This issue of the class newsletter is, as always, written by the students.
What’s Up in the UOI?
By: Janine, Hannah and Abdul
Well our exciting explorers unit has come to an end. Here are some things we learned:
- How to argue a point of view
- What you need when you go exploring
- How to read and make a map
- In the olden days they used to see a sea creature and put more details into it and put it on maps
- Exploration can be a good or a bad idea but it’s the way you use it
- Exploration is going to the unknown
- Different explorers
We did more though there is too much to write about!
In this Unit the concepts we used were:
- Perspective: What were the different points of view
- Change: What changed because of exploration
- Causation: Why did people explore
The skills that we used were:
- Asking Questions
- Observing
- Planning
- Collecting
- Recording
- Organizing information
- Understanding
The Attitudes we used were:
- Respect: The respect for the explorers
- Appreciation: The appreciation we have for explorers
- Empathy: Indigenous for tragedies
That’s how everything went during Exploration
What’s up in Energy?
Our new unit of inquiry will be about energy. Our central idea is Energy is renewable and non-renewable. Our lines of inquiry are forms of energy, sources of energy and harnessing energy. We are using these concepts: responsibility, causation and change. The Learner Profile Attributes we are using during Energy are caring and principled. We hope to use these attitudes: commitment, respect and curiosity. Energy is a Science Unit so we will be doing lots of experiments!
By: Simon kassem
What’s Up with Passion Projects?
All the students in grade 4 have to do a passion project on one of the units of inquiry this year.
We have been collecting information from books, internet and presenting what we found. We have listened to 4 people that chose exploration for their passion project those people were: Simon, Taif, Jackson and Etienne. Most of them tried to echo the central idea of exploration and it was: exploration impacts upon societies. The attitudes of exploration were: respect, appreciation and empathy. The concepts were: change, perspective and causation.
By Kalea and Simon
What’s Up in Language?
By: Elise, Etienne and Shamma
The Debate
We had a debate on the 30th of November. Parents were invited to watch us argue, and should have chosen sides, and none of them chose because they said it was because “We were all too convincing.” We had to argue whether exploration was great, or really bad. Some of us would have liked to choose our own sides, but to make it fair, Mrs. Saunders pulled our names out of a hat. “ I would have liked to pick my own buddies, but it was fair.” Kalea said. “Picking my own people would have been fun, but our name out of a hat was definitely fair.” declared Taif. We all had to argue our sides, and we had about a week or so to prepare. My team, Taif, Kalea, Etienne and I were very worried we wouldn’t win, but neither of our teams won, so we were a bit glad, and a bit sad that we didn’t win. In the end, we all agreed that exploration was a tool, and what we do with the tool is either good or bad.
Recounts and Expositions
Ms. Saunders gave us a recount plan for us to write our facts in. Even though we were partners we weren’t allowed to copy each other. We could say the same thing we had talked about, but in our own words. A recount has a setting, the events in order and a conclusion. We also learned how to write an exposition, where you argue a point of view. An exposition starts with a state of a problem and a point of view, facts and evidence come later. Then we have to write a conclusion. It was much harder to write this than a narrative.
Maths with Ms. Liezel
In Maths with Mrs. Liezel, we learned to do division and we did long division. Hannah found 1 easy way to do division. Mrs. Liezel lets us play lots of games and sometimes we get to play Maths games on the computer. Some things we like to play are times attack, math blaster, Maths games for kids and many more! Maths is cool!
by Isabella, Kalea and Jackson
What’s Up In Music?
by Shahad and Taif
In music we were learning the songs of the musical. The songs are:
Bees rap: Shahad, Janine, Marie, Simon, Abdul, Isabella.
Wolf song: Taif, Shamma, Etienne, Kalea.
Grasshopper song: Elise
Mouse song: Nathalie
World of imagination song: Jackson .the last time we had music we did a picture of the best scene in the musical.
What’s up in ICT?
by Marie and Elise
In I.C.T., we are using Wordle, and we did our reflections in it connecting the words using symbols. We’ve explored using Google Earth, tried to make a movie with movie maker and make bar graphs. We do a lot in I.C.T. , and have a big deal of fun!
What’s Up in Arabic?
In Arabic we had to read a story and someone records our mistakes and counts them and we try every week to beat a lower number. These were the marks: 1, 6, 17, and 24.
The story we read was about computers. We have spelling tests every Monday.
By: Shamma Al-Shibli
في العربي نحن قرانا الدرس و واحد منا كان يكتب كم من الأخطاء لكل
واحد. 1 خطء لشهد,6 اخطاء لطيف و 17اخطاء لشمه.الدرس كان
الحاسب اللألي.عندنا إملاء كل اثنين.
عمل:طيف
في التربية الاسلامية درسنا سورة لقمان نصح لقمان ابنة:
.1-الإيمان بالله تعالى وعدم الشرك به .
2-بر الوالدين .
3-الصبرعلى مواجهة الشدائد.
وأخذنا درس صلاة الجماعة وأخذنا حديث شريف عن صلاة الجماعة وهو :قال الرسول( صلى الله عليه وسلم ).
((الصلاة في الجماعة خير من صلاة الفذ بسبع وعشرين درجة)).
وأخذنا آداب المسجد
وأول مسجد بني في المدينة المنورة وهو مسجد قباء.
وأخذنا درس النظام وتعلمنا أن نصحو في الصباح الباكر وان نستاك ، ونتوضأ ،ونصلي ،ونلبس الملابس ،ونذهب إلى المدرسة.
وأخذنا حديث التواضع وهو:
((من عظم نفسه للناس وضعه الله ومن تواضع لله رفعه الله)).
وأخذنا سورة الجمعة:
تبين السورة الكريمة تبليغ الرسول محمد (صلى الله عليه وسلم) دعوة الإسلام إلى الناس.
وأخذنا درس أول مدرسة في الإسلام وهي:
مدرسة الأرقم بن أبي الأرقم
كان الرسول( صلى الله عليه وسلم) يجتمع بمن أسلم منهم سراًً في دار الأرقم بن أبي الأرقم،قرب الصفا والمروة.
وأخذنا حديث العلم وهو :
((تعلموا العلم فإن تعلمه قربة إلى الله تعالى وتعليمه لمن لا يعلمه صدقه)).
By:shahad ali.
By: Isabella, Janine and Hannah
What’s up with the Musical?
The lights, the action, the drama it’s Aesop! Funtastic Fables! In grade 4 the characters are:
- Jackson- Aesop
- Janine- Bee
- Isabella- Bee
- Simon- Bee
- Abdul- Bee
- Marie- Bee
- Shahad- Bee
- Shamma- Sheep
- Kalea- Sheep
- Taif- Sheep
- Hannah- Fox
- Etienne- Wolf
- Elise- Grasshopper
- Nathalie- Mouse
Well, now that you know what everybody is in the musical, it’s time to tell where, when and what time it is. The time is at 6:00 for the parents but 5:00 for the students because they have to get dressed and put makeup on. The place is in the gym and it is going to be this Wednesday. I hope you and your child will come to the musical. See you there!
What’s Up with PE?
In PE we are getting ready for sports day. We are doing long jump, running and athletics. We run for 6 minutes. “I’ve never run for so long” said Jackson Willis who just finished 5 laps. We are also required to bring our PE kit which is a shirt and shorts. Today we practiced relays and sprinting. Sports day is important because it gives students a chance to try their best in sports of different types. Sports day is on January the 18th.
by Jackson and Etienne