Grade 4 at HIS 2014-15: Week 12

Friday, November 14, 2014

Week 12

Dear parents and students,

First of all, I'd like to thank all parents who took time out of your busy schedules to come in to see me and discuss the progress of your child. It was good to meet those of you whom I hadn't met before, and it was equally as pleasant to catch up with those of you whom I already know. Communication is paramount to the successful learning and development of the children, so to spend time with each of you has been most beneficial, and will serve well in ensuring that every child will continue to progress in the best way possible.

In the classroom, we have been spending considerable time working on our next major writing assignment. As I discussed with many of you during the interviews, we are spending a lot of time in planning our stories, and applying many of the concepts that we have learned from previous assignments, and also from the stories we have been reading in our Reading and Writing workshops. Most of us have nearly completed our first drafts, and we will be spending most of next week revising our work, adding details, improving our structure, and injecting our own voice into our stories. Everyone is quite keen to share their first drafts with you at home. I hope that parents can find some time to listen to, or to read what your child has written so far. Your feedback will be very useful when we revise our stories next week.

In Maths, we have been reviewing different ways to multiply 2-digit numbers and multiples of ten. We will have a topic test on Wednesday, before spending the next topic reviewing the various methods of division.

We have been enjoying the past few lessons in Science, in which we have been investigating the various methods in which different species adapt to their respective habitats in order to survive. We will be concluding this unit with a minor test on Tuesday, before returning to Social Studies for the following few weeks.

Christmas is fast approaching, and Grade 4 has decided to try to write a skit to perform for our performance on December 12^th. this is quite a challenging task, so parents, if your child wishes to discuss ideas over the weekend, I hope that you can show your support by spending a little time helping out with ideas.

As you are aware, next Wednesday, 19^th November, we will hold our annual Fun Day, beginning at 1:30pm at the athletics track behind the school. All parents are welcome to attend. I hope to see you there!

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