Hello, 4A families!
Thank you so much for taking the time to explore our class updates and staying connected with us!
Reminder: Student-led conferences will happen on April 22, 3:30pm – 5:45pm—more details coming next week. As well, a Young Entrepreneurs market will run durng that time in the main school.
In Math, we are continuing to learn about equivalent fractions. Here is a video to help explain this concept and prepare for our quiz on Monday.
In Art, we have begun our watercolour painting unit. Families are warmly invited to follow along at home by using the link below to access ALL of the tutorial videos I’ve created for you. CLICK HERE: https://inquiryninja.com/salish-sea-watercolour-mini-course/
We have two exciting Science units on the go right now.
We’re learning about Earth’s rotation, orbit, and the phases of the moon, and students have been building their thinking and study skills by creating their own quizzes on the content.
At the same time, we’re working on observation in science through our chick incubation project. Students are tracking changes over time, making connections to light, temperature, humidity, and seasons, and will be doing lots of graphing and measuring along the way. More to come! 🐣
Here are some new Science vocabulary words we learned this week…
In the gym, we have continued to enjoy a variety of games to strengthen our physical literacy, and students are invited to teach and lead games and activities after making a successful proposal.
“The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.” — Galatians 5:22–23
Two key themes we’ve been working on this week (and will continue with next week) are self-awareness and self-control. We’ve been exploring these through our games in PE, as well as through our art lessons and stories.
In Bible, we have now wrapped up our study of the Easter story, and we’re now shifting back to focus again more closely on Jesus’ parables. Over the next little while, we’ll be zooming in on a few key parables as we prepare for our chapel presentation that will involve students in dramatizing them.
W.O.T.D (Word of the Day): Each day in our class we focus on learning a challenging new vocabulary word—we choose a word that naturally emerges in our learning. For example, on April 1st there was quite a commotion in the school after an April Fool’s prank was played. On April 7th we talked about how the egg incubator’s humidity can fluctuate. On April 9th we learned about how to dilute paint with water to create more subtle tones. On April 10th, we focussed our attention on the dendritic way watercolour paint can spread out through the page—looking like the dendritic roots or branches of a tree or veins. Ask you child to explain and use any of the above words meaningfully in a sentence.
Tiffany Poirier 