This week, the students were excited to play the role of detective in, The Case of the Greedy Gnome. The students have been using their math skills to uncover clues that will help to determine the suspect. Our focus has been on the learning outcome; construct and interpret pictographs and bar graphs involving many to one correspondence. We have been slowly crossing suspects off our list and will soon find the guilty party!
Despite the rain, the grade fours had a fantastic time on our field trip to Heritage Park. It was wonderful to experience all of our learning in Social Studies first hand. We sheltered from the rain in a tipi, felt beaver pelts as we learned about the fur trade and rode a train like the ones that helped to make settlement in the West possible. Seeing the first settler homes, the "soddies", homes that housed families with sixteen children and sandstone buildings helped the students to better understand what life was like for early settlers. Most are happy that they are able to go to a school with hundreds of students and one grade per classroom rather than a one room schoolhouse of the past!
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