By far the he yummiest math lesson of the week: How many of each colour Smarties are in a typical box? We literally crunched the numbers! Each group used Smarties to find the mean, median & mode of their colour. ⁦@Woodman_Wolves⁩ ⁦@GEDSB⁩

Math + movement = engagement! Grade 4 students counted each other’s jumping jacks for 1 minute, then we turned the sweat into stats. Mean, median, and mode made their move! ⁦@Woodman_Wolves⁩ ⁦@GEDSB⁩

Turns out, the playground is more alive than we thought. Today, ⁦⁦@Woodman_Wolves⁩ grade 4 students explored the schoolyard as habitat detectives, searching for signs of food, water, shelter, space, and living things. ⁦@GEDSB⁩

We tried blind contour portraits in Grade 4—no lifting the pen, no erasing, no peeking (okay, some peeking)! The results? Hilariously amazing and wonderfully weird. @Woodman_Wolves @GEDSB

“Nature is all connected. If you take one thing out, it will all fall apart.” Today, we played “Web of Life”, tossing a ball of yarn to show connections. “I am SOIL, I am made richer by the WORM.” “I am a WORM, I hide from the BIRD.” ⁦@Woodman_Wolves⁩ ⁦@GEDSB⁩

Me: “I like doing math while standing up.” Student: “Me, too. It lets us stretch our legs while we get smarter.” ⁦@Woodman_Wolves⁩ students work in pairs to practice using bar models to solve story problems. ⁦@GEDSB⁩

My ⁦⁦@Wilco⁩ 9LP Ghost is Born reissue arrived yesterday. Today is a snow day. The timing couldn’t be better. It might get loud in here.

“Travel north from Vancouver to discover the capital of Yukon!”Grade 4 students play 'Compass Relay' to build their skills with cardinal directions and explore Canada's provinces and territories.” ⁦@Woodman_Wolves⁩ ⁦@GEDSB⁩

Grade 4’s first attempt at two point perspective. ⁦@Woodman_Wolves⁩ ⁦@GEDSB⁩

Our cursive handwriting is coming along. Big shout out to ⁦@mshoo87⁩ and her grade 7’s. Having some extra ‘cursive coaches’ has really motivated my Grade 4’s. ⁦@Woodman_Wolves⁩ ⁦@GEDSB⁩

We ended our week with some reading time outside. Students chose books to bring home for some weekend reading. Shout out to those who asked for sticky notes to record their connections. ⁦@Woodman_Wolves⁩ ⁦@GEDSB⁩

Using our handy dandy whiteboards to review place value estimation. ⁦@Woodman_Wolves⁩ ⁦@GEDSB⁩

Building better sentences. Grade 4 students ⁦⁦@Woodman_Wolves⁩ practice the Ideas writing trait by progressively adding more detail to simple sentences. Questions like Where? When? Size? Name? help to guide our thinking. ⁦@GEDSB⁩