Did You Know…? There are, on average, 2.4 billion ants to the square mile in the jungle.

Good evening,

The Grade 4 students worked on reviewing and practicing for their upcoming unit test today in Math. We were allowed to work in small groups (2-3 students). In Math, we have a rule that helps us to work together as a class. The rule is, “Ask 3 Before Me.” This means that students are encouraged to seek assistance from one another. Students who are having trouble with a question ask 3 classmates first. If they still don’t understand then they ask me for further assistance, and together we do some lesson review. We also utilize our “Math Experts” to help with this. When a student has completed the assigned work, their name gets written under “Math Experts” on the board. That way other students can quickly see their name and know who to ask for help for “3 Before Me.” Students who did not complete their practice questions today in class, will be bringing it home for homework.

In Language Arts today, we worked on the next topic for the Ideas writing trait. Today we began to discuss topic sentences. A topic sentence clearly states the main idea of a paragraph. Together we read through some paragraphs and discussed which topic sentence better encapsulated the main idea. See an example below:

We will continue to discuss topic sentences next week, and then we will be practicing writing our own in our paragraphing book!

In Social Studies today, students were challenged to draw what they think Canada looks like. They had to include the provinces/territories, capital cities, and major bodies of water. We had some great drawings for students who are just beginning this next topic! We will return to these maps at the end of this topic so that we can compare what we know now with what we will know at the end. It’s going to be really fun to be able to see how much we have learned. We are going to begin by learning our provinces/territories. Students listened to and sang the following song to get us started:

Then we practiced labeling our provinces with a game from Sheppard Software (All About Canada). Students should be practicing their provinces every night for the next little while. Try using the Agenda to quiz students or letting them listen to the above song and play the above games at home. Our first quiz will be on the provinces on Monday.

Agenda:

Read 20 minutes

Practice Spelling Words (test tomorrow)

Math:

• Data Analysis Unit Test (Mon. – Grade 4)
• pgs. 268-269 #2, 3, 5 (Grade 4)
• Statistics and Probability Unit Test (Oct. 2nd – Grade 5)
• finish graph (Grade 5)

Science:

• Left-handed notebook pages (Grs. 4 and 5 – Fri.)
• Temperature Quiz (Fri. – Grade 5)

Social:

• Provinces Quiz (Monday – Grade 4 and 5)

Terry Fox Walk Permission Forms/Donations – September 29th

Book Orders – Sept. 25th

Picture Day – September 30th

Library Tomorrow (Day 2)