This week in humanities students have worked hard to complete their town proposals! Students collaborated to expand their understanding of the region they chose by sharing research and answering our thick questions together. We are excited to see how these towns are planned and developed after the break. Fourth graders also put their heads together to brainstorm “How natural resources are used by Albertans.” The resources we looked at were: Agriculture, Natural Gas, Oil, Forestry, and Coal. They generated a great list of ideas that we will continue to analyze in the New Year. Our second OT session with 4.1 & 4.3 was on Thursday where we learned about some helpful printing techniques.
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This week in humanities students spent time finishing up their Pax in 1 minute videos, town proposals, and working on developing vocabulary knowledge for the unit. Check out Freshgrade for new posts by your child and teacher feedback. Fourth graders have also continued to deepen their understanding of persuasive strategies during interactive and independent class activities. In reading, the grade fours participated in small group book circles where they shared about books, and practiced their summarizing skills and identifying the author's message or themes within the book. We also had an Occupational Therapist come in to teach 4.2 & 4.4 printing techniques and will be coming back on Thursday Dec. 15 to work with 4.1 & 4.3. She presented information and skills around print formation, size, spacing, and legibility. This week in Science we began an exciting new unit; Waste and Our World. Students began the unit by watching a short film called the Story of Stuff (video below). This began to introduce the problems with our current system of extraction, consumption and disposal. This weekend students will be working with their parents to calculate their Carbon Footprint to better understand their own consumption. Please see the list below for upcoming peace festival events coming up next week:
Please note that participation in any of these events is NOT mandatory. If for any reason your child is unable to participate, please do not hesitate to contact your child’s homeroom teacher. Toy Mountain Donations - Miss Glinsbockel’s family group is collecting new and unwrapped toys for Toy Mountain until Thursday, December 15th. School wide Stephen’s Backpacks Collection - please see the links below for more information and to sign up, or the paper handout sent home with your child (4.2). 4.3: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Wvm2h6CBwf4c-3WBxOFo1BnIYuH-3EbQCKPHRNucRGk/edit?usp=sharing 4.4: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qh7n2DNLxpMjzzXFIOtAqQ7OAupd_9iqrjVOB57eAqI/edit?usp=sharing OTHER: Visits to the Peace Festival in the gym: Tuesday Dec 12 @ 2:00 - 4.4 Wednesday Dec 13 @ 10:35 - 4.3 Wednesday Dec 13 @ 2:00 - 4.1 Thursday Dec 15 @ 9:00 - 4.2 During Peace Festival visits to the gym there will be activities designed by the grade 9 students around mindfulness and gratitude. There will also be a market featuring hand made gods from Nepal, students are welcome to bring money to purchase holiday gifts. *Some activities in the gym ask that students "give what they can". This could be a non-perishable food item or change. This is not mandatory and plans are in place for students ho do not have donations to ensure that everyone is able to participate. *** There may be other activities that students participate in during this time, including hearing from guest speakers, participating in a “Mindfulness Cafe” hosted by our grade 9s, baking for the community, or contributing to a collaborative quilt project. *** Thursday Dec 15 @ 7:00pm - Agents of Change Elective is hosting a film screening at the school. See the information poster in "Important Links & Docs" - We hope to see you there! Closing assembly in the gym - December 16 @ 2:00pm In humanities this week fourth graders continued their work on exploring Alberta’s 6 natural regions. We are using this information to propose where in Alberta a new town should be built based on the important details that would make the area a great place to live. Students are also beginning to think about what persuasive strategies are and how marketers use these to sway people into buying their products. Later, we will apply these strategies in writing and the town presentations to practice our own persuasive techniques! In wrapping up our class novel, Pax, the grade fours will be creating a one minute snapshot of the story using their summarizing skills to choose the top 10 moments from the novel and tell the story. This week in Math Science we have continued our work on our Tomatosphere graphs and our Blanacing Videos. Students had the opportunity to share their videos with the class and recieve feedback in the form of two stars and a wish from their peers. Students will have time next week to take this feedback and incorporate it into their videos. On Friday we once again took to the science alb to finaly transplant our tomato plants. Students had dirty hands and smiles as the continued to cultivate their growing plants. Thank you to everyone who came out to student led conferences last week! We were impressed by the turn-out and how well our grade 4s did presenting their learning to you. If you haven’t had the chance to provide feedback yet around our new SLC format, please contact the office!
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