Ms Booth's Grade 4/5 Class

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Welcome to our class website. Just a quick update for this short week!
🗓️ Important Dates
  • Monday – Professional Development Day (no school)
  • Tuesday – Remembrance Day (school closed)
  • Friday – Hot Lunch Day
📍 Favourite Place Presentations. Students are currently working on their Favourite Place presentations. A planning sheet has been sent home, and full instructions are also posted on the Parent Page. Since this project includes photos, I’ve asked students to work with a parent or guardian to ensure everyone is comfortable with the images selected. You also have the option to use online pictures instead of pictures with people if you prefer that option. Example: general online pictures of Hawaii. 
This presentation is a practice project and serves as a segue into Genius Hour.
💡 What is Genius Hour? Starting Tuesday, November 25th, students will begin Genius Hour—a weekly one-hour block where they will explore a topic of their choice through independent research. The goal is to foster curiosity, creativity, and ownership of learning. Students will develop a project based on their interests, which they will eventually present to the class. We will work on learning about this process and selecting a topic in the next few days. 
✍️ Writing & Spaces Updates.  We’ve been adding more work to Spaces! Students’ short stories and peer feedback are now posted. These stories were part of our beginning-of-year writing focus, which included:
  • Sentence work: capitalization, punctuation, spell checking, and vocabulary building
  • Story structure: beginning, middle, end, with a clear problem and solution
As the year progresses, we’ll continue to build on both sentence and story-writing skills.
Thank you for your continued support!
Warmly,
Ms. Booth
​Here is a great time management/organization link  Understood.org
If you have a message for me, please email   [email protected] 
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Reading: Building reading strategies and stamina. Responding to readings and increasing comprehension.
Math: Adding and Subtracting large numbers, estimating
Science:  Natural Resources - Water
​Socials: Government and Human Rights
PE: volleyball
Health: cooperation and friendship
Digital Studies: Spaces, Genius Hour, PowerPoint/Canva
Please make sure your child has a rain coat each day and a change of pants and socks in their backpacks.  Staying inside is not an option if the Principal has deemed it an outside day.  

Internet safety
1. We don't use students full names when blogging.
2. We respect each others ideas and use positive language when blogging
3. This is a site for my students and their families only.
4. Pictures of students can not be shared unless permission has been given.
Our class rules
1. Be Respectful
2. Be Safe
3. Always try your best at everything you do.