Mrs. Campbell's Grade 4

It was another great day of inline skating - our next and final skating day is on Thursday. Today we did a very complex problem with Mrs. Harms, ask your student to show you their strategies for solving at home: Some octopuses, fish and a few mermaids are in a rock pool. Altogether there are 38 arms, 24 eyes and 8 tails in the pool. How many mermaids are there? In progress: - toy box project (due Friday) - region posters - french Christmas/winter Books  * Please make sure that you are carefully reading and signing all parts of the ski/snowboarding forms before sending them back to the school!  *Report Cards go home next Thursday! 

Today we started inline skating - our next skating day is tomorrow. Please remember to bring a helmet if you have one at home! Skating begins at 9:15am! Thank you to MW and KD for bringing in hot glue! Hopefully these donations will get us to the end of our projects! This week we are finishing our Alberta Region Posters and Toy Box Projects. Next week families are invited to join us for our Toy Fair in the learning commons. I will put the times in the blog later this week. We began working on a French Christmas Book (winter for students who do not celebrate). Reminder: Today Skiing and Snowboarding Forms went home, please read these carefully, fill out the permission pages, and retain the other information forms for the New Year!

- We participated in part 2 of the CPAWs presentation - ask your student! - We did some holiday multiplication review using the distributive and commutative properties - students worked on Regions posters -students worked on their Toy Box project Reminder: Inline Skating Monday at 9:15 - please try to be on time, or you will miss skating time Inline Skating Tuesday at 9:15 Inline Skating Thursday 10:20-11:20 Caroling on Wednesday (AM) *We are still working on toy box projects - there is no more hot glue in the school - students who still need hot glue will need to bring in their own sticks

- we learned about the buffalo and its many uses by First Nations groups in Alberta's past - we went over the project rubric for our Regions Poster - students must choose one of the six regions of Alberta to create a poster - our math learning leader Mrs. Harms came to work on problem solving with us and we talked about different strategies and questions when work - students worked with the composer from Calgary Opera to begin work on the music composition for the opera. Grandpa has five pockets in his jacket. In one pocket he has one chocolate. In another pocket he has two chocolates. In another he has four chocolates. In yet another he has double that many and in the fifth pocket he has double that many again. How many chocolates does Grandpa have in his jacket? Reminders: No School Friday (PD Day)

-Ask your student about the CPAWS science presentation today! The second half of the presentation will be on Thursday! - We are continuing to build our toy box projects - we are running out of hot glue and masking tape, any donations are appreciated as the CBE budget has been frozen; teachers are unable to order any materials for students at this time. - Ask students about the objects from the buffalo kit! After examining all artifacts we found out what each object was actually used for :)

Thursday and Friday - students wrote "How to Build a Snowman" - students created a bingo board using holiday words in French - we completed another math challenge with Mrs. Harms (math learning leader) and finished up comparing and ordering numbers to 10 000 - we decked the halls by making snowflakes with our buddies in grade 2 - continued toy box project work Today: - Students examined artifacts from a special Heritage Park artifacts kit - students recorded I see.. I think... and I wonder... in groups. We will continue to study these artifacts through out the week and will find out about each object's significance to a group in Alberta's past. - We studied a new pattern of words in word work -R controlled with an e vowel sound (er, eer, ear). - We did a mystery picture using expanded notation - students were challenged by using numbers in the 10 and 100 thousands - Buddy Reading in the learning commons with Grade 2s - Mrs. Campbell and Ms. Jonasson did a