Friday, February 28, 2020

February 28 2020

Date:
February 28 2020

A Look Ahead:

Upcoming dates and due dates:

Due Dates:
·      Conteo de Invierno good copy with art element: March 5
·      Story robe with math questions: March 6
·      City of Ember Scroll & Designs: March 5
·      City of Ember Chart 6 squares complete: March 5
·      Social Studies Journals taken in every Friday (requirements under social studies section)
·      Math Test on all 4 operations and word problems: March 5
·      Student Led Conferences on March 19 & 20

In Science & English, we have started an English/Science flexible group where we have groups and we are working on a project related to the novel, City of Ember. We have been writing our own version of “The Instructions” with our assigned groups.  We are making a scroll with instructions that we make that lead us out of Ember. We will be building a machine to get out of Ember. For our vehicle, we received envelopes with a list of materials that we could use to build our machine. Our vehicle has to use three types of energy and our scroll has to have 5 vocabulary words related to science and the simple machines.

In Social Studies, we have learned about the fur trade. We played a game about the fur trade and there were Europeans and they would speak different languages. The materials that the Indigenous people and the Europeans would trade are fur, canoes, berries, meat, blankets, tools, and metal tools. We realized that not all the trading was fair. The Europeans often chose the currency which caused it to be unfair for the Indigenous Peoples.  Sometimes it was fair as the Europeans got what they needed and the Indigenous peoples got what they needed. Some of us got to experience what the Indigenous people felt like when the Europeans came.

Students should have written about the following themes in their notebooks regarding the fur trade:
By February 28
-Coureur de bois
-Hudson’s Bay Company
-Rupert’s Land
-Anthony Henday
-Trading Goods
Aboriginal Contributions

By March 6
-Northwest Company
-The Voyageurs
-Metis Sash
-David Thompson
-Joining together of forts
-Fort Edmonton
-Trading at Fort Edmonton
-Workers in Trading Posts


In English Language Arts, we have also been working on the City of Ember. Just like the literacy circles we have to do responses to the novel. Each week we have to do 2 or more responses to show our understanding of the novel.

In Spanish Language Arts, we have been finishing our good copies of the Winter Counts (conteos de invierno). We wrote about a memorable event that happened each year of our lives. We are writing in past tense.
We wrote them in order from our birth to 2020. We drew the winter count to represent the memorable events in our lives.

In Math, we are learning how to divide by multiple digits. We have been focusing on word problems. We have to create multiplication, addition, subtraction, and division word problems and they have to relate to our First Nations People as we are creating a story robe to represent the word problems.  We will be having a math test on Thursday March 5th which has addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division equations and word problems.

In Music we…
We continue working on the recorder.  The notes that are a focus of the Grade 4 recorder unit are the B, A, and G (above middle C).  With these notes, we play a variety of pieces where we explore the beat and rhythm as well as begin a more in-depth focus on reading music notation.

We have begun preparing the repertoire for our Spring concert.  The following is one of the songs that we will be learning to sing and play.

Naranja Dulce

Naranja dulce, limón partido.
Dame un abrazo que yo te pido.
Si fueran falsos mis juramentos,
En otros tiempos se olvidarán.
Toca la marcha, mi pecho llora,
Adiós señora, yo ya me voy
A mi casita de sololoy,
Compro manzana y no te doy.


Please Celebrate
Although kindness month has come to a close we are still focusing on lifting each other up and filling our buckets. As it should be kindness day everyday!

You Can Help Your Child By:
-Ensuring they read daily. (If you are not reading on Raz Kids please write how long your child is reading at home in their agenda.
-Practicing long division
Overheard in grade 4:
-I have enjoyed making the story robes-M
-I am excited for the math test-N
-I am enjoying making the conteo de invierno-A
-I really enjoyed working on Science/English –K
-I am excited for Scholastics to come-R