January 27 - 30
It’s hard to believe that we are officially half done the school year. Where has the time gone? The students have grown so much. I’m looking forward to the second half of Grade 4 with this great group of kids!
The students had a lot of fun participating in our Crazy Hair Day on Thursday!
We enjoyed our presentation by a Devon RCMP constable regarding internet safety.
Thank you to the Grade 3 students who came to our classroom this week to present their Australian animal research reports.
LA
Our Kidblog writing schedule this week included:
Talk About it Tuesday - Favourite Cartoon Character
WeSearch Wednesday - Foxes
3, 2, 1 Thursday - Week in Review
We continued our Fantastic Mr. Fox novel study this week. Each day the students complete the following:
1. Quick Write - This is a question that the students answer before reading the chapters. The quick write question gets their minds warmed up and thinking in the direction the chapters will take them. It also helps the students make Text to Self connections.
2. Vocabulary - The students learn 3 new vocabulary words by completing fill-in-the blanks sentences using these specific words.
3. True/False or Sequencing - They either answer True or False questions or Sequence five specific events from the chapters.
4. Beyond - The beyond activities require the students to use their imagination to answer some upper-level thinking questions.
We reviewed the cursive letters Kk, Bb and Ff.
Math
This week in math we continued with our Multiplication unit. We focused on:
- defining the word product. When you multiply a pair of numbers, the result is called the product of the number.
- multiplying by ten, one hundred, one thousand, and their multiples.
- using arrays to multiply a pair of numbers. Arrays are useful representations of multiplication concepts.
This array has 4 rows with 3 stars in each row. This is referred to as a 4 x 3 array. This 4 x 3 array has 12 stars in it, or 4 x 3 = 12
Congrats to our XtraMath superstar!
Social Studies
In social studies we covered the following topics:
Languages - The most commonly spoken First Nations languages in Alberta are Blackfoot, Cree, Chipewyan, Dene, Sarcee, and Stoney. Unfortunately, most of these languages are endangered. The students enjoyed writing our number words 0-10 in Cree.
Metis - The Metis are the aboriginal people of Canada who are of both First Nation and European Ancestry. The Metis speak a language called Michif, a language that is a mixture of Cree and French. The students were provided with the link http://www.learnmichif.com/language to find the translations for many common English greetings and words.
Settling in Alberta - We also learned about how the French and British colonized North America and how Alberta became a province in 1905.
Treaties - A Treaty is an agreement between two nations. Treaties were signed all over Canada. In Alberta, treaties 6. 7. & 8 were signed by different First Nations with the government.
PE
This week in PE we focused on the importance of keeping our hearts healthy and our bodies active. The students enjoyed participating in Tic Tac Toe and Scarf Balance relays, as well as, Zones of Regulation centres.
