Grade 4 Wilks

Dear Parents, This morning, we started off with a Math pop quiz for Geometry. I am working on marking it, but you’ll notice that I am not going to be putting a numerical value on this one like I normally do. Instead, there will be a proficiency scale only and…

Dear Parents, This morning, we started off with a Math lesson and defined the words: adjacent (sides), congruent, parallelogram (shape that has two pairs of opposite sides that are equal and parallel) and practiced sorting shapes again. We also explored nets and I tested students by drawing various nets and…

Dear Parents, Today, we started off with reading a bit of Wonder and then Grade 5s worked on constructing the digestive system and Grade 4s worked on brainstorming and drawing different animal adaptations from an animal book and then sorting the adaptations. Students also got the chance to use the…

Dear Parents, This morning we started off with talking a bit about our Easters and then we started with reviewing what we learned last week about side labelling, shape labelling, perpendicular and parallel lines. We also talked about 2D shape faces that make 3D shapes. Then, students worked on their…

Dear Parents, Today, we started off the day with reading a bit of “Wonder.” Then, I did a full lesson review of yesterday’s Math lesson, which involved: -differentiating between parallel and non-parallel lines -determining whether lines are perpendicular or just intersect (sides of shapes) -naming and sorting 3D shapes (prisms,…

Dear Parents, Today, we started off with reading a bit of “Wonder” and then we started our Geometry unit in Math. For Grade 4’s, we talked about various 3D shapes and how to differentiate between vertices, edges, and faces. We also talked about sorting by various attributes (characteristics) such as…

Dear Parents! Welcome back! I hope you had a lovely break 😊 Today, we started off with students creating new name tags for their new groups in our seating plan and getting organized by addressing some announcements and reminders as we welcomed 3 new students today 😊 Then, students copied…

Dear Parents! I hope you have a lovely Spring Break 🙂 We will see you in a couple of weeks! The only homework: -students should aim to look at the moon each night to see if they can see it and draw their observations on their moon sheet 🙂 -students…

Dear Parents, Today, we started off with our spelling test. After, we talked about zoom etiquette and manners in preparation for our pen pal zooms this afternoon. Then, students had their Literature Circle Discussions and then handed in their booklets for me to mark over the break for reading comprehension…

Dear Parents, Today, we started off with continuing our paraphrasing work and then students worked on finding text evidence and writing out a paragraph to prove an inference. They are doing such a great job with this! I hope that this will help them continue to become better and better…