In humanities this week we have started exploring what being a historian means, and what kind of characteristics historians have! Students in 4.3 and 4.4 have started to create their historian journals and work inside of them exploring connections with the land we previously researched. We started writing some stories about those lands and are excited about the interesting ideas the kids have, and the insight they have shown already in their connections! Students also continued working on their Free Reading Challenges, and are making excellent progress recording their use of our active reading strategies. Students in 4.1 & 4.2 humanities brought in artifacts that represent First Nations people to them. With the incredible variety of artifacts brought in, we turned our room into a museum for a gallery walk. Students were asked to analyze the artifacts by looking closely and try thinking like a historian. We decided that asking questions along the way will deepen our understanding and be an important part of our learning. Students concluded the gallery walk by sharing questions and exploring new ideas that came about in our conversations. Lastly, to kick off our First Nations unit students used an app called Pic Collage to create a cover page for their writing journals! Alongside our First Nations studies, students will be exploring "what is a story?" and "Why might people write or tell stories?" We read "The Book With No Pictures" and watched "The Arrival" as demonstrations of two different types of stories (no words, no pictures). Students brainstormed some pros and cons for each, and next week we will discover another type of story. In grade 4 math/science students continued to practice their basic addition and subtraction facts through quick math games at the beginning of class. Place value continued to be a focus, as students ordered numbers from least to greatest and practiced correctly saying numbers up to the millions.
In science, students calculated how long their lunch would last in landfill and weight the waste our classrooms produced per day. Students also researched and brainstormed ideas to initiate a composting system in the grade four classrooms.
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