Week of Feb 21 to 25th

Notices:

Read for the top video project permission form

Inuit Author Michael Kusugak is speaking to gr 4 & 5 wed

Wed is Anti-bullying Day. It is common to wear something pink on that day

The day began with the usual Monday spelling test (Words are just to the right) and worked on the practice spelling tests.

Math: Continuing with time: today we looked at things that make time seem to speed up or slow down. Math class was made up of min challenges proposed by each row to show how a minute does not seem like a long time until your in the middle of a challenge. Some of the challenges the rows came up with for their classmates were: to stand on one foot holding a book on their head, throw a bean-bag into a box 5 times in a min, to gargle continuously for a minute, to write the alphabet backwards. The general ideas is that time (in this case a min) seems fast for some and slow for others depending on what you are doing which influences how the time is perceived.

We read from the read for the top book: Nelson Mandela and answered questions.

After Recess the students finished off their all school write from last week with a final look at their writing. They were given 30 min to reflect on and correct what they wrote.

Weekly Famous person: Tommy Price the most decorated Aboriginal Canadian soldier. One page report due Friday.

In the afternoon first period was Choir. Those students not in choir listened to and did a one page report on Eric Clapton

After choir the students were given time to work on their Classic Novel projects and work on their title pages and their hanging poster.

Classic novel is to be completed by march 7 th.

The students finished the day in Music with Mrs. Awalt.

This Week:

Science Temperature and reading a thermometer

the dragons are still overrunning the class....

we hope to get them all up and finished by Thursday

Math the students will be assigned a math project, in mini book form, on the history of time and clocks.

Socials: The students will take the research from last week and create another non-fiction mini-book (Pawnee, Hopi, Blackfoot, Sioux, Chippewa, Apache, Nez Perce or one of their choice if there is a personal or interest connection) Due Friday

Times tables to be mastered this week 7x, 8x