Hello Families,
We are all happy to return to school and routines this week! It sounds like the holiday season was exciting for all.
In Math, we took the week to review what we had learned before the break, including addition and subtraction with regrouping, decimals, and multiplication.
In Language Arts and Literacy, we started our inquiry about story writing, we will be using the guiding question, What makes a story engaging? We took the time to read and dissect The Bad Seed book series. Students got the opportunity to identify and act out different components of the stories such as the hook, problem, solution, setting, etc. We will be building on story writing over the next couple weeks using these books as our anchor texts.
Here's the video we watched about Theme: https://youtu.be/xwkKBIzpRXE
Here's the video we watched about Main Idea: https://youtu.be/xJGQIYU_xhs
We used the reference videos above to fill out the information about the Dustin short film, and deduce the theme based on the main idea.
In Social Studies, we are learning about physical geography of specific places. Grade 3's are looking at India and Grade 4's are looking at Alberta.
In Science, we started to explore light and shadow. Looking at the different forms of light as well as beginning to understand energy.
Class Pet
Our class pets have finally arrived! We got two vampire crabs, one male and one female. The students have been super excited to observe them throughout the day. They are still getting used to their new enclosure and are timid but they do pop out from time to time.
Reminder: We go outside each day, students should bring appropriate clothing and footwear for the day.
Friendly Reminders:
- Monday, January 30 - Report Cards (online)
- Friday, February 3 - No School - Non-Instructional Day
- Thursday, February 16 & Friday, February 17 - No School - Teachers Convention
- Monday, February 20 - No School - Family Day
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