Parts of the ear

This morning we received something special that will help us with our writing throughout the year....personal dictionaries!! Our dictionaries have frequently used words along with animal words, feelings words, colours, numbers, provinces and territories and superheroes and villains. We had to work with a partner to go through our No Excuse word list and make sure all of those words were also included. Ms. Binks is hoping that our writing becomes more exciting and detailed with all of the words we now have at our fingertips.

In math today we created a "cheat sheet" to help us remember 4 different ways to represent a number.
They were:
1) Standard form: a way to write a number showing only its digits
2) Word form: a number written in words
3) Expanded form: a way to write a number showing the sum of the value of its digits
4) Place value: the value of a digit is determined based on its location

Ask me to show you an example of each of these 4 ways for the number 7852

We continued to read our novel today. In the chapter we read, Suds begins to be trained by Joey on how to be a rat. Joey makes Suds watch the part in the movie E.T. where they think E.T. dies over and over to make sure Suds doesn't cry. It took nine times. He also captures spiders around the house and keeps putting them on Suds arms until Suds doesn't scream. Finally he makes Suds go out on the roof of his porch to get over his fear of heights. Suds only agreed to go if he could have a rope tied to him and then tied to his bed. Suds ends up getting dizzy and falling off of the roof!

Some of us finished our fall leaf art today! Check out how wonderful this art project looks:





In science today we learned all about the parts of the ear. We had to label 8 different parts including:
- Pinna
- Ear canal
- Ear drum
- Hammer
- Anvil
- Stirrup
- Cochlea
- Auditory nerve

Ask me all about how these parts of our ears work together to interpret a sound and send the message to our brains.

REMINDERS:

- Swimming forms are due on Friday. Students who do not return the forms will be unable to come swimming with us on Monday. Payment does not have to be made by Friday and can be made at a later date.
- We are still looking for male volunteers to help out in the boys locker room. If you are interested please let Ms. Binks know asap
- A letter from Parent Council was sent home today