Kenneth D Taylor - Grade 4 - Miss. Willis

We have some crazy hair happening in the classroom today!  The Spirit Days this week have been so much fun, and it was awesome to see so many bikes being ridden to school yesterday! Tomorrow is Crazy Sock Day and Friday is Beach Day! Important Dates and Reminders: - Tomorrow all Home Reading and Learning Commons books need to be returned. - Friday is Fun Lunch for those who have ordered it. - Friday is The Great Book Exchange - Swimming begins Monday, we will be gone from 9:20 - 11:15 am - Wednesday May 13th - School Council Meeting from 6:30 - 8:30 pm 

Year End Reflection It's hard to believe that there are only 4 weeks left in the school year!  The Grade 4 Learning Celebration / Farewell Assembly will be on Friday June 22nd.  As part of the assembly, students will be sharing what their most valuable learning experience of Grade 4 was.  To help them with their writing, we made a web of all the things we have done this year. It's amazing to see all of the experiences that we have had!  The names beside the activity indicate what students have decided that they want to write about.   Unfortunately, we won't be able to have all 69 Grade 4 students come up and share their learning experience, so we will be having auditions for those students who wish to present in front of the school.  We are encouraging students to come up with ways of presenting that will be interactive and engaging. Multiplication We came back to multiplication this week, and I am strongly encouraging all students to spen...

We are going swimming and forms are coming home today! We will be going June 11-14th, 18th, and 19th.  We will leave the school at 9:20 am and will return around 11:15 am.  Please fill out the regular field trip forms, as well as the Swimming Ability form for your child, and return to the school by this Friday, June 1st.   We will also need two volunteers for the trip.  If you are available for some, or all, of the days, and have your volunteer clearance, please email me at clwillis@cbe.ab.ca. Other Important Dates for this Week: - Drum Fit will continue all this week with Mrs. Buonomo and Mrs. Fraser. - Regular book exchange will be this Thursday (last day to take out books from the Learning Commons is June 8th) - Friday June 1st - Swimming field trip forms are due - Friday June 1st - Scholastic Book Orders are due (this will be the final book order of the school year). I hope you have a fantastic week! 

It was a beautiful, sunny day (some of us might now be a little sunburned, not naming any names ;) ) to explore Glenbow Ranch Provincial Park! Today we participated in the Explore Grasslands and Best of Glenbow programs.   The purpose of the field trip was for students to have the opportunity to further explore and understand the Grade 4 Social Studies, Science, and Art curriculums.   Specifically, students had a chance to look at the impact that the Grasslands has on ways of life, as well as how the land helped to support both the First Nations and the settlers in this area.   We also looked at the biodiversity in the area, looking at different types of vegetation and seeds (this had a wonderful tie in to the work that we did just yesterday with the Scientist in the Classroom).   There was also tie-ins to our Science units of Light and Shadow and Plant Growth and Changes as we were able to observe and sketch some of the native Alberta...

We had a fantastic morning learning all about plants and photosynthesis.  Scientist in the Classroom Penny was our guest and she had us dissect a flower to show the different parts, took us through an experiment that showed how photosynthesis occurred, stations that taught us all about plants, and even showed us how they recycle paper!!  We are very excited for our field trip to Glenbow Ranch Provincial Park tomorrow, and we’re sure it will be a fantastic day of learning!   It is forecast to be a beautiful day, with a day-time high of 25ºC.   Students will be outside for most of the day, travelling around the park.   With this in mind, please send your child with: -        a backpack -        light layers that can easily be removed and packed away inside a backpack.   It will likely be cooler in the morning and warm up as the day goes on. -  ...

What have we been working on? Humanities We are well into our research about the Alberta Mavericks.  Students will now be working on filling in a timeline, a planner, and will then begin working on their final project.   Here is the planner that will help them to know that they have enough information about their Maverick: Biography Early Life _________________ was born in ________________________ on _______________________.  He/She was Maverick and an Ambassador because________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________. He or She married _________________ and they had ________________ children named_______________________________________________. He or She had several jobs that impacted his or her life story. For example , _______________________________________________...