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Archive 2014 2015

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Summer time!

Enjoy.

Read

Relax

Practise your multiplication skills

and nap every so often...

This is Cardigan.  She is Cora's new "sister."

 

 

 

June 22, 2015

French

TU - Weekly math and reading comprehension

TU - Math review from Friday 

Math test - perimeter and area

It's lunch time.  There are lots of happy faces.  Thanks for sending in all sorts of fantastic goodies.

 

 

Our Fonts

game about pushing squares.

 

June 19, 2015

French

Science presentations

more science presentations

Gym

TU - the last of the math

HW - review for Monday's perimeter and area test

 

June 18, 2015

French

Language - indie reading and test on weekly words

Music

Tried to TU math, but rehearsal began at 1PM

Pot luck on Monday, June 22.  The sign up sheet is on the board.  We were told to discuss with Mom and/or Dad prior to making any commitments.  

 

 

June 10, 2015

A buffet of tasks to work on: our triangles, French FedEx, and science.  I think it was the Grinch who said, "Oh the noise, noise, noise!"  I'll stop complaining.

Music

Math - HW - finish our current booklet on perimeter (fence) and area (the grass)

Weekly tasks: math (30 x 15) and reading comprehension How Weather Affects Travel

Weekly words: brouhaha, hunky-dory, flapdoodle, peachy keen, and hallabaloo.

 

June 10, 2015

French

17 minutes of indie-reading

TU - weekly math, reading comprehension, and DLR Week 14.  

C -  all of that and DMP Week 13

Work time on our science projects.

PHE - burnt off some steam with one, never-ending game of UP!

more Science work time.

Book exchange in the library

 

June 9, 2015

17 minutes of indie-reading

"Keeping It Moving" (showing instead of telling) from Down Write Funny

Mystery Monsters of Loch Ness - reading passage with twenty-four questions from three categories.

Music

Mathematics - p279 to 280 

Computer lab to work on science.

 

June 2, 2015

French

20 minutes of indie-reading

TU - Down Write Funny  p20 and 21 "Active and Clear" -

A.K.A. using active voice or the subject doing the action appears before the verb (action) in the sentence.  Bob hit the ball.  A "passive" sentence would be: The ball was hit by Bob.

Music

Math - TU - pages 274 and 275  HW - to the bottom of page 278

Discussed some questions about science

We'll be in the 'puter lab on Friday to do some research.  Please don't buy any presentation boards, etc. for this in-school project.  

Some time to finish your triangle.

Weekly Words: sorry, know, worms, four, and Thursday.

Weekly tasks: How We Communicate TodayDMP B/C # 13, math (57 x 95), and DLR Week 14.

 

June 2, 2015

French

20ish minutes of independent reading

HO - Weekly tasks

Down Write Funny - Active and Clear p20 to 21

Gym

Math - How many Post-It Notes would we need to cover the Dumb Bored Smartboard?  Answer around 320 (76 mm by 76 mm) Post-Its.  

Stayed outside for a bit to make up for the shortened gym time.

Book exchange in the library.

In the news...

There's a lot to remember when you're a learner driver but a pretty good rule is: don't pull out in front of tanks.

That's what happened to an 18-year-old driving this Toyota Yaris in the Lippe district of Germany on Monday.

According to local police she pulled out in front of a column of British military vehicles travelling on a ring road around the town, often used by British forces stationed nearby to transport tanks and other armoured vehicles.

The driver of the tank, a 24-year-old British serviceman, wasn't able to bring his Challenger 2 tank to a stop in time.

Inevitably, in a battle between 62-tonnes of armour and a one-tonne hatchback, there was only going to be one winner.

Luckily the driver of the car was completely unharmed in the incident, and the tank crew pulled her free.

The car, however, suffered 12,000 euros (£8,600) worth of damage.

The tank, not entirely surprisingly - was unscathed.

 

 

June 1, 2015

TU - Weekly Math (26 x 35) and reading comprehension The First Living Being

C - Weekly Math, reading comprehension, DLR Week 13, and DMP B/C #12

Math - work on fractals

Music

Math - HW - to the bottom of p275

Science - discussed our in-class human organ systems project

solo, duet, or trio (your choice)

at-school only

Yes, you can bring some materials from home, but not your aunt's, who is a doctor, "dummy" from her office. 

No time to read today.  That's not good.  

After over 950 days of driving around Mars, the Little-Robot-That-Could takes in a sunset.

 

May 25, 2015

French

a bit more time for French

17 minutes of independent reading

Time to work with Pixar's Rule #4

Weekly words: nostril, dissolve, golden, storytelling, and continue.

Weekly tasks: Math (26 x 53), DMP B/C #12,

 

May 25, 2015

17 minutes of independent reading

TU - Weekly Math (44 x 95) and reading comprehension A Man with a Dream

C - Weekly tasks

Down Write Funny p16 and 17 Starting and Stopping then TU 

Pixar's Golden Rules of Storytelling #4

Music

Math - Review of central tendency and probability

Science - HO - Circulatory System, TU - Respiration and Circulatory System (Try the experiment at home if you are curious (like a scientist) to find out about your lung volume.)

 

 

May 23, A.K.A. World Turtle Day

Say what?  Really?

 

May 22, 2015

3 on 3 Basketball Day

We should be having a math quiz/test thingy next Wednesday.  Review on Monday, and we'll take it up on Tuesday.  We had loads of time to complete our work today if you were not involved in the 3 on 3 basketball event.

 

21, 2015

French

Language

 

May 20, 2015

French

Language

 

May 19, 2015

French

Language - S.T.E.A.L. for Margot

20 minutes of reading to pass the time during the Code Red drill.

Sentence A Day page 41 A.K.A. Make it Bleed sentence proofreading

more time to S.T.E.A.L.

Math - Probability: comparing theoretical (the idea) to experimental (real world) probabilities 

Book exchange

Weekly words: character, favourable, probability, patella, and spine.

Weekly tasks: reading comprehension A Man with a Dream, Weekly math (44 x 85), DLR Week 12, and DMP B/C #11.(HO -  May 20)

The result of math + language + art = craziness

I was wrong however: math + language + art = awesome craziness 

 

 

Tuesday morning's rush hour on the way to work, but no one was honking.

 

May 17, 2015

17 hours into the day, and Denmark with a population of just over five and a half million is still running on 100% wind power and hasn't even needed the additional solar.  I guess they aren't anti-wind! 

 

May 15, 2015

17 minutes of independent reading

S.T.E.A.L - characterization - note in our Book Named _______.

All Summer in a Day - read together

characterization of Margot from All Summer in a Day

Music

Math - HW - complete the rest of the booklet

Science - HW - The Skeletal System

 

May 14, 2015

French

 

May 13, 2015

French

 

May 12, 2015

French

17 minutes of independent reading

TU - No Jamming - eliminating run-on sentences

HW - math pages 300 and 301

HW - science Digestive System and Do Cows Have Four Stomachs?

Weekly words: intestines, nutrients, stomach, mouth, and rectum.

Weekly Tasks: none, except some of our group have some tasks to catch up on.  They were given new copies of their tasks today.

 

May 11, 2015

French

17 minutes of independent reading

TU - Weekly Math (81 x 50) and reading comprehension The Art of Creating Cartoons

C - Weekly Math (81 x 50), reading comprehension The Art of Creating Cartoons, and DMP B/C #10.

TU - some of Complete Thoughts

HO - No Jamming (find and correct run-on sentences)

Gym - some badminton hitting practice

Math - We completed an example of a stem-and-leaf plot together

Game - Name the Factors

Book exchange 

 

 

May 5, 2015

French

HW -  p299 math #1 through 4 - Stem and Leaf plots 

 

May 5, 2015

French

17 minutes of independent reading

TU - Weekly Math C - Weekly Math, reading comprehension, DMP B/C #10, and DLR Week 11

Heinz Day - a whole lot of Catch Up and Finish Up

- totem of you-ness

- onomatopoeia/reflection/art piece

- Word Study Unit 5

Weekly words: combine, median, average, fragment, and component.

Weekly tasks are still hanging out at the photocopier, waiting for someone, like me, to roll them through.

 

May 4, 2015

French

 

 

 

 

 

May 1, 2015

Today's magic number will be 17

17 minutes of independent reading

17 minutes of Word study

17 minutes of listing onomatopoeia words

Music

Fractions test

math + language + art = craziness

 

 

April 30, 2015

French

He's gone to a math thingy at the Education HQ

Presentation from the St. Leonard Society

 

For today's FedEx Day, you may also try this Flipbook Maker.

 

April 29, 2015

French

17 minutes of independent reading

Writing: a story created from four images: a match lighting a piece of paper on fire, scissors cutting a piece of paper, a net catching a butterfly, and a person holding a wrapped box looking over his/her shoulder.  The images can be arranged in any order.

Gym - we blew off some pent up steam with a few games.

Mathematics - TU - more of our fractions booklet.  Quick test on Friday.  Review tomorrow.

 

April 28, 2015

Track and Field day in the backyard.  

 

April 27, 2015

French

17 minutes of independent reading

TU - Weekly math (17 x 28) then C Weekly task - p89 reading comprehension A Different Kind of Home, DLR Week 10, math (17 x 28), DMP B/C #8.

Compare and contrast exercise using two shoes.

Final copy of Canadian version of Yankee Doodle Dandy

Gym - Hitting the bird practice

Math TU - started taking up p203 and 204

Weekly words: comparison, contrast, difference, different, and similar.

Weekly tasks: reading comprehension Another Creation Story, math (67 x 77), DMP B/C #9, and DLR Week 11. (HO -  on Tuesday)

 

Thanks to the those who stepped up to fill in the missing pieces.  You know who you are.  Thumbs way up!

