Saturday, January 22, 2011

The Week of January 24th - 28st

Notices: Greek Lunch Friday 28th


Science
:
Weather conditions affect living things (e.g., growth, behaviour, food, shelter)
We will examine seasonal food chains (webs) in the arctic.
Friday test: see by wed

Socials:
The Inuit: The students are working on a flip book on the Inuit, along with small reports.
We are integrating the socials and science this week by looking at life style changes and traditional hunting methods for main sources of food during the different seasons (seal / caribou)
Friday test: see by wed

Language Arts:
The students are reading classic novels one page reports on four chapters due by Friday.

Famous Canadian: Emily Carr one page report assigned Monday due Friday

Instead of the usual writing assignments, this week, we are focusing on Read For the Top in anticipation of the School wide contest. We are reading books in the class and practicing making questions. Students in teams of 4 will compete first in the class, for fun, then they may choose to compete against the other grade 4 and 5 students.
All students compete in their classes. Select groups go on to compete at the school level


New Mini book assigned today (Monday): due in two weeks.
Using the book Stellaluna (a bat raised to act like a bird) and the story of the ugly duckling (a swan raised by ducks) as a model, the students will write a story of a creature raised by an unlikely other
creature.
Friday Test Spelling Unit 17
words sent home today - but will be on blog tomorrow

Math:

This week we are starting a new unit on Measurement: The unit starts with telling Time

Using math to solve multi-step problems as anticipated in the FSA testing. for example using the following numbers 1 4 6 3 how many different odd three digit numbers can you make.

Times tables to be mastered this week 3x 7x
Friday test: 50 x table questions mostly 3x and 7x

Music/Choir
During Choir, the non-choir students do musical appreciation: This week to go along with our socials and science themes we are listening to and doing mini reports on Vivaldi's' four seasons' Next week is student pick and they are debating between the the music of Queen and ACDC.
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School Safety Rules state that all students should have appropriate footwear in the Gym.
Name Brand, expensive or stylish shoes are optional as we do little standing around or leaning on the wall looking cool being noticed for our shoes. We play games, learn skills, run and jump so cheap, clean and comfortable shoes are best.

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