Hola parents and guardians!
We continue to work on understanding plastic pollution in our Science class. This week we explored the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, and started looking into the 3 Rs (Reuse, Reduce, and Recycle), to learn ways in which we can be part of the solution.
In Social Studies we have all but wrapped up our fourth natural region of Alberta, the Canadian Shield. Students have been participating very actively during our exploration.
In Math, we continue to work on addition of 4-digit numbers with regrouping (carrying the 1), and we spent some time learning how to describe our process of addition using the standard algorithm (stacking the numbers) in Spanish. We continue to work to expand our verbal fluency and to explain our ideas, processes and our thinking across all subjects.
In English, we continue to practice making inferences, and learning how to explain how we reached our inference ( "The text says.... I know that ..... I can infer that..."). We will also be looking in how we can infer or derive the meaning of novel (new) words from context clues, as part of this exploration.
In Spanish, we continue to explore the house, learning names for rooms and furnishings found typically in each room of the house. We continue to build our visual dictionaries at this stage, to have all the vocabulary we will be using in our binders.
In gym we have spent some time playing some indigenous games such as Cranes and Crows, and the Caribou Carry, twice a week, when we have shared our gym time with the other grade 4 class (to avoid going outside in extreme cold weather conditions). The rest of the time, we are tackling our basketball unit, by working on dribbling and stealing the ball.
In Art we are starting to learn Neurographic art, a type of doodle-based art that allowed students to practice mindfulness while drawing.
See you next week!
