No Excuse Words

In math this morning we talked about subtraction and we had to make posters that explained everything we knew about it. Some facts that we had on our posters included:

• Subtraction is the opposite of addition
• You can use pictures instead of words
• You start with a bigger number and take a smaller number away
• You can also use the same number
• You can use subtraction when you are using money

We practiced some of our skills by doing some practice subtraction questions involving single and double digits.

Last week we had to write about our summer holidays in our journals. Ms. Binks reviewed our writing and used a highlighter to indicate any spelling mistakes, incorrect spacing, missing capital letters, capital letters where they shouldn't be and missing periods. Then we were given a list of words called “Grade 4 No Excuse Words”. This means that we should not spell any of the words on the list incorrectly. We glued the list into the front of our journals. This week we are going to choose 10 words off of this list and they will be our spelling words. After reviewing the words on the list we made corrections to our writing. Ms. Binks will be looking for these common errors so it will be something we need to continually work on.

Reminders:

- Please bring back any form packages

- Pink sheet about Family Celebrations sent home today. Please fill out and return to the classroom

- We will be collecting Toonies for Terry starting on Wednesday

- There is early dismissal on Friday

- We will be doing the Terry Fox run on Friday morning