Polar Bears need our help

Our class has been studying the effects of global warming on Polar Bears, specifically in Churchill, Manitoba as it ties in with the Social Studies curriculum in grade 4: "The North" and "Living in Manitoba", as well as a Science unit "Habitats and Communities". 
First we watched the live webcasts done by a group of people visiting Churchill.  The webcasts can be found at http://chillingwithnanuq.blogspot.com/p/video.html. Check them out for yourselves! We also followed Andy McKiel's blog http://chillingwithnanuq.blogspot.com/ of his visit to Churchill.


There was one blog post in particular that tugged at our heartstrings and made us want to help the polar bears too!  It is called "If Polar Bears could talk" and here is the picture.

The class is working on a bulletin board display of how WE can help the Polar Bears.  A picture will be added soon.

Coca-Cola also has a Save the Polar Bears initiative and you can check out their website https://www.arctichome.com/ to see what they are doing as well.  

-Mrs. Naylor

Polar Bears

We watched a video about polar bears on the blog http://chillingwithnanuq.blogspot.com/. Then we learned more stuff about polar bears and wrote all the stuff the we learned off the polar bear video on a piece of loose leaf. Then we all picked a fact that we liked the most about polar bears and we wrote it on a sentence strip then we hung it up in the classroom. Then we made a bulliton board with the sentence   strips.  Some of the things we learned about polar bears are that human pullution is not  good for the  polar bears and we have to stop global warming because we’re worried that the polar bears won’t have a place to live.

We read the book Winston of Churchill and the aurthers name is Jean Davie Okimoto and it is illustrated by Jeremiah Trammel.  In the book we learned about a polar bear named Winston and the ice was melting and they needed to stop global warming so they could have something to eat and a place to live  so the pack of polar bears held a protest and they came back with the victory  sign.

By Anna 

Tales of the Fourth Grade Nothing diaoramas

We started making diaoramas for novle study. Wemade them out of clay, paint, string, paper, and magisiens. We had to show a scene of something in the book “Tales of the Fourth Grade Nothing” by Judy Blume.  The book was about Peter and how his brother annoys him all the time. We used shoe boxes and other cardboard boxes to make the dioramas. We put the diaoramas in the downstairs display shelf for everyone to see. Come check them out!

By Torin

Missing you all

Hi Grade 4s! I am in Saskatoon still, but wanted to say hi.  I hope you are all on your BEST behavior while I am away.  I will be back on Monday, ready for Halloween!  I have my costume ready.  It has been a few weeks since we've blogged so we will have to do a lot of posts in November.  Miss Unrau told me that you came up with a great Christmas Concert idea for this year.  I can't wait to hear all about it when I get back--she wouldn't tell me!  Have a great day at school and see you soon.  I miss you.  :)  Love Mrs. Naylor

The Important Book

We read The Important Book as a class and it's written by Margaret Wise Brown and the pictures are done by Leonard Weisgard. We talked about Fall, did a class poem together, then we brainstormed ideas, then we wrote our own poem using Writers Workshop.


This is my poem:


The most important thing about Fall is Halloween.On Halloween we get to eat pumpkin pie, pumpkin seeds, carve pumpkins into jack-o-lanterns, trick or treat ,have hot choclate, see family, and of course eat the super good and yummy candy, but the most important thing about Fall is Halloween.

By Anna Lies

Internet Safety

The day befor yesterday we read the internet safty comic Zoe and Molly and we all took turns reading charocters in the story. Today we got to go on the computers. We got to go on www.zoeandmolly.ca and we lerned that it is not safe to take pictures and give them to peaple that you met online in games, etc. and give personel infermation like your adress and your phone number.
-Rylan

The Amazing Things That Happen At RBCS

The Newspaper Club released the September issue of The Amazing Things That Happen At Ruth Betts Community School, and it is available online: http://www.ffsd.mb.ca/RuthBetts/pdf/RBSeptemberNewsletter2011.pdf

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