Grade 4KW
Weekly Newsletter
January 28 - February 1, 2019
Hi everyone. We have had a very successful week of
learning! Check out the awesome picture
of Samah holding the Brownies that we divided up (and ate) as we launched our
math unit on fractions.Language Arts
In Language arts this week, the children will complete their final
assessment on their Realistic Fiction writing unit, using all of the
tools they have learned throughout the unit. We begin our new reading unit this
week, Reading for Research. We will begin by revising previous concepts
taught this year including identifying the main idea within non fiction texts.
In the first bend of the unit, students will work towards learning multiple
strategies in order to identify the main idea and supporting details. They will
also learn to differentiate between interesting versus important information.
Math
This
week in math the students will continue to deepen their understanding with
equivalent fractions. They will be using images and number lines to help
visually and conceptually understand how different fractions can be equal. The
students will then move on with comparing fractions using visual
representations.
Science
This week in science, students will gather information from images of
fossils, the online simulation, and a book to help them answer the question: How
do fossils form? The purpose of these lessons is for students to construct
and reflect on their understanding of how fossils form. Then, students will use
the Simulation to gather information about sedimentary rock formation. They
observe rocks forming and record their observations about how this process
happens. In doing so, students begin to make sense of the role of water and
sediment in rock formation.
Announcements
- Please note there is no school on Friday, Feb 1(Federal Territory Day), Mon Feb 4 (ISKL Holiday), Tues Feb 5-6 (Chinese New Year).
- Legal Guardianship - If for some reason you have to be out of the country, please advise your child’s teacher as to who will be the legal guardian of your child.
- Water Bottles & Hats - Please check that your child comes to school with their water bottles and hats every morning. Recently, many students seem to be forgetting them at home.
- March 7th & March 8th - Student Led Conferences (SLC) will be held just before spring break. Please contact your child’s teacher if you are not able to attend on either one of these days, so that an alternative date can be set up.
Resources
Here
is a video explaining a game called Race To 1 that
you can create at home to help reinforce the concept of fractions. It is a game
primarily for teaching addition and subtraction of fractions but it can be
modified to simply build fractions and conceptual understanding.
Here is a website resource, The Math Learning
Center, where students can build and
manipulate fractions. Open the link and select fractions. When building
fractions we encourage only using rectangles as it will reinforce what we are
doing in the classroom.
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