 

April 22, 2015

Earth Day - our mural is missing three pieces still :(

French

17 minutes of independent reading

finish Yankee Doodle Dandy Canadian re-mix

Unit 4 Word Study

Weekly tasks

any piece from the Grad 3 Save the Monarch piece

Gym - hitting the birdies

Math - continued working on fractions

more of Canada: A People's History

Weekly words: syrup, puffin, beaver, equivalent, and advanced. 

Weekly Tasks: p89 reading comprehension A Different Kind of Home, DLR Week 10, math (17 x 28), DMP B/C #8.

 

April 21, 2015

Back shots' day...Yeah!

French

language - 17 minutes of independent reading

Music

Math - continue working on our fractions unit

Computer lab - find the answers to the research questions we created yesterday

 

April 20, 2015

French

17 minutes of independent reading

Created Earth Day research questions for Tuesday's computer lab time.

Turn Yankee Doodle Dandy into a Canadian song - Captain Canuck went to Calgary riding on his dog sled shoved a toque on his head then drove the red Zamboni (Wow! Where did that come from?)

Gym - badminton in pairs - practice volleys

Math - HW - p203 and 204 Ordering and Comparing Fractions

Library for book exchange

 

April 17, 2015

P. A. Day - and it is fabulous day outside, so enjoy it.

 

April 16, 2015

17 minutes of independent reading

Word Study Unit 4 - continue to work on it

Presentation from Heather from the St. Leonard Society

Music

 

 

April 15, 2015

French 

17 minutes of independent reading

Word Study Unit 4 - begin working on it.

Off to the computer lab to work on our Birth Date piece.

Math diagnostic for my P. A. Day on Friday.

Visual arts - can we make an impossible "other type" of polygon? (Some of us worked on missing items from the last month.) 

 

April 14, 2015

French - quiz

17 minutes of independent reading

Where are we on our birth date piece?

Overdue: Family tree and alliteration pieces.

Math test on geometry unit

Back in time with our lovely adventure into Canadian history.  Small pox biological warfare...yikes!

 

April 13, 2015

French - quiz tomorrow

17 minutes of independent reading

TU -  Weekly Math ( x )

C - Weekly Math ( x ), Daily Math Puzzlers B and/or C #6 , Daily Language Review Week 8, reading comprehension How Hawaii was Created

10 minute desk clean - you know who you are...

Music

Mathematics - TU - Math review pages Test is on Tuesday, but I let you know that last week, so I hope you let mom and/or dad know.

Social studies - more of the wonderful, and very brutal story, of how we became a country.

Weekly Words: fraction, numerator,denominator, benchmark, and vulgar.

Weekly tasks: Math (40 x 36), Daily Math Puzzlers B and/or C #7, Daily Language Review Week 9, and reading comprehension How Native Americans Say People Were Made.

 

April 8, 2015

French - 

17 minutes of independent reading

Peer review of Bunny story

Select format: single page comic or story board, booklet, something else - start working on the final copy of your piece about the Easter Bunny's job

Math - TU - yesterday's math homework

Visual arts - impossible square

 

April 7, 2015

French - 

17 minutes of independent reading

TU - Weekly Math (39 x 99)

C - Weekly Math (39 x 99), reading comprehension Measuring GrowthDaily Math Puzzlers B and/or C #6, and Daily Language Review Week 7.

Writing task about the bunny who quit/got fired/etc.

Gym - badminton practice with a partner

HW - Math handout Unit 6 Angles - all pages

HW - Science booklets on the Muscular and Skeletal Systems

Do you have your slice of the mural completed?

Were all of last week's tasks handed in?  We have too much green on "What are you missing sheets on the board?" 

Weekly Tasks: How Hawaii was Created, math (54 x 49), Daily Math Puzzlers B and/or C #6, Daily Language Review Week 8.

Weekly Words: rabbit, chocolate, bunny, cookies, and pleasant.

 

April 1, 2015

French - quiz tomorrow

15 minutes of independent reading

HW - alliteration 11 x 17 piece - Please provide a perfectly prepared piece presently.

Gym - Started badminton today.  Worked on hitting the bird to a partner.  10 minutes of UP!

Math - HW -  Draw it. Name it. Describe it (angles, side lengths, and pairs of parallel lines) for the following: quadrilateral, concave quadrilateral, rectangle, square, kite, trapezoid, parallelogram, and rhombus. (lone wolf, duet, or trio)

A bit of work time prior to going to the library for book exchange.

March 31, 2015

Snow!  Really?

15 minutes of independent reading

Wishful Thinking writing exercise

Music

 

Ms. T was in.

TU - all the math work from the last few days p. 165 through 174(?) - We should be have a test pretty soon.  We'll have review sheets prior to the test.  Oh, something to look forward too, along with the Easter chocolate.

HO - Weekly Tasks: Math ? x 99, Daily Language Review Week 7, reading comprehension Measuring Growth, and Daily Math Puzzlers B/C 5 - due next Tuesday

HO - Science booklet on the skeletal system and a booklet on the muscular system

HO -  (those done all the previous Weekly Tasks) piece of an Earth Day Mural - use only line and/or dots to complete this piece - Due next Tuesday

 

March 30, 2015 -

Monday, Monday.

French

15 minutes of independent reading

TU - Weekly Math (62 x 58)

C - Weekly Math, DLR #6, Daily Math Puzzlers B/C #4. and reading comprehension Numbers

two writing exercises using constraints on the letters that can be used.  

Math HW - finish the booklet

Math diagnostic test 

more, but I can't remember it off the top of my bowl of noodles.

Weekly Words: adjacent, opposite, edge, colony, and treaty.

 

March 29 -

On this day in... 

1848 Niagara Falls Ontario - Niagara Falls runs dry for 24 hours due to an ice jam on Lake Erie; beginning at 5 am; only time on record

 

March 26, 2015

French

sorted out some name tags for our French student-teacher

Music

15 minutes of reading with some purple cupcakes

Weekly words spelling test

Math - continued working on our quadrilateral and their properties

Social studies - more of Canada: A People's History - episode 4 (more fire and explosions between two warring empires)

 

March 25, 2015

French

15 minutes of independent reading.

worked on our family tree thingy - some of us are done whilst some of us have yet to begin, or just started over for reasons unknown.  Some days it is a mysterious universe.

Gym - played an awesome game with Ms. M whilst I was in a meeting. At 135, with the meeting going a bit longer than expected, we played two truths and a lie.  Yes, someone did catch fifty snakes.  Ah, cool.

Book exchange in the library

 

March 24, 2015

Off to the computer lab to work on ourselves, so to speak.  It was quite interesting.

Music

Math - stop at the end of page 168(?)

15 minutes of independent reading

worked on the impossible triangle

worked on the my family thingy

 

March 23, 2015

Ah, welcome back!  I hope you are all rested.  Just to mess us up, it is Day 5 of the ten day cycle.  Book exchange and gym is on Wednesday.

French with Mme. P's student teacher

15 minutes of independent reading

Started working on the final copy of the "Me and My Family" thingy - For those missing there questions, her are the sheets.

TU - Weekly Math

C - Weekly Math (30 x 40), reading comprehension A History of NumeralsDaily Math Puzzlers B3 and/or C3, Daily Language Review Week 5.

Mathematics - HO - new booklet page 165 onward - started working on it, but not HW.  Discussed properties of quadrilaterals - properties are used to give some of them special names: parallelogram, square, rhombus, etc..

Visual arts: In the spirit of geometry, we tried to create some Penrose (impossible) triangles.  

Weekly Words: trapezoid, rhombus, square, Penrose, and family.

Weekly Tasks: Weekly Math (62 x 58), reading comprehension NumbersDaily Language Review Week 6, and Daily Math Puzzlers either B4 or C4 (or both).

 

Getting Ready for Your Return

Your questions about Mom and Dad were due last Friday. 

- rough copy

- point form

- ready to go on Monday

Your Weekly Tasks, which you had ample time to complete during the week prior to the break, need to be ready for Monday

Math - What were the names of we used when classifying triangles by the measures of their sides and the measures of their angles.

 

 

The moon's backside...cool.

March 13, 2015

Colour House - most of the morning

French presentations

time to make sure we have no HW for the break

 

March 12, 2015

French

 

March 10, 2015

Twin day, and to my surprise, I had not one, but two "twins."

15 minutes of independent reading

25 word story - example on the right side -----

25 word story handout, side one should be done

shared our stories by walking around and reading other writing books

Music

Math TU - page 159, We Do - page 160, and HW - page 161 Parallel Lines (continued)

When done, those who finished their "green" homework from yesterday completed their Sharpie outline of the leprechaun.  

Canada - A People's History Episode 3 (or...so that is where the Kingston Frontenacs got their name)

 

March 9, 2015

French

Independent reading

Choral reading presentations

Weekly word test for last week's words...finally.

TU  - math ## x ## page 74 #3 a, c, and f #4 c #5 b and e, and 6 a, b, and c

Math HW - page 159 #1 through 4

Art - 16 square St. Patty's Day HW - green value and texture

We will work on the leprechaun tomorrow.

When the photocopier works, I'll put together our Weekly tasks. 

 

March 3, 2015

French

some extra French time to work on our partner's word search

15 minutes of independent reading

Presented the 10 Ways to get (general) to (be appropriate)piece.

Discussed a creating a topic sentence - Using an Infinitive (to verb - to hit, to burp, to burn)

To persuade person to action, you should try the following three things.  Then, using the best three details from the list of ten, support your topic sentence.

Gym - last day to show off our basketball skills - dribbling and shooting

Mathematics - TU - yesterday's work  HW - p. 157 and 158 (Yes, you need to measure the sides with a ruler, and the angles with a protractor.  Write small, putting the information in the appropriate spot.)

