Week 2

Dear Parents and Students,

We have made it through our first full week, and already, we are beginning to establish our routines and standards in the classroom.

We have completed all of our primary assessment tasks, and we have commenced our regular curriculum for Grade 4.

In Maths, we are almost finished our first topic, dedicated to numeration. This topic is largely review, so we have felt quite comfortable with most of the material, although we may need a little more practice with decimals. We will review the topic on Tuesday, before holding our first Math test for the year on Wednesday.

We have been very busy in our Literacy Workshop, having already completed reading tasks, a number of short exercises in writing, a Spelling pretest, and two grammar workshops. Next week, we will be reading Grandfather's Journey, the first of our many selected stories from the Reading textbook. We will also begin drafting our first major writing assignment, which will be in the form of a Personal Narrative.

We had a lot of fun in Science this week, as we investigated rocks and minerals. Whoever would have thought that rocks could be so interesting? Photos of our investigations are included in an album via the link at the bottom of this post. We will review our investigations early next week, before moving on to explore how many of these rocks and minerals came to be.

In Social Studies, we have been learning some new vocabulary, along with different ways to describe a place's location. We will begin next week with testing our map skills, then we will turn our focus to landforms in the USA, and how they compare to other parts of the world.

As I’m sure you are already aware, our Parent Introductory Evening will take place next Thursday, 14^th September, at 6:30pm. We will begin with a general introduction in the auditorium, then move to the classrooms for presentations by homeroom teachers.  I look forward to meeting you all then.

Dates to remember:

Wed.    Sep. 13:           Math test – Topic 1

Thu.    Sep. 14:           Parent Introductory Evening, 6:30 pm, Auditorium (B1)

Mon.   Sep. 18:           Clubs begin

Mon.   Sep. 25:           PD Day, students not required at school

Tue-Fri  Sep 26-29:    Global Awareness Week

Thu.    Sep. 28:           Teachers’ Day

Fri.      Sep. 29:           Monthly Assembly

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