The Last Day of Shool

Have a great and safe summer everyone.  See you all in grade 5

 Notices:

Parent appreciation morning tea 8:00 till school starts on Thursday

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We started the week with our weekly spelling words:  cleaner, cleanest, bigger, biggest, earlier, earliest, quicker, quickest, busier, busiest, rough, roughest, heavier, heaviest, happier, happiest, lazier, laziest, harder, hardest

After the pretest, which the students marked, the students worked on the 2 double sided page spelling sheets to help them focus on the words and give them practice at learning to remember how to spell the words.

After recess the students had music with Mrs. Awalt where they are practicing for an up coming video to show the school.  After music the students worked on three ongoing projects.... 1 fathers day, 2 Design their own country, and 3 their dragon story.

After lunch we had reading then worked on painting our dragon masks and paper mache project.  After that some of the students went to the computer lab with me to work on a powerpoint project while the others stayed in the class with Tracy working on catching up on other work.

Tuesday May 29th

Yesterday I was away and the substitute gave the spelling, Socials, choir, math adding decimals lessons. 

Today we began with ME where the students began another of our mini books.  This topic was based on the book "That's what Friends are For."  This was followed by the students working on their Dragon story.

After recess the students read then continued to work pm their "design your own country report."  After lunch we had pe then set up the gym for the assembly.  The choir, our drum group, and our class on recorders performed in front of the whole school.  It was great to see those parents who could join us to watch the children perform.

And that was our day.  I will get the spelling words up tomorrow, take care and see you then.

We began the week with our weekly spelling pretest.  Our spelling words for the week are: 

didn't, that's, they're, you're, couldn't, haven't, o'clock, we're, isn't I'm, it's, who's they'd, could've, they've, you'll, don't, aren't, ostrich, Mississippi.

After the pretest the students worked on the 4 page of spelling sheets that help the students focus on the weeks spelling words.   This weeks words are all contractions which are a shortened form of a word or group of words, with the missing letters usually marked by an apostrophe.

After recess the students had silent reading  for half an hour followed by Handwriting practice where they wrote out the Spring:

March wind is a jolly fellow; 

He likes to joke and play.
He turns umbrellas inside out
And blows men's hats away.
He calls the pussy willows
And whispers in each ear,
"Wake up you lazy little seeds,
Don't you know that spring is here.

This was followed by math where we marked the work we did last week on writing dollars and cents and converting cents to dollars and dollars to cents.

After lunch we had p.e. with Mrs Mantai's class followed by Socials where we worked in the computer lab on our design your own country report.

Tuesday May 15th: Science venture

Tuesday began with a handwriting assignment  with two choices.  Choice one on self esteem and the second choice books as treasures. The first choice was longer and was to be illustrated.  The second choice was a single sentence but the students had to print a response to what they thought the quote meant. 

After Handwriting we worked on making a crest (coat of arms) as a symbol for their nation in our "design your own nation" project.  We talked about colors and what they mean, shapes and what they stand for and what different animals mean if used on their national coat of arms. 


After recess we had 30 minutes of silent reading then went to the computer lab to find information and pictures for their nation report.  They were to find a national animal, tree, fish, flower, bird, for the nation they are making.

After lunch we had two science or education students from the university of Victoria representing "Science Ventures" who taught us about Sound and Light.  The activities and experiments went for the whole afternoon and were totally fun.  The activities were child centered and engaging for our students.  The students themselves became part of the experiments and we heard sound through our mouths (biting on a pencil) and saw how different colored lights became white, as well as many other cool experiments.  See the pictures that I have uploaded of some of the activities.

Monday May 14th: The day after Mother's day

We began the week talking about how their Mother's day books were received by their mom's, the laughs, the tears the hugs.  The students worked hard on their project and were surprised that one student said their work was more valuable than a $300 purse that was also given as a present.

Then we did our weekly spelling test and handed out a one page, double sided, worksheet instead of the two double sided sheets for the students to work on.

This weeks spelling words:

across, alone, among, brother, again, front, banana, appear, compass, pedal, given, heaven, mountain, ocean, cousin, purchase, often, color (colour), water, Mother's day

After spelling the students wrote a one page response to what they did for Mother's day.

Recess was followed by Music with Mrs. Awalt.  They worked on reading music and playing the recorder.  The students will be performing at our next assembly on May 30 th.  After choir we started a unit on Money.  It is through money that we introduce the students to the concept of writing decimals:  7c = $0.07. 
The students think it is easy so they tend to think it is simple.  It is simple but they need to understand the concepts of tenths and hundredths so they do not make mistakes later on.

After lunch those students not in choir listened to and did a one page report on the musical group the Cranberries.

Tuesday May 8th

Notices :

Class photo Day is Friday

Food For Fun is this Friday

We began the day with the students writing a type of  "I am" poem.  The students had to fill in an answer sheet to prompts like: I am, I think, I see, I found etc.  then they had to draw a picture and write out the poem in alternating colors.

After recess the wrote out a quote by  Kahlil Gibran On Children.  This is the thought for the week and handwriting practice.  We talked about the quote and the students wrote it out in their best handwriting. 

You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them,
but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

This was followed by math where the students worked on finishing their large pictograph and tally sheet.

After lunch we had P.E. against Mrs. Carlton's class followed by 30 minutes of silent reading before doing an art project for the special day on Sunday. 

Pictures will be added tonight for today and yesterday...