Week 14

Dear parents and students,

First of all, thank you to all parents for your contributions and participation in our Thanksgiving lunch. It was great to see the children enjoying time with parents, and for those of you who were unable to attend, we all appreciated the delicious food you provided for our feast. Many photos were taken throughout the lunch. Please check back to this blog early next week, when I will have had time to select and post pictures of Grade 4.

It was another short week in the classroom, but as always, we were very busy. We have been spending some time each morning revising and proofreading our narrative stories. Next week, we will be publishing the final products, and presenting them on Tuesday and Wednesday.

In Maths, we have been focusing on division, and spending time familiarising ourselves with the 'long division' technique. This will become very handy when we move on to dividing larger numbers and decimal fractions in the future. We will continue our study of division throughout next week, culminating in a test next Friday.

In Social Studies, we examined some of the events that formed the landscape of the Northeast States of the USA, paying special attention to glaciers. Glaciers are responsible for many landforms around the world. We will also be studying glaciers when we resume our Science studies in a few weeks. Next week, we will be looking at how people and places change over time.

When we have found time, we have rehearsed our Christmas performance. We will be spending some more time rehearsing next week. We will also be organising our costumes. Parents, I hope that you are able to assist in our costume design. We want to look good on stage, but we also want to keep things as simple as possible, so as not to burden ourselves during such a busy time of the year.

I look forward to seeing all parents again when we present our show on December 12.

I hope you enjoy the weekend. See you Monday!

Dates to Remember:

• Tue & Wed, Dec 2-3 – Narrative Story Presentations
  
• Fri, December 5 – Math Test: Topic 8
  
• Thu, December 11 – Christmas Concert Rehearsal
  
• Fri, December 12 – Christmas Concert Performance
  
• Wed, December 17 – Half Day of School
  
• Dec 18 – Jan 4 – Christmas Vacation
  

Students of the Month - November

Ayden, Gorden, Shunta, Abigail (Performing Arts), Momoko (ESL), Maria, Shin