I hope everyone has a wonderful and safe summer holiday full of lots of new adventures! I've enjoyed my year and hope all my students have as well—see you in September!!
—Ms. Jagger
0 Comments
Today grade four students hosted a wonderfully diverse multicultural festival! Students showcased all their hard work over the past couple of weeks as we celebrated different countries and cultures from around the world. The many varied artifacts that students brought in were excellent—and also delicious!!
Enjoy the first weekend of summer! —Ms. Jagger In humanities, students started working on their country research project. Earlier in the week, an email was sent to all grade four parents explaining about the artifact portion of this assignment. A copy of the letter can also be found on the home page of our grade four blog. After picking their country last week, students started researching their chosen country by looking for answers to three different types of questions: Inch questions - questions that can be found immediately with a Google search. Ex. What is the population of China? Foot questions - questions that involve gathering information and creating a summary to answer the question. Ex. What is England's national sport, and how is it played? Yard questions - a question that involves looking at multiple resources to come up with your own answer or opinion. Ex. How is your country different from Canada? Next week they will be taking their research and turning it into a trifold/poster presentation for our Multicultural Festival on Friday, June 21st. If students are purchasing a trifold, they should bring it to class on Monday (poster paper will be available for students who are not bringing in a trifold). On June 21st, all grade four students will be involved in our Multicultural Festival where they will showcase their country and also tour through the other classrooms. We had a great day of fun and learning at Heritage Park on Wednesday. Heritage Park’s exhibits span the early 1860s fur trade to the petroleum and automobile-dominated 1950s. Student groups worked through scavenger hunt questions focusing on all curricular areas namely humanities, math and science. They did a great job on these challenges along with learning a lot about Alberta’s past. A big thank-you to all our parent volunteers who made the day such a success!
Have a happy Father’s Day weekend! —Ms. Jagger It was a busy first week of June with the triathlon on Tuesday and the “Taste of the Arts” evening on Thursday. We have a lot of talented students at Nose Creek School! Just a reminder that the Heritage Park field trip form and payment is due Monday. We are looking forward to our visit on Wednesday, June 12th. Students should wear comfortable shoes, dress for the weather, and bring a bag lunch & water bottle for our trip. They can bring a small amount of money if they wish to purchase a snack from the bakery or a few treats from the candy shop. It will be a fun day of learning! Students have also been working very hard each day on their year-end project “The ABC’s of Grade 4.” After completing their rough copy of their writing, they started working on their scrapbooks at the end of this week and are doing a great job! In humanities, we looked at some famous Alberta mavericks and researched about their contributions. Mavericks are important men and women who have helped shape our province in some way. Students used the Glenbow Museum website to find three mavericks they wanted to investigate further. They needed to explain how or why they were important to Alberta, and list three additional facts about them. Some of the mavericks that students researched included Henrietta Muir Edwards, John Ware, Preston Manning, Mary Dover, Peter Lougheed, Henry Wisewood, and Stu Hart—to name a few! We also discussed how Alberta’s population is so diverse. The First Nations have always lived in the area that became Alberta. Other people have come from almost every country of the world! Some families have been here for hundreds of years, and others are new to Alberta. Everyone has experiences, knowledge, ways of life, and traditions to share. They are all part of Alberta’s story which is something to celebrate! Students shared their own family backgrounds—some students were born outside of Canada; for others, their parents were born in other countries; and for others still it was their grandparents or great-grandparents born elsewhere. We learned there are 195 countries in the world spread out over six continents. Students had a chance to look at some of these countries and were tasked to pick a few that they were interested in looking at further. Students will be starting a project next week in which they will research and present a country for an upcoming Multicultural Festival on June 21st. At the end of the week, students decided if they were working by themselves or with a partner, and made a final choice which country they would like to investigate further. They are excited to start the research process next week! Students also continued to work on their poetry skills, and reading & sharing poetry with each other. We started the week by writing limericks. Limericks are short funny poems that are five lines in length. Lines one, two, and five rhyme together. Lines three and four are shorter in length and they rhyme together. Students also wrote cinquain poems. Cinquain poems are also five lines long and each line follows a set form. Line one: one word idea or subject (noun); Line two: two adjectives which describe line one; Line three: three verbs showing actions of the noun in line one; Line four: three or four words which give the poet’s feelings about the subject (noun); and Line five: one word synonym for line one. Today we wrote poems entitled “I wish…”. Below are some samples of student poetry:
There once was a boy in grade four, Who thought school was such a bore, He thought Math was lousy, In Science he got drowsy, And in French he started to snore! Hawaii, Fun, hot, Relaxing, entertaining, swimming, I love Hawaii, Paradise. Calgary, Large, old, Extending, populating, building, I like Calgary, City. 4C Class Poem Fire, Hot, orange, Burning, sparking, spreading, I love campfires, Flame. 4D Class Poem Fox, Silent, sneaky, Hunting, hiding, sprinting, I love adorable foxes, Mammal. I wish I could go to my country; I wish I could drive all the super cars; I wish I could live in a mansion; I wish I had my own phone; I wish I could get 100 billion dollars; I wish that my wishes would come true. Have a great weekend! —Ms. Jagger Use the website below to learn more about the many countries in our world:
http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/sciencefacts/countries.html Use the website below to research about some famous Alberta Mavericks:
https://www.glenbow.org/mavericks/ |
If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to contact me at:
[email protected] Submit assignments to: [email protected] Archives
June 2019
CategoriesResources for Practice
Reading: ReadTheory TumbleBooks Word Activities: Sight Word Bingo Sight Word Game Letter Blocks Bookworm TextTwist Coconut Vowels Word Toss Spelling: Spelling Practice Spelling Spree Story Writing: Story Writing Game Create your own Comic Storyboard Creator Poetry: Poetry Tools Rhyming Dictionary |