A Few Reminders: 

• Grade 4's head to Edmonton Waste Management Center on Tuesday (27th). Bus leave at 8:25 am sharp! Please sign permission form online. 
• February 28th is Pink Shirt day!
• March 2nd is our Spell-A-Thon Kick off.
• Grade 4's head to Rabbit Hill March 5th for their second ski day. We leave Rabbit Hill at 3:45 pm and students will need to be picked up from the school.  
• March 7th is Early dismissal. 
• RBES Girls Floor Hockey tournament is March 9th & 10th. 

Reading

We are continuing our novel study reading Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl. The students are absolutely loving the book! 

Before each chapter we do a quick write, where students make connections to themes in the upcoming chapters. Some of these quick writes have really sparked some wonderful classroom conversations and brought out student's personal opinions. 

As we read through we keep an eye out for 3 vocabulary words,  read them in context, and come up with synonyms/meanings for each word. 

Once we are finished our book we will watch the movie! This will give the students to compare the two versions and express their preference. 

Writing

Did you know we LOVE the Winter Games? 

In lieu of KidBlog this week, we have shown our preferences and research in new ways! On Tuesday, students looked through all of Team Canada's Athletes competing. Using the search tools to filter athletes by sport, home province or game, they choose their favourite athlete. 

Wednesday, our research began! Students used the same site to read all about their athletes and created their very own Olympic Athlete Trading Cards in google drawings!

How's Canada doing?

Thursday we mixed in a little Statistics and Probability. Students checked Canada's Medal count and used the data to create picture graphs in google drawings! 

Students labelled their graphs on each axis, choose icons to represent each medal and created their own graph. 

Then they shared them on our new classroom Seesaw, where they could view peers work, give compliments and suggestions! 

Math 

Both grades are working very hard on their math fact fluency. 

Grade 3's continued to work with fact families, and are working to solve multiplication problems with the strategy that suits them best. We are going to continue to practice our basic facts. 

Grade 4's were introduced to 3 digit x 1 digit problems this week with regrouping. This skill needs lots of practice and we're continuing to work on it through word problems and using the strategy that suits them best. 

Science 3 

Students labelled and read about the human ear and labelled a diagram of all the parts. 

Science 4

Students read about Toxic waste this week and how it can affect our environment. It is important that we properly dispose of our waste and understand where the safe disposal areas are in our community. 

Social 3 

Students have been working on a Video Journal Reflection, "India; In My Own Words" on their learning in India. In google slides, students have topic questions to cover and through video they share their thoughts, opinions and what they learned. 

Have a great weekend everyone!!! 

Arts, Crafts & Fun! 

Friday afternoon we made some bobsleighs in art! Thank you for sending in the little figurines! Then we took to the halls and had some races! 

Let the Games Begin!

This was our last week of skating! It is so astounding to see how much a lot of these kiddos have inproved after just 8 days of skating!! I am sure their feet will enjoy the break. 

A Few Reminders:

 

No school on Monday! Enjoy the day with family! 

Grade 4's are going to the Edmonton Waste Management Center February 27th. Forms should be live soon! Check online. 

Grade 4's go skiing/snowboarding March 5th - looking for one more volunteer! 

Early Dismissal is Wednesday March 7th. 

RBES Girls Hockey Tournament starts on March 9th. 

Jump Rope Update!

Thank you for bringing in all your envelopes and donations! The students had a great time skipping away on Wednesday afternoon, trying out a bunch of different stations and enhancing their skipping skills! 

Reading

We have started out Novel Study on the Fantastic Mr. Fox and it's going great! I love this story and the students are really enjoying all the characters as well. 

As we read through the chapters, we are practicing all the reading strategies we have worked on. Before reading, we created a list of questions that we had before beginning our story. 

As we went along in the first couple chapters we would stop and answer some of our questions (they were erased off the board before I could snap a picture :( ). 

We also have worked on Visualizing, by reading about our three farmers and drawing what we think they look like in our minds eye!

As we read, we often pause to infer character feelings, settings and personalities. We have some great reading detectives in here!

We also work through comprehension questions after every couple of chapters and make predictions, connections and summarize along the way! 

True/False Comprehension Check Dash!

Strutured Word Inquiry

Last week, students created flowcharts to help them with the spelling rule of replacing the single silent e. They created their very own flow charts in google drawings and then used them to solve some word sums! 

Writing

We have begun to become a little more critical, and self assess our Daily KidBlog posts. Students are working to enhance their posts with more details, explanation and writing strategies we have learned thus far this year.

This week we focused very closely on our Talk About it Tuesday's requirements & expectations. As a class, we recreated and added more things to our rubric. Then we did some Peer Review to check our progress.

During Peer Review, students "spin the wheel" and those chose come to read aloud (practicing fluency and self editing) to their class. Then as a class we look at which requirements they meet and give them a mark out of 5. Students are really supportive and offer excellent feed back to each other.

We also had a discussion about graphs, and created a pictograph to express our opinions! 

Olympic Winter Games! 

For our research topic this week, we looked into Olympic Games mascots! First we researched why Sohoorang the white tiger was chosen. 

Students took to the web, learning how to narrow down google searches to find the best source for a research question. 

