell of camp smoke reaches my nostrils, I begin to prepare the coffee. The sun gets warmer as the fog burns off of the lake. It’s another beautiful day and I’m looking forward to sharing it with my family.

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Dear Future Generations!

5/5/2022

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We have been looking deeply at ways in which we can help the earth and make sure it’s a planet that your children and grandchildren will be able to live on happily! This video is a brilliant way of using spoken word poetry to have an impact. I absolutely love how he uses his voice as an instrument of change.
Your blog job this week is to write your own letter to yourself, when you’re 40 years old. In your letter, I’d like you to talk about:

What you hope to be doing to help the earth
What you’d like to see going on in the earth
How you’ve helped the earth
Some changes that you think people should make to make the earth a better place

You can start your letter with: “Dear Future Me,”

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Life Cycle of a Water Bottle

4/28/2022

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We have been focussing on the Earth and how we can help make the world a better place. One thing we often hear about is that water bottles are trouble, water bottles are bad, that water bottles are horrible! But why? Why is that such an issue, what’s wrong with water bottles? This week for your blog, I’d like you to watch the following video and let’s learn about what can happen with a water bottle during its lifespan.
After watching the video, I’d like you to either draw (on paper) or use Pixton to create a comic strip that showcases what you will do to help spread the word about water bottles or a comic that summarizes what you’ve learned. If you’re looking for a great place for pictures, you can use the following!

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Describing A Favourite Food!

4/21/2022

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Welcome back to weekly homework, I know it’s been quite a ride over these last few weeks with Mr. Steltman being in and out, and many absences. We’re back in action and ready to rock our homework again!
For this week, we’re going to focus on writing descriptions and thinking specifically about describing food! This website has a list of over 100 words to describe how food can look, taste, smell, feel in your mouth, and even sound! For your blog post this week, you have a two part challenge.
Part 1: Choose a food that you wish to describe and then pick 5 words from this list that would go well with it.
Part 2: Write a menu entry as if you owned a restaurant and were going to try to get people to choose this item.
For example:
Part 1- Grilled Cheese: Gooey, crispy, sticky, mouth-watering, zesty
Menu: 4 Cheese Grilled Cheese: Two thick slices of rye bread, crisped up to perfection with a blend of 4 mouth-watering cheeses, melted until gooey and sticky. Served with zesty ketchup and golden french fries.

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Growth Mindset Poems!

4/7/2022

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I know that this has been a challenging week at school! I want to thank each of you for trying your best while I’ve been away. This week, you’ve really had to demonstrate resilience and a growth mindset. This video is titled growth mindset in math. I want you to listen closely to the words of the song. How do they explain what a growth mindset is? Does this connect with your thought on what a growth mindset is? We have spent a lot of time talking about Growth Mindset and mistakes in math this year. For your blog post this week, you have a poetry challenge! Can you write song lyrics or a poem about what you think a growth mindset is? Your poem does not have to rhyme but most definitely can. The joy of poetry is that there is no wrong way to write a poem. Teach the world about growth mindset through your wonderful, creative poems!
Good Luck!

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Signs of Spring

3/31/2022

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Spring is an amazing time of year; new growth, new life, and re-emergence of so many different things. We always hear the phrase “Stop and Smell The Roses,” and this week, your blog post is going to be a twist on that.
Your challenge is to go outside for at least 20 minutes and find signs of spring. If possible, snap some pictures of what you see. If you can’t snap pictures, take some mental pictures. Then once you've taken your photos, your job is to set the scene for a story using what you saw out in nature. The goal is to use all 5 senses in your writing: touch, sight, smell, sound, and If possible taste.
Once you’ve written your blog post, try to add your photos to this shared slideshow so we can see what you’ve captured!

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Character Meet Friend!

3/3/2022

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You have created some amazing characters this past week and I think they are ready for adventures. As a twist though, you are going to choose someone else’s character and write them into a situation where they meet and interact with your character.
REMEMBER, this isn’t meeting the author of the character, it is meeting the person they created. Think about how their character would react to meeting your character in a certain situation. You are also responsible for writing the situation in which they meet. Maybe, they are both spies meeting to exchange information. Maybe they are both starting school the same day and find that they have all the same classes. You can choose any situation you like for them to meet but make sure you are creating a conversation that those two characters would have.
Enjoy this, it doesn’t have to be serious but it must make sense and have proper punctuation! Think quotation marks!

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Building Character!

2/24/2022

As we’ve been reading Pax over the past few weeks, we have spent some time looking at characters and their individual characteristics and I hope that you’re starting to notice that each character has his/her own story, background, things they like and don’t, and their own personality. These characters are written that way by the author.
Today it’s your turn, you get to develop a character that you will use in a few future blog posts.
For your post this week:
Create your own character that you will use in a story one day. For this character, they must have:

a name
a favourite food
3 personality traits (e.g. funny or humble)
a flaw (something that can create conflict)
how would they react in a difficult situation (e.g. they didn’t do their homework)

Write down all of these things in your post below. When you’ve done that, write a paragraph from their perspective as they start their first day of grade 4. I’m so excited to see the characters that you create!

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Holy Moly - It's Almost JUNE!

What Would You DO?

Your Favourite Vacation!

Dear Future Generations!

Life Cycle of a Water Bottle

Describing A Favourite Food!

Growth Mindset Poems!

Signs of Spring

Character Meet Friend!

Building Character!

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