It's a New Year!

Welcome Back!

Happy 2014 Grade 4 families. I hope you all enjoyed a restful and wonderful Christmas break and the two snow days that followed. I hope you were able to warm up with a good book, some tea and a blanket. My goodness...was it ever frigid out.

January Curriculum Focus

Religion
The Feast of the Epiphany, Jesus and Scripture will be focused upon. The students are currently dramatizing a modern day version of the Epiphany.

Language
Adventure Fiction: Students will be reading short adventure fiction stories, identifying features of adventure fiction, creating and writing dialogue and expanding their vocabulary word lists.

Spelling will continue this week.  I have been so impressed on how the grade 4's have improved in spelling since the beginning of the school year, but need to continue to practice their spelling words. Thank you for your positive feedback in this area. Here is a fun way to spell. I found a  link that you could add to your spelling practice.

Math
We will be working through a short unit on addition and subtraction of 3 and 4 digit numbers, along with mental math strategies. Please see their family note in their math duo-tangs. As this is a short unit, the math test will be sometime early next week.

Social Studies
Canada and it's Regions continued. 


Health
It's a new year, so why not discuss healthy living? We will learn and discuss ways to keep healthy, making better choices for our lunches and how to be a fit kid.

Family Life
Fully Alive Theme 2, Living in Relationships begins.


Phys. Ed
We will be wrapping up with our volleyball skills unit and move onto gymnastics. Gymnastics is important for both boys and girls, which require attention and focus.

**Please note, students must have gym clothes in order to participate in gym.**

Assessment Folders

Assessment folders went home on Friday with a number of assignments, please sign and return folders and assessments as soon as possible. Please note all first term assessments will be sent home in the near future.

Welcome to the Salgado Family!

A warm welcome goes to Nicholas and his family. Nicholas' first day was Wednesday and has fit right into our classroom. We are so happy to have you. :)