math Dec. 16

Worked on Lesson 6. It will be continued tomorrow. This assignment plus the new schaffold sheet are due for Thurs. The Schaffold sheet will be handed in.

Math Dec. 15

Finish Mid review p.124 & 125
I gave feedback on all the handouts so far. Students should go back over them so that they know where they must improve.

We'll move on tomorrow.

December 12- Social Studies Test

The final test on chapter 2 for social studies is on Wednesday and the students need to know:
1.What a fossil is and how it is formed by drawing a cartoon, like their assignment.
2. What are the three fossil fuels? How we use them today? How are they formed?
3. The importance of paleontologists.
4. The importance of the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller.
5. Two places in Alberta where fossils have been found.

Have a great weekend!

Dember 10. Language Arts

Spelling test this Friday and Spelling booklet is due on Monday December.15. I have decided to not have a spelling test the last week of school, as the students have worked really hard and Friday is a fun day. Instead, we will work on the words in class and with the spelling booklet but no marks or tests will be given. The book report for December is due on December.15 as well, which has to be a story book and the book report sheet filled out. Thanks!

December.10- Social Studies

We will have our final unit test on Chapter 2-Fossils, on Wednesday, December.17. This unit is shorter, as we just started it but the material is not as difficult and the students enjoy learning about it. The unit test will include information from the Chatper in the textbook and activites that they have been working on. I will give a more detailed list to the students on Friday. Thanks!

Science Unit Test

Next Tues (the 16th) we will have our unit test for the Wheels and Levers unit. I will be letting the students know what will be on the test on Thursday. This unit has been more difficult for the student's than the last unit, some extra studying might be helpful. Have a good week!

Math Dec. 8

We're working with bar graphs.
Students should be able to read and interpret the data on the chart.
Read titles and scales. Compare data.

Math Dec. 4

Finish Question #2 and hand in. Most have done this already.
We're finishing lesson 2 questions tomorrow.

Math Dec. 2

Unit 3 tests went home.
We talked about reading the whole question before starting to answer it. We talked about writing down more work for rounding.
We will try to fit in more mental math questions. All students had some difficulty in this area.

We did a review quiz on Ch. 1 -3 .

A review booklet was due today. A number of students forgot it at home or did not complete it.

We will continue on with Ch. 4 tomorrow.

Science-Gears

We have been learning about gears and belt systems in science today. The students are learning how different sizes of wheels on a belt system affect how fast the belt and wheels will move. We talked about how bike gear systems work and why we use certain gears for certain activitites. This is a very difficult topic and even thougth I beleive most of the students understand the concepts it would be nice if they could review them at home as well.
Have a good week!

Math Nov. 27

P.108 #1,2 and #3(handout) due Friday.
Look for exmples of graphs and tables in the world around you (newspaper, TV or magazines (We'll discuss real life stuff later in the unit)

Book Fair

The book fair is on in the library until Thurs. The class went for a look around today and have wish lists.

Math Nov. 24

Ch. 1 - 3 review handed out. It is due Dec. 2nd.
They will write a quiz on that day.

Math Nov. 21

Wrote Unit 3 test.
They will get them back early next week.
Keep working on basic add and subtract facts.

Science Quiz

There will be a science quiz on Thursday November 27th. I will let the students know what will be on their quiz on Tuesday. We have been busy building vehicles again and the students have been having alot of fun.
Have a good weekend!

Nov.21- Social Studies

Unit Test- Chapter 1: Explore the Land from textbook
November 28, 2008- Friday
Material to Study: Alberta's natural regions (pg.30-31) & climate (pg.42); How a landform or landscape was formed (pg.24) ; Using a scale to estimate distances on a map (example on pg.32) ; Terms to know: Climate, Weather, Landforms, Glacier (pg's-24,32,37).
- The students will present their region "Grasslands" to the Parkland Region next Wednesday and to the Boreal Forest Region on Dec.2 via Video Conferencing.
- They will be starting their new unit on "Alberta's Fossil Heritage (Chapter.2) on Dec.2.
- Thanks!

Nov.21- L.A.

Just a reminder that Week 12 Spelling Booklet is due on Monday. Have a great weekend!

Math Nov. 20

Math review was worked on in class today. p.97 & 98.
The unit test will be very similar. They will write it tomorrow.Fri. Nov. 21st

Math Nov. 19

We're still working on subtraction and addition of big numbers.
No homework tonight. We're continuing the assignment in class tomorrow morning.

