March 9-13

Grade 4 Weekly Blog

Updates:
-Conferences are cancelled until further notice 
-Mrs. Malone is recovering from a sprained joint in her back. We wish her a speedy recovery and are grateful to have Mrs. McLennan until Wednesday

Homework:
Science-Work on your Leprechaun Trap and bring whatever supplies are needed to finish it on Monday.

Math

Comparing and Ordering Fractions 

Questions:

1.If someone ran 2/3 of the race and someone else only completed 2/4 of the way? Who ran further? Explain

2. If this is one whole

Then what part of the whole are the red and green pattern blocks? What other ways can you write the fraction for each pattern block (equivalent fraction)?

Science

Makerspace Orientation

We finally got into the Makerspace!!!

Questions:

How did it go?

What worked well? What do we need to improve?

Planning and Designing our Leprechaun Traps 

Question:
What simple machines does your Leprechaun Trap have?

Building, Testing and Changing Our Plans 

Questions:
Did your Leprechaun Trap look like your plan?
What changes did you need to make?
What materials do you still need?

Literacy
Limericks for Leprechauns

Question: Can you finish the last line of our limerick?

1. Let’s play a game, you’ll need some luck (8 syllables)

2.You just might win a golden buck (8 syllables)

3.You can't escape my trap (6 syllables)

4. If you win, I will clap (6 syllables)

5. But, if you lose....................uck (8 syllables)

March 2 - 6

Grade 4 Weekly Blog

Updates:
-Thank you to all our parent volunteers who helped make our field trip to Heritage Park successful!

-Please sign up for student led conferences for March 19 and 20. Each slot is 15 minutes per child. (If you have another child please allow an extra 15 minutes between conferencs to look at your child's work after meeting with one teacher before scheduling your next conference with a second teacher) 

Homework:
1. Monday Journal
2. Ollie's Odyssey Reflection
3. Math finish up on fractions
4. Heritage Park Reflection
5. Google Slides for Head Smashed in Buffalo Jump and Jot notes for the Medicine Wheel
6. Family and Self- Portrait with french labels

Math: 
Fractions

Question: 
1. What is the numerator and the denominator of the fraction of 1/2. What does each mean?
2.Order the fractions: 1/10, 1/12, 1/1, 1/2, 1/3, 1,5, 1/8, 1/6
3. Challenge: Can you put these fractions (from number 2) on a number line? What benchmarks will you put down first?




4. Show how big 1/2 of a muffin tin is. What fraction is equivalent  (equal) to 1/2 of your muffin tin?

Literacy/Social: 
First Nations and Heritage Park





Questions: 
1.How was Head Smashed in Buffalo Jump used to hunt buffalo?
2. What's a medicine wheel?
3.What non-fiction text features did you use to make it easy for the reader to read your slides? What can you add or take away to make it easier to read?

Questions: 
1.What are some of the traditions of the Metis and Blackfoot people?
2.Why did the first settlers from Europe often quilt?
3.Would it have been easy to move into a house for the new settlers who travelled from Europe in the 1800s? Why or why not?

French/Art:
Cartoon Self-Portrait


Question: Quelle est la couleur de tes cheveux (What color is your hair?)

February 28-29

Grade 4 Weekly Blog

Updates:

- Field Trip Wednesday March Fourth to Heritage Park: Please arrive by 9am.
- Field trip forms and payment should all be done. 

A couple students still need to bring them in. Thanks to all volunteers who will be attending. We now meet our adult support ratio... so thank you!!

Homework:

- Math Tests signed and corrected in a different color (Rm 19)

Literacy:

One Writer's workshop cycle has been completed. 
Monday we share our stories with the grade 5 classes.

Questions: 
What is something you are proud of with your story?

What is your goal for the next round of our writer's workshop?

Math:

 
Questions: 

1. Order the fractions 1/8, 1/4, 1/2 and 1/16 from largest to smallest
2. How Many 1/16 are needed to make one whole (piece of paper)?

Social:

Alberta First Nations Stories

Question:What are some of the ways that the buffalo was used by the indigenous people of Alberta?

French:

Ma Famille

Question: Qui est dans ta famille (Who is in your family)?

Art:

We look forward to sharing our winter scenes and french poems during upcoming student led conferences.

February 18-21

Grade 4 Weekly Blog

Updates:

- Feb. 26th: Pink Shirt Day and Grade 1 assembly

- Please return field trip form with payment. Thanks to all volunteers who will be attending. We now meet our adult support ratio... so thank you!!

Homework:

- Finish French poem "Les Colours d'Hiver with illustrations

- Online "My Alberta" slides in Google Docs

- Practice multiplication and division facts to 81 (we will have a check in on Monday to show questions using personal strategies, such as grouping, sharing, drawing visuals, skip counting and using a multiplication chart)

Literacy:

We have finished and published our stories! Students have worked very hard to use the elements of a fiction story to create their very own masterpiece. They will be illustrating their title pages next week and completing a self-evaluation checklist. Students will get to share their stories with peers in other grades next week.

Math:

Question: How many ways can you show your understanding of this division problem?

Students are sharing their personal math strategies in a variety of ways to solve one problem. This demonstrates an in-depth understanding of Number Sense and Multiplication/Division concepts. 

Social Studies:

Students were very interested in our look into Alberta's historical site "Head Smashed in Buffalo Jump."

We watched a short "Travel Alberta" video to show the site to the students so they can visualize where the buffalo were run off the cliff hundreds of years ago. They had a lot of interesting questions and we look forward into further study of this historical site.

To check out the video, go to YOUTUBE: 

Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump - Travel Alberta, Canada

French/ Art:
Students have continued working on the colours of winter poems in French. Along with their poem they drew a winter scene to align with the words from their poems.

***The checklist the students used while drawing their winter scene