Wednesday October 24, 2018

Jacket Racket Project 2018

The Grade 4 Peace Ambassadors are running the annual Jacket Racket Project this year. They will run the collection of clothing items from Thursday October 25 to Friday November 2.

We are looking for 1-2 parent volunteers to come in fist thing in the morning for during that time to assist the students with sorting and bagging the collected items. One group of students will collect the items from classrooms and the other group will help sort the items with the parent volunteer. There will be sorting bins, bags and labels set up in the hub and parent volunteers can expect to be there from about 8:30 to 9 AM.  If you can help us out, please sign up at https://www.signupgenius.com/go/5080d44afab28abf94-jacket1

Volunteers must have completed their police security checks and have their security clearance.

Thank you for volunteering your time!

Reflecting on Glenbow Ranch

We took some time to reflect as a large group on our trip to Glenbow Ranch today. We used the format of I saw, I noticed, I wonder to help frame our thoughts. This routine helps students make careful observations and develop their own ideas and interpretations based on what they see. By separating the two questions, What do you see? and What did you  think about what you noticed? The routine helps students distinguish between observations and interpretations. As we move through each stage our writing will be deeper and more detailed.

Word Work

We practiced and sorted our individual word lists. We sorted words according to word families, blends and/or consonant/vowel patterns. We are working towards noticing word families and using our knowledge of them to support our spelling in our everyday writing.

Place Value

We continued to deepen our understanding of place value, focusing on different ways to express numbers. Students worked on showing numbers in expanded form. Challenge each other at home to do the same.