Camp Warwa is in less than two weeks! Please check last weeks post for a packing list as to what your child needs to bring.
Swimming starts next week! Please ensure your child comes to school with their swim gear, we will be swimming from 12:30 - 1:30 pm every day.
Our Grade 4 drama students did an amazing job with their performances on Thursday! They put on two shows for all the classes and I was blown away! All that hard work sure paid off!
This week, we have begun a self guided research project on Plants; Growth and Changes. Students will be digging deep into research through various media to create a slide presentation on plants, their parts and purpose, importance to humans and specific plants that require special care.
With Math, we have begun to convert our fractions of tenths into decimals. This is a bit of a difficult concept for students to grasp at first, as we bring place value back into our conversations.
We also started adding decimals together, which will sometimes create a new whole.
for example: 0.3 + 0.4 = 0.7
We keep a zero, because adding our tenths together, we still do not have enough to make one whole.
However: 0.5 = 0.6 = 1.1
If we were to fill in a tens rod, we would have 1 full whole plus one more tenth. Sow we know have 1 and 1 tenth.
Next week we will wrap up with hundredths, a review and quiz on our fractions to decimals unit.
In Science this week, we have continued to work with how light refracts, and how the distance of a light source effects the size, shape and darkness of a shadow. Students worked through experiments to see how concave and convex lenses affect light beams and how they alter images.
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