December 2-6

Classroom Blog- Grade 4

Upcoming Events

* December 10- Jeans and Plaid day
*please feel free to bring donations for the food bank

Homework

Literacy-*In their writers workshop folders they need to have two story plans completed and their character development page
-weekend journalling
-response to Read Aloud: Edward's different homes
Social- Family Interview for My Alberta (due two weeks ago), ask more questions to get more details for your google slide presentation, ask you family if you have family pictures you can add to your presentation
French- Props/Characters and setting for Stop Motion (due past Monday)

Literacy

In Literacy this week we've continued working in our "Writer's Workshop" folders. We have been using a guide to plan stories including 3 attempts to solve our characters problems. We also worked to develop our main characters by adding physical traits and unique characteristics, such as how they move and their motivations. This allows the reader to create a clear image in their minds of who the main character is while reading their stories. 

Question: Can you describe your characters in enough detail that someone at home could draw them by simply listening to your description.

Math

In Math, we completed a "Show what you know" involving estimating sums, number lines and adding from left to right. Students are getting the hang of showing their work when adding from left to right by first adding the thousands, hundreds, tens, then ones. We encourage them to show their work to help us understand where their may be challenges in the adding process. Next week we will focus on subtracting 4 digit numbers with re-grouping. This can be tricky for students so additional practice at home can be beneficial.

Question: What strategy do you find most helpful when completing math addition questions?

Social Studies

We had our indigenous leader come in to 
discuss acknowledgment of the land. After watching a video with various elders in treaty 7 speaking about the land they shared why the land is important to them or a story about them and the land.

Question: Why is this land important to you? Can you share a story about you on this land?

We continued working on our My Alberta Google Slide presentation while learning about some specific regions of Alberta that will be included in our presentations.





















Activity: Find some pictures of your families or ancestors to add to your google slide presentation. Ask more questions to get information related to how your family/ancestors connected to the land (to get food, for for leisure activities, for work),  and to get interesting stories about your ancestors and family's culture.

Technology
Students are learning how to organize their work into folders shared with the teachers according to subject...this is still a work in progress. Their interview and google slide presentation for My Alberta should be under 'Social', their Author Study should be under 'Literacy' and French stop motion under 'French' in 'Shared with Me' folders under their names.




Question: Did you share your work under the shared folders so that your teachers can read it and give feedback?

French
We continue to sing about the days of the week and weather while continuing to learn related vocabulary: Jour de la semaine, Dimache, Lundi, Mardi, Mecredi, Jeudi. Vendredi et Samedi, Aujour d'hui, c'est, Decembre...



Question: Quel jour est-il au jour d'hui? Hier? Demain ?(What day is it today, Yesterday? Tomorrow?)

We worked on our stop motion movies with the help of our classroom experts.

Art

We made 3 dimensional snowflakes to decorate our class this week. This was a listening and following directions activity which posed some challenges to some of our classmates.  In the end we worked together as a team and came out successful with some beautiful snowflakes to put up around the classrooms.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lT2oeNkTOAk

Question: Can you teach someone at home, step by step, how to make their own snowflake?