Monday March 30th

Hi Grade Four Families,

Please keep an eye out for an email from me this afternoon outlining some of the next steps for learning adventures. I will also be phoning families over the next couple of days to check in and respond to any questions from the email. You need to know that you are missed at school but we are really excited about what lies ahead for us, and we will be sharing details with you through this coming week. 

P.S. - Ms. Jonasson saw this beautiful rainbow on her floor of her house a few days ago! Reminded her of our light and shadow unit and made her smile thinking of all of you!!

Thursday March 19th

Hi Everyone!

Wanted to reach out to students and families to say a quick hello! I've missed everyone so much this week! Hope you have had a good week and are doing well! Don't forget that next week is Spring Break! Have a great time with your families and take care. School will be closed for the break and stay tuned for updates after the break!
Please see the link below from the CBE for some learning links you may want to look into over the next little while:

https://www.cbe.ab.ca/programs/curriculum/learning-at-home/Pages/default.aspx

💛💛💛
Ms. Jonasson 

Monday March 9th - Friday March 13th

Friday
- Worked on examining our photographs from the past with Mrs. Malbasa's class
- Had a math activity to work on with our buddies
- Got to have gym with Mr. J
- Had a low key end to the day and worked on iPads

Have a restful weekend

Thursday
- Worked on word problems using multiplication
- Watched Wonder finally with Mrs. Vroom and Ms. Malbasa's classes
- Ms. Jonasson was away in the afternoon

Don't forget to dress up as your favorite character from a book tomorrow!!


Wednesday
- Continued story work
- Did some more practice on 2 digit multiplied by 1 digit multiplication
- Worked on soccer with Mr. J
- Went outside to look for producers, consumers and decomposers


Tuesday
- We started exploring our Museo Fur Traders Kit from the Glenbow Museum - ask your child about what the first artifact we looked at was...
- Had our second day of our read-a-thon
- Started doing some more work with 2 digit by 1 digit multiplication - keep practicing your basic multiplication facts at home!
- Mr. A talked to us about Fungi
- Worked with Mrs. Wadja and examining historical pictures and thinking what we:
observe, infer and and questions we have
- Remember that tomorrow is our walk to the community gardens!
Friday is dress as your favourite character from a story!

Monday
- We are still working away at our stories! Looking forward to sharing them!
- Did another checkin with basic multiplication facts
- Read-a-thon is going on! We stopped, dropped and read as a whole school
- Talked about Biodegradable items!
- Heads up - Wednesday we will be going on a community walk! Please dress for the weather that day.

Monday March 2 - Friday March 6

Friday
- Had some time to catch up on unfinished work for the first 30 minutes of the day
- Had an Opera Performance Assembly
- Worked with our little buddies
- Continued our Wonder Art work

A Read-a-thon package went home earlier this week... Be sure to get caught reading and start bringing in gently used books to donate!

Happy Weekend!

Thursday
- Continued with a word work activity for our Wonder Art projects (that are looking AMAZING)
- Played a math game called Around the World
- This week we started soccer in gym
- Mr. Wadja worked with us in social studies - read a story and took some notes
"The earth does not belong to us, we belong to the earth." - Chief Seattle
- This was an important quote we read today in our story
- In science we wrote the definitions for the terms "waste, producer, consumer, decomposer"

Wednesday
- Started writing some of the rising action in our stories
- Continued reading Wonder - we will be finishing the book soon and watching the movie next week
- Played some multiplication games in math
- Went over the natural waste cycle in science
- Started our Wonder Art Portraits
- Had gym with Mr. J

Tuesday
- We started writing the introductions of our stories. We started by reading several introductions of story books to get an idea of various ways to start a story and hook our readers
- Took some notes on multiplication strategies
- Zero the hero - any number multiplied by zero (0) is always zero (0)
- One never wins - any number multiplied by one is always that number
- Two - skip count by 2s or double the number
- Three - 3.. 6.. 9.. and 12.. 15.. 18.. 21.. 24... and 27... 30 (tune of row, row your boat)
We continued taking notes for skip counting by 4s, 5s, and 9s. We will work on the remaining number multiplication strategies another class
- Had music with Mrs. Smith
- Brainstormed kindness words about our classmates for an upcoming art project