Another ten minutes of Adventurers and Mystics.  The French have ganged up (all six of them) with the Hurons to go pick a century long fight with the Iroquios.

Book exchange in the library.

Oh yeah.  Weekly Words (test on Friday): doesn't, bought, haven't, temperature, and permission.

Weekly Tasks: Week 4 of Daily Language Review

 

March 3, 2015

15 minutes of independent reading

20 minutes to finish off the 10 Ways to get (general) to (be appropriate)piece.

[4]Write a paragraph about a cat attacking something, but don’t use the words hissscratch, or pounce.

Music

Math - Drawing Lines and Angles to Construct Triangles (given angle-side-angle)

Episode 2 Canadian History - Adventurers and Mystics - 30 minutes

 

March 2, 2015

French

15 minutes of independent reading

Carnaval in the afternoon...finally.

 

 

February 27, 2015

French

15 minutes of independent reading

10 Ways to get (general) to (be appropriate).

- solo, duet, or trio.  

- think of 15, but use only 10

- 24 by 26 paper for final copy

Gym 

Mathematics - TU - yesterday's work.  Discussed how to name angles.

more of Canada: A People's History

 

February 26, 2015

French

15 minutes of independent reading.

Spelling test on our Weekly Words.

Writing - Ten Ways to Get Your Brother to Drink Mud from Why We Must Run With Scissors

- funny persuasion writing 

- think of ideas to use to achieve your goal and list them

Music

Mathematics - Measuring and Constructing Angles

Social Studies - began watching a video on Canada's First Peoples and European Contact

 

February 25, 2015

French

15 minutes of independent reading.

Writing a topic sentence to state a position on the issue

- take a position on an issue (yes, no, don't really care)

- need three reasons/facts/details to support your position, i.e., your topic sentence

- share

The Do You Know project - introduce the project (No, the questions are not meant to be an interrogation, so if they sit you down with a flashlight shining in your eye, it wasn't my idea.) 

- We'll aim for March 13 as a due date to have information gathered.

PHE - gym time

Mathematics TU - Yesterday's constructing angles by having a partner measure your angles.  If you had 6 or fewer correct, please redo the angles so they are correctly constructed.

15 minutes of time to work on Weekly Tasks

Book exchange in the library

 

February 24, 2015

15 minutes of independent reading.

About seven of our fearless crew presented their FedEx day material.  We learned some interesting things about the game of cricket, dogs, wolves, F-22s, and other stuff.  It was both interesting and productive.  Well done because you delivered.  Sorry.

Music

## x ## multiplication using the sum of partial products (i.e., the standard algorithm, although we ripped it apart by decomposing one of the two digit numbers into a ten's digit and its one's digit and then added (sum) them together.)  HW - p74 for Thursday - This is our Weekly Math for this week.

Geometry - HW - first side of a sheet of angles to construct (i.e., draw them with a protractor).

Weekly Tasks: reading comprehension Big Words into SmallDaily Math Puzzlers B #2, Daily Language Review Week 3

Weekly Words: colour, flavour, complementary, secondary, and constructing.

 

February 23, 2015

French

Computer lab for FedEx morning research (50 minutes on a topic of your choosing)

FedEx time - 50 minutes to deliver the information you researched - 24 x 36 paper (shamefully, measurements are in inches)

15 minutes of independent reading

C - reading comprehension Pandora, Daily Language Review Week 2, and Problem Solving B #1

Continued working on ## x ## multiplication - emphasis on decomposing numbers (factors) to create powers of ten (x 10 or x 100)

Visual arts - HW - warming hands (complementary colours)

Worked on the other piece, which, for some reason, has yet to get some sort of name.

So far, I have received eight ski field trip forms.  Thanks to all who have volunteered to go with our class. 

 

February 19, 2015

Burr.

Thanks for the return of the ski trip forms.

French

20 minutes of independent reading time whilst our brainless fearless leader loaded his newly purchased SmartBored DumbBoard Smart Board Files onto the 'puter.  No physical violence was required.

Worked on decomposing arrays (multiplication). - Math p27 More Mental Math.pdf

Music

Spelling test on our Weekly Words.

Science - open book Review quiz

TU - open book Review quiz

Mathematics - HW - p 156 #1

 

February 18, 2015

French - The first two periods were used to complete their assignment, the one that is due tomorrow.

## x ## multiplication - the beginning of a new adventure

Gym - dribbling and shooting skills

HW - Math p. 155 end of #1

book exchange in the library

 

February 17, 2015

Time for some quiet, independent reading

TU - Weekly Math (6x5)

C - Weekly Math (6x5) and reading comprehension, What is Big and What is Small 

Writing activity - Somebody Wanted But So - a method to summarize the plot.  We used it to summarize Friday's movie.

Then, we tried to summarize a movie in fifty words or less.  No, sixty-two words isn't fifty.

Music

indoor lunch hour - yay!

Toonie Tuesday Dodge ball Tournament (three attempts to spell that word) which left about half of us to work on Weekly Tasks and some other creative things.

Weekly tasks: reading comprehension Pandora, Weekly Math ## x ## multiplication begins, Daily Language Review Week 2, and Daily Math Puzzlers B-1.

Weekly Words: pronounsmeasurementsChineseprotractorquadrilateral and frozen 

  

February 13, 2015

French - La Saint-Valentin word search and French mural creation

Computer lab - searching for the origin of tomorrow, purchasing and growing roses, and chocolate consumption, then Mrs. M tried to get them logged into their Google based email accounts so they could access and create Google Docs.  Sometimes, logins, and passwords, and specific mumbo-jumbo details are not a good mix with excited eleven year old ragamuffins. 

Our indoor recess saw the giving of many festive treats to one another.  Thanks for sending in something for the day.

Finished up our French, then had our Weekly Words test.

Quick, and somewhat painful, quiz on Section 2 Problem Solving (#10).  Who would have known that the number 1 000 000 would cause so much stress?

Afternoon - An overdue celebration of the end of Term One. 

Enjoy your weekend and Family Day on Monday.

Remember, we don't have any more cursive writing.  Yes, you have finished 77 pages!

 

February 12, 2015

French

20 minutes of independent reading time

Finished up our story arc for Paul Jennings, Sneeze 'n Coffin

Gym,  -  after being stuck inside all day, we ran around the gym, throwing a few balls at each other to get rid of all the ants in our pants.  Keep those idioms coming...

Math - TU - yesterday's work.  HW -  read the top portion of page 153 Measuring Angles

 Science TU - #5 Impacts of Human Energy Use

 Weekly words for tomorrow: protractor, whimsical, angles, vertices, and obtuse

 

February 11, 2015

French - A quiz to start the morning.  Ought to be a law against that.  Afterward, we worked on creating our own school.  

20 minutes of independent reading

Worked on our story arc

Music

Instead of starting math, we chatted about being kinder, gentler, happy classmates.

Cursive writing quiz.  Yes, we are done seventy-seven pages of cursive writing practice.  Yikes!

Math - started a new unit (Geometry) - HW - pages 150 and 151 up to #3.  (Trying to do the page numbers from memory, and don't forget I'm old.)

Science - Finished our pages from Monday.  We are going to have a little open book quiz soon, so you might want to get your pages in order.

Weekly words are on the board.  Test is on Friday morning because the words were posted so late.

HO - Weekly Tasks: math and reading comprehension.

 

February 10, 2015

How is it the 10th already?

French - working on creating their own school.  I suggested slides instead of stairs.  Just a thought.

some additional time to work on their floor plans (rough copies)

Worked on the story arc for yesterday's story, Sneeze 'n Coffin

TU - Math Weekly Sheet

C - Weekly Math sheet, cursive, Roads to Reasoning Section 2 #9, and reading comprehension sheet 

Gym - basketball dribbling and shooting practice

Math - test on transformations

Book exchange in the library

Weekly words: whimsical, (and four others...)

From The Atlantic, an interesting article on spelling, and why it's so difficult in English.  

 

February 9, 2015

We had a supply teacher today.  Mr. S was MIA.

Read Sneeze 'n Coffin 

Create a story arc for the story: plot exposition, plot complication, rising action, climax, and resolution.

Music

Math review pages for tomorrow's test

Science - Sections 5 and 

 

February 6, 2015

French

Language - 15 minutes of independent reading

Math quiz - marked and returned (Test on Tuesday next week)

Report cards were handed out

Enjoy your weekend

 

February 5, 2015

French

more French time

HW - Escher lizard, translation piece, and idioms (if not already on the wall) for Friday by the end of the day.

Gym

HW - math pages 329 and 330

Math test should be next Tuesday.  Quiz tomorrow, with some review sheets to follow.

Sorry, no science today since the photocopier was jamming, and not the happy Bob MarleyJammin' either.

 

February 4, 2015

French

Language

Music

Math

 

February 3, 2015

French

15 minutes of independent reading

Writing task - 5 generated words and must use at least three prepositional phrases (opener, closer, s-v split and either short, medium, or long).

Knowledge and Skills in the Four Areas of Learning in Education and Career/Life Planning - Who am I? 

Gym - basketball skills - dribbling,and them some dodge ball whilst waiting for the next class to arrive.  Thankfully, they were really late.

Worked on Who am I? for 20 minutes

book exchange in the library

Weekly Tasks: Reading Making the World FLat, cursive p 74, math (5 x 7) , and problem solving #9 Painting a Room

Weekly Words: conservation, consumption, shoulder, decomposition, and essential.

 

February 2, 2015

Yellow Rockets are in still on their launch pads.  Doors to the palace are locked.  See you tomorrow.  Yes, a warning.  Maybe we'll even have book exchange! If you are really bored, try having a FedEx Day at home.  Find some really interesting way to lace your shoes.  Don't bug your parents, and keep your tongue away from frozen surfaces. 

 

Notan - work in progress from last Friday afternoon.

