In our classroom for the upcoming weeks

Newsletter to Grade 4/5

Students in grade 4/5 are still continuing to develop their learning skills while learning many strategies that will help them in the many tasks ahead as well as in their future. 

Grade 4- Students are finishing the Science unit on Rock and Minerals and also in Social Studies they are working on Ancient Civilisations. For  Rock and Minerals we will observe a variety of rocks and minerals and note their characteristics and properties before moving on to Light and Sound. For Ancient Civilisations the students will choose to study one Ancient Civilisation and a technology it invented. Grade 4 students are also collaborating with our grade 5 students to work on The Classroom Energy Diet Challenge improving their energy awareness and energy literacy through a variety of energy related challenges.

Grade 5- Students are finishing the Science unit on Energy. They learned about renewable and non-renewable energy and how to reduce our everyday energy consumption. Students are collaborating with grade 4 students in The Classroom Energy Diet Challenge improving their energy awareness and energy literacy through a variety of energy related challenges. In Social Studies grade 5 is learning about the first contacts between First Nations and Europeans in New France. The students started by looking into the First Nations arrival in Canada and also studying their way of life.

La Francomobile

Learn French while having fun!   Developed specifically for 7-12 years by experts, The Francomobile is an iPad app for learning French. It presents more than 200 words of everyday vocabulary , oral and written , in authentic contexts. Everything to transform the use of iPad into a fun learning opportunity 40 video capsules 3 minutes more than 20 hours of interactive activities engaging characters ...

In our classroom for the upcoming weeks

Newsletter to grade 4/5

For the past few months grade 4/5 has been busy working on documenting their learning while developing their collaboration and listening skills in French Immersion class. The students are almost done their Science projects, they will need to finish editing their descriptive/informative texts then include them in the Google slide with illustration to explain their thinking. The grade four is also working on a diorama of their animal's habitat and they will create a stop motion video of it. The grade five will finish the model of their human body system and document it with the app. 30 Hands. 

In the next month...

Grade 4 - The students will learn more about mapping skills while creating a few different maps of Canada and maps of two of its regions. The focus will be land features and comparing two regions with different elevations, resources, climate etc...

Grade 5 - The students will learn more about Canada's governments while trying to find which level of government is responsible to find solutions to the problems they have found while investigating one of Canada's region.

Grade 4 and 5

The Arts- In Visual Arts, we will continue to explore lines and colors. In Music, we will work with boomwhackers and also explore various web based music sites.

 

Our Classroom Door!

This year as we did in the past it is time for our door decoration contest. Our theme this year is "Advent and Christmas traditions around the world". Here is our class' inspiration ... The tradition being hanging stockings and the wreath as a Christmas symbol! 

Here are a few past doors my classes decorated!

Great Site with a variety of French resources!

Check out http://www.tfo.org/ for a variety of French resources such as videos, reading lists, children series, reports, songs for kids and games and apps! Worth looking at...

Picture Retake Day on MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9TH

Color Wheel

We are making 2D color wheels! If you have any colorful materials to share please send it to school with your student. Thank-you!
Here are some examples