It's hard to believe that Christmas is just around the corner!
We hope you enjoyed the Christmas Concert; the children were very excited to
perform for you.
I'd like to share with you some topics
we've been covering and will continue in January.
The Gr. 3's are working hard in learning
all about increasing and decreasing patterns. We are at the end of this unit
and in January we will be starting number operations: adding, subtracting to
1000, and multiplication of small numbers. For Spanish we continue to add to
our vocabulary. You may have noticed that both grades have started a vocabulary
quiz for each unit, and we will continue having one per unit for the rest of
the year. For Social Studies the students completed a chapter on resources
found in each of the countries we are studying, and made a PowerPoint
presentation. Feel free to take a look at your child's work in your his/her
Google drive. In Science, the students continue to test different types of
materials, and their function under certain circumstances. For example, today
we finished testing the strength of different types of paper.
The grade threes and fours have been
working on similar project in Religion. Here's an update from two of the grade
four students, in their own words:
My thoughts on School.
In Spanish the grade fours have been learning the verbs “ser y estar.” They are also learning about the family. They are learning new words like: Sobrino/a, tio/a , nieto/a etc.
They have been challenging ourselves by trying to read harder books each time. We have also been playing some games of “Vocabulario.” I said some English words and sentences and the students, had to write them in Spanish.
In Math the grade fours have been learning: “Fracciones, multiplicación, decimales and patrones.” We have been playing “Ole”,which consists thinking about the times tables. In multiplication we have done some activities, that involved paterns. They have also been doing “Problemas de la semana.”
In Health we have been learning bus safety tips and how to stay safe at home, school and other places.
Each six days Sr. Nuñez to teach us more health.
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My Thoughts on School
In science we are testing how different kinds of shapes move. We made wheels in different shapes and we wrote down our observations. As a grade 4 student I enjoy science because we don’t buy our materials, instead we use reused cardboard and we make and cut everything by hand.
In Religion both grade 3 and 4 are doing a Jesse tree. Each day we add a ornament to our paper tree and then we write 2 or 3 sentences about what happened on that day. On day one we wrote about The Creation. I really enjoy religion because each of us gets to colour an ornament and I think learning about how Jesus came is very interesting.
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I
do hope that you have a blessed Advent and a very Merry Christmas. May the
presence of the Christ Child fill your hearts. All the best for 2015.
Sincerely,
Srta.
V
