Our First Week of School - Sept 5-8

Dear Parents,

We had an a great first week of school. The students adjusted well to the routines and expectations of our learning community.


Here is a link to Alberta Education and the grade four curriculum

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Highlights from the week:

During Literacy, the students selected a book of choice and began to pay attention to their thinking voice using the reading powers. Metacognition means thinking about your thinking and the reading powers offer us a language to understand what goes on in our brain as we read, write and think.

All readers visualize as they read, they make connections to things they have done or what they have read or seen in movies. As we read we ask questions and we make inferences about what we are reading to answer these questions. Finally, our thinking is transformed as we read because we learn something new.

In Math, the students are collecting data to create a bar graph. The data is based on questions that helped the students get to know each other. In the upcoming days, we will look at strategies to read our graphs. We also are practicing our multiplication and division strategies and learning about time on an analog clock. We discovered that time and fractions are connected. For example, if you cut (divide) the clock in half then each half is equal to 30 minutes because 60/2=30. If you cut the clock into quarters then each quarter is equal to 15 minutes. You can jump to multiplication now and realize that 15 x 4 = 60 or 30 X 2 = 60.

We began reading our class novel The Amazing Alberta Time Travel Adventures of Wild Roping Roxy and Family Day Ray by Rob Lenard. This is a wonderful book connected to Social Studies as we begin our exploration of Alberta’s History. Learning about the past helps us understand our identity and our heritage.

Important Information:

If you have flowers in your garden that you wouldn’t mind sending for an art project, it would be much appreciated if you could send them to school with your child by Friday, September 15.

Sincerely,


Ms. Hargreaves