LA - Students should be well on their way with their writing. Our topic this time is the most ______ thing that's ever happened to me. They can talk about happy, sad, scary, surprising, exciting, etc. We're focusing on just telling about that moment, not everything that happened in the hours before and after.
Keep reading every night, and writing in your journals at least twice a week (about 2 pages per week). Our next book talk will be a very short summary, and a "blurb" for the back of the book that is written by the student.
Math - We've just started a new unit on fractions. We're working on going back and forth between improper (where the numerator is bigger than the denominator) and mixed (where there is a whole number with the fraction). Click here for a practice sheet we started in class. Students should remember that the denominator is always how many pieces make up one whole thing. Is it split into 4, or 5, or 8, or ...?
Science - Science fair is just around the corner! Students should be finishing up their experiments, and filling in all of their information, data, observations etc. in their booklet, which will be handed in with the project. We will have a block of time on Tuesday morning to finish up, so students need to have everything they need to work away during that time.
Student-led conference sheets have gone home. Please check your top 3 times and send those in as soon as possible. I'll make a schedule and let you know! Official times run from 6-8 Thursday and 8:30-12 Friday, but I'll be here by 5 on Thursday evening. Report cards go out this Wednesday.
I will be in the building but out of the classroom Tuesday morning, and back for the afternoon to address any last-minute concerns.
Have a FANTASTIC long weekend.
March 11 - 15
Welcome back! Hopefully everyone had a restful March Break!
LA - a few students have still not handed in their descriptive reports. Get those in, please!
Continue reading nightly and doing journal responses 2-3 times each week (not summaries, but your opinions, thoughts, feelings etc. about what you've read)
Math - we are well into our geometry unit. We've covered polygons (regular and irregular) and perimeter. Next is area, wooh!
SS - we will present our Heritage Fair projects this coming Wednesday. We have been working on these in class for several weeks now. Students chose their own topics, and should be able to answer the following questions on their projects:
· understand and be able to talk about your topic
· explain what happened – some background info
· why was it important to Canada or NB then?
· why it’s important to us (Canada or NB) now
· why you chose it
· any evidence you can have to go with it, explain it, show it
Science - We have started planning our science fair! All middle level classes will take part, and projects are due April 3rd. They will be on display for student-led conferences, which are April 4th and 5th. When planning, help your student to choose a topic that will work, not just something that looks cool.
The steps we've gone over are these: Choose a question that you would like to find an answer to. Can you personally do a test / experiment to find the answer to that question? Can you measure and report the results? If your idea meets all 3 criteria, it's a good one! We will have one full week of science classes to work on these, and then students will be responsible to finish on their own time.
Other: The results from the grade 5 math assessment have finally been released and will be sent home with your student Tuesday. We, unfortunately, do not get the actual assessments back, just the results!
LA - a few students have still not handed in their descriptive reports. Get those in, please!
Continue reading nightly and doing journal responses 2-3 times each week (not summaries, but your opinions, thoughts, feelings etc. about what you've read)
Math - we are well into our geometry unit. We've covered polygons (regular and irregular) and perimeter. Next is area, wooh!
SS - we will present our Heritage Fair projects this coming Wednesday. We have been working on these in class for several weeks now. Students chose their own topics, and should be able to answer the following questions on their projects:
· understand and be able to talk about your topic
· explain what happened – some background info
· why was it important to Canada or NB then?
· why it’s important to us (Canada or NB) now
· why you chose it
· any evidence you can have to go with it, explain it, show it
Science - We have started planning our science fair! All middle level classes will take part, and projects are due April 3rd. They will be on display for student-led conferences, which are April 4th and 5th. When planning, help your student to choose a topic that will work, not just something that looks cool.
The steps we've gone over are these: Choose a question that you would like to find an answer to. Can you personally do a test / experiment to find the answer to that question? Can you measure and report the results? If your idea meets all 3 criteria, it's a good one! We will have one full week of science classes to work on these, and then students will be responsible to finish on their own time.
Other: The results from the grade 5 math assessment have finally been released and will be sent home with your student Tuesday. We, unfortunately, do not get the actual assessments back, just the results!
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