Grade 4 Wilks

Dear Parents, Unfortunately, Music was cancelled this morning so instead we assigned our jobs for this week and talked about extrinsic vs. intrinsic motivation. We discussed how mid-way Grade 4 that students should be working on valuing intrinsic motivation – aka doing things not for external benefit, but participating in…

Dear Parents, Today, I was in and out of the classroom because of Jump Rope for Heart supervision that I was helping organize, so it was a pretty relaxed day for the kids. They had a TOC come in for some of the morning. They started off with reading and…

Dear Parents, Today, we started off our day with Ms. Schmidt’s Social Emotional Lesson. After DPA & Snack, we did our Fractions Math Quiz and students who were done worked on their explorer passports that are due fully done tomorrow! After lunch, we read and worked on our rugs a…

Dear Parents, To start off the day, we worked on learning about Juan Ponce de Leon. We learned that he traveled with Christopher Columbus to explore and to Puerto Rico to find gold. He discovered Florida as well. We talked about the negative interactions/consequences of actions between European Explorers and…

Dear Parents, Today, we worked on our self-reflections for our report cards – it was really nice to read what the students are proud of and to have them set goals and identify areas they want to work on for next term. This year is really flying by! Then, we…

Dear Parents, Happy Valentine’s Day! 🙂 Today, we started off with Gym class with Ms. D’s class. We played line tag and then we played King’s Court Dodgeball. It was really fun and the last challenge was for students to try to play the game without talking, which they did…

Dear Parents, Today, we started off our day with our tenth spelling test on explorer and boat words that we learned. Then, we read another myth from an Indigenous legends and myths book. After that, we worked on making common (same) denominators in order to compare fractions. To compare fractions,…

Dear Parents, Today, we started off with continuing to work on our Valentine’s cards for our buddies. Then, we learned about John Cabot the explorer and went through a powerpoint presentation on him. We looked up one of his boats named “The Matthew” and recorded information including important places on…

Dear Parents, Today, we worked on writing interesting questions in response to our read-aloud “Castle in the Attic” in order to practice writing provoking questions. We will do a lot of practice on our literature circle roles in order to get the students to be able to complete their responses…

Dear Parents, I would like to start off by explaining the situation that happened today with the Lunch Program. Unfortunately, the regular lunch lady was away today with a substitute and the proportions of food were predicted incorrectly. The Kindergarteners got served first and a lot of the food was…