
Robert Corbett
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Teacher and doting daddy.
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Building better sentences. Grade 4 students Woodman Wolves practice the Ideas writing trait by progressively adding more detail to simple sentences. Questions like Where? When? Size? Name? help to guide our thinking. Grand Erie District School Board


Using our handy dandy whiteboards to review place value estimation. Woodman Wolves Grand Erie District School Board


We ended our week with some reading time outside. Students chose books to bring home for some weekend reading. Shout out to those who asked for sticky notes to record their connections. Woodman Wolves Grand Erie District School Board


Our cursive handwriting is coming along. Big shout out to Amy Hoo and her grade 7’s. Having some extra ‘cursive coaches’ has really motivated my Grade 4’s. Woodman Wolves Grand Erie District School Board



Grade 4’s first attempt at two point perspective. Woodman Wolves Grand Erie District School Board


“Travel north from Vancouver to discover the capital of Yukon!”Grade 4 students play 'Compass Relay' to build their skills with cardinal directions and explore Canada's provinces and territories.” Woodman Wolves Grand Erie District School Board



Me: “I like doing math while standing up.” Student: “Me, too. It lets us stretch our legs while we get smarter.” Woodman Wolves students work in pairs to practice using bar models to solve story problems. Grand Erie District School Board


“Nature is all connected. If you take one thing out, it will all fall apart.” Today, we played “Web of Life”, tossing a ball of yarn to show connections. “I am SOIL, I am made richer by the WORM.” “I am a WORM, I hide from the BIRD.” Woodman Wolves Grand Erie District School Board


We tried blind contour portraits in Grade 4—no lifting the pen, no erasing, no peeking (okay, some peeking)! The results? Hilariously amazing and wonderfully weird. Woodman Wolves Grand Erie District School Board


Turns out, the playground is more alive than we thought. Today, Woodman Wolves grade 4 students explored the schoolyard as habitat detectives, searching for signs of food, water, shelter, space, and living things. Grand Erie District School Board


Math + movement = engagement! Grade 4 students counted each other’s jumping jacks for 1 minute, then we turned the sweat into stats. Mean, median, and mode made their move! Woodman Wolves Grand Erie District School Board


By far the he yummiest math lesson of the week: How many of each colour Smarties are in a typical box? We literally crunched the numbers! Each group used Smarties to find the mean, median & mode of their colour. Woodman Wolves Grand Erie District School Board
