by Teacher | Sep 23, 2013 | Grade 4
Parents often ask how they can help their children with math. There are a number of ways we as parents can do so. The most obvious one is familiarizing ourselves with the curriculum,and objectives (in other words becoming familiar with what your child is learning in...
by Teacher | Sep 19, 2013 | Grade 4
There are a number of ways we can refresh our memories of the times tables we’ve learned in previous years. One way is – and it has proven to be quite popular in grade four – to play multiplication games with dice.
by | Sep 16, 2013 | Grade 4
What’s the purpose? Was the question raised earlier this week when students started investigating the “nth” term. After some exploration with Mr. Pemberton, here are some responses: Rafael: The purpose of nth and its basically a letter that replaces...
by Teacher | Sep 16, 2013 | Grade 4
As part of out word study the class has begun to engage in a number of activities related to the use of dictionaries. We have looked at the way they are organized, some effective strategies we can adopt to quickly find words and also to see how we can find related...
by Teacher | Sep 10, 2013 | Grade 4
We began reviewing our times tables with a challenging game. Each pair was given cards with a set of times tables. The challenge was to recall and call out the answer as quickly as possible.
by Teacher | Sep 10, 2013 | Grade 4
The challenge was quiet simple. Make at least twenty five using letters from the word ‘telephone’. The class lived up to the challenge and then some: at last count they had made a whopping sixty six words. Rumour has it the next word will be...
