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Class Overview
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Grade 4
Grade Four students are eager, enthusiastic, and growing up! This year is their first year as intermediate students, with higher expectations for student behaviour, academics, and independence. We intend to provide a strong academic program that helps the children to be successful and confident learners.
The British Columbia curriculum lends itself well to field trips in our local environment. A big part of the Grade Four school year will be our participation in “Salmon in the Classroom”. We will engage in activities in and out of the classroom to learn more about our British Columbia ecosystems and the Indigenous peoples of the Fraser Valley. We will use technology to create presentations that demonstrate our learning.
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Curriculum Summary
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Christian Education
Each year we will focus on a special theme.
Using “Christ our Life” as a guidebook we will:
- follow the Liturgical seasons in prayer (both daily and communal prayer in the school).
- receive the Sacrament of Reconciliation regularly.
- participate in regular adoration and prayer times in the Church.
- enjoy fellowship in our weekly Hymn Sing in the gym.
- join together each month for a school Mass with our various parish priests celebrating with us.
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Language Arts
The Language Arts curriculum is divided into four areas: Listening, Speaking, Reading, and Writing. In Grade Four we will:
- further develop the skills that we have been learning since Kindergarten, with an emphasis on deeper thinking.
- explain things further, make connections to what we have heard, read or written, analyze work, and self-assess our work.
- continue to improve the mechanics of our writing in terms of grammar, spelling, and punctuation.
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Math
In Math the focus of our learning is on:
- Patterns and relationships with numbers
- Geometry
- Measurement
- Statistics and probability
- Working with larger numbers to 10,000
- Concentrating on deep understanding of the relationship between multiplication and division, along with learning basic facts
- Telling time using the 24-hour clock, both analog and digital
- Creating and interpreting graphs
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Science
In Science there are several key understandings. They include:
- Living things sense and respond to their environment.
- Matter has mass, can change, and takes up space.
- Energy can be transformed.
- The motions of the Earth and Moon cause observable patterns that affect living and non-living systems.
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Socials
In Socials we focus on the following:
- The pursuit of natural resources has a role in changing the land, the people, and communities of Canada.
- Interactions between First Peoples and European peoples led to conflict and cooperation which has shaped and continues to shape Canada’s destiny.
- Demographic changes in North America create shifts in economic and political power.
- British Columbia has followed a unique path in becoming part of Canada.
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Fine Arts
In Grade Four we will:
- Use various materials and techniques to create interesting and attractive visual art, including watercolour, pastel, printmaking, collage, etching, and combinations of each
- We will include Drama through role-play activities and reader’s theatre
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Check out this class news and homework
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Class Teacher
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Mr. Mike Girard
Grade 4Mr. Mike Girard
Grade 4Mr. Girard studied Education at the University of British Columbia and then went on to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Waterloo and Bachelor of Education degree from Lakehead University in Thunder Bay. He has been a classroom teacher for twenty-five years, mainly in Catholic Schools in Ontario, B.C., and in the Yukon while working in the missions there. He has had experience teaching students from Kindergarten through to Grade 12 and he has also taught English to international students. Mr. Girard attended both minor and major seminary, while studying Philosophy and Theology.
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