 

Escher lizards with a focus on texture and translations (20 of 29 hmmmm...)

 

February 1, 2015

Sunday.  Snow.  No Weekly Tasks are due tomorrow.  We should have a test on transformations: translations, reflections, and rotations sometime soon.

Enjoy the snow because it will certainly make tomorrow's ride to school interesting.

 

January 30

French quiz

Language - 

Gym

Math quiz

Mixing math and visual art - Notan loosely translates as “the balance of light and dark”. This project is all about Balance, both symmetrical and asymmetrical - (reflection using positive and negative space).

For example:

 

January 29, 2015

French

Language

Mathematics

Science #4

 

January 28, 2015

Since the world did not stop turning whilst I suffered through the lovely virus that has been floating around the ether, I will apologize for the neglect our "Peak Inside Our Classroom" has endured.

First, we will not have any Weekly Tasks this week, and the majority ruled that our Weekly Words will be put on hold until next Thursday.

French

Language: finish up FedEx Piece -  A "day" to research and deliver information on a student chosen topic (70 minutes of computer lab time and 100 minutes of transforming your raw information into a poster-sized presentation).

 

January 27, 2015

Mr. S kept his flu at home today.  

French

Language - work on FedEx project - select information for our "poster" sized information sheet

Mathematics

Book exchange was canceled today.

 

January 26, 2015

Language - 

Music

Computer lab for two periods - Research a topic of interest, gather information in MS Word, print it so we'll be ready for tomorrow.  

 

January 21, 2015

French

Choral reading presentations from yesterday's practice

TU - Prepositional Phrases #6 

5 minutes of independent reading

Music

HO Weekly Tasks: Weekly Math (3x9), Roads to Reasoning #8, cursive p.70, and reading comprehension A Noisy Bird.

Math assessment mania: Quiz on transformations and a "how are you doing" Division test (Yes, we will have another one, or two, later on this year).

HW - Science - #3 Renewable and Non-Renewable Sources of Energy

 

January 20, 2015

French

20 minutes of individual reading

Prepositional Phrase #6 Imitating

choral reading of Shel Silverstein's poems (groups of three)

Gym - creative movement

Math pages 320 through 323

book exchange in the library

 

January 19, 2015

French

C - spelling corrections

TU - Weekly math (4x5), Roads to Reasoning Section 2 # 7 Museum Trip, reading comprehension A Difficult Journey, and cursive writing pages 66 through 69

Who is Martin Luther King?  Worked on a MLK mural of equality

Music

TU - Math p 316-319 in trios

tried to finish off MLK mural of equality and Escher lizard

 

January 15, 2015

French

Some extra time to play our French concentration games

HW - finish up to question 10 on Prepositional Phrases #5

10 minutes of independent reading

Science - HW - Forms of Energy and Energy Sources

Math - HW - pages 318 and 319

Spelling test on our Weekly Words - corrections due on Monday

Texture art using an Escher's lizard

Archaeologists conducting surveys in Nevada’s Great Basin National Park came upon a gun frozen in time:  a .44-40 Winchester rifle manufactured in 1882. It was propped up against a juniper tree.


 

 

January 14, 2015

French

Independent reading time, with a bit extra so I could finish The Creature Department, recommended by Paige

Using Prepositional Phrases #5 questions 3 through 6

Simile - things are compared using like or as.  We generated a large list, then used three similes in three sentences, sharing our best sentence.

The Lightning (3 of them) were here to generate interest in the grade 8 fundraiser.

Mathematics - pages 316 and 317

Science - types (kinds) of energy

 

January 13, 2015

French

TU - Weekly Math C - reading comprehension Ants, math, cursive p 62

10 minutes of independent reading

Prepositional Phrases Practice 5 #1 and 2

Music

Math - some division practice using whiteboards

HW - pages 312 to 315 Introduction to Coordinate Systems

HO -  Weekly tasks: reading A Difficult Journey, cursive p 66 to 69, Problem Solving #7 Museum Trip, and math (4x5)

Science - What is Energy?  What does Google, the Greek god of knowledge, say about energy? 

 

January 12, 2015

We'll take up last week's tasks tomorrow.

French

Language - 20 minutes of independent reading

literal and non-literal meanings of idioms (4) on 11 by 17 paper

Collected and hung up "coat of arms" (18 are done)

Collected and hung up Idioms (3 are done)

Gym - basketball dribbling and shooting skills - relay dribbling, then dribbling and shooting

Book exchange in the library (Nothing like stating the obvious)

HW - Coat of Arms (from last week), last week's Weekly Tasks: Ants, math (6x8), and cursive p. 62-65, math p. 99 and 100, Math Division Practice and Division Review (test is a coming soon!), and Idioms (literal and non-literal meanings - We had most of the day to work on these tasks.

 

January 9, 2015

Yellow rockets are grounded again...

Never, ever, do this in the backyard at school!

 

January 8, 2015

French 

20 minutes of independent reading 

"Oh, please, don;t sneeze!"  Write a paragraph that includes as many words as possible that rhyme with sneeze. Share

The 5-word paragraph: Lego, ocean, poof, denied, and John.

Division Practice page and Division Review

 

January 7, 2015

Sorry for the lack of updates - It's been a bit hectic in my little world.  Seeing 20000 people singing Oh Canada together is definitely an electrifying experience.  Too bad I didn't win the $92 000 50/50 draw. 

Today - buses were canceled, so about a dozen people made it to Room 214.  We worked on drawing Celtic knots.  For gym, we played some dodge ball with Mr. T's grade 6 class.

Yesterday

We worked on our own version of a Coat of Arms

Math HW - pages 99 and 100

Monday - we worked on idioms - What do those crazy sayings really mean?  Try to figure out as many as possible.

Weekly Words (test on Friday, not Thursday): Canadian, championship, idiom, gold, and #1.

 

January 2015

Are you ready to go?

 

Enjoy your holiday

Thanks for the kind and thoughtful gifts.  The Honey Nut Cherrios won't last very long.  Wishing all of you a safe, happy, and restful break.  See you all in the new year.

 

December 19, 2014

Colour House

Music

Math - p 92 and 93 Division

Nutcracker soldiers

Grinch Readers' Theatre

 

December 18, 2014

French

PJ day

Secret Santa Day

Pot luck Day

X-mas concert practice

 

December 17, 2014

French

Grinch reading

Independent reading

Nutcracker soldiers

Ski safety presentation for the March 4th ski trip.  

Don't forget all the stuff that is happening tomorrow...

 

December 16, 2014

French

more time to work on their French project

Music

Mathematics - HB yesterday's - quiz HW - p 86 to 89

Science - checked out our rather rotten Rotting Board

Grinch reading

 

December 15, 2014

French Author visit - Eric Walters, a writer of too many books to mention, spoke with the Junior Division

TU - Weekly Math

- Weekly Math (9x5), cursive pages 60 to 63, and reading comprehension How Rocks are Made. We did Problem Solving #6 together last week in duets or trios and took it up as a group so it wasn't collected.

Grinch read through

Gym - a spot of dodge ball followed by basketball dribbling and shooting practice

Math quiz on Sets followed by p. 85 Multiplication and Division

Book exchange in the library

No Weekly Tasks this week.

Weekly Words: holiday, array, pajamas, presents, and Grinch.

 

December 13 and 14, 2014

42 years ago today, human beings set foot on the moon for the last time.

 

 

December 11, 2014

French

We took some time to complete our French rough draft and the seven sentences as well as our Most Dangerous Game story plot.

Spelling test on our Weekly Words.  HB - corrections due tomorrow

Math test on our algebra unit

The 2 PM ski presentation was changed to next Wednesday afternoon.  Looks like next week is filling up quickly.

 

December 10, 2014

French

Worked on Most Dangerous Game story plot.

Math review and time to ask questions

Started our science decomposing chart.  Made our individual selection of which item with decay the most by next Friday.  The peeled banana won, even over the Jell-O.

Worked on various tasks, including our Rudolph portraits.

 

December 9, 2014

French

The Most Dangerous Game

Music

Mathematics - test review pages

Problem Solving #6

Two problems on the board - Number Talk (using derived number strategies to solve problems)

finished The Most Dangerous Game (Rainsford lives)

Science - Ziplock a small item and bring it in

 

December 8, 2014

French

TU - Weekly Math (7x4)

C - Weekly Math (7x4) with Problem Solving Section 2 #5, reading comprehension Miss T., and cursive writing  pages 54 to 57

Worked through PS #5 as a duet or trio - importance of drawing a model to solve problems

Independent reading

more of The Most Dangerous Game - almost to the plot complication

PHE - started dribbling and shooting in basketball

Math TU - pages 254 to 256 from Friday - discussed the importance of using a table of values to find the rule, or function (in = term and out = value)  So, that is the end of our unit.  The kids were told last week that a test was coming, so I hope they shared that with you.  We'll have our test on Thursday, with study/review pages being handed out tomorrow.

Book exchange

HO - Weekly tasks: (the last ones for 2014) Math (9x5), cursive pages 58 to 61, and reading comprehension How Rocks are Made

Weekly words: distribute, surprise, secret, mural, and treasure.

 

 

December 5, 2014

Off to the computer lab - type out yesterday's rough draft paragraph

Secret Santa draw (with some "secrets" last only a few moments)

Read more of The Most Dangerous Game

Music

Math - HW - complete pages 254 to 256

finish scribble holiday/winter piece

finish any outstanding work - health, The Moment, Ten Little ______, Weekly Tasks

Donner, Blitzen, Cupid... portrait.

