Mrs. Patry's Grade Four Blog

January 22nd - 26th English Language Arts and Literature  Social Studies  This week, students had the privilege of having Knowledge Keeper, Hal Eagletail, come to our class to share his knowledge with us. Prior to his visit, students learned protocols in place to honour and respect Elders and Knowledge Keepers. Then, students focused on listening to Hal Eagletail's teachings. During his time with us, Hal Eagletail taught students many things and left us with the message to get out on the land and "get dirty!" Following our time together, students went onto the land and explored the learning grounds. Many of them certainly got dirty! Then, they spent time reflecting on the teachings they had learned in a sit spot. Finally, students completed a one-pager sharing their take-aways from their time with Knowledge Keeper, Hal Eagletail. I can identify that oral tradition is listening and speaking to pass information from generation to generation. I can discuss how oral stories s...

January 16th - 19th English Language Arts Students have been listening to the novel Wonder  and practicing different comprehension strategies. This week, they focused on making predictions. They drew and wrote their predictions at a very engaging part of the story. Then, we continued reading and students discussed if their prediction happened or not!  I can make predictions and then revise or confirm them based on new information in texts. Question : How do you think the story  Wonder  is going to end? Make a prediction!  Math Students continued their work to discover the Greedy Gnome. They interpreted information in a variety of graphs, including bar graphs, dot plots, pie graphs, and pictographs. They also collected data and represented it in their own graphs, selecting an appropriate scale.  I can engage in the statistical problem solving process. I can select an appropriate scale to represent data. I can interpret data represented in various graphs Ques...