French - Days of the week

We learned a song today to help the students learn the days of the week in French.  Click here to practice at home!

French -

The grade fours explored a French website with some fun games to learn new vocabulary

Spelling Checks

Students will be coming home today with a spelling level check as well as some instructions for further practice. From time to time throughout the year, students will be given a spelling check with words ranging from grade one level to grade twelve level. For roughly every five words spelled correctly, the student is given a spelling grade level. In grade four students should be spelling twenty to thirty words correctly.
Grade Fours have been learning different ways to work on their spelling and parents will begin seeing Word Work in student agendas for daily practice. Work Work option include but are not limited to activities such as creating crossword puzzles, games on spellingcity.com, playing Scrabble or Bananagrams, keeping a journal, fun quizzes, Spelling Catch, Spelling Jump or writing stories.
Please let me know if you have any questions.

Math project - Building a dream home

The grade 4/5's are continuing with their project of building a dream home.  We were lucky enough to have Marvin DeJong come in and speak to the students about his career and how it applies to what they are learning.  The students were fascinated!

Iris:

The students are creating learning profiles on a secure CBE tool called IRIS.  Follow the link here to continue working on this at home.

This week: 

Thursday is a busy day!  We have the Terry Fox run where all students will take part in a school wide run.  The students are asked to wear either pink for cancer awareness or their house color, which for grade 4's is black for Nighthawks

Thursday night is parent/teacher conferences.  Please book through conference manager.

There is no school Friday as conference continue on this day.

Regions of Alberta

The grade four students have been working to create 3D models of Alberta and it's different geographical regions. They started by mapping the regions, made a plan, created the salt dough and began constructing their models. The next step will be to paint the final projects.

Math Project

The students in Ms.Bly's class have a head start on a project where they are designing their dream home or bedroom and budgeting for this expense.  This project will touch on the measurement unit, place value, large numbers, basic operations and 2D and 3D shapes.

Here the rubric for how they will be marked and an example of how to create their budget.

The Regions Of Alberta

Grade four has been studying the regions of Alberta. Have a look at the link below and spend some time exploring Alberta with your child.
Zoom in on Alberta:
http://www.learnalberta.ca/content/sszi/en/

Problem Solving Strategies

Throughout the year, grade four students will be working on developing and using different problem solving strategies. Please have a look at the strategies below and try them out with your child.

Problem Solving and Reminders

Try this questions with your parents are home:

Heidi and Cathleen were trying to decide what kind of pet they wanted. They looked at a lot of animals at Morgan's Pet Store. They looked at 3 more rabbits than birds. They saw one half as many birds as kittens. There were one third as many kittens as puppies. They took a long look at the 36 adorable puppies. How many animals did they look at altogether?


Reminders:
-If anyone has any old newspapers they can part with, we would love to have them for an art project.
-The Elboya Terry Fox run is on September 24th.

Area and Perimeter

Grade four students are learning about area and perimeter in math this week. Students can review using the links below.
Math Live: Area and Perimeter
http://www.learnalberta.ca/content/me5l/html/math5.html

Math Live: Area and Perimeter of Irregular Shapes
http://www.learnalberta.ca/content/me5l/html/math5.html

Area and Perimeter Game
http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks2/maths/perimeter_and_area/index.html

Story Starters!

Grade Four has started working on developing their creative writing skills. Today they began working on writing interesting story starters. Ask your child to give you examples of some different ways to start a story. 

Daily Five

The Daily Five is a reading program used to help students become independent readers and writers. The Daily Five consists of Reading to Self, Reading to Others, Word Work, Work on Writing and Listening to Reading. Students are encouraged to do all of these five activities at least once a day. Ask your child to talk to you about Daily Five and how they are working to become independent readers and writers. Have a great weekend!
Reminder: Picture day is on Tuesday the 8th.

First Week!

Welcome back to school! We have had a busy week here in Grade 4. Please spend some time talking to your child about the Daily 5, our plants, making connections while reading and our measurement math work. We have also started working through a novel study on "The City of Ember." It's going to be a great year!
Reminder: School photos are taking place on Tuesday September 8th, 2015.