 

December 4, 2014

French

Language - independent reading

TU - Prepositional Phrases Practice #4 

HW - Persuasion paragraph to Santa (one item - topic sentence with three supporting reasons or facts) - rough draft

Math - discussed using derived facts to decompose and recompose numbers

did the 264 trick, then tried to see if it worked with other 3 digit numbers

Completed together - Saxon Math Investigation 4 pages 251 through 254 #17 

Visual arts - those finished last week's task started a Cupid, Donner, etc. portrait

Remember your stick for tomorrow if you want in on the Secret Santa action

 

December 3, 2014

French

Independent reading
TU - last week Daily Language Review page

HW - Prepositional Phrases Practice #4 Unscrambling (4 sentences)

Gym 

Mathematics - We Do - page 30 #1 a, b, and c along with the first row of #2  HW - page 30 and 31

HO - class photo

Update: Weekly Words - divisiblediagonaladdictionChristmas, and column.  Sorry.

 

December 2, 2014

French

Independent reading

Make that sentence bleed - editing a past tense, compound verb sentence with lots of spelling errors.

Music

Health 

Mathematics - worked on pages 28 and 29 together.  Discussed the idea of derived facts, commuting terms (moving numbers around), and decomposing and recomposing numbers.

Last in-class period to complete health poster.

 

December 1, 2014

French

TU - Weekly Math

C - Weekly Math (5x8), Problem Solving #4 Football-Kicking Contest, reading comprehension The Biggest Land Animal, and cursive writing pages 50 through 53.

HO - Reading comprehension Miss T., Weekly Math (7x9), problem solving #5 Cutting Time, and cursive pages 54 through 57.

Time to complete health project.

Secret Santa letter and popsicle stick were handed out.  Stick is due by Friday.

and some more time...

Math - HO - pages 28 and 29 Patterns in Times Tables with a piece of graph paper for the hundreds chart

Book exchange in the Library.

 

November 28, 2014

computer lab -

20 minutes of independent reading

discuss that Secret Santa thing - note to come home on Monday

Music

Math - TU - a few questions from page 27

Health - continued our drug project that started oh so long ago

 

November 27, 2014

French

Independent reading

Test on Weekly Words (hasn't been returned yet for corrections)

Started reading as a group - The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell (focus on rising action and prediction)

Word Study Unit #2

Weekly Tasks: reading comprehension The Biggest Land Animal, cursive pages 50 through 53, math 5x8, and Section 2 What's Wrong?Problem 4 Football-Kicking Contest

Gym - volleyball

Math - TU - pages 22 through 24 (various questions) then HW - pages 25 and 27

Art -Oliver Jeffers video and Chris Piascik video - worked on our Piascik inspired piece

 

November 26, 2014

French

DRA

Weekly Tasks: reading comprehension The Biggest Land Animal, cursive pages 50 through 53, math 5x8, and Section 2 What's Wrong?Problem 4 Football-Kicking Contest

Gym - volleyball

Math - HW - pages 22 through 24

place value concentration - a bit of a bust on that activity

Science - composting the overall cost and the approximate cost per person in the city

 

November 25, 2014

French

DRA

Weekly Tasks: reading comprehension The Biggest Land Animal, cursive pages 50 through 53, math 5x8, and Section 2 What's Wrong?Problem 4 Football-Kicking Contest

The algorithm ($5 word for steps or recipe) for division

Music

Math - worked on pages 22 through 24

Weekly Words: rotten, experiment, division, multiple, and decaying.

 

November 24, 2014

French

Division - explained using base 10 blocks 63 = 6 tens-sticks and three one-cubes

Language - DRA

Weekly Tasks: reading comprehension The Biggest Land Animal, cursive pages 50 through 53, math 5x8, and Section 2 What's Wrong?Problem 4 Football-Kicking Contest

Gym - weird volleyball, then weirder volleyball with a large beach ball

Math - HW - LCM or Lowest Common Multiple p. 21

book exchange in the library

17 Ten Little _______ are still not completed.

 

The Weekend...

I was looking for some math problem solving material from Singapore and Japan, but I somehow stumbled upon this cute little site.  Sheturns children's drawings into toys.  Remarkable.

 

November 20, 2014

We finished The Eye, and they are hung up on the walls outside our room.

Book fair

Music

20 minutes of independent reading

Math - groups of three were assigned one of the questions from pages 19 or 20 to answer on the large graph paper

TU - each of the groups explained how they found the solution to their assigned problem.  Methods of "checking" the answer were discussed

Science - discussed the decay of our gross month old apple, and asked questions about how the two halves are decaying differently.  

HW - science and government - How much would a green bin (food decay) program cost for our city?

 

 

November 19, 2015

French

20 minutes of independent reading and a few reading conferences

The search of prepositional phrases in our independent reading book.  We needed three: an opener, a closer, and a subject-verb split.

Math - worked on pages 215 through 218

Visual art - continued working on The Eye

We'll finish them up tomorrow morning.

Interview times were sent home today with your kids.  See you on Friday.

 

November 18, 2014

French

Language - finish those Ten Little _______ 

Word study - Unit 2 Long E

Gym - Volleyball - used the net to have a game

Math - HW - page 20 Number Lines (Advanced), then start working on pages 215 to 218

 

November 17, 2014

French

TU - Weekly Math (6x7)

C - Weekly Math, Roads to Reasoning Section 2 #2 Supermarket Shopping, reading comprehension (Goose), and cursive page 42 through 45

Music

15 minutes of independent reading with a couple of reading conferences

a spot of math prior to The Pledge assembly

If you are lucky enough to be different, don't ever change. - Taylor Swift

HW page 19 Number Lines 

Weekly Words: winter (yuck), snowball (but not on the school yard), chocolate (yum), bullying, and canceled.

 

November 14, 2014

French 

TU - Sentence Composing Prepositional Phrases #3 - Combining

Finishing up the final copy of Ten Little _______

Gym - volleyball with the nets

Math TU - pages 15 through 18 and discussed the different ways to solve page

Got our report cards progress reports and went to book exchange in the library.

For the P. A. Day for progress report interviews: I will be available on the Friday from 9:00 AM, with the last interview time at 3:15 PM.

This looks interesting: Tile - chip your important things...like one's favourite bicycle.

 

This took a bit of thinking...  The chart, even in two-dimensions, is amazing, so can you imagine getting to do the calculations.

 

November 13, 2014

Marking, working, cleaning, and organizing.  

Music

Starting work on Our Eye - a tad too chatty to follow explicit instruction

HW - Math Repeating Patterns and Extending Patterns and Prediction Positions, pages 15 to 18

 

November 12, 2014

French

Hydro safety presentation with Tom

TU - Prepositional Phrases #2 - Identifying

HW - Math Patterning pages 100 to 103

HW - Using Prepositional Phrase Practice #3 - Combining

HW - Government - The PremierTerritorial Governments p. 37 #1, and Municipal Governments pages 38 - 39 all questions

 

Remembrance Day 2014

French

a bit of work time on various tasks prior to the Remembrance Day service.

Gym - some got caught up on last weeks tasks whilst the rest of us worked the room with three Gator balls

Math - TU pages 13 Problems Involving Time and 14 T-tables (Advanced) - various questions

15 minutes of independent reading

three One-minute Mysteries

No Weekly Words this week.  Sorry.

 

 

November 10, 2014

French - presentations for your calendar month

TU - Weekly Math

- Weekly Math (8x3), cursive writing p. 36 to 39, and reading comprehensionA Girl Ahead of the Rest.

We Do - Using Prepositional Phrases Practice 2 Identifying #1 (orally) You Do #2, copy the sentence and underline the phrase.

complete your I am... piece

Music

HO - Weekly Tasks: Math (6x7, new ### x #), Section 2 Problem 2 Supermarket Shopping, cursive pages 42 to 45, and reading comprehensionThe Goose with the Golden Eggs

HW - Problems Involving Time and T-tables(advanced) pages 13 and 14

15 minutes of independent reading

Video on Canada's role at Vimy Ridge

For the P. A. Day for progress report interviews: I will be available on the Friday, from 9:00 AM with the last interview time at 3:15 PM.

 

 

 

November 7, 2014

French

more time to finish our French project

Weekly Words test returned - HW - corrections for Monday

10 of 29 I am pieces are done

Yesterday's math quiz returned

Piece for Remembrance Day service was assembled - It looks beautiful.

Gym - still trying to get those bump passes working.

Math - TU - question #2 - discussed in-depth the strategy used to create a nth term rule

HW - pages 13 to 14 #3

Book exchange

Remember your Weekly Tasks for Monday.

 

November 6, 2014

Worked on I am piece

Music

Spelling test on Weekly Words

Math quiz from yesterday's work

New math pages HW front side only (the last two questions require two-steps for the rule)

Discussed science of salt and vinegar and the lid from the jar with holes

3D multiplication matrix - interesting?!

 

November 5, 2014

French

Language - 15 minutes of independent reading with a few reading conferences

Sentence composing - Recognizing Prepositional Phrases #1 Matching HW - #4 and 6

HW - rough copy of the I am page from 180 Days to Successful Writers

Math - HW - page of Identifying Patterns

HW - (due Friday) Shoe drawing with value

Remembrance Day task

Weekly Words test is tomorrow.  The words: reactionremembrancesoldierservice, and outstanding.

 

November 4, 2014

French

Language - 

15 minutes of independent reading with a few reading conferences

Framing a need (Project Challenge) - our desk as an organizational system  (Mine: organized chaos)

Sentence composing - Recognizing Prepositional Phrases #1 We Do #1 You Do #2 and 3

gym -  took awhile to get there

Math - quiz on yesterday's work using the last question of yesterday's work

TU - yesterday's pages

Continued working on the pages from yesterday

Science - the bleach worked well, really well, the apple is starting to look nasty, and we did a few dumps of baking soda into vinegar (but the balloon didn't break...yet)

 

November 3, 2014

French - HW - both sides of preposition page

15 minutes of independent reading with a few reading conferences

sentence editing

Music - new music, Let it Go, for the devil's flute

Math - HW - Introduction to t-tables pages 8 through 10

mini problem solving quiz using Section 1 #10

HO - Weekly Math (8 x 3) with Roads to Reasoning Section 2 #1 on the back, reading comprehension p26 A Girl Ahead of the Rest, and cursive writing pages 36 to 39. - all due Monday

Science - Nuking some Ivory soap in the microwave and adding a cup of bleach to a pair of leggings (physical and chemical changes).

