Remembrance Day Information

Remembrance Day

There are two Royal Canadian Legion Poppy fund boxes in the office for anyone wishing to donate and receive a poppy before Remembrance Day.  All students will be receiving their own poppies November 9 prior to the assembly. The Veterans Poppy fund greatly appreciates any donations.

 

Family Dance

Don't forget about our CJP Family Dance tomorrow night - November 2!! There will be a contest to judge the best pumpkin carving so come and see how we carved our pumpkin yesterday!

Community Building Project

In the next few weeks we will be building a 3-D model of a community. We are collecting little boxes so we can make buildings to paint. If you have boxes like toothpaste boxes, small cereal boxes, granola bar boxes, smarties boxes from Halloween and other boxes of a small size, please send them to school.

Extra Halloween Candy?? Please think about donating.

If you have any extra/unwanted candy please think about bringing it to school to donate to this Happy Birthday Project that a parent in our school is supporting.

Happy Halloween!!!!

We has a super spooky and fun day today!

The class estimated the number of seeds in our pumpkin.  This is tricky as there are a lot of seeds in a pumpkin.  It helped us investigate big numbers in the 100s.  We used our place value cards to remind us how to organize our ideas.  For example if I guessed 125 seeds, that I can't write 10025, but that the 20 needs to go in the tens column and the 5 in the ones column. These conservations start us thinking about standard notation: 120 seeds... versus . expanded notation 100 + 20 + 5. 
With teamwork the kids counted out seeds in groups of 10 and put them in stackable cups....(we had so many we ran out of cups! ) We ended up with 374 seeds.  Nathaniel had the closest estimate of 333 seeds!  We discussed that when we estimate, we don't expect to get the exact number. 
Try doing some estimating of how much halloween candy you get.  It can help to count out a group of ten as a referent first.  I sometimes cover the referent (group of ten) with my hands then, use my hands to help me eyeball it.  Try writing down your guess, then count out your candy in groups of 10.  See how close you get!  How many more or less did you have than your estimate?

The class voted to make our pumpkin into a cat.  Come to the Halloween Dance and you can vote on the best pumpkin!!! It will be a great time.

Check out the Halloween art the kids did with their buddies in Mrs. Ross' class.

Have a safe and fun night tonight!

Pumpkin Math

Tomorrow is Halloween and many students are gearing up for it. Today we explored different gourds and a pumpkin by making comparisons and measuring. Tomorrow students will work together to carve our pumpkin so it will be on display for our Family Dance on Friday (this week!).
Tomorrow students are also invited to wear a costume and participate in our whole school parade! We can't wait to see all the costumes!

Community Walk

Today we had our first community walk of the year. Students identified important landmarks, signs, and safety information as we strolled through the community. Each child had the chance to take pictures of some of the important things we saw. For example - a sign to indicate a crosswalk; a community service, like the bank; public art to beautify our neighbourhood. Talk to your child about what he/she saw and how you have or don't have these things in the community you live in!