Grade 4 Sacred Heart Learners!

Drama  Circle In our class we have this thing where we get a card and we act out what’s on the card. It’s really funny because if someone messes up, it doesn't matter because everybody makes mistakes when we do drama circle.   I played the role of the person who gets the invitation to the circus and Adrian played the role of the ring master. It’s really fun when we act out what card you have. Drama circle is the best. It’s really fun. By Cam and Adrian

DPA DPA is when you go to the gym with your teacher but your teacher is your gym teacher. You do fun games like octopus and bridge tag and different activities. And we go and have fun and we usually do DPA for half an hour. DPA stands for Daily Physical Activity, which helps your body stay fit. Keeping your body fit is very important for you. Your body needs lots of energy to stay in shape!!! Eating healthy veggies and fruit are very important to. My class looks at the Canadian food group rainbow. They have Meat and alternatives, Milk, Grains, Fruit and Veggies!! THANK YOU FOR LISTENING By: Matthew & Ella

Estimation Station      By Mary and Dahlia Our class started an estimation station!! This is how it works!! 1. First our teacher fills a little jar with something or puts what we are doing in math. 2. Then on the paper we estimate how many things w e think are in the jar!                  3. At the end of the week, our teacher looks at the paper to see the winner!      4. Whoever wins gets to pick a prize out of the prize bin! Can you estimate how many letters are in the two jars?      

Splash Math By: Zack & Rikkie Splash math is a math site where you can learn grade 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 and 8 math. You can put in certain things for the kids to do such as addition and subtraction up to a number of your choice you can do place value and read don't forget rounding! If you are a teacher, the kids in your class will love it because when you answer you get coins. Coins are for buying animals and fish. The animals for the kids jungle and the fish for the aquarium and everything costs 20 coins. You get three stars from answering all the questions. Once they answer all the questions they will complete that task and they can just use it for practice if they want! We like splash math because it's easy and when you go back on splash math you can resume what you did. It is a good site because it helps you learn better and every time you play it you will practise math strategies. Splash math is cool because when you try each strategy you move up a leve...

Class Drama Circle By: Georgia Hay Our class drama circle is super fun and super cool.The one time we did a circus one was so funny. I remember I was a clown. If you don’t know what a drama circle is, you probably want to know so i'll  tell you. A drama circle is when everyone has a card that has a number on it. Ours went up to 40. Usually there will be a theme. We did 2 drama circles. One theme was Olympics and the other was a circus. How you play: On the card there will be one or two sentences that either tell you what to say or something to do.Then you go into the middle, play your role, then go back to your spot. Then the next person goes.           It was real fun! I hope you try doing a drama circle with your friends and family. I guarantee you’ll have fun too!

F.I.A.T. Fish In A Tree The characters: Ally (which is the main character) Albert, Mr. Daniels, Shay, Jessica, Oliver. In our class, we are reading a book called Fish in A Tree. In the most recent chapter we learned that Ally has dyslexia and Mr. Daniels is trying to help her by playing chess. We learned that Ally is really good at chess. She beat Mr. Daniels several times! Ally is really good at chess because she is good at thinking in different ways that we wouldn’t think of. By:Kai

Genius Hour By: Sean Genius hour is when you pick a topic that can be anything that you are passionate about and you do a project on it. I am doing it on Leonard Fournette and on every Friday you get an hour to work on it.  You brainstorm questions and you can put it on a doc, slides, poster, bristol board, book, or whatever you can think of. If you are a teacher then you should do genius hour with your class - they would like it.

Christmas Carolling By: Allie & Anjay Around Christmas time, we went Christmas carolling with a bunch of Mr. Sonier’s friends. His friends are our community singers. We met them first at Mr. Sonier's music class. Then, we started singing with them all the time like every Friday when we have music class. So when we sing, we always sing with them. They also use some cool dances and songs from their church. When we went carolling we sang in alot of places like at Value Mart, Rexall, and the Good Life gym. The community singers are all very nice and we enjoyed going carolling.

C lassroom H ighlights By: Evan & 0wen      These are some of the things we have experienced this year: When Mr. Hope came in and taught us about light. He was from a Company called  “Adopt-a-Scientist”. He was a funny person. He taught us about light in a way we could understand.    We also acted out a circus play once. We all got a script and it told us what to say. We also acted out the Olympics too.       Once we had to go to an assembly to talk about raising money for Haiti. That’s why we had hats for Haiti day.      Once we made puzzle pieces with our names on them and our name was supposed to stand out. It took us a few days. Once our class sent letters to our family members about something we like about them that was nice. I chose my grandma to send my letter to. Some kids sent it to other people in their family or just  a friend. During these events, us students felt...

