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Field Trip!

Grade 4 is ready to venture out into the world of mangroves! With all we’ve been studying the last few weeks, we are excited to take them out on a boat tour of the mangroves. This is a great opportunity for them to really understand what ecosystems are around us and how they work. 

When: Tuesday, 26th February 

Time:  8:15 – 11:30am  (don’t be late!) 

Where: Cayman Yacht Club, Dock C4  

Cost: $15  and a waiver! 

Please turn in the waiver and cost by Friday, 22nd! 

CLICK HERE to see more details on the flyer and                                          CLICK HERE for the waiver! 

If there are any parents who are available to volunteer, it would be greatly appreciated. Just send us an email and we can give more details (: 

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Can You Feel The Love?

The month of February is packed! Lots of exciting activities and events. Please read through these announcements carefully and be sure to check the school emails with reminders. 

READING WEEK!                                                                                       This week will involve lots of activities, lots of love to share!                                                                                                                     When: 11th – 15th                                                                                                What: All activities listed below

Family Reading Night 5:30-6:30 

Monday, 11th 

Awesome evening to join your kiddos and time to read together. 

Grade 3 Market Day! 

Monday 11th @ 1:10 – 2:40pm 

Bring in extra cash to purchase some of the goods Grade 3 designed and created!  

Open House 

Thursday, 14th @ 10 – 2pm 

Lunch is 11:50-12:15, please join us (teachers and students) for lunch!

The fun isn’t over yet, there is a special assembly directly after lunch, stay for a fun time and some laughs!

Please feel free to come by on Valentine’s day to get a glimpse at what your loved one does each day. Lunch can be purchased for parents through Jump Start Cafe, please inquire at the office or online. CLICK HERE for a flyer. 

NCFA : This is a double duty day. 

Thursday, 14th

Time: TBA

ALL Grade 4 is to WEAR SCHOOL UNIFORM. If they have PE, please bring them separately and will change later. 

We will update you once their slot and place has been confirmed. 

Book Character Day! 

Friday, 15th 

With that, the week is wrapped up. Enjoy a fun Friday dressing up as a book character you really enjoy and love reading about! Can’t wait to see some old and new characters. (: 

FUTURE REMINDERS

Sports Day!                                                                                                                 Just a reminder as sports day has changes this year.  With the changes, we really hope students can make it and parents! It is a fun opportunity to see their talents and have some fun.    

                                                                                                                                When: WEDNESDAY, 20th  February                                                                                Where:

Begins: 1:45 – 2:45 @ FBCS field 

Continued: 5:30-7:30 @ Truman Bodden Sports Complex                    *parents please transport your child. If you have to make special arrangements (carpool) please pass it on to us so we can be aware of who students are with and who is expected to come.

What to wear: PE Shorts, running shoes and BLUE shirt! 

There are still openings for parent volunteers, which would be a great help to the flow of the events and activities. 

Cost: $4 per student along with a permission slip. There are copies by the front office. Please have these in by Monday, February 18th! 

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Numeracy Around the World!

FRACTION PARADE!                                                                                            When: Friday, January 25th!                                                                                                   Where/Time: In the gym @ 8:15am                                                                                                   What do I wear?: It is not a regular dress down day, students are only to wear the colors of the flag they’ve chosen. Dress code policy still applies. 

It is amazing to know that so many of our students have come from other parts in the world or have travelled all around. Since we have been studying Fractions, we are taking that knowledge to find fractions in our worlds’ flags! Students will vote on a country’s flag in class and then dress up in those colors on Friday for the Fraction Parade!

4A: They are doing individual flags! As a class they decided to try a variety of countries, can’t wait to see them all together. Do you think you can guess which ones?!

4B: South Africa – please dress in colors to coincide with the South African Flag! 

4B voted on South Africa, so will wear colors that coincide. 

EXAMPLES

For example, how many parts is this flag divided in to? how many parts are solid red or mixed with red, white and blue? 
In the stripped area, how many are red or white? 

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School Events- Let’s Roll!

It is the annual Roll-a-thon and I’m sure students are ready to roll right in!

When: Friday, 1st of February 

Time: 3 – 5:30 pm 

Where: FBCS Parking Lot, side facing the dorms 

To participate is $12 and turn in the permission slip on the form! 

Wear PE clothing

NO HELMET? NO RIDING! Also, NO skateboards. 

CLICK HERE for more detailed information provided by Coach Kring 

CLICK HERE for the donations form

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Get Ya Head In The Game!

Basketball Season is here!

Check out the list of games, where and when as well as congratulating the students who will be representing our school! 

CLICK HERE for a copy to download. 

                                  PRACTICES: 3 – 4:30pm                                                                                                                 Boys: Tuesday and Wednesday                                                                           Girls: Tuesday and Thursday 

Boys on Basketball Team

All boys who tried out are welcome to 

3rd – Daniel, Jaidon, Max 

4th – Nathan, Ashu, Gabriel, Theo, Nolan, Christopher

5th  – Daniel, Joshua, Luis

Girls Basketball Players:

3rd – Sienna

4th – Harshita, Arianna, Jaz, Gina, Renee, Saige

5th – Abriann, Abby, Chloe, possibly Summer

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Objectives for January 3-4, 2019

Happy New Year and welcome back!

