Week in Review: Sept. 5-9

Well it was a quick but productive this week.  We have hit the ground running and have now set up all our learning activity books and even tackled setting up our chrome books and getting everyone the codes and passwords that we'll be using for the remainder of this year.

Subject wise this past week we intro'd our Math unit on multiple digit number operations.  We have been working through a quick review of some of the grade three concepts involving multiple digit addition and subtraction and will be transitioning into the fun of trading and regrouping numbers.  If the work so far is any indication we have a fun year ahead of us - definitely a good thing!

With Language Arts we began our work on reading comprehension and story writing by examining a few different stories.  We worked on brainstorming the various parts of a successful story and then identifying those parts within some of our favourite stories and movies.  With our activities we identified and then physically highlighted story characters, settings, as well as central ideas relating to story problems and solutions before answering related comprehension questions.  By being better able to identify story features students become better equipped to integrate these features into their own work.

Our class spelling program has kicked off and the students had a chance to visit the Spelling City website to

review this and next week's spelling words.  These words will be used in a variety of different activities throughout every week.  The word lists for the next five weeks are available online for students to preview and practise.  The website URL again is http://www.spellingcity.com/MrTHenderson4H

This coming week our home reading program will kick off with students having the opportunity to track their reading minutes at home with the chance of winning free laser tag certificates, courtesy of Laser City!

Our first Science unit will be focusing on the topic of Waste and our World.  This week we began looking at what exactly waste is and the types of waste that can be produced: natural or man-made.  We began identifying ways that humans can reduce their environmental footprint and make changes that can positively benefit the environment.  This coming week we welcome our classroom pets - our Red Wiggler Worms!  Our worms will be our real life examples of natural decomposers, and will be helping us reduce the amount of food waste that we produce daily in our classroom.  All of our students will have the opportunity at some point throughout the year to be our worm chefs who get to prep the worm's daily meal...fruit and vegetable scraps.




In Social Studies our year long focus will be on our home province of Alberta.  Our study of Alberta begins will a study of the physical geography of the land and identifying differences and similarities in Alberta's six geographic regions.  Our study of the different geographic regions will soon progress into our first collaborative group task involving online research and the gathering of specific information.

Lastly everyone got to get creative and begin the design of their own little mini-mes which will hang in the rafters of the class for the entire year.  It was neat watching the kids take their time and design the "outfits" to match their clothes. 

School News

Notice of School Council Establishment Meeting

As per the School Act, under the School Councils Regulation, West Haven Public School 
hereby provides notice of its School Council Establishment Meeting. 
This notice is being provided through the school newsletter and on the school’s website.

Purpose of the meeting: To establish the West Haven Public School School Council

When: September 21st, 2016 at 6:00 p.m.

Where: West Haven Public School in the Learning Common

Who may attend the meeting: 
a) a parent of each student enrolled in the school 
b) A parent of each child enrolled in an Early Childhood Services program at the school 
c) The school staff 
d) Other members of the school community who, in the Principal’s opinion, 
    should be given notice.

Insane Inflatables Fundraiser

The West Haven Public School Fundraising Society is raising money for the playground.  Help us raise some money through our very first fundraiser by joining us in this awesome event. $5 of each ticket sale (provided tickets are purchased individually) will be donated to the fundraising society for the new playground! 

Please use Promo Code WHPSFS when you register to ensure our school benefits from your participation!!!

Saturday, September 17Capilano Park, EdmontonNo minimum ageMinimum height requirement 42″The price is $69 per person.

This is a family friendly event. Midway games,entertainment and food available after the race. There are so many more details so check it out here:

http://insaneinflatable5k.com/edmonton-ab/

Important Upcoming Dates

Tuesday, Sept. 13 - Meet the Teacher Night
Friday, Sept. 16 - PD Day: No School
Tuesday, Sept. 20th - Student Picture Day. Weather permitting, pictures will be outdoors.