January 7-10

Classroom Blog- Grade 4

Welcome back! We hope you all enjoyed the holidays.

Homework- only if not finished in class
Literacy- My Winter Holidays, Story Beginnings
Math-p.90 3 questions (Subtracting Numbers in the 1000s) See under math.
Art-finish sketch
Science-
1. Draw a diagram and label
2. Finish analysis (challenge, materials, observation and results)

Literacy

Students continued to work in their writer's workshop folders to investigate interesting story beginnings. We signed out a bunch of new books from the library and students were asked to read the beginnings and decipher what category it fit under. Students enthusiastically worked in partners to find all 6 types of story beginnings and if it didn't fit into a category, they placed it in "other". Our goal is to use these interesting beginnings when writing our own stories to avoid using "Once Upon a Time" which should only be used for fairy tales, and "One Day" which is not very exciting.

Questions: Which type of beginnings did you find when reading through the books? Was there one particular beginning you found more often than others?

Math 
Subtracting Numbers in the 1000s.

Questions: 
1) What strategies do you find helpful to solve subtraction problems (ex. using base ten blocks,  borrowing starting from the right, using a number line, mental math or do you have another method?
2) What can you do to check if your answer is correct? What can you do to tell if your answer is reasonable?

Science
I can explain how rollers can be used to move an object, and demonstrate the use of rollers in a practical situation.





  

 

 

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Questions: Why were we huddled around this groups experiment? What did they try that was different from the rest of the testing centres?

Question: Were you able to successfully complete the roller challenge? Why or why not? Why was Ms. Malone pulling this student in the recycle bin? What was she trying to prove?

Art/French
C'est hiver It's winter!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5XFheDMNPM

Questions: 
1)Quelle saison est-ce? Quelle couleurs voyez-vous en hiver? (What season is it? What colors do you see in the winter?).

2)What new techniques or skills did you learn in this guided drawing?