Week 11

In Math we continued practicing subtraction computations starting from 10 000, using the regrouping strategy. Below is a link, that helps you keep track of our math Learning Intentions and Success Criteria, along with games where they can practice these concepts at home:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Von0b3dqkGpqP00Y4zjj35-ZHBRuyDOx9VjNy1nAvsc/edit?usp=sharing

In Social Studies, we began examining the natural features of Alberta's regions. In particular we looked at the climate (temperature and precipitation), land surface (mountains, valleys, etc.), animal life and plant life. 

In writing we have been practicing how to make our writing more interesting by using the technique "Show Don't Tell". This is when the author shows the feelings of a character or describes a scene, rather then telling the reader what is happening. An example

Next Week's Spelling Pattern:

The Sound F

The sound /f/ can be spelled in different ways. 

Practice Words:

Photo        Graph         laugh       cough       trophy        shelf    friend        enough       stiff           giraffe       nephew     

Reminders:

Parent Teacher Conferences - Thursday November 22nd after school and Friday November 23rd morning are the parent teacher conferences. Students have no school on Friday. Please book your appointment through the online booking system. I look forward to updating you on your child's progress so far in Grade 4. 

Field Trip - On December 11th we will be going on our visit out of school field trip to Fort Calgary. Please email and let me know if you are able to volunteer to come with us on this day. It will be a whole day field trip. Field trip forms to sign will go home closer to the date.

No School December 7th - On Friday December 7th the teachers have a professional development day and students have no school.  

Winter Weather Clothes - Please remember to have children bring snow pants and boots during the colder, wet season. The field can get very wet as snow melts. Extra socks in their backpack would be great as well. 

Week 10

We started a full round of your Daily 5. Our Daily 5 involves working on Read with the Teacher, Passion Project, Read to Self, Word Work and Work on Writing. 

We have been working on sharing our personal strategies in math. When sharing our personal strategies, it is important to show your work and understanding, communicate and collaborate with others, show our strategies step by step, speak clearly and calmly, and use math vocabulary.

This week we learned about Goal Setting. We created goals and strategies that will help us with our descriptive writing. We need to take steps to reach our goals. We use strategies to help us reach our goal. Some of our strategies might be using the success criteria, learning intentions, the worn out word wall and the sensory word bank to help improve our descriptive writing. 

We started our cardboard challenge. We are making games for our winter indoor recess. 

Next Week's Spelling Pattern:

Consonant Digraphs

Consonant digraphs are 2 consonants together that make a completely new sound. They can be found anywhere in a word. 

Practice Words:

thunder 

farther 

reach 

chicken 

wheat 

Thursday 

foolish 

gather 

brother 

awhile 

chimney 

sharply 

leash 

bother 

shipment 

feathers 

charge 

shovel 

whiskers 

crush

who

whole

Reminders:

Class Pictures - Monday November 12th is picture re-take day and our whole class photo will be taken on this day as well.

In-line Skating - Thank you for returning the forms. The next final in-line skating session will be on Wednesday, November 14th. Please have your child bring their helmet to school on this day. 

Field Trip - On December 11th we will be going on our visit out of school field trip to Fort Calgary. Please email and let me know if you are able to volunteer to come with us on this day. It will be a whole day field trip. Field trip forms to sign will go home closer to the date.

Winter Weather Clothes - Please remember to have children bring snow pants and boots during the colder, wet season. The field can get very wet as snow melts. Extra socks in their backpack would be great as well. 

Week 9

In Math, we have been working on words problems. We have also been working with base ten blocks to show our work and understanding of addition and place value.

In Science, we have been looking at our data to figure out the problems we noticed in our classrooms. One of the problems we noticed was that some things weren't going in the right bin. Many items were only going into the garbage.

In Language Arts, we have been working on descriptive writing. We have been using our rubric to help us understand the criteria to guide and to self-assess our writing.

We also had our first session of in-line skating. It was fun! 

Next week we will continue with R-controlled vowels as our spelling pattern.

Reminders:

In-line Skating - Thank you for returning the forms. The next 2 in-line skating sessions will be on November 7th and November 14th. Please have your child bring their helmet to school on these dates, if they have one.

Class Pictures - If you would like to purchase your child's photo, please return the form by November 7th. November 12th is picture re-take day and our class photo will be taken as well.

Winter Weather Clothes - Please remember to have children bring snow pants and boots during the colder, wet season. The field can get very wet as snow melts. Extra socks in their backpack would be great as well.