Friday September 28th

Our 4th week of Grade 4 was amazing, awesome, perfect and brilliant! 

In Social Studies we learned about artifacts. We brought in artifacts from our past and we started showing them to our class. In Science we researched our Waste Wonders using internet searches on the computers. We took notes and then we compiled them into one shared document. 

Yesterday we did the Terry Fox run. We are so impressed with ourselves because our class raised $81.00 for cancer research.

In Math we continued working on number sense, representing numbers to 10,000. We practiced writing numbers in:

Standard form - 2,435

Expanded form - 2,000 + 400 + 30 + 5

Words - Two thousand four hundred thirty five

We used a place value chart and base ten blocks to support these activities. 

Here are some photos of sharing our artifacts!

Spelling Patterns

Next week we will continue to practice long vowel spelling patterns. Long vowels are vowels that say their own name. Each vowel has several ways to spell the sound.  We will focus on the following patterns:

Long a - ai, ay, ei, a-e (a-consonant-silent e)

Long e - ee, ea, ey, ie/ei, e-e (e-consonant-silent e)

Long i - igh, ie, y, i-e (i-consonant-silent e)

Long o - oe, oa, ow, o-e (o-consonant-silent e)

Long u - ue, ew, u-e (u-consonant-silent e)

Some of the words from our word list we will be using to practice the long vowels are: 

safely costume idea opened cubes tight these

We will specifically be focusing on writing words with long vowels in sentences. We will be practicing dictations using our sentences, with partners.

Reminders:

Grade 4 Assembly - On Friday October 12th at 10:00am the grade fours will be presenting in an assembly about empathy for the school. Parents are invited to come and watch! 

Thanksgiving Long Weekend - There will be no school for students on Friday October 5th and Monday October 9th.

Library Books - Our library time changed to later in the day on Tuesday. This means that now students don't need to return their library book on Monday, but on Tuesday. If your child wants to renew a book thy should bring it back on Tuesday to get renewed.