Thank you to everyone for participating in fruitful discussions around goal-setting. Students went through a gauntlet of challenges while reflecting and exploring their own skill sets and abilities, it is eye-opening to see what goals they set for themselves. I am eager to see what discussions arise from our continued examination of those goals.
In numeracy, we discovered and played with patterns in time and in clocks, using that knowledge to create new regularities in time. Students completed their first and second budgets, with the help of their September and October paycheques. Students had also been doing a deep study of position value, a set of concepts that are weaved throughout the mathematics of grade 3 and 4. We have also learned about topography and its use of numbers to measure elevation.
Grade 4s have continued to work on their book report with their big buddies. Students have started to create PowerPoint presentations, and will continue to work on them over the coming weeks. At the same time, Grade 3s have been exploring the elements of stories and the various mediums they can come in (e.g. oral, written, filmed, musical, etc.).
In literacy, we have been writing about a variety of subjects: the fall season, the importance of active listening, our preferred calming strategies, etc. Through visual/oral storytelling, we looked at the creation of various landforms on Earth. In parallel, students will be colouring a graphic novel on the formation of landforms.
While exploring the history of the Musqueam and local territories, students carefully built a timeline of important events in migration, conflict and cooperation. In Art, students created calaveras while examining their multicultural origins, and use their pattern recognition skills to find patterns in the human skeleton.
Agenda:
- Fiche de lecture (15–20 minutes par jour)
- 1 à 3 objets à présenter (pour ceux qui n’ont pas présenté)
- 4e→ Book report reading
- Échange de livres demain
- Journal de devoir pour mercredi
