Our First Full Week

The first week “jitters” are beyond us, and we are slowly easing into a routine. For example, on Tuesdays and Thursdays we will complete “Number of the Day” questions in our math notebooks. We have some great thinkers in Grade 4!

A Wonderful Start!

What a great group of students in Grade 4! These first three days have been about getting to know one another and establishing routines. We also started discussing and making posters for the learner profiles! Take a look at one for “courageous” (risk-taker)

Visible Thinking

Visible thinking routines will be part of the learning journey for all the Grade 4 students, and we are looking forward to helping the Grade 4’s use them! One of my new favorites is called: Connect – Extend – Challenge.

A Different Kind of Summer

Hello Grade 4! I am Mr Eriks, and I am looking forward to getting to know everyone. I am working on a presentation that will help you get to know me, and I would encourage you to think about things that you want me to know about you. This will be my sixth year at...

Easy-Peasy Cookies

I had been saving baking activities for the final weeks of school thinking that the Grade 5 students would find them quite challenging. Such was not the case with this week’s “Cookie Challenge”… On to something even more difficult next...