Grade 4 Wilks

Dear Parents, Today, we started off with going over what kindness looks like in the classroom and what is acceptable behaviour towards others in our learning community. We emphasized that students do not need to be best friends with everyone in the class, but need to treat others with kindness…

Hi Everyone, Today, we started off the day with a review for the Math Test. Students wrote down concepts that they need to study to be prepared for the Math Test tomorrow morning. They should also use their quiz to help them study. Then, they had time to study and…

Hi Everyone, Today, we started off the day with a maze as a soft start activity, it was a pretty tricky and complex one. Then, I assigned students with some questions from Show What You Know in order for them to practice some questions that will be on the upcoming…

Happy Friday Everybody! Today, we started off with reading more “Wonder” and then students were assigned to work on pages 110-11 #1-6 (not 1 b. or c.) (for the Grade 5’s) and page 115 #1-5 for the Grade 4’s. A reminder that we have our Math Test on Wednesday. Then,…

Hi Everyone, Today, we started off the day with reading a Chapter of “Wonder.” After that, I went over long division with decimals on the board again step-by-step and then students worked with a randomly generated partner to practice on whiteboards. After that, the students had their extra DPA in…

Hi Everyone! Today, we started off with a class meeting – Mr. Anderson came in to join us for it as well. After that, students had time to keep working on their Math work from yesterday, do questions that they wanted more practice on, or picked an extra Math worksheet…

Dear Parents, Today, we started off our day with the kids continuing to work on the answers to the riddles. I will give the answers tomorrow 🙂 (the kids are so clever with coming up with the answers – it always amazes me!). Then, I handed back the Math Tests…

Hi Everyone,   Happy last day of November! Wow, the time has flown by! Today, we started off with students having the option to complete some riddles with a small group of classmates as a soft start into our day. The riddles were pretty difficult and the kids seemed to…

Dear Parents, Today, we started off with working on quiet activities and then we worked on double-by-double digit multiplication. I explained one of the strategies in the book of forming partial products and using expanded form, but left it open to kids for which strategy they decide to pick to…

Dear Parents, Today, we started off the day by finishing up the reading assessment that we started on Monday. I will put comments regarding their reading on their report cards for our Fall Interim Update to update you on how their reading is going. After that, we had snack and…