READING

Because of Winn-Dixie – A classic tale by Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo, America’s beloved storyteller. One summer’s day, ten-year-old India Opal Buloni goes down to the local supermarket for some groceries – and comes home with a dog. But Winn-Dixie is no ordinary dog. It’s because of Winn-Dixie that Opal begins to make friends. And it’s because of Winn-Dixie that she finally dares to ask her father about her mother, who left when Opal was three. In fact, as Opal admits, just about everything that happens that summer is because of Winn-Dixie. Featuring a new cover illustration by E. B. Lewis and an excerpt of Kate DiCamillo’s newest novel, Raymie Nightingale.

We’re staring a new class novel! YIPPEE! We’ll be covering about 5 chapters per week and then completing a quiz following.

Some of the objectives that we will be covering while reading are:

  • Offer observations, make connections, react, speculate, interpret, and raise questions in response to text
  • Identify and discuss book themes, characters, plots, and settings
  • Connect their experiences with those of the author and/or with characters from the books
  • Support predictions, interpretations, conclusions, etc. with examples from text
  • Practice key reading skills and strategies (cause-and-effect, problem/solution, compare-and-contrast, summarizing, etc.)
  • Monitor their own comprehension

WRITING

We’ll be starting to learn about Opinion Writing  this term. We’ll begin with a pre-assessment based on their favourite holiday.

SOCIAL STUDIES

  • Discover the different cultures that help to influence us in the Caribbean.

NUMERACY

The first couple of days back we will be reviewing number sense and computation (multiplication and division) 

The following week will be beginning fractions! We will learn how to recognize fraction problems and equivalent fractions. 

SCIENCE

We will finish working on our in-class project of adaptations and behavior for a fictional animal. This is due Thursday 10th! Then understanding parts of an ecosystem and what we have here in Cayman.

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Objectives and Homework – November 26 – 30

ENGLISH

  • Replace weak verbs with exact verbs
  • Use a thesaurus
  • UNIT 3 Test on Tuesday
  • Identify adjectives that tell what kind and how many
  • Identify nouns that adjectives describe

READING

We’ve finished A Boy Called Bat, and we’ve been busy delving deeper in concepts surrounding the book. You should have seen your student working on an Autism poster. This was due today, so please have a chat to ensure that your child handed his/hers in.

Also, we started our final, in-class project last week, and are finalizing it this week. Here are the instructions that they received.

Design challenge time! You and your group have 3 days, 30 minutes per day, to design and build a project related to the book, ​A Boy Called Bat​. It can be anything at all, so long as you can build it with materials available to you in class and it shows a clear connection to the story. Once completed, your masterpiece will go into the Design Museum. What? Your school doesn’t have a Design Museum? Well, you’ll just have to create on then, won’t you? All of your other projects can go into the museum as well. Then invite other classes to take a field trip to your museum.

I’ve been so impressed with every concept and their work ethic. I can’t wait to share the final details with you!

SPELLING

Please encourage your child to study his/her spelling words and work on their spelling contract. They should aim to get 20 points on their contract by Friday.

Length
Loneliness
Necessary
Permanent
Persevere
Pleasant
Prefer
Quit
Quite
Quiet
Rhythm
Scissors
Separate
Sincerely
Soldier
Surely
Twelfth
Village
Weird
Whether

WRITING

We weren’t quite able to publish our first batch or personal narratives, so we’ll be busy with that this week. Following this, students will be asked to create another personal narrative (hopefully Christmas themed), entirely on their own. Please be sure to check in with your child, to ensure that they are busy working on their narratives.

MATH

Investigative problems for measurement 

SOCIAL STUDIES

Prepping final drafts and getting ready for presentations 

TESTS

English – Unit 3: Tuesday

Bible: Test on Thursday

Science – Chapter 2 test 
4A: Friday 
4B: Wednesday 

Math:
4A: Wednesday
4B: Wednesday 

HOMEWORK

Monday:
– Review Unit 3 for English
– Read for at least 30 minutes and update Padlet with a little bit of detail on what you’ve read.

Tuesday:
– Study guide for math and science
– Work on Spelling Contract

Wednesday:
– NO Math Homework
– Workbook Plus – page 59

Thursday:
– Mathletics: perimeter and area 
– Study spelling words and complete Spelling Contract

NOTE: Social Studies: If students are not done with their drafts in class, they will take home to complete.


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Reminder!

1/2 day of school tomorrow, happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate and those who don’t, enjoy a half day with family and friends! *there is still after care till 5:30. 

Dress Down: FRIDAY for National Trust, $1 and WEAR GREEN! A representative from the National Trust will be speaking on Friday after lunch. 

Bottle Caps: Due December 11th, please continue to collect and be aware of any caps that you can bring in to school. 

Christmas Concert: December 3rd! Students have begun rehearsals and we can’t wait for you to watch. If you have time at home, please have students practice! Click here to listen to the school musical, it begins at 2:05, they can sing along in the car or at home. (: 

Thankful surprise! – please remember to bring in 30 things you are thankful about your child to the office or emailed by next week!