This week in humanities fourth graders have continued to read Pax and apply learned strategies in their visual and online journals. Grade fours completed a Freshgrade check-in to demonstrate their understanding of how and why good readers visualize. Students also explored why our next strategy, making connections, helps us become better readers. Posters on display in our humanities rooms were used to open a conversation about what it means to make deep connections to ourselves, other texts, and the world. We watched the Pixar short film “Dug's Secret Mission” to try this strategy together! This week in Science students have been continuing our exploration of Plant Growth and Change. Students had the opportunity to go back into the science lab and observe and explore the beginning of plant life in beans. Students used their skills from the Unknown exploration to again observe and record their observations on a sprouting bean plant. Students were able to identify the beginnings of leaves and roots. These skills will be used in the coming future as the students begin work on the Tomatoshpere project in the next few weeks. For more information on Tomatosphere please visit the website: http://tomatosphere.letstalkscience.ca/Investigation.aspx This week in Math students have begun to look at mental math strategies as well as addition and subtraction computation. Students were able to show what they know, coming into grade 4, through an addition and subtraction check-in. We will continue to develop and build on these skills in the coming weeks as we continue to work on strategies students can use for mental math as well as why regrouping works in both addition and subtraction. To introduce mental math skills, students had the opportunity to practice these skills by playing mental math games on their iPads, the website we used is linked bellow if you would like to take a look and play a few at home. http://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/7-11-years/mental-maths Students also reviewed why we regroup in both addition and subtraction problems and why we do it, to better understand the theory behind these computations. If you would like to understand more about this please take a look at these Khan Academy videos we watched in class: Addition- Why Carrying Works: https://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic-home/addition-subtraction/adding-carrying/v/why-carrying-works Subtraction- Regrouping: https://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic-home/addition-subtraction/subtract-within-100/v/introduction-to-regrouping-borrowing Reminders:
Mini Me to We will be hosting Spirit Week Oct. 31- Nov. 4. Our theme days are as follows: Mon. Oct. 31 - Costume Day (Afternoon only/ No masks or face coverings) Tues. Nov. 1 - Match Day Wed. Nov. 2 - Crazy Hair/Hat Day Thurs. Nov. 3 - Animal Day (dress like or wear a picture of an animal) Fri. Nov. 4 - Pyjama Day Student Valuables The grade 4 team would like to remind you that students in grade 4 do not have a locker or private places to keep their belongings at school so it is important that they leave any valuables at home to avoid running the risk of things going missing. We will be keeping our classroom doors locked at break times and reminding all students who use our room of the mutual respect we expect of each other and for other people’s personal space i.e. desks, coat hooks etc.
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This week math/science students have been practicing their ability to find pattern in number and pattern series'. Grade fours have been practicing their computation skills and had an opportunity to show, what they know in an addition and subtraction check-in. In science, students have begun preparation for the Tomatosphere, studying germination and gaining supporting information about plants. This week in humanities.... We started reading the novel Pax aloud as a class. We are so excited about this novel and the learning opportunities it provides. As we read this week students were introduced to the reading strategy visualizing and demonstrated their skills in a visual journal featuring pictures, words, and questions. We also introduced the strategies of questioning and making inferences, and are excited to continue working with the students on using clues from the text to answer their questions. The app "MindMeister" will digitally hold and organize students' questions as we continue to read! This week students also selected novels from the library that they will allow them to practice the reading strategies independently. Students also contributed to a class "What Are We Reading?" wall. Check out the digital version from 4.3/4.4 here: https://padlet.com/ivy_w1/43reads2016, and 4.1 / 4.2's display on the wall in their humanities room! Students are also now working in Googledocs, and have each created their own digital journal. In this document students will be completing a variety of activities (including uploading images of their visual journals), and will receive feedback from their teachers. Your child will still be sharing their learning on Freshgrade though, so keep watching those portfolios! The beauty of Googledocs is that they save automatically, are accessible from anywhere on any device, and have wonderful comment features that allow teachers and students to have meaningful conversations about learning. Ask your child to show you their journal! Next week we plan to continue following Pax and Peter on their journey, and will be looking at how making connections is another thing that good readers do. Lastly, a HUGE "Thank You" to everyone who volunteered to help out on November 15 with the in-school Teacher's Pet activity. At this point all classes have enough volunteers and are good to go.
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