Schoolwork
Monday December 1 -
Friday December 5, 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.
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Subject |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
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Math |
Division -MQ138 even numbers -MQ139 even numbers (dividing 2-digit numbers, remainders) |
Division -MQ142 #1-4 -MQ143 even numbers (dividing 3-digit numbers, remainders) |
Division -MQ144 even numbers to 20 -MQ145 even numbers to 20, 30, 32 (dividing 3-digit numbers) |
Division -MQ146 Read, then do -MQ147 Do as many questions as you can (problem solving) |
No School (P/T/S Conferences) |
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L.A. |
-Punctuation, spelling and capitals 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. -P.A.R.I.S. -Book Fair |
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F.L.A. |
-Review: “Correct the Teacher’s Mistakes” -Sentence building (visual – oral – written) -Oral practice and song: The March of the Kings/La marche des rois |
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Science |
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Mechanisms Using Electricity -Discussion: car rally -Activity + Sheet: Ring that Bell! (students get to hook up an electromagnet bell/electronic buzzer and fill out a sheet) -time with personal kits (for early finishers) -daily updating and maintaining the table of contents + page numbering (organization) |
Mechanisms Using Electricity -Activity + Sheet: Double Switch (students create a double switch which is a switch that controls two circuits) -time with personal kits -updating and maintaining the table of contents + page numbering (organization) |
Mechanisms Using Electricity -Project: Students begin their first plans for a burglar alarm. This includes making a list of materials and considering the circuits that they will need to create. -time with personal kits -updating and maintaining the table of contents + page numbering (organization) |
(next
Tuesday) -Project: Students build upon their plans for a burglar alarm and begin preliminary construction. -time with personal kits -updating and maintaining the table of contents +
page numbering (organization) |
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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. -“My Initials Pri-Sec”
Project (Painting: students plan their 2 initials according to a
rubric, using bubble letters that overlap…they choose two primary colours and
use the appropriate secondary colour wherever the letters overlap) |
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S.S. |
Social studies is taught by Ms Sparrow |
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Other |
Organization skills (desk cleaning, ordering notes, emphasizing dates and titles for
daily work, etc.). |
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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: MQ138 and 139; even numbers
on both pages 2) Please visit www.cbe.ab.ca/b306 for the December
newsletter. 3) I am coming home
with a letter for you concerning the upcoming grade five car rally. 4) I also have a notice regarding the
Winter Concert.
Tuesday: 1) Math: MQ142 #1-4; MQ143 even
numbers 2) A new classroom
economic policy was adopted to support our being responsible for our materials
for learning. Please ask me what
this means and what I need in order to succeed. 3) Please look at the Scholastic Book Fair sheet that I will
be filling out tomorrow during a preview of the Book Fair display. 4) .
Wednesday: 1) Math: MQ144
even numbers; MQ145 even numbers to 20, 30, 32 2) There is no library this Friday so I should bring in my
library book(s) tomorrow. 3) We
visited the book fair today. 4) Mr. Myers is looking forward to conferencing
with you tomorrow or Friday.
*Tomorrow is my last opportunity to submit my P.O.T.W..
Thursday: 1) Math: MQ146 all; MQ147 I am to do
as many questions as I can. 2) The
school’s Lost and Found has been set up by the gym. Do we need to peruse it for any of my belongings? 3) We hope to
have our science orders from Science Is… by Monday. 4) There is a new P.O.T.W. for next
week. 5) Please sign and return
the Glenbow Museum field trip forms to Mrs. Sparrow by Wednesday December 10 at
the latest. *I did not hand in my
P.O.T.W. this week and had to pay a fifty dollar fine.
Friday: (no school: P/T/S Conferences)
Web
master: Mr. Grant Myers
the Calgary Board of Education