Grade 3 & 4 

Wow! Boy, have the weeks flown by!!!!

We are so proud of every child in the middle learning community who has worked to achieve their learning goals and strives to learn and grow every day in so many ways. 

This term, we investigated the techniques and language used by authors Margret Wilde and Kerri Hashmi to engage their audiences. We worked with the words they crafted, defined some meanings of unknown words they used, and discovered the power of the words they placed within their sentences and how they engaged us as readers.

We then learned to write good, clear sentences of our own. We did this by building a solid foundation, ensuring our sentences (clauses) contain an independent clause (subject/verb), a dependent clause, and signal words (conjunctions). 

We have reviewed various mathematical strategies for addition, multiplication, time, division, subtraction, data collection, data representation, and 3-dimensional shapes.

Our subjects link and connect in many ways with our inquiry focus on "Civics and citizenship." Discovering what we partake in in our Horsham community, what it means to be part of a community, how does our community operates (rules and laws), and how living in a democratic country allows us to have a say in who leads our local community and what we need for our local area to function in an orderly way.

We hold class meetings weekly led by a chairperson and minute taker. Each meeting has a worldly focus to discuss taken from a BTN (children's behind the news). Every child has the opportunity to partake in a conversation relating to information shared from the news article.  

There have been many discussions about the many feelings and emotions our bodies move through within a day and how we individually manage these emotions in many different ways. Students share their strategies with each other, work through scenarios and situations, and how they, as a group of whole class, may react to everyday challenges.

Have a wonderful Easter holiday, everyone!