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Monday September 22 - Friday September 26, 2008 - NOTE: an empty cell indicates no work in that subject on that day.  This page may be updated at any time due to changes in the schedule and rate of student accomplishment.

Subject

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Math

Place Value

-MQ13 peer evaluation

-dictation practice

-Sheet: Rounding to the Nearest 10, 100

Place Value

-dictation

-MQ15 even numbers (comparing large numbers)

Place Value

-Review day: students prepare for tomorrow’s unit test by choosing 3 questions from every page studied and by answering teacher questions

Place Value

 

UNIT TEST

Addition

 

Pre-test

L.A.

-Punctuation, spelling, capitals, webbing and paragraph writing skills will be our focus through the use of our agendas (accuracy in copying messages that model good writing form) and we will also pursue this worthy self-editing goal soon in our personal dictionary/spellers.

-Begin working on paragraph writing: School and Classroom Routines composition

-Journal Entry: What Terry Fox’s Efforts Mean to Me

F.L.A.

*French language learning is taught with the development of the following language skills daily: reading, writing, listening and speaking.

-introduction (review of past French knowledge)

-l’alphabet + vocabulary (chat, garçon, jour, kilomètre, rouge, tigre, yeux, dindon, hibou, idée, klaxon, mouche, quatorze, sage, usine, visage, xylophone)

-song: L’alphabet (+ lyrics)

-Vocabulary crossword puzzles to be completed by the end of the week (one made by Étienne and one to be made by each student)

Science

 

(next week)

-discussion: Q & A

-Activity: Hot Stuff! (plus work on sheet)

-updating and maintaining the table of contents (organization)

Electricity and Magnetism

-Safety Presentation by Enmax

-Page 6 homework assignment is due by the beginning of tomorrow’s science class.

-updating and maintaining the table of contents (organization)

Electricity and Magnetism

-safety regarding the use of electricity

-sheets: writing and drawing/colouring due by Tuesday (pages 7-10 of our notes)

-updating and maintaining the table of contents (organization)

Electricity and Magnetism

-completion of sheets: Safety Rules!

 

 

Art

-We are learning our first art techniques, the use of fonts, misting and wet-on-wet painting by applying these techniques to our daily work assignments in order to embellish them in preparation for grade 6 achievement and to present our work in a prideful manner.

S.S.

Social studies is taught by Ms Sparrow

Other

Organization skills (desk cleaning, ordering notes, emphasizing dates and titles for daily work, etc.).

Agenda Messages

Note: * refers to work that should have been accomplished by this date
or refers to a select group of students.

Monday: 1) Math: I have a sheet that has two sides to be completed by tomorrow morning.  2) We began writing paragraphs from a web in language arts, today.  3) Today was our first day of French, too.  I have a song to sing to you!  4) I have the school’s newsletter for you.

Tuesday: 1) Math: MQ15 even numbers; We had our third and final dictation prior to our unit test this Thursday.  2) We enjoyed a presentation from Enmax today regarding safety around electricity.  3) My science from last week is due tomorrow by the beginning of class. 

Wednesday: 1) Math: We spent today’s math class reviewing for tomorrow’s unit test on place value.  2) Mr. Myers has been away ill since noon yesterday.  3) We are working on paragraph writing and the editing process in language arts.
Thursday: 1) Math: I wrote the Place Value unit test today and I feel that I performed poorly/well/superbly.  2) Will you please consider supporting our school’s Terry Fox Run tomorrow with a financial donation?  3) Mr. Myers is evaluating my science duotang next week.  *Tomorrow is my last opportunity to submit the mandatory P.O.T.W..
Friday: 1) There is no P.O.T.W. for next week.  2) Today in math we wrote the pre-test for our next unit on addition and subtraction.  3) We ran an exhilarating Terry Fox Run today!  4) Mr. Myers was away this afternoon at a workshop.  5) I have my fourth journal entry to share with you this weekend.  It is due on Monday.

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the Calgary Board of Education