Dragons are emerging

Many of the students have brought in their milk jugs and are prepping for paper-mache to create our dragon masks for Chinese New Year. Keep those milk jugs coming in... if you have extra send them along for those who do not have any.

The Week of January 31 - Feb 4th

Notices:

Food for Fun
Hampton little league

For Choir students Victoria sings 2011

Socials:
The Inuit: The students are working on a flip book on the Inuit which will be finished this week
along with small reports on Chinese New Year.
We are including Chinese culture and the New year as the First Nations and Inuit came over to North America on a land bridge toward the end of the last Ice Age from Asia.

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

Famous Canadian: Adrien Clarksen first Chinese Governor General of Canada of Chinese Ancestry 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 competed in their classes. Select groups go on to compete at the school level


Mini book due Friday
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 18

cinder circle cardinal cereal cycle concert dancer celebrate twice dangerous strange ledge damage geography gentle signal regular sugar

Math:

This week we are continuing with the unit on Measurement: The unit starts with telling Time.
This Week we are completing the Math FSA testing. Tomorrow we do the first section on the computer.

Times tables to be mastered this week 4x and we are redoing the 7x as not enough students demonstrated mastery


Music/Choir
During Choir, the non-choir students do musical appreciation: This Week we are doing the Bee Gees and Queen

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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.

Bring in Next Week

The Friday test was not marked and sent home today!

Next week we will be making dragons to celebrate Chinese New Year. We would ask that the students bring in clean empty 4L milk jugs to use as the base of our Dragon masks. Thank you.

Puppets

The students continued to work on Paper bag Puppets from characters in their Classic Novels. Part of their novel is to do a final presentation which will include a puppet show. Can you spot Beauty (from Beauty and the Beast), and the mad hatter and Alice (from Alice in Wonderland)?

Greek Lunch

The Greek community in Victoria cooked and prepared all morning to give every Tillicum student and staff member a taste of real Greek food which was served by Mrs. Burley. It was fantastic and almost everyone in our class went back for seconds. Then we were given another treat, a taste of Greek generosity in the form of a check for $2 000.

So a great σας ευχαριστώ (Sas efharisto) (thank you to the Greek community for their support)

Thursday update

Friday Test:
Spelling unit 17
Math 3x and 7x tables (marked on accuracy and speed)
List 3 facts about how travel is different between winter and summer for the Inuit.
Describe how an Inuit hunts seal in the winter.

List 5 important facts about Emily Carr.

Tests are usually marked on Friday and sent home with the students.
A new feature on the test will indicate which assignments were not completed this week.

Wednesday Update

In the picture a student is working on Part 2 and 3 of the four part Literacy section of the FSA test. Part 4 will be completed tomorrow. Part 1, the computer component of the FSA test, was completed at the end of last week.

2 Notices:

February calendar & Wed Express (the school's valuable weekly information newsletter)
Students on the lunch Program be sure and bring in your signed forms

New assignments:

Math title page for new time unit. Students draw and label on a clock face what they do in a typical 12 hour period on a non school day. Designed to have them face the problem of putting 12 hrs on a 24 hour clock (they wake up am; go to bed pm)

Language Arts: Cover for the new Mini-Book

Assignments due by Friday:

-min 4 chapter reports on the classic novel being read by each student.

-Emily Carr one page report

Friday Test:
Spelling unit 17
Math 3x and 7x tables (marked on accuracy and speed)
List 3 facts about how travel is different between winter and summer for the Inuit.
Describe how an Inuit hunts seal in the winter.

List 5 important facts about Emily Carr.