Mrs. Boulanger 4B

Highlight: -We had a wonderful evening on Thursday with the unveiling of our school mural and our giving projects. Thank you for your support in donating so much to these projects. Here is a link to the news clip about the mural and the artist. https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/mobile/video?clipId=1843551 -Grade 4 classes continued learning about simple machines. On Monday and Tuesday this week students learned about a new simple machine from a different teacher than they are used to.  Ask your child which one they learned about and who taught them. -The Division 2 play has been ramping up practices and rehearsals this week. On Friday we went through a practice for the finally. Ask your child what their role is. -Students learned the standard algorithm for multiplication this week. Please continue to practice basic facts so that these more complex concepts become less difficult for them. A homework sheet was sent home today to be completed for Monday. Reminders: With the cold weath

Highlights: -It was great to see so many families come that Student led conferences! Thank you for making the time to join us. -We are almost finished our novel, Bridge to Terabithia . We will watch the movie next week to compare it to the book. -We are continuing to work on writing effective paragraphs that include a topic sentence, relevant details and closing statements. -This week each Grade 4 class learned about a specific simple machine. Our student teachers from U of C and U of L are going to be teaching each grade 4 class about each of the following simple machines. Ask your child which one they learned about this week (gears, wheel and axle, levers, pulleys). - Students have a homework page on practicing the 6’s and 7’s for multiplication. It is due Thursday November 28th Reminders: Calgary Food Bank From now until December 17th we will be collecting non-perishable food for the Calgary Food Bank. Foodbank boxes are now placed around the school to accept any and all

Highlights -We created a video sharing all the French we’ve learned so far! We are excited to share them at student-led conferences. -After learning about First Nations petroglyphs, we created our own pictographs that tell a story of a past memory. We worked on oral story telling skills by using expression and effective transition words. -We completed patterns using addition, subtraction, multiplication to complete a t-table. -We’ve started some new winter art projects using oil pastels and paint. -Please continue to practice multiplication facts with your children. When students memorize those facts it helps them in their math work. We looked at site called Math playground today that students are encouraged to use this weekend. The link is posted on the blog. Reminders Please book a Student Led conference using your MyCBE account https://sis.cbe.ab.ca/public/home.html. Booking opens today, November 15th, at 4:00 pm November 21 4:30 pm - 8:00 pm - Student Led Conferences Nov

Highlights We had a great field trip to Heritage Park this week! Students experienced life as it would have been in a 1910 schoolhouse. They also learned about Henry Ford and his innovation to the assembly line process. Ask your child to explain how they built the trucks on the assembly line. Thank you so much to our parent volunteers for coming and making this day possible! We read  Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes  by Eleanor Coerr as part of our discussions around Remembrance Day. Ask your child what the story is about and where the statue of Sadako is. We began folding some origami paper cranes today and will finish on Tuesday.  Mrs. Tatro, our student teacher from the University of Lethbridge, will be starting with us Tuesday. She will be with us everyday for four weeks. Please continue on basic facts in  multiplication. We will be moving into multiplication of larger numbers and having a solid foundation of the basic facts will better enable your child to successfully

Highlights -In math we have been working on patterning and applying mental mathematics strategies to determine basic multiplication facts to 9 × 9. Please continue to review multiplication facts with your child at home. A website to practice multiplication facts (Grand Prix Multiplication) is included beside Homework information on the blog. -We have begun expository writing in Language Arts. After choosing a topic students expanded three main ideas to include description and details. We will continue to focus on this type of writing to organize our ideas into paragraphs. -All classes are continuing with French instruction. Ask your child how to say their birthday in French. -Ryan Willert (our artist in residence), has been working at our school painting a mural in our Gathering Space.  The following link is a quick video of his artistic process. https://youtu.be/MF9vXDn_MDk We are only half way done and we are really looking forward to unveiling the whole mural at the end of Novem