Week of September 9- 13th:

Math - we will begin the year with learning about telling Time on the 24 hour clock
Social - we will locate Alberta on the map of Canada and talk about our identity as an Albertan
Science - we will introduce Simple Machines
Language Arts - we will continue to practice our Read to Self stamina and finding 'just right' books, we will continue to read our class read aloud "Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing" and make connections to our world, we will start some paragraph writing and work on some of our basic grammar rules, we will start some personal narrative writing about ourselves connecting to our theme of "Identity."
French - we will introduce the French language and learn Bonjour and the French alphabet

Important Dates:

- Meet the Teacher Thursday 6:30- 7:30
- Early dismissal every Friday at 1:20pm

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Welcome to the First Week of Grade 4 

September 3- 6th:

We worked on:

- getting to know our new classroom, new classmates and Ms Vroom
- Pillars of Care - How do we care for Ourselves, Others and This Place?
- we met our Grade 1 buddies
- we had a welcome back assembly
- we enjoyed meeting Mr J in the Gym and Ms Smith in Music
- we had an introduction to the Learning Commons from Mrs Wong
- we started reading "Tales of A Fourth Grade Nothing" as a class and making predictions and connections to self.