This week in Humanities, fourth graders spent some time crafting Kidblog! projects, in addition to Readers and Writers Workshops. In the coming week before Spring Break, we will be focusing heavily on Social Studies and our inquiry into community identity. Students spent their time on Friday exploring our school and categorizing our daily, weekly, monthly and yearly happenings into the same co-constructed categories that were used for our own personal identities. In small groups, they will be deciding on an artifact that best exemplifies one aspect of Connect Charter School's identity and presenting their thoughts on why their artifact was chosen.
Students have also been able to play a variety of spelling games in the past few weeks. Paired with the classic games of "Bananagrams" and "Scrabble" are some iPad apps that have been extremely useful. One game, (Spelling City), can be set up for students to be able to put their own list of words into game format. In order to do so, students need to input an older age (14). With parent consent, fourth graders are free to agree to terms and conditions and set up their own accounts. This is not mandatory, but may be useful for this students who have been struggling more with spelling this year.
Grade Fours also went on their first Phys Ed. centred field trip this week. Students loved their time in the water at the Southland Leisure Centre and were very well behaved.
An informed consent form has also gone home with fourth graders, for our Glenbow Museum visit after Spring Break. We are hopeful that forms will be completed and returned as soon as possible, ensuring that our ducks are in a row for after the break. The parent letter and form can be found under our "Links and Important Docs" page.
Students have also been able to play a variety of spelling games in the past few weeks. Paired with the classic games of "Bananagrams" and "Scrabble" are some iPad apps that have been extremely useful. One game, (Spelling City), can be set up for students to be able to put their own list of words into game format. In order to do so, students need to input an older age (14). With parent consent, fourth graders are free to agree to terms and conditions and set up their own accounts. This is not mandatory, but may be useful for this students who have been struggling more with spelling this year.
Grade Fours also went on their first Phys Ed. centred field trip this week. Students loved their time in the water at the Southland Leisure Centre and were very well behaved.
An informed consent form has also gone home with fourth graders, for our Glenbow Museum visit after Spring Break. We are hopeful that forms will be completed and returned as soon as possible, ensuring that our ducks are in a row for after the break. The parent letter and form can be found under our "Links and Important Docs" page.
Spirit Week at Connect
The Fans Family Group is excited to be hosting our Second Annual Spirit Week! Monday March 17 will be backwards day, Tuesday the 18th is jersey day, Wednesday the 19th is Twin Day, and Thursday the 20th is everyone's favourite: pyjama and stuffy day! Show your school spirit and remember, we are all connected!
Writing with Mr. Pollard (4.4 and 4.3)
Hello parents! As you may have heard at home, the students have been hard at work all week developing their understanding of the "voice" trait of writing. Last week the students created and developed individual characters outlining the personality traits, physical characteristics, and their point of view on the theme of "rainstorm". After having created those characters, the students wrote stories outlining their character's voice on the rainstorm. They created great stories and as they should be completed by the end of the week, ask your child if you can take a look! I also introduced a dialogue lesson for the 4.4s (the 4.3s will be introduced to this lesson on Monday) and the students created their own scripts using their voice characters. They were all very engaged and willing to share their scripts to the class! Lots of great work!