December 1, 2020

 Happy December!!!!

This is our last week with our student teacher Mrs. McGregor.  We want to thank her for all her hard work, and wish her the all the best in the remainder of her studies.  She will be missed.

This week we are learning about past tense verbs in our word work. Yesterday, we focused on words with an "ed" ending.  We highlighted these words in a poem, and changed some root words to past tense words.  In a few special cases, we needed to change the y to an i, or double the final consonant before adding the ed.  Today, we found words that become completely new words when you change them to past tense (ex. run - ran).

In math, we worked on solving word problems using multiplication, addition and subtraction.  We are drawing pictures to help show our math thinking when solving the problem, and then connecting them to the number sentence.

We are working on writing our own stories this week.  Our stories are based on a picture prompt.  Yesterday, we worked on writing only the beginning of the story.  Today, we worked on the middle of the story.  We are breaking it into parts in order to slow down, and include more details in our writing, as well as having time to edit.

In Social Studies, Grade 4s worked with some weather graphs from cities in Alberta, to answer questions about the climate of different areas in the province.  Grade 3s used the computer to work with a partner to apply our "key words" strategy to answer specific questions about Peru.

We finished watching Wall-E in Science.  We then wrote a reflection about how this movie related to the work we have been doing in Science, and why learning about waste reduction is important.