Welcome to Grade Four at Rainbow Creek!
Below you will find some tips for parents and more information about Grade Four:
- By ensuring that your child is reading for at least 20 minutes every night you will help expose them to more and more words. Check out this link to see what only 20 minutes can do!
- Please visit your teacher's website for information that is updated regularly. You will find games, assignments and helpful websites to explore topics that we are looking at in the classroom.
- For a brief look at what we are studying in Grade Four take a look at this link from Alberta Education.
We are eager to hear from you and are looking to partner with you in your child's educational journey.
Helpful Websites
General Site
Khan Academy: Website for all subjects --> this site has video instruction of concepts as well as practice questions, quizzes, etc. to help your child learn some of the concepts.
- https://www.khanacademy.org
- http://www.readwritethink.org/parent-afterschool-resources/activities-projects/design-travel-brochure-30297.html?main-tab=2#tabs
- http://www.abcya.com/word_clouds.htm
- http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/diamante/
Typing
- www.learntyping.org - Good website to progress your way through typing so that your typing improves.
- Dance Mat Typing
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/z3c6tfr
- www.typing.com - It will be challenging- but it will help you become a better typer!
Math
Multiplication and Division
Numbers Up To 10 000
- I can compare numbers up to 10 000.
- I can order numbers up to 10 000.
- Ordering Whole Numbers
- Put them in order!
- Order Order! (Click on numbers up to 10000)
- Counting Caterpillar (Try and set the minimum around 1000 and the maximum around 10 000)
- I can identify and describe patterns found in tables and charts
- I can identify and explain mathematical relationships, using charts and diagrams, to solve problems.
- Solving growing problems like this one
Science
Simple Machines
Here are some review games that you can play!
- https://www.learninggamesforkids.com/simple-machines-games.html
- https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/evscps.sci.phys.simpmach/simple-machines/#.XhdXCC0ZOb8
- http://interactivesites.weebly.com/simple-machines.html
- Simple Machines https://www.brainpop.com/games/simplemachinesgame/
- Mystery of the Missing Milk: Joe is a dairy farmer, but some of the cow's milk has gone missing. Help him find it!
- Medevil Levers: Built your own catapault!
- Robot Factory: Build a robot to complete different tasks.
- Balance the levers! Test your knowledge about levers. Try your hand at balancing. You can move the birds, and add bird seed to the feeder. Make sure you also find the baby birds.
- Repair a Robot: Help Twitch collect the parts to repair a robot by using 4 different types of simple machines: an inclined plane, lever, wheel and axle, and pulley. Select the equipment that will require the least amount of force.
- http://www.softschools.com/science/simple_machines/
Light and Shadow
- Light and Shadow
Waste and our World
Social Studies
- https://prezi.com/wf43rpzk7mlr/social-studies-3/ --> A short prezi comparing Canada to Peru, Tunisia, India and Ukraine- map, size, population, language
Fur Trade
- http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/fur-trade/
- http://firstpeoplesofcanada.com/fp_furtrade/fp_furtrade2.html
- http://www.canadahistoryproject.ca/1663/1663-05-fur-trade.html
- https://fur.ca/fur-trade/canadas-fur-trade-a-timeline/
- http://www.masters.ab.ca/bdyck/early-canada/fur/
- https://www.canadiangeographic.ca/article/five-companies-dominated-canadian-fur-trade
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_fur_trade
Canadian Pacific Railway
- https://www.cpr.ca/en/about-cp/our-history
- http://chung.library.ubc.ca/collection-themes/canadian-pacific-railway/canadian-pacific-railway
- https://cpconnectingcanada.ca/for-students/
- https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/canadian-pacific-railway