Grade 4 2023/24

 We started our week with a trip to Heritage Park. Students learned what life was like in Alberta in the early 1900's. Each student received a day pass to use at Heritage Park that they brought home on Friday.   -we learned about the settlers, railroad, made butter, saw a sod house and did some word working -we played a fur trade game at school by doing a scavenger hunt for beaver pelts and trading them for different supplies then explained why we chose the items we did -we continue to focus on paragraphs and turned our worm research into an informative paragraph -we are showing different strategies and ways to model division in math -we looked at some petroglyphs from Writing on Stone and will work on some symbol stories in the upcoming week  

 Over the past few weeks: -we have been working on their math geometry art projects  -we have been learning about triangles and how to identify them based on angles and sides -we learned how to use a protractor to measure acute, obtuse and right angles -we are learning about voyageurs and the fur trade -we are learning about the scientific method by designing our own experiments with our red wiggler worms -watched some authours read parts of their books on World Read Aloud Day -we are learning how to write paragraphs -presented our readers theater plays for our buddy class -learned about the difference between bullying, mean and rude behavior and how to react to each  

Since we have come back from winter break we have: -had a lot of BLUE days and indoor recesses :( -been working on problem solving and 3 act math tasks -learning multiplication strategies to multiply 2 and 3 digit numbers by 1 digit numbers -reading Wild Robot -doing a readers theater about garbage and recycling -creating informational posters about reduce, reuse, recycle and the impact of our actions -leaning about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch -using ozoblockly to code an ozobot to do a beach cleanup  -doing volleyball in gym -making Blackfoot artifacts  -we started vermicomposting -we wrote "What Could Go Wrong" stories

 The past couple of weeks in Room 5, we a have been, -learning about area and perimeter in math -doing brainbashers and solve me puzzles -talking about patterns on a multiplication chart, practicing basic multiplication facts and relating them to division -learning about producers, consumers and decomposers and food chains -we are focusing on Waste, recycling and composting and had a presentation from Green Calgary where students were challenged to build a model of a landfill that could prevent leachate from seeping into the water -working on our social studies research about the Alberta regions and beginning to put our information into a slide show -we used tinkercad to create something to represent our Alberta region (animal, landform, plant, natural resource) and hope to 3d print them next week. -word work/spelling: learning about homophones, words ending with 'le' and how to add 'ing' to different words (double last consonant, drop e or do nothing) -did some fibonac...

 I hope everyone had an enjoyable Fall break.  Over the past 2 short weeks the grade 4 students, -finished our Wishtree novel and wrote a book review -wrote poems created art for for remembrance day -researched peacekeeping -worked on editing skills with our suspense stories -learned about natural resources and products or uses of each.  We also talked about renewable and non-renewable resources. -we are learning about the Fibonacci sequence by looking for patterns in numbers and nature, explaining the pattern, drawing the pattern -we are working with money and a shopping task to practice adding and subtracting decimals -we started the book "The Wild Robot"  -we went to Fort Calgary and learned about some Alberta history