Grade 4 No Excuse Words for Writing
Curriculum Newsletter (Sept-Dec 2018)
Grade 4 Curriculum Letter
What do you do with a Chance?
Ms. Barge, Ms. Faulkner, Ms. Manfro, and Mr. Mori
Introduction: The curriculum letter provides a broad overview of learning outcomes, instructional approaches and assessment focus over the next 3 months (September - December 2018).
Discovery Guide: By using the book What do you do with a Chance? We will be engaging our students in the opportunity to shape their future. We will begin this exploration by attending Calgary Campus Open Minds School at SEEDschool and 2School to help our students take a chance to understand other peoples’ perspectives and stories. Students will continue to develop their understanding of empathy by ‘walking in the shoes ‘of people from communities within Calgary and Alberta. Over the course of the year students will take a chance to shape their legacy.
Results: Students will reflect in a variety of ways to communicate how they have demonstrated the following:
Language Arts: Students will utilize their strengths and challenges to:
Science: Through design thinking students will explore, investigate, and innovate to develop solutions to real world problems.
Building Things
Waste and Our World
Social Studies: Through developing an understanding of Alberta’s land, stories, histories, and peoples as well as it’s celebrations and challenges students will:
Alberta: A Sense of the Land
Assessment:
Parents can follow along with their child’s learning journey through the class blog, conferences and report cards. Assessment of Learning will happen in a variety of ways including self-reflection, teacher feedback, presentations, class discussion, peer feedback and through work samples.
What do you do with a Chance?
Ms. Barge, Ms. Faulkner, Ms. Manfro, and Mr. Mori
Introduction: The curriculum letter provides a broad overview of learning outcomes, instructional approaches and assessment focus over the next 3 months (September - December 2018).
Discovery Guide: By using the book What do you do with a Chance? We will be engaging our students in the opportunity to shape their future. We will begin this exploration by attending Calgary Campus Open Minds School at SEEDschool and 2School to help our students take a chance to understand other peoples’ perspectives and stories. Students will continue to develop their understanding of empathy by ‘walking in the shoes ‘of people from communities within Calgary and Alberta. Over the course of the year students will take a chance to shape their legacy.
Results: Students will reflect in a variety of ways to communicate how they have demonstrated the following:
- Students will develop Citizenship in Learning by exercising democratic rights and responsibilities within the learning community by following community expectations and personal convictions in conducting and representing learning.
- Students will reflect on their Personal Development through Learning by engaging in their learning with confidence and persistence by demonstrating interest in and curiosity about ideas, objects, events, and resources.
- Students will demonstrate Character in Learning by treating others with respect and compassion through being responsive and sensitive to the needs and welfare of others.
Language Arts: Students will utilize their strengths and challenges to:
- Ask questions, paraphrase and discuss to explore ideas and understand new concepts.
- Identify other perspectives by exploring a variety of ideas, opinions, responses and oral, print and other media texts.
- Use ideas and concepts, developed through personal interests, experiences and discussions, to understand new ideas and information.
- Monitor understanding by confirming or revising inferences and predictions based on information text.
- Experience oral, print, and other media texts from a variety of cultural traditions and genres, such as personal narratives, plays, novels video programs, adventure stories, told tales, informational texts, mysteries, and poetry.
- Identify the main events in oral, print, and other media texts; explain their cause and describe how they influence subsequent events.
- Locate information to answer research questions, using a variety of sources, such as maps, charts, dictionaries, school libraries, videos, elders in the community and field trips.
- Communicate ideas and information in a variety of oral, print and other media texts, such as short reports, talks, and posters.
- Adjust volume, tone of voice, and gestures appropriately, to suit a variety of social and classroom activities.
- Using patterns to describe the world and to solve problems.
- Collecting, displaying and analyzing data to solve problems.
- Representing and describing whole numbers to 10 000, through pictures and symbols.
- Comparing and ordering numbers to 10 000 in a variety of ways.
- Developing an understanding of addition of numbers with answers to 10 000 and its relationship to subtraction.
- Developing an understanding of multiplication to solve problems.
- Develop an understanding of division.
Science: Through design thinking students will explore, investigate, and innovate to develop solutions to real world problems.
Building Things
- Construct a mechanical device for a designated purpose using materials and design suggestions provided.
- Explore and evaluate variations to the design of a mechanical device demonstrating that control is an important element in the design and construction of that device.
Waste and Our World
- Recognize that human activity can lead to the production of wastes.
- Identify alternatives for the responsible use and disposal of materials.
Social Studies: Through developing an understanding of Alberta’s land, stories, histories, and peoples as well as it’s celebrations and challenges students will:
Alberta: A Sense of the Land
- Demonstrate an understanding and appreciation of how elements of physical geography, climate, geology and paleontology are integral to the landscapes and environment of Alberta.
- Appreciate how an understanding of Alberta’s history, peoples and stories contributes to their own sense of belonging and identity.
- Demonstrate an understanding and appreciation of how Alberta has grown and changed culturally, economically and socially since 1905.
Assessment:
Parents can follow along with their child’s learning journey through the class blog, conferences and report cards. Assessment of Learning will happen in a variety of ways including self-reflection, teacher feedback, presentations, class discussion, peer feedback and through work samples.