Friday, June 16th

 A reminder to students who participated in the home reading club, all books need to be returned to the school ASAP! I will follow up with emails and phone calls for books not returned on Monday!

In math, we are working towards reaching the end of our fractions unit. Students are currently working on comparing fractions with different numerators or denominators. 

In social, we are looking at early settlement in Alberta. 

In science, we continue to talking about plants. Students will be bringing home their sprouted beans today, which can go in the dirt if you have a spot for them. 

In English, students are excited to be working on their story writing. They have created a character, a setting and a brainstorm of events. 

In Spanish we have completed our work on Joan Miro and are now talking abut the work of Antonio Gaudi. 

We have been working on our puberty health unit this week. We will complete this unit next week after wrapping up coping with puberty. Thanks for helping them with their "homework". 

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Friday, June 9th

Hopefully you are able to make it out to the Family Fiesta last night!! Huge shout out to the parent volunteers that helped get that organized!!

Back in the classroom we have beans waiting to germinate! Hopefully there will be some action by Monday. This is the start of our plant unit in Science. 

In social we are moving through the early settlement period in Alberta and we have specifically looked at Metis this week. 

In math we have been working on equivalent fractions. There have been some games added to google classroom for continued practice. 

In English we have been creating characters and will be moving on to setting next week to get set up for  story writing.

In Spanish we have been looking at the Spanish artist, Joan Miro. Students have been critiquing his art and learning about who he was. 

In gym we will be doing inline skating on June 13, 20, 23. 

Note to parents, we will be starting our human sexuality - puberty lessons on Monday, June 12th. 

Friday, June 6th

Hello! As I'm sure you have heard by now, we had a very successful day at Heritage Park. Albeit a bit on the chilly side. The students represented the school very well and worked hard to gather information, while squeezing in some fun on the rides or watching a show.  Thanks again to our parent volunteers that made wonderful guides!!

In math we are working our way through fractions. Next week we will start on equivalent fractions.

In English we are working on elements of plot. Students will soon be working with a pre created character and creating an appropriate setting for them.

In science we will be wrapping up Gears on Monday and soon moving on to our Plants Unit!

In social we will debrief on our Heritage Park trip and move back to our work on the Fur Trade and Early Settlement in Alberta. 

In art we have completed a Joan Miro inspired snowman. We will continue to be the focus for our art time on Monday. 

In gym we have inline skating on Tuesday, June 6th and the rest of our gym will be spent outside.

Friday, May 26th

 Reminders: There is no school on Monday, May 29th for a PD day. Don't forget to vote!

Our grade 4's start there inline skating class on Tuesday, 30th, in the afternoon. They are allowed to bring their own gear if they would like. All the gear is provided. Their personal gear must be approved by the instructor. This will run for the following four Tuesday's and a Friday class on the fourth week. 

We will be heading to Heritage Park four our grade 4 field trip on Thursday, June 1st.

This week:

We are working with fractions in math. Students are able to identify them, write them in numbers and in words from an image and we are currently looking at labeling fractions on a number line. Lots of fractions practice in google classroom. 

In English, we have moved on to elements of plot, which will lead into story writing. Student are looking forward to writing their own stories!

In science we have wrapped up simple machines and will be starting gears next week.

In Spanish we have started our last unit, which is artistas hispanas. Looking at famous Spanish artists. Our first one is Joan Miró. This work will tie into art class as well. Today students started to create a digital, Miró inspired snowman. 

Friday, May 19

After a smokey week, we have made it to the weekend.

Students started their day finding fractions around the room and library. They are able to write a fraction and say it in words, in Spanish. We will continue to work on fractions next week. There is some practice work available in google classroom. We were working hard today to finish incomplete assignments in Spanish, English, math and art. Students should be done typing up their sensory paragraphs that go along with their season art. We also enjoyed going outside for gym today. 

Reminder that students first day of Alien Inline is May 30th.

There is no school on Monday, May 22

Our field trip to Heritage Park in on June 1st.

Friday, May 12th

 Hello,

Please see the previous post about our upcoming health unit and info around the trip to Heritage park.

In math we are getting close to the end of our unit on perimeter and area. We will be moving on to fractions next, hopefully by the end of next week. As always, students are encouraged to keep practicing their multiplication tables. 

In English, students should be working on the good copy of their seasons sensory writing. They are taking feedback they received on their rough copies and need to make improvements to their typed good copy. This will be matched up with their season art. 

In science we are working away through simple machines, especially pulleys. This week students completed a reading comprehension about pulleys. 

In social they are continuing to learn about the Indigenous Peoples' of Alberta. 

In gym we have been spending time outside. We will use the gym if it is raining or too hot...! This week students had choice about what activity they wanted to do. This weeks choices were basketball, frisbee and soccer.