Saturday, 28 September 2013

La fenêtre


September has almost come to a close and 4D has been a busy place. We’ve got the beginning of the year jitters out and most of the paperwork is in so we’ve been getting down to business. Friday was the Terry Fox run and we did some research about his life before hitting the pavement with the school.


Other highlights of the last couple of weeks included our discussion about citizenship and what aspects of life should be rights and which should be privileges. The discussion was heated and it was fantastic for me to see how opinionated and responsive the students can be. I’m excited to see what topics we will get into throughout the year.

Another highlight was an estimation lesson, “Combien de courges?” Ask your child to explain what this entailed and test their estimation skills next time you have a bag of potatoes. I’ve never seen nine year olds get so excited about squash!

A feature of 4D is our window. Here’s ‘la fenêtre’ from September. The bulletin board is student directed and is meant to be a creative space to wonder what we might see outside if we had a real window to the outdoors!


I hope you are enjoying the blog so far. I encourage you to take a look at the other pages as I will be updating all of them throughout the year. 

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