Kenneth D Taylor - Grade 4 - Miss. Willis

Happy Holidays!! We have had a busy week in Room 106!! We made some super secret presents, did some work on our Genius Hour projects, and learned about Storyboarding. We have also had the great pleasure of watching the dances that everyone has been working so hard on during Creative Movement.  Today was our turn!! The Xylo Club also performed today. 2017 has been wonderful and I can't wait to continue working with you and your child in 2018!!  I hope that you have a restful, relaxing, and fun-filled break!  See you on January 8th, 2018 :). 

It's Friday!!  Here is the web that we constructed to help us write our Home Journals: Here are some things that the students wanted me to share on our classroom blog: The Social Studies Alberta Road Trips We finished up our Social Studies project this week.  Students put together posters about their road trip and then shared their learning through an oral presentation.  Mr. Barker will be passing on some feedback about the projects. The French Plays To give students a chance to practice their speaking, as well as to learn some winter themed vocabulary, they put together some little plays about what snowmen might do in the winter, "L'hiver de bonhommes de neige".  Students got to make some props and did a fantastic job with their presentations! Other happenings: In Science we have been learning about simple machines: lever, wheel and axle, pulleys, wedge, inclined plane, and screw.  The culminating activity will be ...

Highlights of our week ... so far: This week we did some learning about math with cards.  We practiced multiplication by "Splat" math.  The same day we made a Christmas wish where we have a class wish on a star and an individual wish on red or green paper.  Then we put it together to make a chain connected to a star, like a shooting star!  WHOOOOOO! - Khushi Some of us kept working on our Creepy Crawly Village. - Ivana We continued working on our autobiographies. - Sarah Students are using this checklist to help them to self-edit the middle of their autobiography. I have checked that my middle: contains the middle events of my life has detail and description COPS Capitals (“I”, beginning of a sentence, proper nouns) Organization (the order makes sense, split the writing into paragraphs) Punctuation (period, commas, question marks, exclamation marks, quotation marks, apostrophe) Spelling (make sure to ask if...

Highlights of our week ... In Social Studies we have been continuing with the Alberta Road Trip project.  Students are starting to put their information together for their posters.  One of the requirements is to put all of the stops of their road trip on to a map of Alberta.  Here they are working on putting information from the big map, on to the little map: We also went to visit our Kindergarten Buddies and helped them fill out some surveys about what makes them unique. In Math we have been continuing to analyze the data from our attendance "Would you rather ..." questions by compiling them into pie graphs and writing the corresponding fractions.  We also spent time this week doing some problem solving with the "3-Act Problems" where we practiced our "I see ...", "I think ...", and "I wonder".  In Science Mr. Barker taught us about the idea of "force".  Ask your child about that exper...

It's Friday!!  Here is our learning web for this week! Please take a moment to read and sign your child's home journal and send it back for Monday. Reminders and Important Dates: - Book exchange is every Thursday.  This is for home reading and the learning commons. - It's Movie Night tonight!  "The Polar Express" will be showing, doors open at 6:15 pm. - If you ordered a poinsettia you can pick it up this Wednesday, December 6th, from 2:15 - 2:45 pm and Thursday, December 7th, from 7:45 - 8:15 am and 2:15 - 2:45 pm. - There is no school on Friday December 8th for a Professional Development Day. - Creative Movement continues next week.  The schedule for concerts and spirit days during the last week before Winter Break will be posted next week. Have a fantastic weekend!!