Thursday Update

Notices:

Math history of time due tomorrow:

The students started the day with 30 minutes to work on their Math history of time mini book.

Math: Exploring lapsed time. The students, on their own or in pairs, were to plan a day at Fun-land Park. The park opens at 9:30 am and is open until 9:30 pm. They were to pick 4 or 5 activities and plan their day estimating how long they spend at each activity, include food and bathroom breaks. They are to think of a way to record and schedule their time.

Today the winners of who can keep their desk clean for a week were announced by the Cleaning Crew and all received a reward. See the class newspaper for the full story.

After recess until lunch the students did group work. The project today was to pick a dance or ceremony of one of the First Nations groups and produce a 11 x 17 poster.

We started after lunch with 40 min of reading.

We ended the day with Science: Continuing on our weather theme, which will continue until spring break. Today we talked about the importance of water to living things, including themselves. Then we watched video's on drought in Africa, talked about drought and worked one page report on drought using page 68 of the text book and information we learned from the video.

Friday's test:

Spelling unit 22

Science: A blizzard is a snowstorm that has very high winds. These winds blow the snow which makes it hard to see outside. The winds make the temperature seem much colder than it really is. This is called wind chill.

Math: analog to digital time, time durations, and times tables.

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