 

National Sugar Day, 2014

French - working on prepositions

Let the mayhem begin, or continue: On the list, Scream, masks, Ten Little _______, and Famous Canadians.

Those wanting a bit of a fright went through the haunted corridor.  

We ate.

We ate some more.

We didn't do any math.

We didn't have gym or Book Exchange due to the 50th Anniversary setup.

 

October 30, 2014

The creativeness continues:

Be Frank is together;

The 3D masks are coming together after a massive cutting session. With almost thirty cutters, the floor remained in good shape.

Almost all of the Famous Canadian sheets are hanging in the hallway.

Ten Little ________ are being arranged in either a booklet or single page format: author's choice.

Weekly Word test: marked and returned HW - corrections for tomorrow

Music

Math - HW for Monday page 7 Identifying Pattern Rules

TU - Problem Solving Roads to Reasoning Section 1 #6 and 7

HW for Monday - Problem Solving Roads to Reasoning  Section 1 #8 and 9

Please do not feel compelled to send in any treats tomorrow.  I'm sure there will be enough sugar around to get everyone prepared for an evening of ghosts, goblins, and ghouls. 

Be Frank

 

 

October 29, 2014

French - and now I can't get the funky Hallowe'en songs out of my noodle.

The creativeness chaos continues:

Be Frank is together, but the two missing pieces are in the process of being completed;

Most of Dia de los Muertos is together, and it is hanging in the front hallway of the school.

TU - Math pages 1 through 6.  Nothing new was worked started today.

Started attaching paper to the cereal boxes.  

 

 

 

October 28, 2014

French - some funky Hallowe'en songs.

Language - C - Weekly Word corrections

The creativeness continues:

Be Frank is almost together, except the two missing pieces;

Most of Dia de los Muertos is ready to put together.  We'll finish the remaining pieces tomorrow.

About ten Famous Canadian sheets are hanging in the hallway.

Ten Little ________ are being arranged in either a booklet or single page format: author's choice.

Gym - volleyball positions, rotation, serving.

Math - HW - pages 5 and 6 (Increasing and Decreasing Sequences)

Science - shaving cream and corn starch and 29 kids.  Hmmmmm.... 

update: Yes, it is true.  

No Weekly Tasks (math, reading comprehension, or cursive) this week. 

 

October 27, 2014

French

TU - Weekly Math (4x5)

C - Weekly Math (4x5), cursive writing pages 32 - 35, and reading comprehension, The First Woodpecker

HW Be Frank is due tomorrow so we can put it together.  HO Dia de los Muertos

Weekly Word test returned - HW - corrections are due tomorrow

Continue working on Ten Little Zombies inspired story if completed everything above

Music

Math HW pages 1 to 4 (Patterning) - CountingIncreasing SequencesCounting Backwards, and Decreasing Sequences.

Science - discussed our decaying apple, due to its chemical change from the interaction with air.

update Weekly words: weight, sequence, increasing, decreasing, and repeatedly. 

 

  • A weekend thought from my weak end:  We need cereal boxes.  (empty ones, Unless they are Honey Nut Cherrios.)  Pronto!  I found these and thought it might drive ourselves crazy trying to make them.  

 

October 24, 2014

French - Yellow Rocket number five was tardy, which held up the start of the...

Colour Housassembly - How many houses are there?

Spelling test on Weekly Words (wasn't marked and recorded in time to return), so you'll get them on Monday

Be Frank (HW if not done) then finish Ten Little _______ text

updateWe want to assemble Be Frank and start Scream on Monday.

Gym - Some finished unfinished tasks whilst a rip roar good game of old school dodge ball was happening.

Math test - data management graphing

Book exchange

Done and dusted.

Don't forget to get those Weekly Tasks finished.

Side note that has absolutely nothing to do with school:  A few years back I came across this clever idea that I could send to my buddy's kids in the Netherlands.  It was such a fun twist on writing.  

 

October 23, 2014

(posted on the 24th)

Computer lab to finish typing out our personal narrative, The Moment

15 minutes of independent reading

Time to try to finish off our 10 Little Zombies inspired stories (the text part 10, 9, 8, ...,1)

Music

Math - Mid Chapter Review (solo, duet, or trio - too much chatter and off-task behaviour)

Government - HO - pages 27-30 and pages 31-34  Read GG section as a class, then discussed our current GG, David Johnson  no HW assigned

(Our Guest Teacher's note: Great class and a lot of fun to work with!)

 

October 22, 2014

French with a side order of Code Red drill - I was joking about hiding under a desk will protect you from a nuclear attack.  Seriously.  It did make a cozy reading spot.

Computer lab to type out The Moment personal narrative

Read Ten Little Zombies and saw the pictures from the picture book.  Laughed.  A lot.  Decided that we needed to write our own version: Ten Little _______ (something scary).  Did fifteen minutes of independent reading, then started working on the 10 Little _______ task.  Found out the task was harder than we thought.  We will continue working on it tomorrow.

Math - HW Bar Graphs with Intervals  Worked on Problem Solving #5

TU Problem Solving Section One #4 and 5, worked on #6 and 7

Government - pages 22 to 23 - including a word search (the first word search I have ever given in grade 5).

TU p. 22 HW p. 23

I hope you don't mind, but can we do our Weekly Word test on Friday?  

Can someone take a picture of the apple tomorrow?

Remember you have a math test on bar graphs and line graphs (also called a broken-line graph) on Friday.

 

October 21, 2014

French - They started their good copy of their calendar.

Language - 15 minutes of independent reading with a few reading conferences.

Some more work time on our Famous Canadian

Gym - worked on our volleyball skills, but some of us had difficulty with controlling over power when hitting the ball.

Mathematics - continued working on Bar Graphs with Intervals (pages 68 and 69)

Science - did some observations on the apple that Paige brought to school for us.  We took a photo to record our observation instead of drawing it.  Yeah technology!

Read Ten Little Zombies while we worked on our Be Frank project.

 

October 20, 2014

French

TU Weekly Math (5 x 7) 

C Weekly Math (5x7), reading comprehension Spring Celebrations, and cursive writing pages 28 - 31

15 minutes of independent reading, interrupted by a Mad Science presentation - sign up page sent home with everyone, so we continued reading until snack

Music

Mathematics - TO our work from Friday (2 broken-line graphs), and worked on Interpreting Circle Graphs (p 67) and started Bar Graphs with Intervals (pages 68 and 69) - We'll continue to work on these tomorrow, so you'll avoid the at-home headache.

Science - Several experiments from pages 14, 16, 18, 20, and 22 - We discussed bring in some to the materials to conduct the experiments at school (such as steel wool, but NOT bleach)

Be Frank project - a lesson in grids and value to create a larger class mural.  I hope it works.  It's the first crack at this type of project.

Math test will probably be Friday afternoon with bar graphs and broken line graphs as our focus.

Weekly Words: solution, solvent, appointment, unfortunate, and participial.

 

October 18

An eagle flies off the Eiffel Tower with a GoPro.  How would they attach the camera?

 

October 17, 2014

It's Friday.  We'll have a test on graphing next week. I'm away on Wednesday Thursday or spine shots.  Oh the joys of being broken.

French

The crew was working well, so they continued their French brainstorming session for an extra twenty minutes.  

C - spelling corrections from our Weekly Words

15 minutes of independent reading

Make it Bleed (editing) We learned a bit about appositives (a noun phrase that gives us more information about a noun).

Time to work on our Famous Canadians

Gym - practiced our bump pass, played a bump pass game, then had two games of dodge ball.

Mathematics - a quick homework check on yesterday's work, then we received two table of values that we need to turn into line graphs (HW if not completed).

TU - Roads to Reasoning Section 1 Problems 2 and 3, HW #4

Enjoy your weekend.

 

October 16, 2014

20 minutes of independent reading

We had a SEVERE WEATHER DRILL.  770 people in one hallway

spelling test on our Weekly Words HW - corrections are due tomorrow

"A Movie behind your eyelids" - adding sensory details to your writing 

20 minutes to proofread and add details to The Moment writing piece - HW - have piece ready for next Wednesday, October 22 (We'll be in the computer lab to type a final copy.)

Read - Goldie Socks and the Three Libearians - Main idea: using the five finger method to select a book.  Not to be confused with the five finger discount on how to get a book.

Music - working on Let it go from Frozen

Math - HW - finish pages 385 and 386

Problem Solving from Roads to Reasoning: Section 1, Problems 1, 2, and 3.  TU Problem 1.  HW - Problems 2 and 3. (Worked either solo, duet, or trio.)

Science page 10 Changes in Properties of Matter

 

October 15, 2014

There are sixteen days until National Sugar Day.

French

15 minutes of reading time (with some reading testing too)

unJ# 31Write a three sentence paragraph about a dog, using no letters of the alphabet that appear before "m". HW if not complete

Watched the "Explode a Moment" video by Barry Lane. 

