Ms. Kooner's Grade 3/4 Class

Social Studies: - we are almost finished our models! - we have worked so hard to start putting together all the pieces and adding the finishing touches to our projects Gym: - we finished up with floor hockey with a few days of games - we played bench ball and Dr. Dodgeball! Math: - we tried to define what division means - we practicing writing the matching multiplication and division facts that go together. Ex. 18 / 3 = 6, 18 / 6 = 3, 3 x 6 = 18, 6 x 3 = 18 Writing/Reading: - we have practiced describing a character in narrative writing - we tried using our 5 senses and "show don't tell" to add interesting details - we created "feelings posters" that listed ways to show an emotion instead of telling  what a character is feeling - we have continued with our partner novel study and will do the second activity on Monday REMINDERS: - Literacy week, Jan. 27 to Jan. 30. Monday: Read My Shirt Day, Thursday: Dress As My Favourite Character - No schoo

Here is our learning for the first 2 weeks back after Winter break: Printing: - we finished our last printing class with the OT Rose. We learned a lot and our printing has got a bit neater. - we will be learning how to do cursive writing very soon Language Arts: - we've started a partner novel study. We are in groups of 2 or 3 and we are reading a novel with our group and writing about each section as we go - Narrative Writing - we are learning how to be better story writers. So far we have learned how to write an entertaining story beginning. There are 4 techniques: action, dialogue, sound, thought/question. Ask me about each one! - we made word lists to hang up in the classroom to help us with action words, dialogue words and sound words Social Studies: - we have stopped working on our google slide show and now are creating a model to go with the slide show - the model explains how our natural resource works Science: - we did some more experimenting and learning a