Happy Thanksgiving!

Math Tool

The students have been learning how to add and subtract up to three digit numbers.  Here is an online addition tool we will be practicing with today.

French/Health

The students are learning about healthy eating and exercising habits in French.  Create your own plan for healthy living based on the Canadian Food Guide.

Remembrance Day Song

The grade 4 students will be learning and performing the song "Little Red Poppy" as part of this year's Remembrance Day assembly.  If they would like to practice at home I have included a link here to the song and lyrics.  Little Red Poppy.

Alberta's Natural Regions

The grade 4 students have been learning about Alberta and the natural regions of our province.  To begin the project the students researched each region, discovering unique features of the land.

Then together we created a rubric for what an excellent final project would look like.

Next the students created a plan of how they would like their 3-D salt dough models to look like.

Finally, the students made salt dough and created them into models of the natural regions of Alberta.

For the last step, the students painted their models and did a self-evaluation on the rubric of where they felt they landed.  

Building Landfills

The students built landfills in a workshop with Green Calgary.  Their task was to build a landfill that would not leak into the ground water and keep the seagulls out.  They used materials that landfill engineers would use in real life and discussed potential problems and ways to make landfills more efficient.

Here are some photos from the afternoon!

Library

The students had their first visit to the library of the year and took out two books each. They will need to renew or return them every Thursday.

Building a landfill

On Monday, the grade 4 students will have a workshop with Green Calgary.  They will be building a landfill and learning about biodegradable and non-biodegradable waste.  This workshop is in direct connection to their Science curriculum on waste in our world.  The grade 4 teachers would like to thank parent council for their contribution in making this workshop happen!