Date:
February
28 2020
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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
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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
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