Math 18

Finish p. 461 & p. 78. Remember to write a sentence to answer the question.
Remember to get your answer in for the problem of the week.
Quiz on subtraction of 3 and 4 digit numbers.

Math Nov. 17

We're working on subtraction.
p.77 is due tomorrow. Have a quick look to see if they are borrowing where they need to.

November-17: Social Studies

Hi, this week in Social Studies we will be continuing our 'Alberta Regions' Video Conferencing project and focusing on our own region, the Grasslands. We will be practicing our presentation, as over the next couple of weeks, the grade 4 class will be presenting their region to both the Parland Region and Boreal Forest Region, via video conferencing (Nov.26 & Dec.2). The students viewed a presentation already from the Parkland Region and really enjoyed it.
I will be grading the students on their ability to work in groups, their output whether it be by a poster or skit, and presentation skills. On this report I graded the students on their ability to shown their knowledge in writing from this project (poster, explanation) and on next report card you will see your child's grading from their presentation and group effort. Thanks!

November-17: L.A.

Hi parents, after talking to a few of you on the phone I wanted to post a general statement of homework and tests that occur weekly in Language Arts. Your child should be bringing home a weekly spelling list at the beginning of the week, which concludes with a spelling test EVERY Friday. Also, there is a spelling booklet of the weekly words that we work on each week and if it is not done during class time and handed in that week, it is ALWAYS due the next school day (Monday, but this doesn't always happen due to days off, so sometimes it is Tuesday or Wednesday). Agendas should be also filled in with this information but that does not always happen, so hopefully this will help!
Reminder, 'Report Cards' come out on Friday and parent teacher interviews will take place next Wednesday and Thursday, Nov.26-27. I hope to see you there and discuss any issues and positive ones as well! Thanks!

Science

We have been testing our pop can dragsters in science class and the students are really having fun with them. Thanks to those who brought extra pop cans for other students. We will be having a quiz shortly, either at the end of next week or on the 24th or 25th of November.
Have a fun weekend!

Math Nov. 13

We finished the mid chapter review. P. 82 is due tomorrow if it was not complete in class. A reminder fro students to mark their work from the answers in the back of the text.
We'll start subtraction tomorrow.

Scholastic Book Orders & Loonie Toonie Lunch

Both orders are due Friday.

Math Nov. 12

Starting Subtraction tomorrow

Math Nov. 7

Finish math questions p.75 & 76. Finish Problem of the Week.

Math Nov. 7

Finish math questions p.75 & 76. Finish Problem of the Week.

Math Nov. 7

Finish math questions p.75 & 76. Finish Problem of the Week.

Math Nov. 7

Finish math questions p.75 & 76. Finish Problem of the Week.

Math Nov. 7

Finish math questions p.75 & 76. Finish Problem of the Week.

Math Nov. 7

Finish math questions p.75 & 76. Finish Problem of the Week.

Scholastic Book Orders

Book Orders for this month are due Fri. Nov. 14th. This is the same day that loonie toonie lunch is due.
Thanks

Also thanks to parents and students for bringing stuff for the Halloween Party. The other half of the class will get a chance to bring later in the year.

Nov.6- Social Studies

Social Studies Quiz Friday: Students will have to know facts about each of the six Alberta Regions that was provided on a region worksheet. It is 10 questions and students will have to fill in the correct region with each of the statements.
Regions Project: Students are divided into groups of 3 or more and are assigned a certain topic on the grassland region. We will be working on this for the next week or so, as then the grade 4 class will be presenting their own region to two schools located in the Parkland Region and the Boreal Forest Region at the end of this month. Information can be gathered from two websites written in each student's agenda book, pictures, books, etc, and your own knowledge as well!

Math Nov. 5

We're working on their addition skills. The basic skills with addition on the mad minutes are improving. A few students still have a few numbers to work on.
For homework end of p. 74

Monday

Lang Arts - Please have your rough copy of the story you are working on completed for next Monday. Now before you say we don't have school on Monday wait and remember next Wednesday we will follow Monday's schedule.

Mr. H

Science

We are making "pop can" dragsters on Tuesday and the students need to bring an empty pop can to school to be used as the body of the dragster. If you have extra pop cans it would be appreciated if you could send them with your child as well, there is bound to be students who forget. Thank you!

Math Nov. 3

Keep working on basic math facts.

We finished p. 72 They were to write their answer for #5.

