Grade 4/5 News

April 3, 2018

I hope everyone had a great spring break and that you had a chance to do some outdoor activities.  When you arrive at the school you'll see the amazing mural that has been put up last week.  It's the west coast nature mural with First Nations themes that Johanna Hoskins has been working with the classes with since January.  Simply put, the mural is stunning!  What a great effort by everyone, but especially Johanna and her colleague Karen. 

This week we will be getting back to the routines with lots of activities and projects to start. We'll be looking at some final scripts and then choosing a play that we will perform in June.  I'll let you know when we make a decision, likely next week. 

Subjects

Math:  We finish division this week and then will be focusing on either fractions or geometry.
   "Math is the science of patterns."

Reading:    We continue "word sorts"  twice a week with spelling quizzes on the words every two weeks.   The theme for the next few weeks will be fables, myths and legends.  Students will be reading a variety of these and then completing some activities on a story they choose. On Thursdays we focus on scripts and drama activities.

Writing:   Students will be focusing on writing a memoir in the next few days.    

Science:  This we starting a new coding program called Scratch.  It's a fun and creative online coding program that let's student learn and explore ways to use coding to create games and images.   We'll be also be working with lego Mindstorms which are more complex and advanced robots.  Students will work as partners to build, design, and program the robots.  
Social Studies: We will finish off our unit on Barkerville by building models of the business students have chosen.  This will take a couple of weeks then we will put the work on display for the school to see.  I'll let you know when you can see the projects at school.  

Art:  We continue to look at colour in different media in art.   

PE:    This term we will focus on badminton and gymnastics.    In dance, we continue with jiving and Tanya (our secretary) is going to teach the class a couple of tango lessons.  Should be fun.\!  

French:   In French we will be learning about months, seasons, the weather, as well as beginning to have some short dialogues and conversations.  Students will be using an app called Duolingo in French time for basic language practice.