This week, we continued our work with our food trucks by designing the interiors of our trucks. First, we looked at a variety of floor plans and brainstormed items that would be important within our trucks. The students then created their own floor plans. We then calculated the area and perimeters of the different items within our truck. Our focus was on the math learning outcome: demonstrates an understanding of area of regular and irregular 2D shapes.
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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