Hello All,

SO NICE to talk to you all during our conferences!

As you now know we had a weather issue with our planned field trip and with some persuasion we were able to reschedule for Tuesday Feb 4th. The powers to be is allowing for a better weather day!

Very proud to share we had two grade 4s honoured with North Star awards this week at our Rosh Chodesh. Congrats, Maya and Isaac!!

Up coming events:

Science and Technology field trip Tuesday

Chess Championships on Friday Feb 7th. Ms Gordon and I will be taking the school’s chess club to the Confederation Centre to compete and have fun.

Next Friday is a 3pm dismissal

Feb 11 Innovation Day  —

Homework Blog Link

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Fz_UxWXCRoG4z-_CAAjaXxs3Ej8wUJ2viSE-OoTniAI/edit?gid=775329958#gid=775329958

Hello All,
The grade 4s have been busy – busy building beavers!

An ongoing build for Innovation Day. Castles with working drawbridges. Almost all have finished their origin stories and the build is on. Along with the building process the teams are responsible for logging their scientific process through a lab report. There has been some rebuilding required based on trial and error.

In math we have moved on to multiply and dividing fractions. Her we are playing a fraction inspired board game.

Things to note:
– So excited about our Technology Museum visit on Wednesday. HANDS ON PULLEY AND GEARS!
– Report cards go home Monday
– Noon dismissal on Thursday and no school on Friday — Parent teacher conferences

Hello All,

New project based learning has started! The kids are excitedly writing, planning and sharing ideas to build a Medieval Castle!

Thanks to Ms. M for passing this along…

The science unit is based on Pulleys and Gears. The class was asked to investigate and build a working draw bridge that fits with their castle ideas. Aligning this with ELA, the students have been assigned an Origins Story to explain why they need to build a castle.  PLEASE ASK your child to share, some of the stories are amazing!

On Jan 29th we will be heading out on a field trip to the Tech museum to have a hands-on workshop with working pulleys and gears.

Hello All,

I hope you all had a great break and families are all well.

The grade 4s are back in action and working hard on new a great activities.

There is a math test that will happen on Monday and we have been reviewing fractions most of the week. The kids will have a review package if they want to go over similar types of questions.

We are starting another group project that leads into our Innovation Day Presentations Feb 11. We are collecting cardboard suitable for cutting out castle walls and drawbridges.

Snowhawks next Monday and taste of Middle School on Wednesday.

Hello All,

This week we had a Cyber Safety Workshop with Mrs. Thompson. Here you can find the slides your child was presented. It would be encouraged to go over the slides with your child.

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Next week:

We STILL HAVE ACADEMICS going on!!

Tuesday is our Chanukah Concert Starting at 6:15

All grade 4 students will be sitting on the floor at the front of the gym during the concert. At any point you wish to depart you are welcome to come collect your child. There will be doughnuts after the event in the two Hallways of the main entrance.

Friday, December 20th – Dress Down (PJ Style!) donations going to the Jewish Federation of Ottawa

Hello All,

We have come to the end of another great week in grade 4!

With great excitement we had our first snow fall.

In math, we continued on with fractions in the form of identifying, comparing, adding and simplifying.

ELA/Science — Our dioramas are almost completed, and students will be creating presentations explaining their interruptions. Each student will plan and present two aspects from their dioramas.

Notes:   Next week – Grade 4 Cyber Security Workshop

Chanukah Party    Tuesday, December 17⋅6:15 – 7:45pm

We had our very successful Grade 4/5 Night Out.

As we come to the end of another school month, I report the grade 4’s have been very busy.

We got our first math assessment out of the way and moved on to a unit in fractions.

The students have their tests and you will see  K, T, C, A each is out of a 4. [3 = ME]

While learning fractions we used foam pizzas and toppings to create and imagine the slices as fractions.

In the Project Base Learning (PBL) of English and Science, both classes have been working on their Wild Robot dioramas.

In Social Studies the class was able to explore artifacts on loan from the Canadian Museum of History.

Things to note: No school tomorrow – PD day for staff.

Next week we will be having a workshop on Cyber Security

Book Fair Is HERE!!!

AND…. Grade 4/5 Night out. Please read, sign and return the school’s permission forms and fill out the waiver online.

Hello All,

November has been busy!

As a follow up to SMART Goals conferences, students are blogging about how they are making their goals come true.

Please see if your student has completed their blog posting.

In math we have been working on fractions and reviewing patterns for next week’s quiz.

All info is on Google Classroom, students can review and ask questions on Monday!

In science we have presented many of our Habitat presentations and moving on to constructing our dioramas.

Our Media Life: We have had some issues with educational websites, but we are working on them. We have had our 2nd workshop (Personal Media Choices) with Ms. Brigitte and we are always carrying the conversation forward.

On Monday we will demonstrate how to change personal passwords.

All Students should have their agendas up-to-date and SHOULD ALL have them back in class on Monday!!!

Thursday Nov 28 is Dress Down Day, please send some change for donations. “Sparks to Life” [a nonprofit organization based in Tzfat partnered with Operation
Lifeshield to bring life-saving shelters to young children in northern Israel]

Friday Nov 29 is a PD day — no school for students.

We have made it through a five day school week.

Lots has been going on and lots for next week.

This past week:

In Math we have been working through patterns and some fun math challenging dice games.

In ELA, we have just a few chapters left to read before our big movie trip. [Tuesday Nov 5]

We also started a persuasive writing assignment. Students are working on it in class but information can be found on Google Classroom.

Social Studies: Canada Map Quiz – Students have practise sheets to help them study. It will be a standard map knowing the provinces and territories.

Rosh Chodesh Assembly:

Next week

Monday: Progress Reports sent home

Tuesday: We have our movie

Thursday: Noon dismissal and SMART GOAL conferences please book through the link Ellie sent out.

Students are to be part of the conference!

Friday: No classes but more conferences.

Hello All,

Please enjoy some pics of the events today, but before, a few things.

On Tuesday Nov 5 grade 4-8 will be head off in the am to a theatre to watch The Wild Robot. This field trip is still in the planning phase and more information will be out next week.

We have been working on SMART GOALS, please ask your students what their goals are. We have our Student/Parent/Teacher SMART Goal conferences on Nov 7-8th. – No classes but conferences will occur.

Some homework went home this week and is due on Monday. As a team we are trying to have any homework go from Monday to Monday. It is posted on the Homework Board.

Things to work on for some students include, charged laptops, chargers, headphones (where possible), and kippas for boys.