I will be posting some sites with a good selection of different levels of reading for the students.
Spelling Unit 8 is due tomorrow as is the letter to Katie for her Super-kid presentation.
31 March 2009
Tuesday
Lang Arts - Please check out the SAYZ me link on the right if you want the computer to help your child with their reading. It is a WIndows basked link that will allow your child to listen to the text you put in the screen. It highlights and will read at a comfortable speed.
30 March 2009
Science March 30
Please bring a sample of an object that you think is opaque, translucent and transparent. 3 objects total. For tomorrow.
27 March 2009
Friday
Language Arts - students had a spelling test today. They are to complete a five stanza poem for class on Monday March 30th. They may decorate them and I have given them the following as an example for content and rhyming pattern. Have a great weekend!
Don't Bring Camels to School
Don’t bring camels in the classroom.
Don’t bring scorpions to school.
Don’t bring rhinos, rats, or reindeer.
Don’t bring mice or moose or mule.
Pull your penguin off the playground.
Put your python in a tree.
Place your platypus
wherever you think platypi should be.
Lose your leopard and your lemur.
Leave your llama and your leech.
Take your tiger, toad, and toucan
anywhere but where they teach.
Send your wombat and your weasel
With your wasp and wolverine.
Hide your hedgehog and hyena
Where you’re sure they won’t be seen.
Please get rid of your gorilla.
Please kick out your kangaroo.
No, the teacher didn’t mean it
When she called the class a "zoo."
Math March 27
Review for math test. The test will be very similar to the work pages 201 and 202. They should do these to practice for their test.
25 March 2009
Math March 25
Finish p. 194-5 #1-11
Work on times tables.
Test on Unit 6 on Monday. We'll then continue multiplying by 2 and 3 digit numbers
Work on times tables.
Test on Unit 6 on Monday. We'll then continue multiplying by 2 and 3 digit numbers
Wednesday
Language Arts - Students have three things to get ready for class tomorrow.
- Super kid letter to be completed - must be decorated and be one page long.
- Spelling Unit 7 Word Power 1, 2, 3a
- Simile - Create similes on the short worksheet.
24 March 2009
23 March 2009
Math March 23
Students need to practice their times tables and do them quickly and easily up to 9 x 9.
They can use strategies like doubling, or working from a known answer or the finger math for the nines.
Practice these 10 minutes a day. I will test them before Easter Break. They need to be a able to answer out load and in written form.
They can use strategies like doubling, or working from a known answer or the finger math for the nines.
Practice these 10 minutes a day. I will test them before Easter Break. They need to be a able to answer out load and in written form.
19 March 2009
Thursday
Language Arts- Study for your spelling test tomorrow.
Complete the loyalty web on page 19 of your textbook.
Also do viewing the illustrations at the bottom of page 19.
18 March 2009
Wednesday
Lang Arts- Study for your spelling test on Friday. You have had the list of words for quite some time so don't forget to review. also make sure you have five good sentences practiced for the test.
Math March 18
We worked on a mental math sheet (back side) and a review on times questions. Both are due Friday.
11 March 2009
Wednesday
Language Arts - Please complete your questions "Instant Replay" for the Cornerstones story. As well please complete the Frindle Word Web for Tuesday March 17th.
10 March 2009
Tuesday
Language Arts - Spelling Tests are going home today. Please sign and return them to school.
Spelling list for March 9-20 is in the hands of students so they can study during the time off.
Students are working on the story "The Moccasin Goalie so they may/should be asking you about the kinds of recreation you had when you were their age.
A large "Frindle Word Web" is to be completed for class on Tuesday March 17th.
06 March 2009
Science March 6
We are starting new unit called Light and Shadow.
On Tues. students are to bring in pictures of objects that give off light. Just the picture not the object itself. We're going to make a group collage of the pictures. Use newspapers, magazines, print from the internet. Whatever works. Students must explain why they brougt the picture. Be able to answer that the object gives off light in some way.
On Tues. students are to bring in pictures of objects that give off light. Just the picture not the object itself. We're going to make a group collage of the pictures. Use newspapers, magazines, print from the internet. Whatever works. Students must explain why they brougt the picture. Be able to answer that the object gives off light in some way.
Math March 6
Write out 2, 4,8 ,5 and 10 times tables on the front.
Write out 3 and 6 times tables on the back.
Due Monday
Write out 3 and 6 times tables on the back.
Due Monday
05 March 2009
Social Studies Chapter 4 Test
Hi everyone,
Here is the study guide for the Chapter 4 test that will take place on Tuesday, March 10:
1. I Can….
Name First Nations groups that have lived in Alberta in the past, and understand that they continue to live here today by:
• reviewing the map on P. 99 and identifying which Nations belonged to which region of Alberta.
How Did Land Shape Ways of Life? (p. 100-109)
I Can….
Explain how natural resources help communities be successful by:
• reviewing the diagram on P. 103 to list what parts of the buffalo were used and why.
Share how stories show that First Nations people feel a strong connection to the land by:
• Reviewing, listing and describing all of the natural resources used by the First Nations for transportation, food, shelter and tools. Use your blue “Connections to the Land” sheet and re-read pages 101 – 109.
How Do We Know About the First Peoples? (p. 111-116)
I Can….
Tell how stories provide an important source of information about the land, culture and history of Alberta by:
• Describing three different ways that information was passed on from generation to generation. Review your jot notes and pages 111-115.
I Can...
Talk about ways people might decide who owns an artifact or cultural item by:
• Giving two different points of view of why cultural objects should be kept in museums and why they should not be kept in museums. Review pages 118-119.
Words Matter
I Can….
Define the following:
First Nations
Bison
Travois
Technology
Environment
Elders
Oral teaching
Archeologists
Artifacts
Here is the study guide for the Chapter 4 test that will take place on Tuesday, March 10:
Chapter 4: Living with the Land Study Guide
Who Were Alberta’s First Peoples? (p. 98-99)1. I Can….
Name First Nations groups that have lived in Alberta in the past, and understand that they continue to live here today by:
• reviewing the map on P. 99 and identifying which Nations belonged to which region of Alberta.
How Did Land Shape Ways of Life? (p. 100-109)
I Can….
Explain how natural resources help communities be successful by:
• reviewing the diagram on P. 103 to list what parts of the buffalo were used and why.
Share how stories show that First Nations people feel a strong connection to the land by:
• Reviewing, listing and describing all of the natural resources used by the First Nations for transportation, food, shelter and tools. Use your blue “Connections to the Land” sheet and re-read pages 101 – 109.
How Do We Know About the First Peoples? (p. 111-116)
I Can….
Tell how stories provide an important source of information about the land, culture and history of Alberta by:
• Describing three different ways that information was passed on from generation to generation. Review your jot notes and pages 111-115.
I Can...
Talk about ways people might decide who owns an artifact or cultural item by:
• Giving two different points of view of why cultural objects should be kept in museums and why they should not be kept in museums. Review pages 118-119.
Words Matter
I Can….
Define the following:
First Nations
Bison
Travois
Technology
Environment
Elders
Oral teaching
Archeologists
Artifacts
thursday
Language Arts - Students will be working on their own "Frindle" words for next week.
There is a Spelling Test from words chosen by the students on Monday. Students will be required to write a complete sentence using 6 of the list words.
- delighted
- introduction
- orchestra
- phase
- launched
- pounced
- slammed
- grammar
- blackbird
- smoothly
- hula
- reason
03 March 2009
02 March 2009
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