Mrs. Wickenheiser Grade 4

We had an amazing time at the Be Brave Hitmen Game on Wednesday! It was such a fun day full of so much energy and excitement and the Calgary Hitmen defeated the Swift Current Broncos 3-0 (which you've likely already heard about). Here are a few pictures from the day. Stay tuned - more photos will be shared on Google Classroom soon! At School: In Wellness:  We began learning about the Zones of Regulation and discussed what regulation means and how we can regulate lots of different things within ourselves, including our feelings and behaviours. We also talked about how regulating our emotions, energy, and actions can be challenging and how we will continue to learn and practice these skills throughout our lives. In Math:  We continued practicing personal strategies for multiplication and division of large numbers. Students also learned how to estimate to check the reasonableness of a product or quotient.      In Literacy:  We have started a new novel stu...

At School: This week we had the pleasure of welcoming Constable Mike Kruger from the Calgary Police Service as a guest presenter in our class! He us all his tools and answered students' questions. He shared the heartfelt story You are Special  by Max Lucado and led a discussion on the importance of treating everyone with kindness and respect. Afterwards, students traced their hands in their visual journals and wrote down actions they will take to make others feel included.               In Math:  We reviewed the steps of long division, and students had time to practice. We continue to work on multiplication basic facts daily. In Literacy:  Students chose an animal to research using the computers and recorded key facts in their notebooks. After gathering information, they planned and wrote a paragraph about their chosen animal. In Word Work:  We focused on words with the suffixes -ness and -ment, along with idioms and ...