Famous Canadian - HO - portrait like a Amedeo Modigilani painting

Mathematics - worked on completing pages 385 and 386 (ran into a snag whilst looking up population data for Ontario)  the numbers are posted in class

Visual Arts - finished our shoe drawing with valu

Spelling test tomorrow

 

October 14, 2014

French

TU - Weekly Math C - Weekly Math, cursive writing p 24-27, and reading comprehension From a Small Beginning to a Great Position

Read Monster's Eat Whiny Children

Started The Moment, a 5 second snapshot of time for a personal narrative - jotted down points about your moment

50 minutes to work on your rough draft of The Moment 

Strategies for slowing and developing your writing:

  • Give lots of specific sensory details to help the reader visualize the entire scene.
  • Linger on important descriptions and use similes and metaphors to develop them.
  • Delve into your thoughts and tell us what you were thinking and feeling at the time

Gym - bump skills and a game where you could only use bump passes

Mathematics - HW complete up to p. 385 #7 for tomorrow

15 minutes of reading time

TU  government p. 22

HO Weekly Math (5 x 7), Cursive p. 28 - 31, reading comprehension Spring Celebrations 

Weekly Words: maximum, minimum, narrative, election, and umbrella.

Thanks to the twenty-one of you who returned the math tests with your signature.

Is Star Wars Rebels any good?

Barry Lane's exploding a moment

 

How Wolves Changed a River

<5 minutes

 

Drone versus Hawk

 

October 10, 2014

French

Language - Sentence of the Day #4, then TU - We use a lot of red, so we call it "make it bleed."  It sounds better than editing.  We created our own error filled sentence with a prepositional phrase, then swapped with a partner and fixed his/her sentence.

C - spelling corrections from yesterday's test

Music

We spent just under an hour outside, planting, watering, and mulching some newly planted trees in the backyard by the primary play equipment.  Mrs. M was impressed with the group's ability and enthusiasm to work together.  Thumbs up guys and gals!

If we weren't finished our contour drawing of our shoe, then we worked on it.  The next step is to complete a sketch of our shoe, adding value to it.  Unfortunately, we found out that Paul Simon's Rhythm of the Saints is just too groovy to listen to whilst drawing.

Enjoy your weekend! 

They might not be angry, but they are some curious birds...

October 9, 2014

French

Language - Weekly Words test - already marked and returned HW - corrections for tomorrow

Writing task - What is a spender, and what is a saver?  Which one are you?  Why?  (discussed the task - define each, decide which one, or both, then give three reasons why)

15 minutes of reading whilst the big ugly guy did some reading testing

Ideas for Writing topics, or "Heart Mapping" (in the words of Nancy Atwell)

Gym - volleyball skills, then a quick game of dodge ball

Math - 1/2 the class had their HW done from yesterday - hmmmm.....

Completed a broken-line graph using years for the x-axis {1, 2, ...6} or {2010, 2011, ...2015} and made up data for the y-axis.  Need six values to graph. 

Book exchange in the library.

 

October 8, 2014

Yes, I did fix the dates for this week.  

Computer lab to research our drug of choice. ( In school health project)  Material collected in MS Word and printed.

Music

Some quiet reading time.

Math - Introduced to our new friend, the Broken-heart line graph, a graph to show a change over a period of time.  Demo, the small group graph, then create a broken-line graph solo.

Government - We did together Elections in Canada p. 20 and 21.  HW for next Tuesday p. 21

We did together The Justice System in Canada p. 23 and 24

Weekly Word test tomorrow.

 

October 7, 2014

French

C - spelling corrections and signed Place Value tests (thanks).

Sentence of the Day #3, then TU - We use a lot of red, so we call it "make it bleed."  It sounds better than editing.

Health - need one drug, crack, Molly, pot, etc., to research for tomorrow.  

Afternoon - half the class was running around the park at the Regional Cross Country event.  We finished up missed stuff, completed upcoming tasks, and some of us did a quick, but seriously painful, reading assessment.

Weekly Words: interval, range, phrase, Thanksgiving, and turkey.

 

October 6, 2014

French

Yellow Rocket Bus Safety presentation (which means we lose our gym period because the gym is being used all day for the presentation)

Language

TU - Weekly  Math C - Weekly Math (5x8), Cursive Writing p. 20 to 23, and Reading comprehension p. 14 Sacajawea

Edited a sentence from the board: the envelop enveloping the letter

HO - Weekly Tasks: Weekly Math (6x6), Cursive p. 24 to 27, Reading comprehension p 17 From a Small Beginning to a Great Position due next Tuesday

Math - discussed Friday's task Which axis does the number of songs go on? New task - bar graph of the length of our shoes. Survey, tally, frequency, construct the bar graph HW if not completed in class

TU some of Friday's government pages

 

October 5, 2014 -

I just finished marking the place value test.  It beats doing laundry.  Wait, what am I thinking?  I'll hand it back tomorrow (Monday).  The test, not the laundry.  If you would like to "show" me you have seen it, please sign it and return it on Tuesday.

Busier than a rat on a sinking ship?  No-Kneed Pizza dough from Jim Lahey 

Update: if you have an extra three minutes to see volcano footage from Iceland.

 

October 3, 2014

French

Language - C - preposition piece, started Said is Dead (Words we can use instead of "said."  solo, duet, or trio)  Worked on Famous Canuck

Music

A rainy lunch time meant a loud in-door hour of joy, bliss, and unbridled chaos.  Yahoo!  Break out the Jenga.

Mathematics - HW complete the bar graph of number of songs on Bob's CDs

Government - HO - several pages to read and complete the questions

Our scatter brained teacher needed to take his mother-in-law to the cancer clinic, so we had a supply creature teacher in the afternoon.

The usual tasks are due on Monday.  

 

October 2, 2014

French 

Language - HW -Preposition piece (definition + lots of examples of prepositions)

Started working on our Famous Canuck poster.  Unfortunately we had to suffer through a printer that wouldn't work, and a network that wouldn't allow us to print downstairs.  Oh joy, oh bliss.

Gym - worked on our bump skills for volleyball, and had a ten minute game of dodge ball.

Math - small group bar graph of the results of last week's Weekly Words test (the number of errors).

Spelling test on our Weekly Words

Library for book exchange.

A couple of our contour shoes.

Mug shots Student pictures are tomorrow.

 

October 1, 2014

Yikes...already!

Researched the Famous Canuck - collected information and picture

s in MS Word.  When finished, it was printed.

Music

Math - TU - diagnostic of creating a survey and constructing a bar graph (discussed what is expected and how to "bump it up")

Started working on a "Level 4 model", A.K.A. our beautiful super model, of a bar graph, but were interrupted by the cross country Fun Run.  At the end of the day, Mrs. C commented about how many incredible runners there are from Room 214.  

Whilst the runners were gone, we did some shoe work.  Some of the finished ones are hanging in the hallway.

After recess, we finished the bar graph.

HW How the Government Gets Paid: Taxes p. 12 - 13 (We read the passage together, so you need to have the questions completed.) 

Tomorrow is the spelling test, and Friday is mug shot picture day.

 

 

September 30, 2014

French - more work on months of the year

Language - discussed what is expected for the Famous Canadian poster - This project will be completed at school.  

     Four sections: Who?, Why famous?, Other interesting facts, and a portrait.

C - spelling corrections

Prepositions - definitions and lots of examples

Mathematics - started a data management unit (diagnostic - the bar graph - create a survey question, then create a bar graph to show your results)

Visual Arts - contour drawing of your shoe.

Tomorrow we will be in the 'puter lab, promise.

 

A thought for tomorrow...

 

September 29, 2014

French - working on the months of the year

Language - TU - Weekly Math sheet - Weekly Math (6x3), reading comprehension Getting Around, and Cursive p. 16 to 19

Returned spelling tests for corrections (5 times each, unless noted on sheet)

Editing (from A Sentence a Day) then TU -  Make it Bleed - used the red marked on the sloppy sentences

Prepositions - define, the provide as many examples (preposition, not prepositional phrases) as possible - solo, duet, or trio.

Gym - volleyball bump pass drills

Mathematics - test on place value unit

HO - Weekly Math (5x8), Cursive p. 20 to 23, and Reading Comprehension p. 14 Sacajawea

HW - THINK ABOUT a famous Canadian you would like to know more about.  DON'T START ANY RESEARCH!

HB - a boat load of Weekly Tasks were handed back at the end of the day (except reading comprehension).

There is a growing list of Outstanding People in our room (People who haven't completed some of our learning tasks.  If your name is on there, find it, finish it, and submit it.

Weekly Words: axis, horizontal, vertical, broken, and preposition.

 

September 25, 2014

French

Worked on Unit One of Word Study while the Terry Fox mural was assembled.

Music - tried for the 100%, but we are okay with 99.3%.

Math - HW - math review - if completed, compared with peer - remember your test on Monday

test on our Weekly Words - I didn't get a chance to mark and return them.

Terry Fox run/walk in the backyard. - Thanks for all the donations.  It's our 31st year at the school.  Simply incredible.

Addition: Doodle Box Project

 

September 24, 2014

French - only a few more presentations left

15 minutes of Independent Reading whilst some of us had some reading testing

Word Study - we go a new copy of properly photocopied sheets.  Yeah!  Note to self: don't be in a hurry at the photocopier because it's a recipe for disaster.

Terry Fox mural - we got one piece of a large mural to complete.  HW if not done because we want to assemble for tomorrow's event.

Gym - worked on our bump pass skills

Math TU - NS5-4 Representing Numbers and NS5-5 Comparing and Ordering Numbers p. 26

Fire drill

Some time to complete Terry mural piece or start the Place Value Unit Review sheet (It's not HW.)

Oh, tomorrow we have our Weekly Words test.

 

September 23, 2014

No French today since it is Day 6.

Independent reading whilst some reading testing is being done.

Word Study began - Unit One Long a a_e ay ai

Music - 99.7% on the clickers.  Awesome job monkeys!

Mathematics - HW finish the yesterday's page, both sides.  Math test will be on Monday.

Writing - use the five student created words thingamajigger, flapjacks, flapdoodle, Miss Fluffernutter, and jigglypuff.

