Mrs. Patry's Grade Four Blog

November 20th - 23rd Thank you for attending conferences. It was great to connect with you and to celebrate your child's learning. What Did Students Do? Students used what they have learned about paragraphs to write another one this week. They started by creating and designing anything they wanted with loose parts. Then the next step was to design their favourite place using the loose parts. They used this design to spark ideas and conversations as a starting point for their writing. After this, students created a brainstorming web based on the ideas they generated from their loose parts design. Then they wrote their paragraphs. Students focused on a topic sentence, supporting details, concluding sentence, descriptive words, capital letters, and punctuation. They typed these paragraphs and really focused on editing and revising to improve their work.  *These paragraphs are written in Google Classroom. Please have your child share their paragraphs with you! Learning Outcomes - ...

November 15th - 17th What Did Students Do? Students have done a lot of work with decimal numbers. They have explored decimals to the tenths in different ways. A problem solving task students worked on this week was involving measurement and decimal numbers. We reviewed as a class the different strategies students can use to solve problems. Then students were presented a problem and solved it using many amazing strategies. Learning Outcomes: Mathematics I can apply place value to decimal numbers. I can understand that decimal numbers are numbers between natural numbers. Questions to Ask Your Child: What strategies did you use to solve the problem? What did you find challenging about this problem? What are you proud of based on your work around this problem? Did you learn a different strategy from someone else? What was it? Student Work:

 November 6th - 8th What Did Students Do? Students did some amazing literacy work around Remembrance Day over this past short week. Students discussed what peace means to them, using their five senses. They turned these beautiful thoughts into a concrete poem and art. Students also used the Chromebooks to read through two websites in order to research facts about Remembrance Day. They pulled out key information which they recorded in jot notes. They used this information to write haikus and acrostic poems. Learning Outcomes: English Language Arts and Literature I can:  -write poetic structures, including verse and concrete. -synthesize information. -write following the process of organizing and enhancing my message. Questions to Ask Your Child: -What did you research about Remembrance Day? -What types of poetry did you write? -What does peace feel like to you? Smell like? Taste like? Sound like? Look like? Student Work: