This week in humanities students worked on finishing up their Town Planning assignment. We were very excited to share with you at the Celebration of Learning showcase, and are grateful you could join us! Please ask your child to share their planning Google Doc with you to see more of the hard work that went into the finished products. Students will complete an individual final reflection next week to wrap up the unit. Thank you to all the parent volunteers who came out on Tuesday and Wednesday to support our groups with skating. We enjoyed spending the afternoon exercising and getting a breath of fresh air! This week in science we finished up our work on our landfill proposals. As a part of our work students and the opportunity to provide feedback to their peers using the checklist shown below. Students then used this formative assessment information to review their presentations. In Math, students continued their work on Place Value, completing a place value check-in on Thursday. This showed us that we need to spend more time on writing numbers and going over Place Values above One Thousand. Students also practiced their mental math addition strategies when they played addition card games. Upcoming:
Feb. 2nd - All grade 4 & 5 students will attend the Calgary Philharmonic perform the classic children's tale "The Hockey Sweater.” Looking forward… We are excited to start our next unit focusing around our past and Alberta’s Indigenous People and perspective, while applying historical thinking skills.
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Students began the week in math by showing us what they know about place value.If you would like to see this it is posted on FreshGrade under the name Place Value Check-In. Students completed a mini inquiry where they were asked "What is Place Value?", where they generated a group understanding of the definition of place value. Students then worked with base ten block manipulative to demonstrate their understanding. This week we welcomed Ms. Angela Romeril, a pre-service teacher, to 4.1 and 4.2 Math/Science. She is currently in her last semester at Mount Royal University and is enjoying getting to know the students at Connect. This week in Science, students began to work on their proposals for landfills. These landfills are going to become part of their humanities Town Proposals in an exciting cross curricular connection. In this assignment students were asked a series of questions about their proposed landfills, about the placement, environmental upkeep, and end use o the landfill property. Students will understand the main components of landfills and why they are important, as well as what is done with landfills after they are full. We will be interviewing an expert in the field of waste disposal next week with students' questions about Waste in our World. In humanities this week students have continued to work hard on their Town Presentations. We are excited to announce a celebration of learning to share our work on Thursday, January 26th. Please see attached invitation poster for more details! This week students reflected on their group work habits and shared the things that are working well and areas for improvement. Thank you for your comments in the parent feedback portion of this reflection. We value your involvement! Upcoming:
Skating - 4.2 & 4.4 on Tuesday Jan. 24th at 1:20 - 3:20pm Skating - 4.1 & 4.3 on Wednesday Jan. 25th at 1:20 - 3:20pm Thank you to the volunteers who have offered their time to tie skates and supervise our skating events! Book Club - First meeting on Wednesday Jan. 25th at lunch in the Learning Commons! This week in humanities fourth graders continued to work on their group town planning docs. Our week’s focus was around positive teamwork and communication! We have been encouraging students to apply collaborative strategies brainstormed throughout the year to help them be most successful in their groups. Watch for a parent comment sheet coming home soon to review and provide feedback on your child’s efforts! Upcoming:
January 16th - 4.3 and 4.4 welcome Ms. Santos, a pre-service teacher from Mount Royal University. Ms. Santos is in her final practicum, and is looking forward to working with the students in humanities! She will be with us until the end of April, and we are all excited to welcome her to Connect! January 25th - Book Club kick off! Grade 4/5 & 8/9 book club is designed to pair up younger students with older students who share a love of literacy and READ over lunch hour. Book club will happen on every Day 4 in the Learning Commons. All students welcome to sign up! February 2nd - Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra Field Trip. Parents interested in volunteering please check online for a post from our volunteer committee. Reminders: Please send your child to school dressed for the weather. As a school that promotes outdoor education, we encourage students to begin taking responsibility for dressing appropriately during the different seasons. Welcome back, and happy New Year everyone! We were excited to hear about our students’ holidays on Tuesday and are pleased to see everyone back happy, healthy, and ready to learn. In humanities this week, all grade fours had a chance to visit the library to renew and return their books. 4.1 & 4.2 began work on their term 2 goals this week (this can be found on google docs), and 4.3 & 4.4 worked on finishing up their persuasive advertisements from before the break. Fourth graders were put into their Town Planning Assignment groups this week and began setting up our shared google docs. This will be how student plan and collaborate to work on their projects for the rest of January. Each component of the project is broken up into 8 steps with due dates. Please be checking agendas and talk with your child about how their group is doing throughout the coming weeks! This week in Math students have begun their review on graphing. Students were challenged to find coordinates during a review Kahoot. Kahoot is an online review tool that works like a game show where students are challenged to answer multiple choice questions under a nickname. In Science, students have continued their work in the Waste and Our World unit and have begun exploring the concept of landfills. Students were asked to think critically about different persepectives of landfills when they watched two videos with conflicting opinions. One being made by a waste management company who builds and maintains landfills, the other being made by a concerned citizen group, highlighting some of the possible downfalls of landfills. Students then began to research more about the different types of landfills, as they will soon be creating a proposal for a landfill that will be included in their town proposals in Humanities. Bellow is a video about landfills and the new composting initiative in Calgary. This made by the city of Calgary and the students watched it at the beginning of the week. |
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