Dear parents of the Grade 4/5 students,
This week is an extremely busy week for students in room 37 as they are working on their summative assessments for our unit, “A Material World”.
For this reason, I have decided to reduce their homework by one assignment so that they can do a bit more research on the material of their choice at home.
Students will not need to complete the experiment procedure in order to show their classmates on Friday.
Thank you and have a great week!
We are now on our last week together as a Grade 4 AND 5 class. Grade 4 students will have one last week of homework from me before moving on to their new Grade 4 teacher and her homework. You can find the homework, as usual, from the drop down menu above “Weekly Homework” or by clicking the following link:
Grade 4 parents, you should now begin to follow your child’s new teacher’s class blog. You can find a link to this blog by looking at the right hand side of my blog, under the heading “Blogs I Follow”.
Once you have viewed this new blog, you should again follow instructions to follow that blog to get updates when that teacher posts new information.
Grade 5 parents (old and new), please remember to begin checking our ISPP Grade 5 Exhibitions blog at the following link:
http://isppgrade5exhibitions.blogspot.com/
There is already a message there posted under: “For Parents”. Also, there is a survey under “For Students” that you must, please, fill out with your child. As the Exhibition begins, we need to collect the most up to date data about your email address and emergency contact information, as students will often be travelling in and out of school for field trips and interviews.
Have a great week!
We recorded a class discussion about ways to experiment with many materials and put it to images of our excursion to the secondary Design Technology room because there were too many ideas to write down.
Listen in and watch from here:
Have you got old, broken down electrical appliances around the house?
Well, our current unit of inquiry this month is about materials, and that means you can give these broken things another purpose…to accelerate your child’s learning!
Our central idea of this unit is “Materials can provide benefits and pose challenges for society and the environment.” Children will be looking into the following lines of inquiry in an effort to truly comprehend this idea:
One great way for students to begin to understand the vast expanse of materials that humans use is to break things, especially complex machines such as electronics, apart in order to see how many materials go into their creation.
As such, you can help your child, and his or her classmates, inquire into this central idea by allowing him or her to bring your broken appliances into school in order to see and explore first hand these different materials.
Basically, we are going to try and separate various materials in these electronics, classify these materials based on properties and the materials themselves, and then inquire into where these materials come from, how they are changed to create these appliances, and what are some effects of the altering of these materials. Some examples of appliances that would prove useful to our study are: broken blenders, old mobile phones, used hard drives and computers, old radios, etc.
Thank you so much for your assistance and support of the children’s learning.
I hope that everyone is in the midst of a lovely four day weekend! You can see some images of what happened before this weekend by checking our Photo Gallery section of this blog or by clicking this link:
Also, new homework for this short week has been posted.
Enjoy the rest of your time off with your families!
We have just noticed a small discrepancy in the information on the Grade 4 sleepover form and permission slip. The Grade 4 sleepover will be OVER at 12:00 on THURSDAY, March 6, NOT on Friday, March 7 as noted in the forms.
We are terribly sorry if you parents had scheduled 2 nights away in Paradise :); you will simply have to reschedule for only one big night!
Thank you to Allison Fenzl for pointing this out!
Here is the list of items for Grade 4 students to bring with them to school on Wednesday morning as a reminder (I will also send this out specially to Grade 4 students):
To participate in this camp, students will need to bring:
· swimsuit,
· one change of clothes
· pyjamas
· personal hygiene articles
· towel
· pillow
· sleeping bag or blanket
· torch (optional)
· soft toy (optional)
Finally, homework for this short week has been posted! Please note, Grade 5s have an additional item of homework designed to keep them occupied on Wednesday night and to get them thinking about possible issues they may want to inquire into during the Exhibition.
Thank you to all parents and guardians who came to share the migration/historical fiction narratives that students have been working on for the past few weeks. Students were definitely excited to have you all back in the classroom! We will have more open houses soon, especially during the Grade 5 Exhibition and the Grade 4 Peace and Conflict unit.
On Thursday, February 27, students made a short excursion to the secondary DT classroom to meet briefly with Mr. McCallum and to observe the materials that DT students use to create many useful and clever items. In reflecting on the trip together students mentioned the following items:
Students also had ideas for various types of experiments. Stay tuned to see a movie based on their discussion.
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