Bits of June!

Thanks everyone for all of the wonderful gifts, hugs, emails and best wishes. It has been a great year. Enjoy the video.

Pay It Forward

Everyone will be bringing a "Pay It Forward" paper this weekend. Please read and discuss this with your child. We are doing this project to honour 21k's cousin Chase, who died recently in a farm accident. In class we will be discussing generosity and kindness and the whole concept of "pay it forward." On Monday or Tuesday each student will be expected to write about their plans to "pay it forward" over the next few days or weeks. I would like to make this a meaningful experience and have the students think about meaningful ways to pay it forward.

BITS OF MAY!

Here it is..... I know you have been waiting for it. This month I went with "old school" music. First of all, every suggestion from the students had inappropriate lyrics at some point in the song. When I watched all the jumping in the video, I knew I had to have the song "Jump" by Van Halen. No bad lyrics in this song!

Census Assignment

Your child should be bringing home their census assignment on Thursday. I was very impressed with the work they were able to do. Some of the students demonstrated very high level thinking skills, coming up with reasons I hadn't even thought of. They had to analyze data to make decisions and be able to come up with reasons for their decisions. When they had to narrow down their choices from three neighbourhoods to one, I didn't go with just one correct answer. I looked at the reasoning behind their answers. Some of the reasons made me laugh! As usual, please sign and return.

Weekly Blog and Grade 4 Math Test

We started a new post today during our computer time. Some students finished it in class but most didn't. This blog is due Thursday, May 5 by 3:00. I look forward to reading them.

The Grade Fours have a math test Friday, May 6 on the fractions and decimals unit. They should all have their texts and notebooks at home to study. We talked today about "how" to study for a math test. Yes it is different from studying for many other tests. I suggested they start with the unit summary called "Show What You Know." We usually do this in class. I have corrected everyone's work and they should work through the questions they have wrong-that is a good start. Students not sure about certain concepts can look back into the lesson about that concept. Students can also work their way through each of the lessons, trying a question here and there.