Hello, 4A families!
We have wrapped up term 2, and report card will be sent home next week. Congratulations to all learners and families on your hard work!
Personal Interest Projects…
We have such an amazing range of P.I.P.s on the go, including songwriting, novel writing, making a sticker company, sewing, puppet-making, comic making, clay sculpture, and planning a profitable lemonade stand. We also have some wonderful crochet animals coming to life including a flock of cute little ducks!
As well, the variety of engineering problems solved with Lego keeps growing.
In Math…
This week we are continuing our review of core Term 2 concepts, with a special focus on division and adding and subtracting decimals.
Today we also worked on strengthening our word-problem comprehension skills. Students practiced reading carefully for understanding and drawing pictures to help make sense of the questions before solving them.
The Learning Coat Project…
The detail, symbolism, and l rainbow of colours growing across the students’ Learning Coats is so very joyful to behold! Ask your child what recent addition he/she has made…
In Language Arts..
We have returned to studying prefixes and suffixes. Please watch the videos below for a quick review and take a look at the study sheets as well.
In class, students are also exploring two prefix and suffix literacy centres to help them practice these ideas in a hands-on way.
The English language can sometimes feel mysterious, but there are helpful patterns that show us how words are built. Prefixes and suffixes are important building blocks that help us understand the meaning of words and how they fit together.
In Social Studies…
We have been focussing on the map of Canada, learning the locations of the provinces and territories and learning their capitals. Here is a link to an online game that can help reinforce this learning: https://world-geography-games.com/en/americas_canada.html
In Science…
In Science class, we have been continuing to build our research skills. Last term, students learned and practiced summarizing longer pieces of information into short, meaningful bullet-point notes based keywords to help strengthen comprehension and remember key ideas.
This week, we explored additional note-taking strategies for organizing different kinds of information, including tables, charts, Venn diagrams, flowcharts, and idea boxes.
Learning to interact with information in these ways helps students process scientific ideas more deeply. The next step will be using these notes as a foundation for developing thoughtful scientific questions and designing simple research investigations.
In Crew…
Discussing how we can thoughtful care for God’s creation in Crew has special meaning when the bunnies are visiting.
Tiffany Poirier 