4S & 4V French

4S and 4V are continuing to learn vocabulary along with gestures. The practice assignment for next week is to spend a minimum of 30 minutes on sections A, B, C and D. There will be an oral quiz on Wednesday, February 5 that will consist of 10 words from sections C and D.

The clip below is from today's 4V French class. We went 'retro' and revisited a few songs we learned in the fall. Enjoy!

Recorder Karate - 'Hot Cross Buns'

Service Hours Begin This Term

For many, the concept of service hours is a new one. This post is written to help both students and parents understand how this works.
Grade four students are asked to earn a total of 8 service hours between now and early March. Service hours can be earned at home, school or at church. Regular chores should not be counted as service. Some ideas include gardening, snow removal, washing the car, vacuuming out the car, organizing recycling, child minding, chores over and above ones that are regularly done at home, and helping out at church. There may also be opportunities to earn service hours at school doing small jobs for teachers or picking up garbage outside. The key is that students need to actively pursue opportunities rather than expect them to materialize.
Every time your child earns an hour of service time please send a note to school so the teachers can track them. We hope that this will help inspire our students to think beyond themselves and seek out opportunities to serve. Please contact your child's teacher if you have any questions.

4S & 4V - Practicing French Gestures

Since early December, grade four students have been learning A LOT of new French vocabulary AND a lot of gestures to help them understand the meaning of the words. To assist students with learning all of the new vocabulary, videos are have been posted on the French blog for them to WATCH AND PRACTICE.

Weekly homework for all grade four French students is a minimum of 15 minutes of gesture practice twice a week. Parents are asked to note practice times on the monthly calendar in their child's planner AND initial them. Weeks are graded from Wednesday to Wednesday. Planners will be checked every Wednesday morning.

Parents: thank you in advance for your help and support!

Students: keep up the good work, as this will speed up our progress and allow us to start the play, 'Les Trois Petits Cochons!'

4V Visits Surrey Art Centre

Welcome Back, 4V!

Welcome back!  I hope that you all had a restful time with family and friends, and were able to reflect on the best gift ever - Jesus!  Not everyone has returned to the classroom just yet, so we're not feeling 'whole' in 4V.  Looking ahead, there are lots of events, activities and units of study on the horizon for term two!  We've just begun a new novel - 'Shiloh' and are learning about weather in science class.  FSA (Foundational Skills Assessment) testing begins soon, so we are spending some time in math on getting comfortable with solving word problems.  Feel free to check out the link to the FSA practice tests.  The link can be found on the top right side of this blog under LINKS.