Mrs. Penner's Grade Fours 2025-2026

 Good afternoon,  Thank you for taking the time to read our blog. Here is a little bit of what we were up to this week: Literacy: We continued writing our three paragraph biographies about a Canadian Olympian. You can read these at home if you log into students' Google Drives, where we wrote our good copies.  We finished our free verse writing about water, inspired by The Important Book by Margaret Wise Brown.  We began learning about personification. Ask your child if they can explain what this is.  Math: We are delving further into multiplication and division. We have talked about fact families and will be continuing with more in the days to come.  Social Studies: We began learning about the Olympics. We completed an Olympic scavenger hunt to learn more about the history of the games.  Science: We learned about animal adaptations.  Jump Rope for Heart Our school is so excited to participate in Jump Rope for Heart—a fundraising program that empow...

 Good afternoon,  Here are some of the highlights of what we learned about this week: Math: -We wrapped up our algebra unit with a test. Students will bring them home in the near future.  -We began our unit about multiplication and division. In this coming unit, students will be multiplying and dividing natural numbers within 10000. For example: 876 x 3, 957➗8, etc.  - As always, we practiced our basic multiplication and division facts every day. Please continue to practice these at home in order to strengthen your child's accuracy and fluency with numbers.  Literacy: - We continued with our biography writing. Each student chose a Canadian Olympic athlete to research and write a biography about. Biographies will consist of 3 paragraphs. We know that each paragraph must begin with an indent, contain a topic and concluding sentence, and have 3 detail sentences. Ask your child which athlete they chose.  - We wrote our "Friday Letters" home to parents. Please r...