Weekly Update

Happy Friday!

Here is a look at one of the tasks we did this week in Grade 4 Social Studies: Indigenous Heroes Research Project

Learning Intentions:

• Recognize how stories of people and events provide multiple perspectives on past and present events
• Recognize the presence and influence of Aboriginal people as inherent to Alberta’s culture and identity
• Demonstrate respect for the rights, opinions and perspectives of others
• Investigate ways that non-fiction texts can be organized to support sharing of information.
• Discuss a variety of facts and opinions expressed in non-fiction texts.

The grade 4 students focused on a particular indigenous person to research about. Students had specific questions to answer about their chosen person and then were asked to create a good copy poster.  Books and teacher-approved websites were accessed for them to use.  Students learned about why the person is famous and important, what indigenous ancestry they have and what their early life like.  Next week students will be asked to share their knowledge with their peers so we can all learn about the many indigenous people from Canada.

Here is a look at one of the Science tasks the Grade 3's did this week in Science: Creating Water Cycles in a Bag!

 

Learning Intentions:

·         Understand that in the water cycle, water changes state from a liquid to a gas through evaporation, forms through condensation, then falls back to Earth in a liquid or solid state (precipitation).

·         Understand that the water on Earth moves continuously in a cycle between bodies of water, the land, and the atmosphere.

·         Describe and diagram the changes of state of water using the water cycle.

We have learned about the states of matter, and how heating or cooling matter can cause them to change states. We then explored the water cycle and explored how water continuously moves on Earth as students explained each stage of the water cycle, and drew it. This week we started an experiment where we created our own mini water cycle in a bag! Students drew the water cycle on the bag, added water to the bag, taped it to the window and shared their prediction for what they thought would happen to the water. On Day 3 we observed our bags and were excited to see that the water had started evaporating! We will leave our bags up until next week and observe any further changes. Take a look at our experiment below!

Reminders:

- Swimming permission forms went home this week.  Please complete and return asap!

- Your child should have brought home an Assessment Reflection on the Addition & Subtraction Check-In this week. Please review it at home, and take some time to practice any necessary skills. There are many Pixel Art Mysteries on our Google Classroom that can be accessed at home to help students practice their adding and subtracting skills. We will have our unit test at the end of next week.

- I realize the links from a few weeks ago didn't work on my blog, here are some other links to use to practice addition and subtraction:

• Give them an online challenge:
• 3-digit Adding/Subtracting
• 4-digit Adding/Subtracting
• Complete the daily Solvemoji Junior Puzzles
• Play games at home that include addition or subtraction skills! Crib is an awesome game to practice addition. Here are other suggestions of games you can play at home with a deck of cards.