Mrs. Penner's Grade Fours 2025-2026

See you all on January 5, 2026!

 Good afternoon,  Here are some highlights of our week: Math: - multiplication and division games to review basic facts - continuation of factors, multiples, prime and composite numbers with games for review Literacy: - free choice writing - cursive "V" - typing stories on the computer with a focus on clear beginnings, middles, and ends - We Will Write: https://wewillwrite.com/  - acrostic poems - Friday letters Social Studies: - colonization - Christmas around the world (with alternate activities for those who don't celebrate Christmas) Science: - candy cane drop (constructing structures to keep candy canes from breaking) MTS   Reminders   - Wednesday December 10   The Magic of Christmas Every Christmas Eve, The Magic of Christmas loads up Calgary Transit buses that are magically transformed into “reindeer buses”, with hundreds of gifts and volunteers dressed as Santa and his elves.  Then they deliver ...

 This week at school we did the following: Math: - continued to learn about factors, multiples, prime and composite numbers - continued practicing our basic multiplication and division facts within 100 Literacy: - change y to i when adding "e" suffixes (-es, -er, -est, -ed) - writing a story with a clear beginning, middle, and end - continued with Daily 5 (5 literacy rotations: Writing, Word Work, Teacher Time, Read to Self, and Cursive) Social Studies: - in the colony of New France, there were settlements (Port-Royal, Quebec City) - the definition of "colonization" is:  when one group of people takes control of a land and the people already living there to use its resources for their own benefit. Science: - played a "scoot" game to learn more about the 4 spheres of the Earth (lithosphere, biosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere) ***NEXT WEEK WE WILL BE DOING A SCIENCE EXPERIMENT WITH CANDY CANES. IF ANYONE COULD SEND IN A BOX OF CANDY CANES, IT WOULD BE MOST A...