Room 36 ~ Grade 3 & 4

 Welcome to Room 36 

Grades 1 - 6 2023 School Supply List.pdf

Students in Room 36 enjoyed spending the month of March with Mr. Tam as their teacher.  Mr. Tam is familiar with Lord Selkirk School and the community; his humour, warmth and curriculum knowledge ensured that students and their learning were well supported throughout the month. 

The Barren Grounds by David Robertson is an Indigenous fantasy novel that the class has been enjoying and using as inspiration for some creative writing activities. The students created their own fantasy writing with creative activities such as imagining "what if February 29^th did not exist" and writing letters to their future selves. 

Students used their storytelling skills in Social Studies by creating comic strips to illustrate interactions between European settlers and Indigenous peoples. The focus of this activity was to highlight the exchange of ideas between Indigenous peoples and European settlers and illustrate how those exchanges helped settlers to survive in the natural environment or how settlement affected Indigenous communities. You can learn more about this activity by asking your child: "what events did you illustrate in your social studies comic strip?" "which historical people did you include in your comic strip?" 

Throughout the month in Math, students explored fraction. The use of visuals and manipulatives (physical objects) was a great support for students to develop their understanding of fractions. It can be tricky to learn that the more parts (of a whole) that we have, the smaller the parts are, for example: a half (1/2) is larger than a quarter (1/4). Visuals and manipulatives help to make these concepts concrete.