Science Tests

The students recieved their science tests back today and will be bringing them home. I was quite impressed with how well the class did, they probably have been telling you about recycling all month:)Have a good weekend.

October 30- L.A.

Hi everyone, the 'Campread Well' program will start officially next week for November. What I am asking is that each student has written proof of what books he/she has read, which should include the time period, number of pages, and a brief description of the story. Our Monster Video Conferencing Project is on the go and we will start building the monster next week. HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Math Oct. 30

We worked on estimation in class. We finished p. 69 in class.

Students are doing mad minutes on basic math facts. The sheets are going home after they are marked. Some students need some more practice. Knowing their basic facts are essential when we go to add 3 and 4 digit numbers.

Math Oct. 28

Math test should go home today. They were handed back in class. The next unit is on addition and subtraction. WE will be doing basic math facts everyday as a warm up. Many students need to practice the basics or they will struggle with adding 3 and 4 digit numbers.

Math Oct. 22

We reviewed the assignment from yesterday. They will do a practice tomorrow in class and review on Friday. The math test will be on Monday instead of Friday.
They have a big science test Friday.

October 22- Video Conferencing

Myself and the grade fours will be participating in two seperate video conferencing events relating to Language Arts and Social Studies. For language arts the students are creating a 'monster' which another participate class somewhere in Alberta will have to create and share with our class via video conferencing. In Social Studies, the class will be presenting their region, 'grasslands' to other grade 4 classes in Alberta relating to the regions of Alberta. The language arts conference will be a one time event, where as the social studies conference will occur a multiple of times over the next month or so. If you have any questions or concerns about your child using video conferencing, feel free to contact me. Thanks!

October 29 Concert

On Wednesday, October 29 we will be having our first concert of the year. The Grade 4 class will be singing "Do-Re-Mi" from the Sound of Music and will be performing it with the Grade Three class. The students need to be at the school at 6:30 in their homeroom and are simply asked to "dress nice"! Please let me know if you have any questions!

Miss Christie

P.E and Health

We have just finished our wiffle ball unit in P.E. The students seemed to really enjoy the unit and they are excited to start our next unit, volleyball!

We have been learning about body image in health and how we are all made differently. We have been studying media and how the media portrays body image. The students might have questions about body image and so I wanted to let you know beforehand. Have a great week!

Science

Today in class I had the students put check marks on all the pages that they need to study for their science unit test. The test will be on Friday like I mentioned in my last post. If the students study those pages they should do great on the test. Have a great week!

Math Oct. 17

Finish #5 on p.52
Some students need to review number lines. They have handed in Questions #3 & 4. I'll look at them and see if more review is needed.
The unit test will be next Friday. The test is very similar to the review at the end of the chapter. p. 61 & 62

Science

We are finishing our science unit on "Waste and Our World." We will have the unit exam on Friday the 24th of October. On Tuesday I will have the students put a red star on the pages they need to study. I hope everyone had a great thanksgiving.

October 16- Social Studies

We have started our unit on 'Sense of Land' and students have their first homework assignment where they are to draw or write in pictures and descriptions of Alberta's unique land features (mountains, hills, rivers, praries). Information can be found and used from the textbook on pages 18-23. Next week on Tuesday, the students will be given a presentation from Waterton Lakes National Park by Waneeta Fisher and it will be on 'National Parks in Alberta.' It is a free service and an interesting learning experience for the students.

Math Oct. 16

We started working with number lines to help place large numbers. We will continue the assignment tomorrow in class.

October 15- L.A.- Camp Read Well

Hi Parents:
Your child will be bringing home a letter describing the "Camp Read Well" program that we will be completing in our class. The letter is coming home later than it should be but we will be starting the program permentantly in the month of November. The goal is for each student to read two books a month at his/her reading level. Once the goal is achieved, the student earns a free kids meal at 'Montana's.' I am excited to be implementing this fun program into the grade 4 L.A. class, and I hope you also enjoy it with your child as well.

Math Oct. 14

We marked there review from Thurs. and did another quiz on this same topic. They will get them back tomorrow. We go on to practice writing 4 digit numbers in words.

Scholastic Book Orders

Book orders are due the 15th of every month. Bring them tomorrow if there are any books you want to purchase.

math Oct. 8

We're doing a quiz on the stuff covered so far in unit 2. Expect to see it come home (tomorrow I think) so you can see how they are doing.

Non perishable Food Item

All students are asked to bring a nonperishable food item for the food bank for the celebration tomorrow.

