Activities for the Week of November 22nd-24th

Important Reminders:

This Wednesday is our holiday lunch.  We will be having two presentations of our class play, 'First Stop Ellis Island' at 11:30, followed by our holiday lunch at 12:30.  I apologize for changing the time of the play, (originally I wrote on this blog that we would have the performance after lunch).   But after reconsidering the effect of pie on grade 4 students I decided that we would be better off having the play before we eat.  I look forward to a fun lunch with parents and students before we head off for our four day Thanksgiving holiday.

Our science projects are moving along nicely.  Over the holidays if you have some time at home with your child you might want to check how they have been progressing on their science fair logbook.  Most of the students have completed the first three steps....creating a question, coming up with key words and related questions, and doing some background research on their topic.  Step four will require them to think about how they will design their experiment and what their hypothesis and variables will be.  The information is contained in the logbook, but if you have any questions about how to proceed please contact me.

Classroom Activities:

Writing:

We will be discussing the concept of perspective, and the importance of seeing things from other perspectives.  To practice this we will work on writing our weekly reading letter from the perspective of one of the characters in our play.  The students will be asked to write about what it might have been like to immigrate to a new country such as America.

Social Studies:

We will be spending most of our time practicing our play and getting it ready for our parents on Wednesday.  The students are in charge of deciding how they want to stage their play and making sure that it is presentable.

Math:

We are in the beginning stages of our new chapter in Mathematics.  This week we will be learning how to estimate the product of two, two digit factors, and learning how to use the break apart method with these larger numbers.  We will also work on representing multiplication problems using arrays.

As this is such a short and busy week we will not be having spelling or grammar lessons this week.

Here's to a great week and our holiday lunch,

Jordan Rose