Hello All,

Missed getting my post out last week as I was out sick on Friday.

While we’ve been celebrating the holidays, the Grade 4 students have continued learning with enthusiasm!

In math, we’ve been working on rounding numbers, and the students reached a point where they were ready for a fun, full-class online challenge. In science, we’ve been busy preparing our habitat presentations. Students are working in pairs and will present their projects to their classmates later this week.

Both classes have also begun reading The Wild Robot as part of our class novel study—what an amazing book!

As our Grade 4s grow more comfortable using laptops and their Google accounts, we’re excited to have a special workshop with Mrs. Thompson today to support their digital learning.

Tomorrow is Orange Shirt Day, where we wear orange to show our support and understanding of the injustices shown to our Canadian Indigenous peoples.

Hello All,

I hope you are all well! Happy Coming Rosh Hashana!!

This first post will be shorter than my regular ones, but they all vary in length over the year.

The kids have all settled in and many of you had a chance to see the grade 4 classrooms. you can find my presentation from back to school attached here.

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This week, we received our class set of Chromebooks. Students had a workshop on Device Care and Tips. Next week will have a workshop on Our Digital Footprint.

Amplify and IXL are fully operational and kids know they are supposed to do 15 minutes of Amplify homework a week. More is also fine, but it’s up to you.

In ELA, we started The Wild Robot as a whole class novel study.

Monday is a Dress Down Day for The Terry Fox Run! Kids can wear PT gear.

Shabbat Shalom

Hello All,

Anyone else shaking their heads, wondering where the year went?

Here in grade 4 we are still finishing up some projects such as our Hillel Lodge presentations, Rock and Minerals and keeping our minds sharp with some reading and notes taking as well as math problems.

By the end of next week students will be able to find Summer Math Supplementary practise links where they can find grade 4 review and possibly some math they will see next year in grade 5. Ms. Brigitte has also shared her Summer Reading Challenge!

Tomorrow we are celebrating the V’Hadarta P’nei Zaken program at Hillel Lodge at 11:00 a.m

Friday is a Dress Down Day – Donations going to the Kosher Food Bank

Here is a pic of Dr. Mitzmacher’s going away party. Poem by our grade 4s.

Reach out if you have other questions…

Hello All,

So proudly announcing the completion of the grade 4 Public Speaking event!

Over 150 minutes of speech time the kids spoke in front of their classmates and several teachers, including Morah Sigal, Corrine, Dina, Mrs Beswick and Mr. Washerstein. To get kids up and out of their seats for a interlude we had a visit by Annie the Goat and we got to run around outside. As an assessment each student had two separate teachers marking a rubric and another timing the speech. Check your student’s blogs for their reflection and a photo of their speech. Rubrics going home today.

Yesterday we were invited to watch and listen to the Middle School’s public speaking finalists. I think the grade 4s gained more insight on what lies ahead for their middle school speeches.

Math continues with measuring angles with protractors and in science we are hands-on with exploring the three types or rocks.