- April 8 - Klondike Relays
- April 10 - Brain Waves Presentation
- April 12 - PD Day - No School
- April 18 - Cake Walk & Family Dance; The Cake Walk is a Grade 4 Fundraising event that takes place at the family dance. More details coming April 8th.
- April 19 - No School; Good Friday
- April 22 - No School; Easter Monday
- April 26 - Elder Florence Assembly
A week that starts off with a day at Rabbit Hill is the BEST kind of week! Here's a few snaps from the day!
ELA
We are absolutely loving our novel study on James and the Giant Peach. We read through chapters aloud as a class, and continue to look at the vocabulary used in the book, work on our reading strategies, and answering comprehension questions.
We even tried to embrace the spring weather by reading a few chapters outside!
We have also started some work with figurative language. This is leading into our Poetry unit for the month of April - which just so happens to the National Poetry Month!
Students were introduced to a few different types of figurative language; simile, metaphor, hyperbole and personification.
As students Read to Self this month, they are encouraged to look for examples of these in their books and add them to the board.
We read two books that were great examples of using similes! My Best Friend is as Sharp as a Pencil and My Dog is as Smelly as Dirty Socks by Hanoch Piven. These books both use similes to describe characters, and then create funny portraits that show the descriptions.
Students got together with partners and wrote similes about each other. /they were so sweet, kind and hilarious! Students typed up their partner similes about each other, and then began to draw!
The end results were nothing short of amazing!
Reader's Chair is new to our room! On library days, which are now Wednesdays, after our book exchange, students will take turns reading aloud a storybook to our class. This is a great way to explore different books by Authors. This month's author is Doreen Cronin.
MATH
We have begun our division unit. We discussed different strategies to solve division problems, such as dividing objects into groups, skip counting, addition and relating the problem to it's multiplication fact.
SCIENCE
We have started a new unit - Lights & Shadows. Students have been asked to bring a flashlight to school, so we are able to properly complete most of our experiments.
We kick started our unit off with a fact scavenger hunt! Students walked the halls, learning different facts about light energy. See if your child can tell you something interesting they learned!
Our first topic of discussion has been - What IS light? What are some light sources?
As a class, we brainstormed all the things we could think of that GIVE off light. These are considered light sources.
Next, we looked at two different types of light sources - Natural (ones that come from nature) and Man Made (ones that are produced by man).
With this information, students worked on creating a title page for our unit.
SOCIAL
Students wrote a summary quiz on our Alberta - A Sense of the Land using google forms.
We will begin studying Alberta's past next week.
JERSEY DAY
On Friday we wore jerseys of our favourite teams, and in memorium of the Humboldt Broncos.
It was so wonderful to see everyone wearing their teams colours with pride!
The Evolution of a Group Photo in 4B
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