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.