Subject

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Math

Subtraction

-Homework Check

-Review (choosing 3 questions from each page studied)

Subtraction

Written Unit Test

Multiplication

-MQ52 Read and do #1-12, 19-26 (multiplication facts)

-MQ53 all

Multiplication

-MQ52, 53: Peer evaluation

-MQ54 #1-10, 17-22, 29, 30 (multiplying multiples of 10)

MQ55 #1-6, 25-30 (estimating products)

Multiplication

-MQ54, 55 Peer Evaluation

-MQ56 Read

-MQ57 odd numbers 1-41 (multiplying 2-digit numbers by 1- digit numbers)

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 1 of our Great Canadian Mail Race letter: About Me (Students will start writing a letter composed of 4 paragraphs: About Me, About My School, About My Community (Calgary) and a wrap-up paragraph.  We will write each paragraph according to the following process: 1) create a plan 2) write first draft 3) self edit first draft (using C.O.P.S.- reading the paragraph over to improve use of Capitals, Organization, Punctuation and Spelling) 4) peer edit first draft (using C.O.P.S.) 5) teacher edit first draft 6) if necessary, write second draft.  Once all 4 paragraphs have gone through this process we will work on typing out our final, published copy.

-Journal Entry: My Responses to Mr. Myers’ Comments Due: Friday

-Journal Entry: Why I Need to Enter the Classroom Quietly Due: Friday

-Journal Entry: no new journal entry for this week

F.L.A.

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

-review (the alphabet + vocabulary)

-Days of the week + vocabulary: lundi, mardi, mercredi, jeudi, vendredi, samedi, dimanche, jour, semaine, mois, année

-Pronouns (je, tu, il, elle, nous, vous, ils, elles)

-conjugating the -ER verb, AIMER (j’aime, tu aimes, il aime, elle aime, nous aimons, vous aimez, ils aiment, elles aiment)

Science

Electricity and Magnetism

-review of last day’s material and completion of pages 21-23 or our notes

-time with our electronic kits

- small student group demonstrations of creating a circuit from a diagram

-updating and maintaining the table of contents + page numbering (organization)

Electricity and Magnetism

-Activity: Short Circuits (students create a circuit and then short it out – discussion regarding safety and fire hazards in the home)

-Activity: Making a Switch (students create a switch using simple materials)

-updating and maintaining the table of contents + page numbering (organization)

Electricity and Magnetism

-Activity: Making a Switch: complete yesterday’s activity and fill out today’s sheet

-Glossary: battery holder, bulb holder, closed circuit, control, open circuit, simple circuit

-Activity: A Simple Switch (students get to create a switch using foil, paper and paperclips)

-updating and maintaining the table of contents + page numbering (organization)

(for next Tuesday)

-video

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.

-Tapa Cloth project

S.S.

Social studies is taught by Ms Sparrow

Other

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