Social Studies, Decimals, etc

Hello, 4A families!

We have be “redoing” the Canada vs. US Olympic hockey game in class with our alternate preferred endings. 😉

In Social Studies…

UPDATE! Wow – today was a victory for our Social Studies learners! Thank you all for studying! I had a fabulous time marking everyone’s quizzes and paragraph responses because I could see truly remarkable growth!

We have been learning about British Columbia’s path to confederation and the provinces and territories of Canada.

We have explored “documentary filmmaking” as a creative way to reinforce key concepts.

We made this “documentary”!
It’s a great study tool!

Students have been using visuals, icons, and storytelling techniques to represent ideas. Students are understanding the material more deeply and remembering it with impressive clarity—even the dates. It helps that confederation was 1867…67! If you know, you know 😉

We’ve seen how combining visuals with narrative strengthens memory and builds meaningful connections between ideas.

We have been also been doing lots of trivia games and practice quizzes.

Students have been demonstrating their learning in many ways all term. As well, we had a more formal unit quiz in class on Thursday: this assessment was just like the practice quizzes and had multiple choice questions, a written response section, and an oral component (I will give students a chance to flesh out their written responses in discussion with me—each learner will have many chances and ways to show his/her learning.)

Some great examples of student writing from the quiz (composed without the help of notes)…

It’s important for students to study exemplars—to see good examples of work and analyze how and to what extent they meet assignment criteria. We want to know the facts in context and be able to explain them with clarity.

In Physical Education…

We have been loving the beautiful PCS sport court and field.

Math…

Students have been practicing division with both the traditional method and partial quotients method and as well working on adding and subtracting decimals.

Please see your child’s agenda for their daily worksheet. Any incomplete class work is recommended to be finished at home. Then, it can be brought back in for marking at school or you can mark it at home yourselves.

In Bible…

In Bible, we have continued our deep dive into the parable of the lost son—the story Jesus told about forgiveness, humility, and the extravagant love of a father. We have explored the big themes woven throughout the parable:

• repentance and second chances

• jealousy and comparison

• grace that is freely given, not earned

• and the joy of restoration

Students reflected on the heart of each character (the younger son, the older brother, and the father) and considered what this story teaches us about God’s character and our own responses to others.

*We have seen interpretive dance, comics, plays and artwork expressing the students learning of the parable of the prodigal son.*

As a creative extension, students expressed their understanding in meaningful and imaginative ways. Some created their own dramatizations of the story, others choreographed interpretive dances, and some designed thoughtful comic-strip retellings that captured the emotional turning points of the parable.

It has been beautiful to see how deeply students are engaging, not just retelling the story, but wrestling with its meaning.

More to come as we continue unpacking its layers together.

Just a fun look at what a “bunny circle” is in our Crew block.