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Friday June 5, 2026

This Week:

- in language arts we worked on finishing up our narrative writing. We talked about how we can add showing not telling, dialogue and paragraphs to make our writing better. We also continued reading our novel Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing. for poetry we looked at free verse poetry with no rhyming and rhythm. We created imagry, found and black out poems.

- in math we worked on long division. We also worked on decimals as money and talked a little about Canadian currency and where we keep our money. 

- in science we looked at the structures of animals at the zoo. We also learned about the structures and fucntions of plants. We dissected a flower to see all of it's structures and how it functions for reproduciton. 




- in social studies we researched about the some of the key figures that were involved in Confederation and the creation of Canada. 

Next Week: 

- we have inline skating MONDAY, WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY. If you have not already, please bring in the inline skating form or unfortunately they will not be able to participate. 

ALSO if students wish they can bring their own personal helmet on those days. If they do not have a helment, one will be provided.

- we had our last day of library on Tuesday. This week and next week the library will be collecting books. Please return all library books.

Upcoming Events:

- June 19 at 11:00am is our grade 4 farewell assembly. 

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