Math Oct. 7

Review
p. 47 #1 - 7 due tomorrow

Language Arts Mr. H

Language Arts - Due to the fact that I'll miss my regular time with the students and we miss the Monday for Thanksgiving and the divisional PD day the students are to complete the "Powerful Paragraphs" handout for Monday October 27th. This will be a homework assignment.

Mr.H

Math Oct. 6

Standard form and expanded form of numbers.
p. 43 #1,2,3,5,7 due tomorrow

Math Oct. 3

p.39 #1-5, 8 & 9

Due for Monday

Science Quiz

We are going to have a science quiz on Tuesday about waste and how we dispose of waste. On Friday I will have the students put an "X" on the pages that they need to study.

Science October 1st

In science we are studying waste and the students are excited because we are monitoring a composter which we have created. There will be a quiz coming up shortly as well.

Language Arts September 30

With the beginning of a new month, so are book reports. Each student is required to complete one book report a month based on the book he/she read at his/her appropriate reading level. We will also be starting a program (Mr.Hakstol and I, among other teachers) called 'Camp Read well' which all students will be having a letter come home sometime this week. I will also be giving out spelling lists for one month at a time, instead of weekly, as to better prepare the students for their weekly spelling test. Please look for these in your child's agenda.

Social Studies September 30

Students will have a final test on 'Mapping Skills' on Friday. In their social studies binder they have all copied down what is required of them on the test which are items such as: knowing the 7 continents, terminology- equator, southern hemisphere, North pole, Prime merdian, grasslands, territories, longitude, & latitude, drawing and labeling a compass, and labeling 5 provinces, 2 territories, and 5 capitals on a Canadian Map. We will start a new unit on 'Sense of the Land' next week.

Math Sept.29

New chapter is started. Parent info sheet sent home today on Chapter 2.

Handout p. 35 is glued into scribbler and Up to Question D is due for tomorrow.

Ch. 1 test should come back to them tomorrow.

Math Sept.26

Starting Chapter 2 in math next week. Tests on Unit 1 will be handed out early next week.

Math Sept.25

We went over quizzes and did corrections.
We went over homework and worked on questions on p. 25 &26.
The Review on P. 29 and 30 will help them review for test.

The answers are in the back of the book. This is to help them check their work.
Test tomorrow on Chapter 1.

Math Sept 23

Math test on Unit 1 on Friday. There is a chapter review in the text. The answers are provided at the back of the book to help the students mark their questions and see how they do. The students may take their assigned textbooks home to help them prepare.

Monday

Language Arts - Students are to complete from their Word Power booklet: "What a Dinner", "Making Sentences", "Making Sentences", "Choosing Verbs Carefully" and "Choosing Adjectives Carefully" for next Monday September 29th.

Math Sept. 19-A

Finish worksheet.
Quiz on Wednesday

Math Sept. 18

Do the 6 questions assigned off the board.

Be ready for a quiz on the number chart problems from 2 days ago.

math Sept. 16th #2

A math worksheet is being handed back to the students to take home. Some may need additional help with it to fix them.

They are putting the pattern on the chart and then counting the number of times both things happen.

Some students are having difficulty getting the patterns down. Maybe different colors would help.

Others have forgotten to answer the question of how many times.

Please have them see me if they need additional help.

Math Sept. 16th

P. 19 Finish #3, #4
We'll be starting lesson 5 tomorrow

Language Arts

Hi students and parents:
The first spelling test has been completed and marked and should be coming home in your child's agenda. I will be hopefully adding either a link or terminology page to this site to further assist both students and parents with language arts terms. The grade 4 class also wrote a letter to 'Theo Tams' last week and it is in the mail, so we are all anxiously waiting for a return letter! Thanks.
Mrs. C. Pederson

Math Sept. 10th

We're continuing with patterns.
Key words: increasing pattern
decreasing pattern
start number and how it changes
We'll finish p. 14 #3a,b,c and #4. Then start on the mid unit review.

Sept. 8th math

Completed P.10 #3, 4 and 5

Welcome

Welcome to a new school year.
Grade4's have 3 teachers for there core.
I have them for Math
Mr. Siefert has them for science.
Mrs. Peterson has them for social and language.
After X-mas I will have them for science and math. Miss Christie(Fujita) will have them for social and Mr. Hakstol will have them for LA.
Each of the subject teachers will update the blog separetely.

In math we finished questions 1 & 2 on page 10. We will continue with p.11 on Monday.

