Building Mathematical Fluency

by | Oct 1, 2015 | Grade 4

Grade 4 has been working very hard to develop their mental fluency using addition and subtraction. While many students are able to compute large numbers using pencil, paper and good ol’ fashioned arithmetic, mental strategies prove to be a much more difficult...

Where does the number go?

by | Sep 15, 2015 | Grade 4, The Grades, Uncategorized

Grade 4 is developing number sense with activities that explore place value. The class was already quite familiar with whole number place value, so we decided to explore place value of decimal numbers. For many of the students this was a new concept and they really...

Pardon Our Mess…

by | Sep 8, 2015 | Grade 4, The Grades

  …we’re learning here. Grade 4 has been busy organizing our classroom library. While this may have created an enormous, chaotic mess, it has also allowed students to apply their thinking skills to categorize text types and genres. Grade 4 was tasked...

Welcome to Grade 4

by | Aug 31, 2015 | Grade 4, The Grades

Thank you for sharing your wonderful children with the ABIS community today! It was such a delight getting to know everyone and hearing about their lives, interests and backgrounds. I couldn’t have asked for a better first day of school. We kicked off the year...