Congratulations to our First subtraction master on Xtra Math!

Norocos has mastered subtraction! Way to go!

Keep on practicing! When we get back those who have passed levels will receive their rewards!!

Weekly Reflection & Review

Friday, March 20th

Are you a Ketchup or a Pickle?

Once you are done with your language tasks you will be a Ketchup or a Pickle:
Ketchup's are expected to "catch up" on everything by Tuesday so you are ready
to go for further lessons.
Pickles can "pick" a few things to do and then enjoy your weekend!

Some students have not completed ANY of these tasks. Please spend time getting yourself onto Google Classroom and getting caught up. Otherwise, you will have a lot to catch up on, on your own when we get back to school. That will mean a lot of homework for you!

Ketchups: Please get this done ASAP (As Soon As Possible) 1. Math Page 18-19 2. Introductory Flipgrid video 3. Science Labs on moderating sound 4. Watch science videos & read some science books on Epic 5. Practice on XtraMath 6. Post on Flipgrid about their Musical Instruments 7. Google Classroom Friday Writing activity on your first week away from school

Pickles: Pick a few of these to do, and then enjoy your weekend! 1. Mo Williams Art or free art 2. Prodigy or Xtramath 3. Freckle or Spelling City 4. Raz Kids or free reading or Epic 5. Math Games or other games 6. Free time

If you are unsure what some of these things are, you need to go onto the Google Classroom to see what has been assigned for you!

New Fact Master

Congratulations Maranelo on becoming the latest Addition Fact Master!! When we get back to school remind me to give you a prize!

I see many of you practicing at home... Who is going to be the next fact master?!? 😉

Google Hangouts & Flipgrid

Hi Students!!

So, seeing we are now having to talk through the internet I have created an option for you to message me directly!

Just like you login to your Google classroom, you will click on the little grid in the corner to get to your Gmail account.

Click on Gmail! Once you are in your Gmail account you should see an invite from Jessie Chislett on the bottom of your screen or the bottom left of your Gmail account! From there you can "chat" with me and ask me any questions you might have. From 8am-3pm every day I will be available.

FLIPGRID

Some of you have already started using Flipgrid! Thank you!

If you haven't yet.. go to your Google Classroom and find where I posted something about Flipgrid. Click on the link and follow the directions. 

You are going to introduce yourself AND share an interesting fact about yourself to get started. Other students in class can view your videos too! And.. you should be able to comment on each other's posts so you can still talk to each other and build community! Remember to practice being positive and showing kindness to each other.

We will be using Flipgrid as we go to share our learning over the next few weeks so please get comfortable with it!

I hope you have gotten started on your tasks from today and are enjoying your science labs! Talk soon :)

Clicking Noise

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsJEMH_emBM

Main Idea and Details

New Fact Masters!

Congratulations to You Wei, Ming Lee, and Galen our newest addition fact masters!! Way to go boys! Superb work! For the rest of you.. remember to keep practicing!

Math Thursday February 27th

Here is an amazing link to practice if you are still struggling: click here

Today's questions:

Pg 6-7 #2-5 (sorry it is in black and white, it scans better from the teacher guide).

Math Homework tonight

Kindness Song

Please practice this song for Wednesday!

Math Fact Masters

Congratulations to Aroush, Norocos, YunZhi, and Tiffany who all passed addition on Xtra Math in the last week. Great job Ladies and Gentlemen! Keep up the good work!

Curriculum Night

For a copy of the Powerpoint shared during curriculum night, please click here: https://sunwayeducationgroup-my.sharepoint.com/:p:/g/personal/jessicac_sunway_edu_my/EdQ8Mf8PgpBGgpE4qmJSLGkBW6iSPD_NXgB6PV-ekkYdfw?e=5Ac3wg

Adjectives

Today we learned what adjectives and describing words are and played a game to practice. Here is the video to review:

Adjective games for extra review: https://www.turtlediary.com/games/adjectives.html

Some of our adjectives for different words that we played with:

Puppy: cute, small, fluffy, fast, short, soft, playful, furry, tiny, new, clean, nice, light

Cloud: floating, soft, white, fluffy, beautiful, high, big, dark, light, moving

Baby: cute, new, chubby, clean, fat, small, naughty, short, active, playful

More Sound..

Brain Pop has a lot of videos and information on sound.. please follow this link to see what is available for you! (Login and password is posted on Google Classroom).

https://www.brainpop.com/science/energy/sound/

How to use a Dictionary

We've been learning a lot of new words and improving our vocabulary. When we don't know a word, we are practicing new skills by looking up the word in the dictionary and using it in a sentence! This helps all students, whether they are English Language Learners or not.

Please watch the following videos if you need help with putting words in alphabetic order and finding them in the dictionary!

There is also a more in-depth discussion around using a dictionary here with pictures!

Your Most Urgent Questions Answered About the Coronavirus

We read and discussed a great article this morning about the Coronavirus from Science News for Students - Click here to read it!  and check out the video on how far sneezes can travel! EWWWW!!

Here's our Thursday, February 6th update on our bread.. also EWWWWW!!

New Science Unit - Sound

We've been doing our "Germs" lab - where we see what happens to bread that wasn't touched at all, had dirty hands on it, hand sanitizer, or handwashing. Here is what the bread looks like today:

EWWWWWW!!!

Also to introduce us to our FIRST grade 4 unit.. here is my buddy... BILL NYE!!

More videos will be added on Google Classroom in the following days to help you understand if you are not at school this week. 

Google Classroom

Just a reminder to continue logging into Google Classroom.

I have posted a few Quizizz assignments on there - you can retry the quizzes multiple times (some I have allowed you to redo 2 or 3 times) and submit the highest one when you are happy with it! Please ensure you are getting yourself signed up and connecting through your Google account, otherwise, it won't link your results to my class!

I will be starting to post some videos for you to watch to introduce you to our upcoming science unit on Lights and Sound. We will be working with Ms. Soltes on this unit to develop our understanding of sound through music. Please remember to check into your Google Classroom on a regular basis to see what has been posted for you in both her classroom and mine!

Mandarin Work

Please click here to access the Mandarin work from Ms. Sim Wei: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mWpGoENCNhzP7nsVd9RZihoxOXnLz7BK/view?usp=sharing

Google Classroom

Good afternoon parents and students:

We got started on Google Classroom. I will send students email and login home if they have already returned the signed permission form.

To get started Students will go search: Google and login to their account:

They will then enter their email studentnumber@sunwayeducation.info (example: 00000000@sunwayeducation.info) and press next:

The next page will ask them for their password. It is case sensitive (passwords were created from their Prodigy logins). 

They will then need to click on the little grid on the top right of the screen

And click on the Google Classroom Icon:

Once they have done that, they will click onto Grade 4 to find our Google Classroom. I will be posting assignments on here for them to work through. Their first assignments are to work through some Quizizz quizzes I have added for review! They will need a parents email to connect to as well :)

Once you are done that, you can now attach your Prodigy account to your Google account. Instructions are found here: https://prodigygame.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/115003950826-Sign-in-with-Google-with-an-existing-Prodigy-student-account-