Bird Houses

 Creating Birdhouses...

Peterson Creek Walk with Pod 2

 Went for a big hike to Peterson Creek as a Pod!  We can see life coming back to the park, as Spring is well on its way.  Tried some blue trails too.

April Reminders

 Spring has Arrived and now we start to fill up our schedule with 

exciting activities and events.

March 31st - Dance Video Presentation.  Students are to wear dark colours (First Nations) or light colours (Explorers).  We are representing First Contacts in Canada.

April 1st- Egg Drop - this is optional.  Ms. Latta and Mr. Lloyd are organizing this event.  Please see the email that was sent out.

April 2nd and 5th- Easter Holidays- no school

April 7th- Recognition Day - we will be walking to Peterson Creek to participate in activities with Ms. Leanard

April 8th- Field Trip to Big Little Science Center to take part in an electrical lab. We will be walking down and busing back.  Orange Permission Forms were sent home today.

April 9th- In-term Reports sent home

April 15th- early dismissal for P/T Interviews

April 26th Pro-d Day- no school

Wind Energy

 The Law of Conservation of Energy - energy can not be created or destroyed, it can only be changed from one form to another, such as when electrical energy is changed into heat energy.

Students discovered that Wind Turbines convert wind energy into electrical energy, also a renewable resource.

We then made pin wheels and went out onto KSA grounds, explored which area created the most wind and where would be a good place to put a wind turbine.  Students were all engaged and focused for this activity.

Music Monday

 Students are working on composing a short melody on the keyboard to represent a character from a book, movie, story, etc.  

Some keyboard skills we are working on is:

•  finger positions (1,2,3,4,5) 
• patterns of the keyboard (2 black keys, 3 black keys, ABCDEFGABCD...)
•  major and minor sounds

What A WEEK!!!

 Grade 4's had an amazing, positive and creative week!

Here are the Highlights:

Created Sun Pictures to look forward to Spring and Brighter Days

Explorer/Significant Person Presentations

Students worked so hard to finalize their presentations.  All gained confidence and were motivated to do well.

In Science we learned about Law of Conservation of Energy by making elastic powered boats.

On Wednesday we went for our Pod Walk (even though it snowed).  Ms. Schultz took us to Old Man's Cemetery and we had a mindful moment as she told us some stories and the neighbourhood plan to make the area better.

We participated in the KSA Green Wars in honour of St. Patricks Day.  The students really got into and it created a lot of postive energy in our class and around the school.

Lastly, we created funny Limerick Poems and shared them in the Courtyard on Friday.

Have an amazing Spring Break!!!