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?)