After a brief discussion we set to work. Here is some of what we did:
Room 24 At Brock
A peek into the Grade 3/4 class at brock.
Tuesday, May 5, 2015
Area and Perimeter of A Puddle
We are getting close to the end of our unit on area and perimeter. Today we did an activity that let us apply our knowledge in a creative way.....we had to draw a puddle then find its area and perimeter.
Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Report Writing
Over the past few days we have been learning about how to write a report. We have looked at different types of reports, talked about what makes a good report, and identified what is missing in a report. We created some anchor charts for us to use when we write our own reports.
First, we talked about the specifics of a report (the purpose, how it's organized, what some language features are, and where we have seen one before).
Using our R.A.F.T. We came up with different topics that we could write about, and what audience would be appropriate for the topics:
Using a report that someone had written we were able to identify the different pieces of a report. We highlighted them, and also critiqued a report by giving it some stars and wishes:
Our next lesson was on co-creating success criteria to help us remember what goes into a good report. We will all have copy of this at our desks to help us as we work through the writing process.
Grade 3 students have already written reports on a community in Ontario and will now get to write a report of their choosing.
Grade 4 students will begin to write a report on a specific aspect of an Early Society (e.g., What the day in the life of an Ancient Roman Gladiator was like).
Happy Writing
Ms. Pike :)
Tuesday, April 21, 2015
Units of Measure : Large group
Here are some examples of good answers for our test on the units of measure. This unit will help us be more successful when we solve for area and perimeter.
If you have any questions about your child's test, please contact me.
Ms. pike
Units of Measure Test : Small Groüp
We have now completed our units of measure unit in measurement. This will help us be better at solving for area and perimeter during our next unit.
Here are some good answers from our test. If you have any questions as to how your child can improve please contact me.
Ms. pike
You can see how the student used reasoning to help explain their answer. They didn't just say "it's bigger, they were able to compare and talk about the relationships between the units.
The student was ankle to talk about why a unit was appropriate and how it related to the quilt. To improve, they could have used more specific terms (e.g., cm, m)
This student converts the units to the same, then applies their knowledge of subtraction to find the difference, or the amount that is needed.
Friday, April 17, 2015
What makes a good visualization?
All this week we have been visualizing about the facts we have heard about Hawaii. The students would hear a fun fact and then visualize. We took the facts from our National Geographic Kids magazine:
We talked about how it is not only important to make a picture on paper, but also write about what we visualized. Rileigh offered to share her visualization with the class. We then used it to help us talk about how to write about our visualizations.
After working on this for a few days we started to talk about how our visualizations would be marked. We worked together to make our success criteria. Here is what we came up with :
This is what we will use to help us improve our answers before we hand them in.
Happy Learning!
Ms. Pike
Inquiring Minds
In Social Studies the Grade 4 students are learning about early societies. We created a Q Chart to hold some of the questions that we have about the societies that we are learning about. Here is what we have so far:
As we work through the unit, we will be adding more questions into the blank space. We are doing key research on the different aspects of life for these societies ( e.g., what some physical features are, how they learned, who their enemies were). At the end of our unit we will be writing a report on one of our questions.
Feel free to make a family trip to the ROM or do some internet research on an Early Society that interests you. It will just make you more knowledgeable when you write your report.
Happy Learning!
Ms. Pike
Friday, April 10, 2015
Learning to Visualize
Today we started to talk about our next reading strategy: visualization.
We heard a song about it, and talked about what visualization is. We created an anchor chart to help us remember what it is and did an activity to help us practice our visualizing technique. We also wrote out what our friends saw and helped to create "good answers" for visualization.
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