Monday, October 29 Retakes or Photo Day Netball Visualizing: Picture Walk Multiplication: What patterns can you see in the multiplication table? Writing: Pomegranate Poem Social: Understanding Identity through Customs and Traditions Science: Creating a scientific drawing of a squash. Tuesday, October 30 Grade 4 choir (lunch) Please review the song and memorize for next week. Ms. Curzon's blog... misscurzonchoir.weebly.com/ Grade 2 buddies: Finishing our value art with spooky houses Reading Comprehension: Canadian Reader - Indian Relay Racing Visualizing: Writing a poem based on our picture walk Multiplication: Practicing basic facts using the area model Wednesday, October 31 Orange and Black Day (no costumes) Heart Maps Thursday, November 1 Ms. K Netball Friday, November 2 Early Dismissal Telling TimeToday we talked about telling time using an analog clock. There are two hands. The long hand is the minute hand, and the short hand is hours. We need to remember AM and PM. Use the link below to practice and develop your telling time skills: www.abcya.com/telling_time.htm Sketching SquashToday we sketched and labelled squashes. We needed to use the skills we learned when drawing, sketching and labelling pomegranates. We needed to draw what we see, label the parts, provide a description and colour with the contour of the squash. We need label where we thought the flower would have been, the skin, the stem, and title the drawing with our appropriate squashes name. Patterns in MultiplicationWhat patterns are there in the multiplication table that will help us with our basic facts. In grade 4 we need to memorize our basic facts up to 7x7 and be able to use the multiplication table to solve basic facts up to 9x9. Why Teach Poetry?From Georgia Heard (https://www.georgiaheard.com/poetry/) I believe that poetry can be the doorway into literacy for students especially struggling students.
Some of our poems...War has started. The buildings crumbled like a stone wall. People were dying. The tanks were shooting massive bullets half of the people are dead. The war has ended. Everyone is happy again. by Ryan Poppies Soldiers in a graveyard Poppies all around black in the middle red like a sunrise, friends and family visit people who died in a deadly war. By Nikita Finally war is over. I am very proud of me an my team. I finally don't, have to risk my life. At last my country is free. My family will be proud. Now, peace will be... eternal. By Sage Dove When I look at the dove, I feel love. I start to feel calm, but then I see his mom. I see the bird, he's yellow, black, and white. I stare at him, he stares at me. Then I start to see the resemblance between him and me. He starts flying all around, I am sitting, watching him on the ground. I see his blue feathers flapping all around. I start to feel like I am flying, but I don't have any wings that I can start flapping. By Jenna Five Objections to Teaching the Area Model for MultiplicationThis video by James Tanton is worth your time. James Tanton is a mathematician and he believes everyone can learn math. In fact, he wants the world to have joyful math. James is the mastermind behind The Global Math Project (a.ka., Exploding Dots). This is why we teach students both conceptual understanding and procedural understanding in math. Heart MapWe used Georgia Heard's idea of Heart Mapping to share ideas around why Remembrance Day matters. We asked the questions : What things bring us together? What is important for our world? What is important for humanity? We talked about how memories shape our view of the world and how important they are. That some memories are shared and a part of culture. In this map we wanted to map the things that are really important and that matter about Remembrance Day. In the Footsteps of GiantsWe read today about Alberta and used these comprehension strategies to understand what we have read:
What is the title? What is the main idea? What are 5 facts that support the main idea? What is 1 or more interesting facts? Monday, October 22 Math Check-In Home Graphs - math book Tuesday, October 23 Grade 4 choir Grade 2 buddies Wednesday, October 24 Math Check In Thursday, October 25 Ms. K and Ms. Wood Community Walk Scholastic Orders due Friday, October 26 PD Day No School for students AdditionWe used the numbers in the grids to create 9 different questions. We did hundreds plus hundreds, thousands plus thousands and thousands plus hundreds. We continue to use strategies that work for us as we share our thinking. I can use place value to help make reasonable estimates. I can use a strategy that accurately solves the equation. I can add up to 10 000 in grade four. I can share my thinking so others can understand or read it. In the Footsteps of Giants- Reading about AlbertaWhen I read a non-fiction text I need to be able to: - Share the title - Indicate what pages I read - Identify the main idea - Find 5 supporting facts - Share 1 or more interesting facts When I read a fiction text I need to be able to: - Share the title - Find the characters - Describe the Problem (Beginning) - Find the actions taken to solve the problem (Middle) - Explain the solution (Ending) Problem SolvingHow long would it have taken Chanie Wenjack to walk 600 km?Ms K and Ms Wood led us on a walk so we could see how long it would take to walk 1km. We found it took us 14 minutes to walk 1 km today. We used this information to help us figure out how long 600 km would take us. We used the power of 10 to build an input/output machine and discovered that if we walked at the same pace as today it would take 8 400 minutes to walk 600 km. That works out to be about 5.8 days. Remember, that is walking 24 hours a day. FriendologyPerception makes it so the same event can be experienced differently by different people. Some of us are more sensitive and take things more personally and others of us are less sensitive and can shrug things off. We discussed what things we can control and that somethings are not in our control and we have to learn to accept them. Below are our ideas of things in our control and things we cannot control.
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