Then once they had done some reading and researching, as a class we came up with some answers. 

Next, we looked into previous years mascots and did a little reading on those. If you want to check them out, visit here! 

Each student chose a favourite mascot from over the years and we created a class Padlet! Check it out here!

Math 

Grade 4's are continuing to practice their skill of multiplying 2 digit by 1 digit numbers. This week we introduced how to regroup when multiplying. This is a very difficult skill and we will continue to work on it, and eventually towards multiplying 3 digit by 1 digit numbers. 

Grade 3's are working through multiply strategies of solving multiplication problems. We have worked on Arrays, Groups/Sets, Repeated Addition and Skip Counting. 

We also worked with Fact Families this week to deepen our understanding of the multiplication process. 

Students learned a new version of Horse Races called, SLAM DUNK '36. This is similar to Horse Races, but students work on their multiplication tables up to 6 x 6 (hence the 36!) 

Science 3 

We are getting right into hearing and sound! This week we looked at the different types of sounds and if they can be harmful to our ears. Student brainstormed a list of sounds they might hear around school, and then we went on a field trip! We ventured around the school, measuring the decibels of the various sounds they thought of. Then we assessed if they were safe, hearing damage risks, or dangerous! 

This lead to a discussion of how we protect our ears, why we protect our ears and what can happen if we do not. To demonstrate some hearing impairments, we blindfolded each other and used sound cancelling headphones, and shaking objects around them, to show what partial hearing loss would be like. 

Finally, we took a look at the human ear, how it functions and its parts. The human ear has three parts (outer, middle and inner ear) which has many different parts to it. Ask you child if they can remember how sounds travels into our ears! 

(you might need to give them a hint by saying "The Beach Boys")

Social 4 

Students got to work on a very cool project this week with Mr. Maltais! They are working to retell the stories of first nations people using adobe spark. I will share some of the finished products with you soon! 

We had a lovely Valentine's Day! Students had some time to share cards, and write a some compliments about each other. 

Have a wonderful long weekend! 

Field Trip Week!

A Few Reminders:

 We Skate M/W at 10:30am and T/TH at 12:30pm. 

Donation envelops will be collected on Feb. 14th

"​​Robina Baker is pleased to be holding a Heart & Stroke Jump Rope for Heart event on Valentine's Day. All money raised will support Heart & Stroke in their mission to promote children’s health and fund vital heart and stroke research.

Jump Rope for Heart encourages kids to get active by skipping rope while they collect pledges for heart disease and stroke research. They also learn the importance of living a healthy lifestyle and giving back to their community. This year Heart & Stroke is striving to get 1 million kids jumping in close to 4,000 schools across Canada and we area part of it!

Please help support your child’s fundraising efforts by registering them online atjumpropeforheart.ca and send out donation request emails to friends, family, and colleagues. Online fundraising is the quickest way to reach all of your contacts and online donors receive an automatic tax receipt. Plus, when students raise money online they can earn bonus prizes including a skipping rope, and gift cards from Indigo, Toys “R” Us, and Canadian Tire!

Please visit jumpropeforheart.ca and start fundraising today!

Each student brought home a pledge envelope if you prefer to collect donations in-person. Please ensure that their pledge envelope is returned by February 14."

I know I say our weeks are busy every week, but holy cow were these past two weeks busy!

Last Monday, the Grade 4's put some brave faces on and toughed it out at Rabbit Hill on Monday! Our day actually started off quite nice as we were shielded from the wind. We had a lot of beginners this year, and it was so awesome to see everyone giving their best efforts!

Next stop, HMS Pinafore! 

Grade 4's were invited to watch a rehearsal of the Edmonton Opera's performance of HMS Pinafore. Each and everyone student was engaged during the performance, and I would even say "wowed"!  

Even with all this going on, we did manage to get some work done! 

Students finalized their newspaper articles, summarizing our read aloud, Fart Powder. Our main focus with this was to ensure we could summarize a story read, including all the important details, and add voice to our writing. 

In Math, we have done some review of some common rules when multiplying. Then students practiced their basic math facts (up to 5x5) through games and activities. 

We also spent some time focusing on our doubles! If we are quick with our doubles facts it will help us immensely when we're multiplying numbers by 2. 

This week, the Grade 4's started practicing multiply 1 digit numbers by 2 digit numbers. One of the strategies we worked with was breaking the problem up into easier equations, like separating 10's and ones.  

Science 3 

Grade 3's are starting to explore the world of Hearing and Sound! We have discussed how sound is energy and vibrations and did some experiments to test this theory out! 

We also learned that sound is measured in decibels. Using a decibel metre, students dropped items onto the floor and described their loudness/softness, and recorded their decibels! 

Science 4 - Waste and Our World is ALMOST DONE! 

We have had quite a few interruptions with our unit, but the end is near! 

This week we took a look at some of the ways that we dispose of waste (incinerator, landfill and open air dump) and will be comparing them. Students will have a home assignment to look into how waste is disposed of in their home, and where it goes!

Social 3  

We are on our final chapter with India. This week we looked at Goods & Services and what types of imports and exports India has. Students will be working on infographics next week!

Winter Walk Day!