Unit of Inquiry: We started off the day today with a field trip! The students had a great deal of fun sourcing out local and imported foods at No Frills today as part of our Unit of Inquiry. The students were asked to explore through the fruits, vegetables, meats and seafood sections of the store to inquire into how our local community meets the needs of its citizens. When we returned to class the students were asked to reflect on the main ideas they learned from their trip and their favourite part of the excursion. Please see pictures of the trip at the bottom of this posting!
Language: We then moved on to language where the students were asked to write a fictional story on the topic of their choice that included at least 4 of their weekly spelling words. The students had a great time with this creative activity! The students then moved on to examining different types of sentences. The reviewed what constitutes as a declarative and interrogative sentence, and then moved on to exclamatory sentences. They finished up their language period with cursive writing.
Math: During math today the children worked on examining place value and estimation. As a class we discussed how and why we would use estimating, and how grouping numbers into sets of 10 tens and counting the tens and one makes estimating a much easier task. The students practiced estimating as a group, and then worked on their reinforcement in their Homework and Practice book. Early finishers were asked to begin completing tonight's math homework.
The students also went to PE, Art and French classes today.
Homework: Read for 2o minutes and record in the reading log, practice weekly spelling words, Math Makes Sense Homework book pages 10 -11, Language page 8 - 9 and Cursive page 16 - 17.
Important information: A trip permission form has come home with all children tonight. The grade 3 and 4 classes at SJA are taking a trip to the city of Toronto! This trip is a part of our IB Unit of Inquiry that is inquiring into urban and rural communities. On this trip we will be looking at the different elements of the great urban city of Toronto, taking various types of transportation offered throughout the city, and visiting the Cadbury Chocolate Factory. Trip forms are due back with the $14 fee by September 18th. We are looking for 10 volunteers between both classes for this trip who will be confirmed on a first come, first serve basis.
We are looking to have small boxes collected for an upcoming project in our Unit of Inquiry. The students are going to be asked to build small scale rural and urban communities. Please help us with this project by collecting and sending in small boxes that we can use. Please see the form sent home yesterday for more information.
Best regards,
Mrs. Nelson
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