Category: Pictures

We decided to make some Winter Trees as our ‘winter’ draws to an end. These turned out beautiful (sorry, I didn’t get a chance to take photos of the finished products last week, but hopefully your child has brought home their art) and will look amazing in a shadow frame! Enjoy!

This week in science, we’ve learned all about Land & Sea Breeze as well as Rain Shadows. Ask your child the difference between land and sea breeze and also get them to describe what a rain shadow is.(A sea-breeze is a a wind from the sea that develops over land near coasts. As the hot air rises over the land, it moves over to the sea and cools. As it cools, it gets denser and falls and is then pushed or blown back over to the land as cooler air or breeze. This happens during the day.)(Land-breeze blows from the land toward the sea after sunset. The land cools more quickly than the ocean, cooling the air above it. The warmer air above the water continues to rise, and cooler air from over the land replaces it, creating a breeze.)(A rain-shadow is an area that has very little precipitation due to the effect of a land-form, especially a mountain range. The mountain range absorbs all of the moisture and precipitation, leaving only dry, hot air to flow to the other side.)During these lessons, we logged on to YouTube and watched a few videos that helped to show and describe how each of these worked. Please log on to review these videos with your child and get them to explain everything in their own words. Getting them to draw a picture that is associated with each is also a great way to help them to describe what is happening.

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toj9XJZLHnM
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FDItdDqMIk
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmIVRgaKmsc
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gmbnbldl-w

We’ve been covering long division in math lately and we had some great with Snork…taking turns, helping her to solve her long division problems. Be sure to allow your child to log on to http://www.kidsnumbers.com/long-division.php to practice his/her long division.

We got some amazing results with our ‘Water Cycle – Making Fresh Water’ experiment. Have a look at our pictures of before, during and after our experiment. Be sure to get your child to explain how and why this worked. We will also be having a science test on March 19, so now is a great time to start reviewing and quizzing your child on what we’ve been doing in science the past few weeks.

Today we had a blast with a Bible Drill! We divided ourselves into 2 teams…the Bible Hawks and the Bible Winners! The kids had a great time looking up each Bible verse that I called out while looking for different names for the Holy Spirit. In the end the Bible Winners won by just 1 point! Great job guys!

I am so proud of everyone in grade 4 for submitting such amazing projects at the science fair on Friday. You guys made me so extremely proud! Well done! I also have to give a huge thank you to all of the parents and family members that helped out. This was definitely a successful science fair.

This week I introduced a new reading concept for grade 4. Once a month, they will be required to fill out a form about 1 book that they’ve read during that month. This will hopefully help to ensure that the kids are not only understanding what they’ve read but following through and completing at least 1 book per month. I’ve attached a few pictures of the form to give you a better idea as to what I mean.