We will move into our second unit of study in Reading, looking at parts of text and understanding main idea. This will help us with reading for meaning and understanding how stories tell us a message. We will be using fairy tales to help understand the beginning, middle and end of stories.

This week, we begin our Phonemic modules. Students will be immersed with French sounds/phonemic awareness and be able to practice this in class using their notebooks and whiteboards. Ask your child all about this, this upcoming week! with the second part. This will help with creating small reading groups to encourage and boost our reading fluency and comprehension.

In writing, we will embark on a deeper exploration of paragraph writing, combining it with journal writing. This will be a great way to encourage the use of a single idea that is elaborated upon with descriptions and details. We will revisit some strategies like our PWIM charts to help with vocabulary and adjectives.

SPELLING: Semaine 5 - Le féminin des noms et des adjectifs Tous ces mots sont au féminin. Enlève le |e| pour les faire masculin. 

We will continue our weekly word list for a spelling test at the end of the week. Each list will contain various words with a common phonemic theme. Lists will be provided on paper on Mondays and will also be shared on Google Classroom for students and on my classroom website. Please help your child review the words and help them prepare for the test on Friday. Ten words will be chosen at random for the test. GOOD LUCK! The words can be found here.

Our library days will be DAY 2. This will be this MONDAY!

4/ We are looking at the political map of Canada and the provinces and territories. We will look at similiarities and differences between the provinces. There will be a quiz this week for Grade 4s about the location, names and capitals of the provinces and the masses of water that Canada is lucky to have

5/ We are learning about the Haudenosaune and Anishnabee First Nations groups and their similarities and differences. We will apply this to connecting to other First Nations groups across Canada.

6/ We are using the quote by Carl Sagan "You have to know the past to understand the present" and we will make Connections and see the Cause and Consequence of past events and how they shape the present, here in Waterloo Region.