December

We traced our hand and we coloured the background. Inside the fingers we wrote what and who we are. We did this activity with Mme Pam.



We've been working on our projects about different countries around the world. Some groups brought in things from their country to represent their country. There are two parts to the research project, there is a shoe box and a Keynote presentation on the iPad.




Here we are talking about the buffalo teaching which is respect. We also had a lesson about courage and facing our fears.



Two twin brothers are reading their mom's book to the class.



We watched Olive the Other Reindeer on Tumble Books. Then we did a listening test to see how well we were listening to the story.

We did some 'would you rather' questions and then we wrote our answers with reasons.





Here we played some math games that were fun! We were playing a dice game to practice multiplication. We used the dominoes to make number patterns. Some of our math centres were Candy Construction, geometric solids and blocks, Reflex math on the iPads and problem solving with Mme using the little white boards and blocks.



One student showed her menorah and told the students about Hanukkah.



In Science, we learned about food chains and we made cups to represent the animals in the food chain. We stacked the cups to show what they eat. We also make snakes out of plates. First we coloured the white side of the plate in a pattern and then we cut it in a spiral. It keeps snakes warm and it gives them more energy to pounce on their prey when they are coiled up.




Here are our holiday sweaters. We made these using markers, a glue gun, foam shapes, stickers, pipe cleaners, pompoms and many other materials. We were working for S. DeSousa Fashions. We wrote directions for how to make a great holiday sweater.




We used Kleenex boxes to make an imaginary home for different kinds of animals. We used beads, string, clay and many other materials.



Constable Alanna came to talk to us about Bullying. We learned that we should be respectful and we shouldn't be bystanders!



We presented our French plays with lots of expression and actions!



We made gingerbread houses with our book buddies!



Ask me to tell you about the 'Ho! Ho! Ho!' game that we played on the last day of school.



Our bowling teams were so positive and we encouraged each other to do well!



Have a great holiday and see you in January!

November

November was a busy month!




This is a yummy treat we made to explain how frogs hibernate. The chocolate pudding is the mud on the bottom. The gummy frog was in the mud. The ice was blue jello and whipped cream on top which was the snow. Frogs absorb oxygen through their skin in the winter.



At parent conferences we showed our parents how to make canola oil and play math games. It was very fun!



IN the first picture we were with Mme Pam learning about the seven teachings. We coloured a picture of our hand. With North Star we learned what the teachings mean and we talked a lot about love.




We did smudging if we wanted to.



We saw how many bingo chips the rolled paper could hold. We talked about how bird bones are hollow like the paper but still very strong.



Mme Burnett came to read a book with a bunch of different stories all in French. We talked about the stories in French. We didn't have to raise our hands to speak and we gave our opinions.



This is where we do our swimming lessons. The grade 4's stay at school.



We were dancing to a video to get some exercise.



When we have free time, we play with toys and games. Sometimes we like to draw pictures too.



We looked for capitals, periods and spelling mistakes in our triangle stories. We also made sure the story made sense.




Here we have groups of people trying to solve a math problem. We also have our dove paintings. At the Remembrance Day ceremony we sang songs, presented a poem and what peace is to us.