Dinosaur Poster Presentations

Today the students will be showing their Dinosaur Posters and collecting donations towards their trip to the Royal Tyrell Museum! If you are unable to attend, please the school website for upcoming pictures!

The students have been working hard on solving and creating addition and subtraction problems. We will then continue with statistics and probabilty lessons until Christmas break.

Mrs. Gutmann

What is happening in Grade 4?

Currently we are reading a novel called Tale of Despereaux. It is an award winning book about a very small mouse who accomplishes amazing things! We have also been focusing on adding adjectives and adverbs in our writing.

Please stay tuned for information regarding the presentation of our Dinosaur Projects. The students have been researching and creating some amazing posters about their Dinosaurs. During this presentation we will be starting to collect donations towards paying for our field trip to Drumhellar.

Mrs. Gutmann

THANK-YOU

I just wanted to extend a huge thanks to all the parents who supported our reading program.  The students had a fantastic night in Camrose watching the Kodiaks win!  We will be continuing our reading logs next week with the Oilers and Flames reading programs.  

Also, thank-you to those parent who were able to bring in items for our Halloween Party!  

Report Cards will be going home next week on Nov. 10.  Please be sure to call and book an interview for Nov. 17th.  

Our SMARTBOARD has arrived and the students are very excited.  We have used this new piece of technology for practicing math facts, researching dinosaurs, matching vocabulary, and many other great applications.

Kodiaks Game and Halloween

Hello,

Sorry it has been awhile since the last post. We had a great trip to the citadel and now are looking forward to our trip to the Kodiaks game on Friday. We read a total of 11000 minutes as a class. WOW!

Please see your child's agenda today for a important note about Halloween.

Alberta Maps and Terry Fox

The highlight this week was definately making maps of Alberta showcasing the 6 natural regions. These include Canadian Shield, Rocky Mountains, Foothills, Boreal Forest, Parkland and Grassland. We also discussed that this type of project is great for kinesthetic learners, which means hands on learners! We are also concluding our current math unit and moving on to exploring whole numbers.

Our spelling program has started. This is a unique program which allows each student to have a individualized spelling list. Students are able to choose words that are appropriate for their level of spelling and it promotes students to take risks and be challenged. Each Wednesday we will take our weekly spelling quiz and new words will come home.

The Terry Fox Run was on Friday! What a fantastic cause.

Stay tuned for the October Newsletter, which will be coming out very soon.

Mrs. Gutmann

Writing Rules

In Grade Four we started reading Charlie and the Chocolate factory. The students were definately excited and keep asking when will be reading again next. We also began discussing the traits of writing. The first trait we looked at was ideas. The students then partcipated in an activity called quickwrites. The objective is to write, write, write based on the topic I give them. We completed two and the goal was to try to improve something during your second one. The students came up with some awesome ideas and were extremely motivated to write. Ask them about their invisible skunk!

The Terry Fox run is approaching next week and book orders were sent in!

Mrs. Gutmann

Weekly Wrap Up

Here are some highlights from our week:

Language Arts:  We completed a story writing project using a book called The Great Fuzz Frenzy.   On Thursday we began practicing cursive writing and participated in some very entertaining Readers Theater!

www.wonderville.ca

This is a fantastic website by Science Alberta.  The students explored Operation Light and Shadow which directly relates to our current science unit!

First Week

Congratulations!  You are officially almost done your first week of Grade Four.  Here is what we have learned so far!

Language Arts: How to write a letter using paragraphs and indents.

Math:  What a pattern is and what a pattern rule is.

Science: What the three types of light are.

Social: All about Canada and how to use a atlas.

French: How to say Hello, Goodbye, What is your name, My name is

Wow!  We have done alot in the first week!  I hope everyone is having a great time learning and I look forward to a fabulous year.

Please remember we are looking for shoebox lids for a upcoming project! Also book orders went home today.

Mrs. Gutmann

Welcome to a new school year!

We are going to have a great year together. Grade Four is full of learning many new things! You will be able to check out cool things on this webpage and we will share our learning as well.

Welcome Back!