Mrs. Boulanger 4B

-Happy Holidays to everyone! We hope you all enjoy your time together over the break! Reminders: -Classes resume on Tuesday, January 7th -Please continue to practice your multiplication and division basic facts as we are beginning long division in January.

Highlights: -What a play! Thank you to all the families who supported us as we put on this terrific show. It was a lot of work for Grade 4 and students should be proud of the effort that they put in to set design, promotions/video production, choir, comedy and dance. -We did some very fun and creative activities in a variety of spaces during play practices this week. Students did some neat art projects, STEM activities and they learned the Metis jig. Please ask your child what their highlight was for this week. -Students had their last lessons in the simple machine unit this week. Next week we will do some review and have a short test. -We sadly said goodbye to our student teacher, Mrs. Tatro. In the short time she was here she built strong relationships with the students and we will miss her! Reminders: Monday Dec 16th - Popcorn orders delivered if you ordered for your child Report cards will be sent home on Wednesday Dec 18th Last day of school before the break is Thursday...

Highlights: -Students continued to work on the standard algorithm for multiplication. We will be starting division next week. Please continue to practice basic facts so that these more complex concepts become less difficult for them Reminders -The Show Must Go On A performance by grade four, five, and six students -Cast A Wednesday December 11th - Doors open at 6:15PM -Cast B Thursday December 12th - Doors open at 6:15PM Admission: Free All students in grades four, five and six have signed up for one of the following groups.  Ask your child if they have been assigned to Cast A (Wednesday, December 11th Performance) or Cast B (Thursday, December 12th performance).  Students in non-performing groups are not required to attend the night of the performances. Performing Groups: Acting Dance Choir Instruments Comedy Non-Performing Groups Art (set design and posters) Video Production.  Story Synopsis In The Show Must Go On, student actors perform as te...

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 w...

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 ch...