Welcome to the Grade 4/5 class blog.

When the students came back after the holiday, they were asked to respond to a question. The question was, "If you could change the world for the better, what would you change?"

There were many wonderful responses (e.g., stop war, more housing, recycle more...). So...we've been trying to explore how we can make changes for the better in our classroom community and we have been learning about people who did make a difference (e.g., Martin Luther King Jr., Ruby Bridges...).

This blog is a space where I'll be posting links to the videos that we watch in class. It's a space where I can share with parents the essence of some of the discussions that we have. It's also a space where I'll be posting some assignments and talking about some of the activities that we do.

We "have a dream" that our classroom community will be an exciting and compassionate space where the conversations will continue at home.

This blog is a work in progress. Over the next week or so, the format will gradually change.

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

The Big Day!

As I write this I am surrounded by students excitedly awaiting their performance with Katherine Wheatley!

Tonight, in front of a gym full of people...they will sing the song that they wrote a few weeks ago! Today, they spent some time designing CD covers for their very own CD's!

This has been an amazing journey!

Also, we continue to learn about fractions. Today, we created individual envelopes full of homemade fraction strips. We will keep these in our sto help us solve probelms involving fractions and decimals.

I hope that everyone is having fun while working on their science projects!
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Monday, February 14, 2011

WOW! A MUSIC STAFF MADE OUT OF ROPE!!!

Well...this is the first day that we've had in a while where we seem to be getting back into a routine!

We've started a new math unit! The students are now studying fractions & decimals! Today we rotated through a number of learning centres where students made fractions using a variety of manipulatives, played a music game, explored rounding on the computer and more!

We continued with our current novel studies! Students are preparing Q-Chart questions to explore their books with their groups tomorrow!

Mrs. Simon is teaching the class music right now! Today they practiced rhythms AND they used her big rope staff to find notes!

Also, the animal project assignment came home. This will be due next Tuesday! Bristol board will be coming home tomorrow! A few students couldn't find their jot notes today. They will be looking through their desks a little more thoroughly tomorrow for them!
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Monday, February 7, 2011

The blog is back!

After two weeks of silence....the Grade 4/5 Class Blog is back!

First of all, I'd like to welcome our new student teacher Mrs. Simon to our classroom community!

During our speech unit, the students took a break from their science research projects. Today, we spent some time with them. We added to our jot notes! Later this week, the notes will be coming home for students to turn them into paragraphs for the project! They are finding out ALL SORTS of interesting things!

We have also been starting to practice cursive writing and typing skills to help students communicate more efficiently! Any practice that they can get with this at home would be beneficial!

The words of the week will be coming home tomorrow! Since we have just started our math unit on Fractions and Decimals, our words will be "math words". I am hoping that this will help students communicate their thinking in math more effectively!
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