{"id":578,"date":"2026-10-22T14:41:43","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T21:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hub71.ca\/mwilson\/?p=578"},"modified":"2026-10-22T14:41:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T21:41:47","slug":"october-22-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hub71.ca\/mwilson\/2026\/10\/22\/october-22-update\/","title":{"rendered":"October 22 Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a peek into our past few weeks…<\/span><\/p>\n

Literacy:\u00a0<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

– We have been practicing non-fiction reading by making webs to organizing the main idea and supporting details of texts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

– We examined synonyms, antonyms and homophones to expand our vocabulary and improve our spelling.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

– We practiced proper paragraph structure by describing what we like about the Fall season. We used the writing process to brainstorm ideas, write a first draft, edit and revise our draft, and then write a final copy.<\/span><\/p>\n

– Our first narrative writing activity of the year was based off a picture prompt. Students wrote a story about a boy who was experiencing a problem and the stories needed to describe a solution to the problem.<\/span><\/p>\n

– We are now focusing on persuasive writing and adding more detail and descriptive words to our writing. To practice this, students will be writing a ‘Haunted House for Sale’ ad.<\/span><\/p>\n

FSA (Fundamental Skills Assessments)<\/span><\/b>: Grade 4 Students have completed the 2 numeracy parts of these government assessments. Next week we will complete the 2 literacy sections.<\/span><\/p>\n

Grade 3 Science:<\/span><\/b> While the Grade 4s work on the FSAs, the Grade 3s are completing a science unit on landforms with Mrs. Devine.<\/span><\/p>\n

Math:<\/span><\/b> We’ve been working on addition with regrouping, including word problems. Many students have been challenging themselves to complete my mystery math pictures using a grid and codes.<\/span> To prepare for the FSAs, the Grade 4 students also had some lessons<\/span> on graphing.<\/span><\/p>\n

Science: <\/span><\/b>We are focused on the question: How does the movement of the Earth and the moon affect living and non-living systems? First, we learned about the Solar System and how the rotation and revolution of the Earth causes day\/night and seasons. Next we will examine the movement and phases of the moon and why we have tides. Then, students are starting an investigation of nocturnal animals.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mrs. Tina from the CVRD came to teach us about our Comox Valley Watershed. We talked about the local ecosystem and ways we could protect our water.<\/p>\n

Art:<\/span><\/b> Recent art projects have included turkeys, Jack o lanterns, mystery pictures, and skeletons to decorate the gym for the Halloween dance.<\/span> Next we will learn how to draw haunted houses to accompany our Haunted House for Sale writing activity.<\/span><\/p>\n

ADST: <\/span><\/b>We have been coding Indi Robots in the library. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

PE:<\/span><\/b> It is volleyball season and the students are learning the skills and rules of this fun game.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Photos –<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Our final PowerPoint presentations:<\/p>\n

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Our cross country runners!<\/p>\n

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A solar system reading scavenger hunt:<\/p>\n

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Thanksgiving turkeys:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Jack-o-lanterns:<\/p>\n

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PJ\/Stuffy day:<\/p>\n

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Random fun:<\/p>\n

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Volleyball:<\/p>\n

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Our little buddies:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Making skeletons for the Halloween dance:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Indi Robots:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Watershed Presentation:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Halloween Treats… thanks London!<\/p>\n

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Here’s a peek into our past few weeks… Literacy:\u00a0\u00a0 – We have been practicing non-fiction reading by making webs to organizing the main idea and supporting details of texts.\u00a0 – We examined synonyms, antonyms and homophones to expand our vocabulary and improve our spelling.\u00a0 – We practiced proper paragraph structure by describing what we like […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hub71.ca\/mwilson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hub71.ca\/mwilson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hub71.ca\/mwilson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hub71.ca\/mwilson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hub71.ca\/mwilson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/hub71.ca\/mwilson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":652,"href":"https:\/\/hub71.ca\/mwilson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions\/652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hub71.ca\/mwilson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hub71.ca\/mwilson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hub71.ca\/mwilson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}