River Bottom Critters By: Jaxon & Adam First, our class lined up to go to the class where Mrs. Nethercott set up in. Then, Mrs.Nethercott showed us diagrams of the critters. Next, Mrs. Nethercott let us look at the critters with a magnifying glass in small dishes. The critters were so small!   We both thought that the water flea was the coolest. Here are other classmates' opinions on their favourite critter:     Colton - the blood worm                 Anjay - the blood worm Jake - the blood worm                   Rikkie - the water flea Sean - the water flea                     Georgia - the water flea Zack - daphnia

                 Norris Bud Chadwick   by: Jake Gu and Colton                     Norris Bud Chadwick fought  in WW2 in the 1940s. Mrs.J brought in a box and we all did not know what was in the box later on Mrs.J opened up the box.        And it was a uniform and medals also a hat and Mrs.J passed it around. And she had a note that her grandfather made and it said he got hit by a bomb and she started to cry we all felt really bad for her because it was her grandfather. He survived the bomb and he lived through the war. Some students tried on the coat and they said it was comfy. Some kids got their pictures when they put on the out fit.              ...

Fruit of  the holy spirit By Dalia and Gigi The fruits of the holy spirit are, self-control, kindness, faithfulness, joy, patience, love, generosity, peace, modesty, and gentleness. We are learning about the fruits of the spirit  to understand how to  be nice to others. \ Galatians 5:22-23 22  But the fruit  of the Spirit is love,  joy, peace,  forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,   23  gentleness and self-control.  Against such things there is no law. We know that there are 10 fruit of the holy spirit. All of them mean something. Self-control means to be abilty to control your body without someone's help. Kindness means to treat others how you want to be treated. Faithfulness means to be full of trust. Joy means gladness that is not based on circumstances. Patience means slow to speak and slow to anger. Love means to seek the highest good of others. Generosity means the quality of bei...

My Uncle’s L etter   By Cam and Evan On the Monday the 13th Mrs. Johnson said that I (Cam) got a letter from the mail. She gave me the letter and she said, ¨I was dying to open it!¨ At first I thought it was a joke . Many students have been getting letters to our classroom because we were writing letters to family members who were special people in our family. It was a package, in a package, with a letter and a bunch of pencils . I read the letter and it was talking about Halloween because it was sent before Halloween. He asked me about what I was being for Halloween.   But after I read the letter I found out it was from my uncle. I really liked the letter. We handed out the pencils to our class. The kids liked it because many of their old pencils were small. Do you like getting letters? White Squirrel pencils from the University of Kentuky

                                                BY : Sean and Landen             This year we made a project on something we were interested in. First step to do our share fair was to figure out what we were interested in. Everyone in our class wrote down 10 things we wanted to learn about and picked one out of the ten that we wrote down. Once we found out out what we wanted to research on we put all of our information into our thinking and learning journal. One day we all sat in a circle and said all topics and everyone asked each other questions about our projects.   Then after we got all the information we put it on to a  big piece of paper and wrote it on our project and dr...

By Jaxon and Adrian and Mrs J All the kids in the school walked to the church. And then Christine and Leanne  introduced Al and Anne Marie  who were going to sing for us. The service began with singing. Al McChesney and Anne Marie Gillis Our Sacred Heart School Community Leanne talked about what Taize was about.  And then, she told us that there is a village called Taize and tons of people would gather together and since they all didn’t say the same language, they all sung a song so that they could sing short songs and you could hum if you didn’t know the words. The students were very quiet. Some kids felt really calm, some felt like they were in heaven.  Here are some things that were said from our grade four classroom. "It felt like heaven." "It felt like I was with Jesus and God." "I felt really peaceful." "I felt really light." "It felt really calming and like I was speaking to God." ...

By Fallon M and Gemma M Each year our school does a basket draw to raise money.  Each class picks a theme and makes a basket filled with items that students can buy tickets to win. How Did we decide? So first we decided by doing a vote. The choices were playground equipment, books, art supplies, balls and GIFT CARDS! So then  to decide everyone got a sticker and sticked it on what kind of choice they wanted and most of the people picked GIFT CARDS! That's how we decided. What type of Gift Cards did we get? So the types of gift cards we had were Mcdonald's  Starbucks, Tim Hortons, Marshalls, Winners, Booster Juice the mall and more...   What is The Money Is Raised For? So our principal decided to  use the money for play equipment  and he is going to get a sandbox for the younger kids.