Happy snowy day! The blog is a little late this week. It was wonderful to meet so many parents on interview night last Thursday.
This week is Bullying Prevention and Awareness week. We will be having the students work together to create a class pledge about this topic. Please have your child wear blue on Wednesday to show support for bullying awareness.
Tomorrow is the French field trip for the grade 4 students. It should be an exciting concert.
Please see the attached homework as well as the updates below. Also included are some math strategies we have been using in class.

A number problem we have been working on.

The t chart strategy - best used with a repeated series of  numbers

The number line strategy - good with nearly any math problem involving addition or subtraction

Math: We have been continuing to look at word problems and try a variety of strategies. The number line is consistently a great strategy, T-charts work when using multiples of the same number while drawing money to count is very effective as well.
Language: We have been looking at organizing our work by ideas in our Charlotte's Web novel study. We are also going to be using our APEs strategy to justify our answers in paragraph form. Below is a picture of our first group that used their procedural writing to change the guinea pig cage. It was very successful and the guinea pigs were very appreciative!
Visual arts: We have had some amazing discussions looking at some famous pieces of art in both paint and sculpture forms. We are studying the work of the Group of Seven and will be creating some pieces ourselves.

Guinea pig cage changers hard at work!