HO - Science - p. 6 and 7 Changes in States of Matter

 

 

September 22, 2014

French - started the oral presentations - Did you see a red doutang (French) at home over the weekend?

TU and C- Weekly Math, C - Reading comprehension p. 4 How Insects Communicate and Cursive p. 12 to 15

HO - Weekly Math (6 x 3), Reading comprehension p. 7 Getting Around and Cursive p. 16 to 19 (all due next Monday)

Yoga for the Brain 13: Write one sentence consisting entirely of three-syllable words (not counting the articles a, an, and the).

TU - Mathematics - pages (4) from Friday  HW - NS5-4 Representing Numbers page 35 ONLY

HO read, completed, and TU - Three Levels of Government

Weekly Words: charity, model, standard, democracy, practise (the verb, not the noun).

We'll probably have a test on place value on Thursday.

 

September 19, 2014

French - oral presentation on Monday

Presentation - ACTiPass - everyone got a folder with information on the programme

SSR for 10 minutes, while some of us had some reading testing done (2)

Language - shared our SENTENCE sentences.

100 Points Word Challenge - A to Z has a value of 1 through 26 - find a word that adds up to 100 exactly.

     Example: Wednesday  w=23 e=5 d=4 n=14 e=5 s=19 d=4 a=1 y=25, so 23 + 5 + 4 + 14 + 5 + 19 + 4 + 1 + 25 = 100

Gym - volleyball bump pass skill 

Mathematics - HW - both sides of today's page

Finish up our contour hand and start our contour shoe

We'll probably have a test on place value next Thursday.

 

September 18, 2014

French

time to finish up our Impostor story arc

HB - our surprise quiz on place value and Problem Solving Pretest D.  The solutions for Pretest D are on the white board.

Music - more fun with the devil's flute recorder

Spelling test on our Weekly Words

TU - yesterday's math

HW - complete the back of yesterday's math page

15 minutes of SSR (silent reading of student selected reading material)

HW - Thinking About: Systems of Government p. 14 and 15

 

The Jensie breaks the hour record

 

September 17, 2014

Sorry, I forgot to list our Weekly Words: matter, solid, liquid, government, and because.

French

Language - worked on the rising action section of Impostor.  

We had a fire drill.  We all survived.  It was our first of three this fall.

More work on Impostor.

Read pages 12 and 13 - Systems of Government handout

Gym - volleyball bump pass skill development.

Math - HW - pages 8 and 9 (first side of the page)

Book exchange

Thanks to all who came last night.  Sorry I missed a few of you.  I hope you had an opportunity to see you child's work space and creature at the back of the room.

 

September 16, 2014

Finished reading Impostor, and started working on a story arc either solo, with a partner, or as a trio

Music after recess

Had a surprise quiz in math on standard form, written form, and expanded form.

TU - yesterday's math page (b0th sides)

Had another twenty minutes to work on our story arc

HWunJ# 10: Create a sentence with words that begin with the letters in sentence.  In other words, the first word in sentence should begin with s, the second with e, the third with n, etc.

Science - Matter video

Come and meet the creatures tonight between 6 and 7 P.M.

 

September 15, 2014

Instead of French, we were off to the gym to see cancer survivor Daisy of the Terry Fox Foundation.  To date, the community has participated in the Terry Fox Run for thirty years.  This will be our 31st year.  With over $161315.40 raised, I hope reaching the school's goal of $4000 is possible.

TU - Weekly Math sheet

Collected Cursive Writing pages 8 to 12

Writing task - one paragraph - Why do we still "do" the Terry Fox Run?

Read some more of our short story, Impostor

HW - math both sides of the page

TU - science p. 3 #1 and 2

completed Problem Solving Pretest D

read a bit more of our group novel, Farticus Maximus Yes, it is a book.

 

 

The Weekend 

Interesting article on math (2 minute read)

A bit of organ systems...a bit early.

Bouncing Jell-O

 

September 12, 2014

French

We began a new short story today, Impostor by Philip K. Dick.  We will focus on prediction and how a writer creates "rising action" in a story.  Is he, or isn't he, a U-bomb?  That is the question.

Collected spelling corrections

Gym - bump pass skill development, and twelve minutes of a very intense game of dodge ball.

TU - yesterday's math p. 2 to 4

Had some time to finish up yesterday's science.

TU - the $ for our city's budget

At the end of the day, we discussed some more details about government, then tired to figure out who the "president of our city" was.

Tired a group alphabet game, followed by some boys against girls head-to-head flash card multiplication.  Girls won 19 to 10.  Ouch!

 

September 11, 2014

French

Spelling test on our five weekly words.

Shared some of our double vowel paragraphs.  Special shout out to Connor for doing an exceptional job.  

Reading Interest Survey - put into your reading folder

Music - but had our QSP fundraising assembly

Math - TU yesterday's task, then completed (HW) Model to Written and Standard Form p. 2 to 4 

Returned and TU Problem Solving Pretest C

HW - What is the City of London's budget for a year?  (Or how much of our money are they spending for us?) - It led to an interesting discussion about snow plowing.

Science read Three States of Matter p. 2 and worked on p. 3

Returned today's spelling test - HW corrections (5 times each, but not the bonus word thingamajigger) due tomorrow

We have gym tomorrow.

 

September 10, 2014

French (remember your Oh Canada word quiz on Friday)

Language - shared yesterday's task with a few five word, five letter, sentences.  Well done.  

HW unJournaling 7Write a paragraph that includes twenty words with double vowels.  Example: poodle, poop, and needle.  (unJounaling is the name of a book.)

Visual Arts - contour draw practice of our hands

Gym - bump pass practice in four groups

Math - HW - Representation with Base-10 Materials 

Book exchange (our first of the year).

Five sheets are coming home today, and four of them need to be returned.  The soon they are back, the sooner they are off our collective plate.  Thanks for helping with the beginning of the year paper avalanche.  

Weekly Words test tomorrow: happened, hundred, thousand, value, and sentence.

Jenga

 

September 9, 2014

Sharing and posting our favourite four word, four letters in each word, sentences.  HW (A.K.A., home work - means complete at home if you didn't finish it in class)- Three, three word with three letter, sentences.  Bonus - One, five word, with five letters in each word, sentence.

We worked on our story arc, focusing on the plot exposition (characters and setting) and plot complication (problem) as well as the climax and resolution.

Music

Math - TU (i.e., took up) yesterday's math pages, both sides

We discussed operations (all four of them) and relationships (equal to, greater than, and less than).  We also let the cat out of the bag about problem solving (those pesky problems) usually require more than one step to solve.

Complete Problem Solving Pre-test C

We read our books for ten minutes.

Problem Solving Pre-test B was returned, and we when through how to answer each question,

Tomorrow: gym and book exchange (our first of the year).

 

September 8, 2014

French

Language - Introduced to the Reading Log (A.K.A., keeping track of our reading) - put in Reading DouTang 

Our first Reading comprehension sheet (handed out on Monday, and due the following Monday) - The Beginning of the World - We completed it together so we know how to complete the task.

Cursive writing work - pages 8 through 11 (due next Monday)

Weekly Multiplication (due next Monday) starts with 8 x 6

Mathematics - began Place Value p. 30 and one additional page (both sides ready to take up tomorrow)

Writing task - 4 sentences.  4 words in each sentence.  4 letters in each word.  (Must have a different verb in each sentence.)

Problem solving Pre-Test B - diagnostic (A.K.A. Can I do this yet?)

Late addition: We got our Weekly Words today - test on the five, yes five, words in on Thursday.

 

End of the first week.

A few things as we wait to make sure all the chips have fallen and all the ducks are in a row.  The school's population continues to grow, so experience suggests writing a class schedule in ink isn't always good idea.  That being said, here are a few current times everyone likes to know: gym is on Days 2, 4, 7, 9 (at 1245), Music is on Days 1, 3, 6, and 8 (at 1055), and Book Exchange is on Days 2 and 7 (at 305).  French is every morning, except Days 1 and 6 (at 900).

We had a few diagnostic tests this week, and we'll have a few more next week.  

Please make sure you have a book to read at school.  If you don't have one, we do have the book cart you can look through so you can find something that interests you.  

We will start our weekly tasks next week.  These include reading comprehension, cursive writing, and multiplication practice sheets.  They will be given to the class at the beginning of the week and they are due the following Monday.  These pages should remain at school so students have something to do if they finish a tasks before theirs classmates.  

 

September 3, 2014

We had gym today, and did our login password renewal with Mrs. M in the library.  We had a reading comprehension diagnostic too.

If we didn't get our paragraph written using the five words, then we knew that we had to take it home to finish it.  Yes, one paragraph using the five words.  That's it.  Don't forget to underline the five words, and you don't need to use a thingamajigger

 

September 2, 2014

Everyone was here today.  Yeah!  We had a few diagnostic tests (A.K.A. "What do you already know?" tests.)  One on math operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division), and the other on spelling with a focus on phonemes (letter sounds).  We began working on our Creatures for Meet the Creature Teacher Night.

A year calendar was sent home along with a letter about a parent council letter about Meet the Teacher Night.

No, we do not have Planners.  I will post information about tests and in-class project deadlines here.

 

 

September 1, 2014

It begins tomorrow.  194 days for me, and 188 days for you.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2014 - 2015 School Year

If you are going to be in 214 this year with me, then please do not run out and buy any school materials.  I have paper, pencils, pencil crayons and crayons, and rulers.  I have everything except facial tissue.  Sorry, but I don't have a list of "necessary items" to buy.  

 

 

Meanwhile, back in Bardarbunga, Iceland...         A 3D model of the earthquakes.

 

This looks fun http://ignorenomoreapp.com/ 

 

How the Sun Sees You -

 

 

 

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