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

 

February 10-13

Grade 4 Weekly Blog

Upcoming events 

Feb. 13, 14, and 17th: No school

Feb 19: Dress as your favourite animal

             Fun Lunch! (Lunch Lady Breakfast)
Feb 21: Bring back signed forms for Heritage Park or sooner

Feb 26: Pink Shirt Day
Feb 28: Jump Rope for Heart Completed

March 4th: Field trip to Heritage Park

Homework

- Literacy: type and edit good copy of stories in Google Doc (3-2-1 edit-see below in literacy) and Monday journal entry

-Social studies: geography and connections to 3 cities in 3 different regions

-Art: Rough copy of winter scene
-Math: Multiplication tables for areas you need work or Math text questions pages 176-183 (Rm 19)

Art:

Questions: 
Use the checklist: Can you point out if I was able to meet each criteria on the checklist on my rough draft? 
What did you do to meet each criteria in your picture? 
Is there anything you still need to work on before you start your good copy?

Math:

Questions: 
How can we use multiplying by 10s to help with multiplying by 9 (ex. 7X9=)? 
What are some strategies that you use to help with multiplication?

Literacy
3-2-1 edit your stories

Highlight in green 3 places where you made corrections with spelling or punctuation in your text, 2 places where you changed a word that had more description and 1 sentence that you rewrote to make more sense or to be more impactful.



Activity: Share your story with your family

Kindness Day:

Questions: 
Why did you choose to write your letter to the person you wrote it for? 
What are some characteristics that make this person kind?

Enjoy the long weekend!!!

February 3-7

Grade 4 Weekly Blog

Upcoming events 

Feb 10: Jump Rope for Heart Assembly

Feb 12: Valentine card exchange and "Kindness Day" at Ranchlands

Feb. 13, 14, and 17th: No school

Feb 19: Dress as your favourite animal

             Fun Lunch! (Lunch Lady Breakfast)

Feb 26: Pink Shirt Day

March 4th: Field trip to Heritage Park, Volunteers needed.

Homework

- Typing good copy of stories in Google Doc

- Social studies Canada maps

- Science reflection (First, Then, Next, Last)

- Monday Journal

Literacy

This week students have been working on their "Publishing" step of our writer's workshop. They've used their editing checklist to edit their stories for Capitalization, End Punctuation, Spelling and Organization. After self and peer editing, students met with their teachers to read, discuss and complete final edits together.

Math

Playing a variety of math games helps to build and strengthen students mental math strategies for multiplication. 

 

Using bread tags to create arrays as one strategy to help solve multiplication questions.

Question: Where do we see arrays in our daily lives? For example, egg cartons would represent 2x6=12 or 6x2=12.

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Social Studies

Students participated in an interactive activity to locate first Alberta and then the other provinces and territories in Canada

Question: Can you label the 10 provinces and 3 territories with your family?

 

The Grade 4's used their knowledge of non-fiction text features to locate information in an Atlas to learn about Alberta. They used the Index to locate Alberta's flag and some of our provincial symbols, such as the "Wild Rose" and "Great Horned Owl". 

Question: Can you explain the meaning of the coat of arms in the centre of Alberta's flag?

French

Students have been learning new vocabulary including winter words and colours through songs, visuals and activities. They are working on writing winter poems in French along with a visual of a winter scene. They have been excited to translate "winter fun" words that connect to their lives, including snowmen, sledding, hockey and shoveling.