Mrs. Martin’s Blog

Take a close look at the picture. Can you represent that number 3 different ways? Be sure to write it in standard from, expanded form and in words.

Monday, October 13 is Thanksgiving Day. There are so many things that we are thankful for. What are you thankful for?

Think about the geese in Fly Away Home and write your own Haiku.

Remember the criteria for a Haiku poem.

* only 3 lines

*lines 1 and 3 have 5 syllables

* line 2 has 7 syllables

Remember to take a minute and read your classmates poems! Feel free to leave a positive comment.

Every student has written a bibliographic poem about a character from the novel Mice At Centre Ice, by Estelle Salata. The poems each have seven lines which describe the character that the student has chosen. Each student also made a hockey card and drew a picture of the character on it. They then placed the poems seen here on the back of the Hockey Card.

Hi Grade 4! Today you will begin building your electronic portfolio! Let’s click on the link below to log in.

http://epearlsvsd.merlin.mb.ca/epearl/pages/index.php

Please take a minute at the end of class to post your thoughts about your electronic portfolio.

Halloween is finally here! Let’s start the day writing Halloween Couplets. A couplet is a two- lined poem. The lines must rhyme and have the same amount of syllables. Have fun! Be sure check back and read the poems.

Good Morning Grade 4! Welcome to the world of on-line scavenger hunts! With your internet buddy complete the scavenger hunt. Please answer all the questions on the sheet. Decide together what you found most interesting and then post your interesting fact on the blog.

http://tqjunior.thinkquest.org/3500

We have finished reading Pelly and have viewed the video Fly Away Home. Please state 5 similarities between the book and the video.  After you submit your work please remember to go back to this post and read your classmate’s comments.

It is so very nice to be back in the swing of things at Taylor School. We will be hosting our annual Parent Information Evening on Thursday, September 13th at 7:00. I hope to see many of you there!

We have just completed our study on Healthy Eating Habits! We’ve been talking about oodles of food! Take a peek at these Alphabet Food Poems!