Mrs. Penner's Grade Fours 2025-2026

 Good afternoon,  here are some highlights of what we were learning in Grade 4 this week: Math: - finished Patterns and Sequences - Began learning about Prime and Composite numbers, specifically factors. Ask your child if they can tell you what a factor is.  - Continued our daily practice of basic multiplication and division facts within 100 Literacy:  - comparing and contrasting using words such as: alike, unlike, same, different - strategies to read and spell multisyllable words - "Scoot" game to practice the "doubling rule" and "silent e" rule for adding suffixes - finished our novel A Boy Called Bat - writing thank you cards to Miss May, our facility operator, who will be moving on to a new position next week - writing our Friday Letters (please read and respond) Science: - The Earth's four spheres: atmosphere, lithosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere - The Earth's rotation around the sun Looking Ahead: Food Support Did you know that the Breakfast C...

 Here are some highlights of our week: Math:  - Patterns and Sequences (continuing simple increasing and decreasing sequences and writing the rule for how they are changing, creating and explaining our own sequences, including triangular and square sequences that increase and decrease.) - daily multiplication and division basic fact practice - math game: Multiplication squares. Check it out here: https://www.games4gains.com/blog/multiplication-squares -game  Literacy: Reading Strategy: Author's Purpose (persuade, entertain, inform) Writing Strategy: Types of Sentences Morphology: Doubling rule to add suffixes Grammar: nouns Novel Study: Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes Social Studies: - Explorer Trading Cards - Metis Dot Art Science: - Earth Systems  - Four Spheres (lithosphere, atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere) Looking Ahead: MTS Reminders - Wednesday November 19   Parent/Teacher Conferences If your student is in Mrs. Thomson's class, please log into...