Place value

The concept of place value is being reinforced through games on place value and base ten cubes:

Leaders

Grade 4's current unit is 'leaders'. Students have been working hard on understanding the characteristics of a leader.
We began the unit with a bus top activity, which had some questions on leadership as a concept and how they perceive themselves as leaders. What qualities should they have in order to be a leader.
A teacher guided lesson on Gandhi Ji was delivered as an exemplar. The objectives were to understand qualities of a leader and to develop research skills.
Students found this very interesting and they wanted to know more about other leaders. They were divided into expert groups and each group researched on a leader. The leaders whom they researched on are Helen Keller (woman leaders), Tenzing Norgay, Edmund Hillary (explorers), Adolf Hitler, Mussolini (deadly dictators) etc. Each group shared their learning with the other groups through group presentations.
A lot of learning is happening............

Students are trying to scim and scan information from an article on a leader. 

We are on!

Hello there,
Now that we have our class blog up and running, lets be proactive.
You may check out the photographs and my comments/explanations.
Thanks
Ms Reema Mitra