January 20-24

Grade 4 Weekly Blog

Students have had a busy week with lots of excitement including "Crazy Hair Day", Fun Lunch and a country concert held at St.Rita. We were invited to join St. Rita to watch the country singer perform his hits and talk to the students about the goals he set and challenges he had to overcome to be the singer he is today.

Here's some pictures of our Crazy Hair!!

Upcoming Events

*Report Cards sent home Thursday, January 30th

*No School Friday, January 31st (PD Day)

*Please return any overdue library books. We will continue to allow students to visit the library to sign out books from Monday-Thursday in the mornings

Homework

* Please log onto your Google Slide presentation to complete at least one region in Alberta to describe its geographical features. (See Social Studies section)

Literacy

Students have been working on writing the beginning of their stories during "Writer's Workshop". They have planned and focused on character development, adding adjectives, and starting with an interesting beginning. Now they are focusing on writing complete sentences to write the beginning of their stories.

 

QUESTION: Can you tell what components that are included in the beginning of your story? What problem are you going to introduce?

Math

We continued learning about various strategies to subtract large numbers. We practiced manipulating numbers to make the calculations easier. 

Question: Can you explain how this strategy can make the subtraction process more simple?

 5000  - 1      4999

-2346          - 2346
                             +1

Social Studies

Students have been researching about the following geographical features for various regions in Alberta:

    1. Landforms

    2. Climate

    3. Bodies of Water

    4. Vegetation

    5. Animal Life 

    6. Natural Resources

**The next step will be to make connections to the areas of land they are researching.

 

Question: Has your family been to a body of water in the Grasslands Region? For example, "The Bow River".

Science

Why are we learning about simple machines? Explain how are they important in our everyday life!



Can you think of at least three examples of an inclined place and a wedge?



French/Art

We are using art techniques to introduce and add winter French words to our "Les Mos" dictionaries. Students are focusing on 5 different art techniques while drawing and labeling new French vocabulary.

1. Perspective
2. Incorporating 3D objects 
3. Adding "big" and "small" 
4. Overlapping
5. Use of a horizon line