Tessa Suckoo & Jared Bremner
Congratulations to the entire Grade 4 class for doing such a brilliant job working together and sharing their ideas. They all put on a magnificent display for the school and for the judges.
A special congratulations to the group How Greasy Are Your Chips for being the winning group. Here is a photo with Ms. Cilliers, Greasy Chips (with their book prizes) and myself. 🙂 Great job guys!
Yesterday and today for math, we cut out nets and pasted them into our math books for reference. This was a nice activity, because everyone was able to see how a few figures looked as nets, and then they were able to fold them to create the actual 3D shapes.
We are proud to announce that First Baptist Christian School had successfully put together its second FBCS Science Fair on Friday the March 15th
The day was filled with much excitement, a healthy bundle of nerves and just good fun!
Our Grade 4 – 6 students had their displays set – up in the Gym where the judges had the opportunity to question each grade for approximately thirty minutes. Each student could present their project and then answer questions from the three Science Fair judges. The judges were Mr Eastman, Mr Vasic and Mr Walker.
Our Grade 3 students also did a super job of putting a display together of an aquatic ecosystem. It was very encouraging seeing their young minds at work. It was a great opportunity to share information and learn from fellow students and also from the judges who had some tough questions.
The feedback from our judges was very helpful. The questions presented challenge and the comments were both insightful and encouraging.  The judges felt that the caliber of our student work was excellent.
We trust that the FBCS Science Fair will prepare and encourage our students to question and explore the world around them. This is excellent preparation for those that would like to participate in bigger events like the Rotary Science Fair.
Congratulations to those who received prizes and well done to all who participated!
FBCS Science Fair Winners 2013
Grade 4 – How Greasy are your Chips?
 Matthew Nicol,  Keya Berry, Amie Wagner, Dylan Atkinson, Micah Nembhard, Marco Ferreirra &
 Jacqueline Aubert
Grade 5
Grade 6
Good luck to all of the students that are off to represent FBCS at Inter-Primary Sports Day on Thursday and Friday.
“Run like the wind Bulls Eye!”
English – Use I and me correctly.
– Identify possessive pronouns in sentences.
Homework: Monday: page 102
Wednesday: page 104
Math – Identify and describe 3D figures and identify and draw nets.
Homework: – Wednesday: page 159
– Thursday: page 160
– Students will be given additional time to practice using Mathletics. We will also be playing various math games to increase students’ fluency and speed in addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
Spelling Homework – There will be no spelling test this week.
Science – Describe the water cycle. Understand how precipitation is formed.
– Demonstrate how to extract fresh water from salt/dirty water.
Bible – Read and respond to a passage about respecting others..
– Define “glory, praise and worship” and how to glorify God..
Homework: – Study Bible Verse for Friday. (Parents, please encourage your child/children to study and memorize his/her Bible verse. This counts towards their end of term Bible grade.)
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 6:23
We have moved on to a new chapter in math. As we begin Chapter 10 – Identify and Describe Geometric Shapes, here are some of the activities we are doing to help us to remember the new vocabulary words .
Here is a fun song that we listened to and sang today, along with our polygons booklet:
A massive thank you to everyone for helping us do such an amazing job with the Science Fair. I think Grade 4 showcased some really impressive displays…that even rivaled the higher grades. Fantastic job! 🙂
Thank you also to those of you who were able to pay us a visit on Friday to help out and witness how hard everyone worked.
English – Identify subject pronouns in sentences.
– Identify object pronouns in sentences.
Homework: Monday: page 96
Wednesday: page 98
Math – Divide 4-digit dividends by a 1-digit number.
Homework: – Monday: page 157 (Pegasus: 4-15, Leopards: 4-13 and Dragons 4-11)
– Tuesday: page 158 (Pegasus: 1-12, 22, Leopards: 1-9, 22Â and Dragons 1-6, 22)
– STUDY for Math Chapter 8 Test on Friday.
– Students will be given additional time to practice using Mathletics. We will also be playing various math games to increase students’ fluency and speed in addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
Number the Stars – Homework: Cereal Book Report DUE: March 15
Spelling Homework – There will be no spelling test this week.
Science – This is the last week that we will have before the Science Fair, so we will continue to work on our experiments during class. The Science Fair is Friday, April 15, starting at 12:30. Grade 4’s time will be from 1:00 – 1:30. Please feel free to drop by and have a look at all of the hard work that has gone into preparing for this. The Science Fair will be in the gym, and will last until 2:30.
Bible – Use context clues to complete an article about being created in God’s image.
– Choose accurate descriptions of a biblical character.
– Read and respond to a passage about respecting others.
Homework: – Study Bible Verse for Friday. (Parents, please encourage your child/children to study and memorize his/her Bible verse. This counts towards their end of term Bible grade.)
Pilate said “I have examined him in your presence and have found no basis for your charges against him. Luke 23:14 (edited/shortened)
We are continuing to work on our long division steps. The last two day, we focused on how to solve division problems that result in a 3-digit quotient.
Here we are learning from a website:
English – Identify pronouns in sentences.
Homework: Thursday: page 96- 9-12
Math – Choose the best strategy to solve a problem.
–Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Solve division problems that result in 3-digit quotients.
– Solve division problems that result in quotients that have zeros.
Homework: – Monday: page 151 (Pegasus: All, Leopards: 1-5 and Dragons 1-3)
– Tuesday: page 153
– Wednesday:Â Pegasus: page 154 (Pegasus: 1-14, Leopards: 1-8 and Dragons 1-5)
– Thursday:Â Pegasus: page 155 (Pegasus: All, Leopards: 1-11 and Dragons 1-6)
– Students will be given additional time to practice using Mathletics. We will also be playing various math games to increase students’ fluency and speed in addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
Number the Stars – We will continue reading Number the Stars. Each week we will be reading in class and doing chapter quizzes. Students are allowed to re-read what we have covered in class, but I ask that they do no read ahead unless they have been given special permission to do so. Continue to ask your child/children questions on what we have read in class and allow them to summarize and describe different events in detail and in order.
Homework: Cereal Book Report DUE: March 15
Spelling Homework – There will be no spelling test this week.
Science – For the next 2 weeks, we will focus on our Science Fair experiments during class.
Bible – Examine Scripture about the Holy Spirit.
– Examine ways that God has created us in His image.
Homework: – Study Bible Verse for Friday. (Parents, please encourage your child/children to study and memorize his/her Bible verse. This counts towards their end of term Bible grade.)
But the ministry Jesus has received is as superior to the old one, and it is founded on better promises. Hebrews 8:6
Here are a few more photos from Reading Week. Grade 4 were able to kidnap a few teachers and staff to read to us.
