In Science, the grade 4’s have been finalizing the action plan for their environmental inquiry projects. The Me to We assembly on Wednesday sparked many new ideas of how they can make a difference to our school, homes and community. The conversations were focused around water usage, plastics and pollution.
The Weaselhead field trip focused on adopting a plot of land that will be revisited throughout the year. We are observing how plants change, adapt to growing conditions, what plants provide for humans, animals, insects and other plants.
In Math this week students started Graphing! We took a look at several different types of graphs and asked the questions: What do we know? What is the same? What is different? They came to understand what the purpose behind a graph is and next week we will be graphing some of our own data with some students from Mount Royal University.
We also rolled out the first Problem of the Week!
Every grade 4 student started their Problem of the Week assignments on Wednesday. Each week students will be given a word problem that they will need to work through and solve based on the POW rubric. All problems will can be found on Edmodo and the rubric for these assignments will always be the same. It will be located under the Shared Folders section of your son/daughter's Edmodo page.
This week students are working on a Suduko problem and it is important that when they come home and ask for help that, as parents you only support them. Asking them questions about their strategies is a great place to start. The focus on these problems are to work on their spatial reasoning skills and to encourage mathematical discussions at home. Each week students will be given one of these problems and it will be due exactly 7 days later!
The write up for these problems is very specific and needs to look the same each week. Looking at the top of the rubric the Problem of the Week Strategy is the guideline for these. Students are to write their problem using the 4 steps:
Step 1
The facts I know are _____________.
I have _____ seen this type of problem before.
Some similarities or differences are _______________________.
Step 2
The strategy I am using is _____________ (they can use the word or the letter) OR
The strategies I am using are ______________.
Step 3
The mess of math lives here (calculations).
Step 4
Answering the question using full sentences. Prove your answer using words.
The Weaselhead field trip focused on adopting a plot of land that will be revisited throughout the year. We are observing how plants change, adapt to growing conditions, what plants provide for humans, animals, insects and other plants.
In Math this week students started Graphing! We took a look at several different types of graphs and asked the questions: What do we know? What is the same? What is different? They came to understand what the purpose behind a graph is and next week we will be graphing some of our own data with some students from Mount Royal University.
We also rolled out the first Problem of the Week!
Every grade 4 student started their Problem of the Week assignments on Wednesday. Each week students will be given a word problem that they will need to work through and solve based on the POW rubric. All problems will can be found on Edmodo and the rubric for these assignments will always be the same. It will be located under the Shared Folders section of your son/daughter's Edmodo page.
This week students are working on a Suduko problem and it is important that when they come home and ask for help that, as parents you only support them. Asking them questions about their strategies is a great place to start. The focus on these problems are to work on their spatial reasoning skills and to encourage mathematical discussions at home. Each week students will be given one of these problems and it will be due exactly 7 days later!
The write up for these problems is very specific and needs to look the same each week. Looking at the top of the rubric the Problem of the Week Strategy is the guideline for these. Students are to write their problem using the 4 steps:
Step 1
The facts I know are _____________.
I have _____ seen this type of problem before.
Some similarities or differences are _______________________.
Step 2
The strategy I am using is _____________ (they can use the word or the letter) OR
The strategies I am using are ______________.
Step 3
The mess of math lives here (calculations).
Step 4
Answering the question using full sentences. Prove your answer using words.