Reminder of corn roast on Wed. at 6:00. Everyone is welcome.

February 12, 2008

Here is an update on the rest of this week's activities.
Classes are normal for Wednesday.
Thursday - Happy St. Valentine's Day! Skiers and Snowboarders will meet at the school by 6:20 as the bus is leaving at 6:30. There is no room on the bus for parents, so all parents will need to arrange their own transportation. We will leave the hill about 3:00, so we should be back in Coaldale by about 5:15.
Friday - Spelling test on unit 15 words and spelling Unit 15 due, Handwriting - D and L due, and Trevor's Super Kid Letter. The students will have class time on Wednesday to still finish these tasks. We will have a Valentine's day party beginning with a pizza lunch at 11:40. Students are welcome to bring their cards tomorrow or Friday. We will also have a desk clean-up and locker cleanup before the week off school.
We return to school on Monday, February 25.

Wednesday, Jan. 16

Wow! Wind, blizzard-like conditions and cold - winter can have a bitter edge. At school some of the students are finishing off some Super-kid letters they are behind on. Unfortunately, as this was past homework, they are catching up at recess breaks. Homework is a fact of school for most students. Our class policy is to give one day's grace if it was forgotten at home. But if it was forgotten or not done for 2 days, the student loses recess privileges until the work is completed.
Homework for this week:
Social - Test is on Thursday, Jan. 17. The students should have a study guide for Chapter 3.
Spelling - Unit 12 work is due and they will have a quiz on Friday, Jan 18. (compound words)
Handwriting - one page with H, K, and X is due on Friday, Jan. 18.
Superkid Letter to Lindsay- we work on this tomorrow morning, but the final product will also be due on Friday, Jan 18.

The students from Grades 4-9 watched a ski/snowboard presentation in period 8 today. The Grade 6-9 classes will have the chance to go skiing at Castle Mountain on Wednesday, Jan. 30. The Grade 4 and 5 classes will have the chance to go skiing on Wednesday, February 14, 2008. As this is Valentine's day, the Valentine's Day party will happen but it wil probably be on the 13 or the 15. We wil let you know as we know.

Have a warm evening.

Finally, Friday, January 11

It seemed like a long week, but we made it.
Some of the students have homework over the weekend. This includes a journal entry and finishing Christian's Superkid letter. The journal entry is to write a paragraph about what they will remember about Christmas 2007 and to write a paragraph about their New Year's resolution. Each paragraph should have 5 sentences. Both are due on Monday.
Some students still have to finish Spelling Unit 11 and handwriting capital M and N.
Also some of the students said they would still like to make a donation to Holy Childhood Association. I will wait until Monday to send away the monies recieved at the school.
Have a great weekend!

Thursday, January 10

Homework due tomorrow, Friday, January 11:

Spelling Unit 11 - quiz on Unit 11
Handwriting - the capital N and M page
Religion - quiz on Advent, Christmas, and John the Baptist's message

Deadline for Holy Childhood Association donations.
Have a good night.

Wednesday, Jan. 9

Welcome to a new year! I hope each of you had a relaxing holiday without too many scheduled things to do. I enjoyed the break complete with the planned activities and the opportunity to do my thing for a while. The students are adjusting well to getting back in the routine, even if they are not here by choice! Once again we have homework and deadlines.

Homework:
Spelling - Unit 11 is due on Friday, Jan 11 along with the posttest. The posttest will be in printing, but all pretests will be in handwriting.
Handwriting - Capital letters M and N are due Friday, Jan 11.
Religion - We have finished Unit 4 which mainly about Advent, Jesus being our Light, and John the Baptist's message to prepare for Jesus, repent, and change our hearts and actions to be ready for Jesus at Christmas. The students have 2 sheets to study in their religious doutang for a quiz in Friday's class.

Other deadlines:
Pizza lunch to be served on January 16 must be ordered by tomorrow, Jan 10.
The Grade 4 class will be going ot 9 a.m.mass tomorrow along with Grade 3 and 5.
The Holy Childhood Advent boxes are due Friday, January 10.
Book orders are due Tuesday, Jan 15.
Grade 4 students are providing the cupcakes for the sale at noon on January 23.
Grades 4 - 9 will be going to the St. Francis presentation of "High School Musical" on Monday, January 28.
Grade 6 and Jr. High skiing is on Jan. 30. Grade 4 and 5 will be going on February 14.
Science in Motion will come on January 31.

Enjoy the evening!