Mr. Waters

 This week the grade 4s got to experience a virtual field trip on light and shadows.  They performed experiments that allowed them to discover how light travels, how it can be reflected, and how water affects it.  Your child was able to take home their kits from the virtual field trip today, ask them to demonstrate some of the experiments. As I was away for three days this week, we were fortunate enough to have a guest teacher in, Ms. Pitcher.  With an absolute ton of teaching experience, the grade 4s were lucky to have her share her expertise in Art.  They completed winter scene water colour paintings that will be coming home with them before the winter break.  They learned new technique for making a more realistic painting. In math they continued working on their multiplication strategies, with focus on strategies for multiplying by 2 (doubling), 4 (doubling twice), and 8(doubling three times).  They also learned some new math games that allow them to have some fun while utilizing th

 It was quite the interesting week here in our classroom.  I just wanted to thank everyone for being so flexible with the last minute isolation Thursday.  I was able to speak with most of the students throughout the day, so if your child was unable to get onto the Google Classroom, IXL math, or getepic books, please let me know as soon as possible and we will make sure your child has everything they need to log in to those sites at home. This week we had our digital Remembrance Day assembly.  It was an experiment to see if we could do a life assembly for the students in the school and the students who are working from the hub.  There were a few hiccups with the platform used, but we hope to have video of our students who participated in the assembly to their family as soon as possible. In Science we are about to move on to our unit on light and shadows.  Over the next couple months the grade 4s will explore the interaction of light and different materials. They will learn about light s

 I hope everyone had a great Halloween weekend!  The student’s costumes were wonderful! Science We have built our worm bin to explore the decomposers doing their thing! Vermicomposting is supposed to be a wonderful and relatively smell-free way to dispose of scraps from our lunches.  Your child may ask if they can bring egg-shells from hard boiled eggs into class.  This is to help neutralize the pH of the soil from all of the food scraps in order to keep the worms happy and healthy.  We have wrapped up the bulk of the Waste in Our World unit, although it will still be incorporated throughout many points of the year. We are now moving on to our Light and Shadow unit. Art The students worked on their shading skills using chalk pastels, while doing their best to create the illusion of depth through strategic placing of their pumpkins and using different sizes.  I hope we managed to send your students home without too much chalk pastel on their clothing! Social Studies In Social Studies we