Fantastic Fours

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!

This week, the students were engaged in The Andrew Sibbald Summer Games. Throughout the week, they took part in a variety of challenges where they worked together in a different physical tasks. They showed positive teamwork as they encouraged one another to achieve a common goal. We were excited to finish off the week with our pancake breakfast and sports day. 

The students have been busy learning about plant growth and change in science. We have learned about the needs of plants and how different types of seeds and plants require different conditions to thrive. We put this learning into action as we planted carrots, potatoes and zucchini in our community garden. The students have planted a variety of herbs that are growing in our classroom and we soaked and watched beans sprout. Our beans are now planted in order for us to observe the life cycle of a bean plant. We are excited to see how our plants grow and change over the next few weeks.

This week, the students were excited to see their food trucks come together. We experimented with a variety of 3D shapes as we created the trucks from a 2D net. The students had a fantastic time trying our shapes such as cubes, cones and cylinders to finish off their trucks. It was wonderful to see individuals add artistic elements to complete their work. They were very excited to display their creations in The Learning Commons. Next week, we will practice adding and subtracting decimals as we place orders and make change while ordering from the trucks.