WELCOME TO MS.TELLIER'S CLASS WEBSITE!
Mrs. Chapotelle and I are lucky to work with a great group of students this year!
You can contact me at school at (780)349-3385 or at stellier@phrd.ab.ca.
We're fun, respectful, smart, kind, hard working, helpful and a bit cRaZy!
Meet US:
VIRTUE OF THE MONTH
KINDNESS
Real generosity is doing
something nice for someone who
will never find out.
~Frank A. Clark
| Important Dates | Newsletters | Helpful Links |
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Feb 29 - Early Dismissal March 2 - PD day - No School March 12 and 14 - PTS Interviews in the evening March 15 - 4T goes to the Waste Managment Center for a Field Trip March 16 - No School March 21 - Early Dismissal March 24 - April 1 - Spring Break |
February
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4T Class Schedule |
4T LANGUAGE ARTS
The following link is specific to Grade 4 Language Arts. Here you will find many writing (grammar, punctuation, vowels, prefixes, suffixes, antonyms, synonyms etc) and reading (mains ideas, cause/effect, sequencing, reading comprehension, vocabulary etc) activities! Click here for some learning fun!
Writing:
Creative Writing
Handwriting
We will be starting individual Autobiographies in March. This will be done on a power point and will require picutres of each student growing up. More information on this will come home.
Reading:Students are expected to be reading at least 20 minutes each night.
We have started our Literacy Place Book Unit (guided reading): Worlds of Wonder. Students are in reading groups of their level and do various reading comprehension activities and read in various ways (buddy reading, individual reading and reading with me).
Spelling:
FOCUS THIS WEEK
Spell words with: spell compound words
Here are the words for the week of Feb 21 - March 3, 2012
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anyone however everything himself birthday |
herself somewhere afternoon chalkboard daydream |
downstairs grandparents breakfast outfield scarecrow |
nobody dragonfly keyboard Metis measurement |
4T MATH
We have now finished our patterns unit and our unit with whole numbers to 10 000. This unit also involved addition and subtraction of 3 and 4 digit numbers
Current Focus:
Unit 3: Multiplication and Division
- use different strategies to multiply and divide
- multiply by 0, 1, and 10
- divide by 1
- recall multiplication and division facts
- identify and describe patterns in a multiplication chart
- relate multiplication and division
- make and solve story problems using multiplication and division
- write and solve equations
UNIT TEST: Monday Feb. 27
Practice activities will be sent home this week!
Check out the website below for many games to practice number facts:
Mad Minute Multiplication Game
4T SOCIAL STUDIES:
Current Focus: Chapter 4-7: Stories, History and People of Alberta
I can:
- Understand who the first people to live in Alberta were and where they lived in Alberta
- Understand the stories and traditions that the First Nations brought to Alberta
- Recognize the diversity among the Aboriginal Groups in Alberta
and ....
- Understand how the Fur Trade helped Alberta
- Understand who was involved in the Fur Trade
- Understand the importance of Francophone language and settlements in Alberta
- Understand how the Metis contributed to Alberta’s identity
- Understand how British immigrants helped to create communities in Alberta
- How the communities changed as more settlers moved into Alberta
| USEFUL GRADE 4 SOCIAL LINKS |
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Chapter 1: Regions in Alberta Chapter Study Guide and Practice Test Chapter 2: Fossils in Alberta Unit Project: Performance Task Chapter 4-7: Alberta's Past Head Smashed in Buffalo Jump - video Metis Settlers Project and Rubric |
6M /6J SOCIAL STUDIES
Current Focus: Democracy in the Iroquois Confederacy (Chapter 3 of the Voices of Democracy Text book)
Now that we have spent January and most of February studying democracy in ancient Athens, we will now look at democracy in the Iroquois Confederacy. Here are what students will learn:
- How the Iroquois Confederacy was structured
- What the role and status of women was
- The advantages and disadvantages of consensus as a decision-making model for government
- How the Six Nations used the consensus building process
- How the Wampum Belt addresses collective identity
- How the social structure of the Iroquois Confederacy impacted the political structure
- The extent to which the decision-making process reflected the ideals of equity and fairness
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| USEFUL GRADE 6 SOCIAL LINKS |
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Chapter 1, 2, 7 - Democracy in Canada Article: Working Towards a Fair Society Charter of Rights and Freedoms Study Guide La Grande Paix De Montreal - video and extra info Chapter 1,2,7 Test Sudy Guide & helpful study notes Chapter 3: Democracy in Ancient Athens Chapter 4: Democracy in the Iroquois Confederacy Iroquois Confederacy Study Guide |
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