Monday
- Today we continued brainstorming our plot diagram for our own stories
- We had time continuing to review legends that we started with Mrs. Wadja last week
- Started reviewing the concept of multiplication. Practice basic facts at home to help us out with our math in class
- Started our new science unit "Waste in our World"
Check out one video Mr. Abdulghani showed us
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HBtl4sHTqU

Monday February 24 - Friday February 29

Friday
- We continued our visual journal reflections on our time at WinSport
- Had a music reveal from the Opera. Our Composer and Director were both here!
- Had gym with Mr. J and worked on our parachute skills
- Worked with our Grade One buddies
- Today was Mental Health Friday - we as a school worked on Mindful Coloring

Thursday
Ms. Jonasson was away today

Wednesday 
- Worked with Mr. A on a Pink shirt day activity
- Did some more notes of classroom supplies in French
- Reviewed the rubric for problem solving we did with Mrs. Harms a couple months ago and did a practice word problem together

Tuesday
Had a beautiful last day at WinSport!!
Please remember that tomorrow is Pink Shirt Day

Monday 

- Today we discussed the story element of plot. We mapped out the plot for a popular childhood story. Later this week we  will be starting to brainstorm the plot of our own stories
- Mr. Abdulghani led a lesson on Perimeter
- Did a school survey on the laptops
- Read some more of Wonder we are getting close to finishing
- Remember - tomorrow is the last day of skiing/snowboarding 
Please be here at 9 am 
Dress for the weather
Pack a healthy lunch with lots of snacks and a water bottle 

Tuesday February 18 - Friday February 21

Friday 
- Today we had some time on iPads to play math and literacy games
- Met with our buddies and watched the Lorax and talked about ways to take care of our world
- Had an assembly about next Wednesday which is PINK shirt day!
- Read a bit of Wonder - we are back to Auggie's perspective

Thursday
- Had another great day at the hill!!

Wednesday
- Tomorrow with skiing the weather looks beautiful. Some students may wish to take off their coats when on the hill NOTE - if they take off coats they need to have a long sleeve shirt/sweat on (arms covered) no t-shirts allowed
- Got to officially meet Mr. Abdulghani 
- Did a writing assignment with our student teacher
- Read some Wonder and worked on the character Justin
- Read I am Not a Number  and started working with Mrs. Wadja on thinking like a historian to find out what events lead to Residential Schools - we will be working on answering this question the next several weeks by looking at Alberta's history
- Met with Darin, the composer of our Opera who shared some music with us
- Went to see our buddies and they showed us their class history museum

REMEMBER TO BE AT SCHOOL AT 9 AM FOR SKIING/SNOWBOARDING TOMORROW
get a good night sleep tonight to be rested for tomorrow!!


Tuesday
Had a chilly morning at the ski hill, but a beautiful afternoon
Amazing to see how much improvement has happened these last two days
Next ski day is this Thursday!!

Monday February 10 - Wednesday February 12

Wednesday
- Today we had some extra time to finish our social studies research
- Read more of Wonder
- Decorated our Valentine's Bags and had a mini celebration!

Enjoy your long weekend
DO NOT FORGET WE ARE BACK TUESDAY AND WILL BE SKIING - COME DRESSED FOR THE WEATHER WITH A HEALTHY LLUNCH AND LOTS OF SNACKS!! 


Tuesday
- Did some literacy stations - worked on some word work and non-fiction stations
- Reviewed perimeter in math
- Had some time to finish our Buffalo research from the Glenbow Museum. About half of us still need to finish (some maybe sent home next week to get some extra time to finish up)
- Had a review checkin for Light and shadow in Science
Tomorrow we will have time to handout Valentines to classmates

The Grade 3s made these adorable Koala's to raise money for the World Wild Life Fund to support the animals who lost their homes in the Australian fires
Koalas are available to purchase for $3.50 (Ms. Jonasson already got hers!)

Monday
- Welcome to a short learning week
-Mrs. Campbell sent us an email with some pictures of her new baby Preston - he likes to sleep all day and stay awake all night!!
- We did some writing about our time skiing and snowboarding. We wrote about what we enjoyed, a challenge we were faced with and how we tried to overcome those challenges
- Did some logic puzzles for Valentines Day
- Added some terms to our science notes (concave and convex lenses)
- Continued reading Wonder we are still reading from Jack Will's perspective