Subject

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Math

Decimals

-Receipts: Students create problems by using receipts brought in from home and by using the problems on pages 226 & 227 as examples

Decimals

-MQ228 discuss

-MQ229 #1-6 then odd numbers (thousandths)

Decimals

-MQ229 Peer Evaluation

-MQ230 all

-MQ231 all (equivalent decimal numbers)

Decimals

-MQ232 odd numbers (rounding decimal numbers)

-MQ233 odd numbers (comparing numbers to the thousandths)

Good Friday

(no school)

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.

-Poetry: Students will build upon their own poetry anthology.  This week, we finish our second poem, Character Bio Poem and begin the ever poetic, Haiku.  During the poetry unit, the teacher will read at least one poem per day.  Students who have either written or found a poem will be given the opportunity to share them with the class.

-Journal Entry: No journal entry this week.  Last week’s journal entries were handed back and discussed.

F.L.A.

-School: We will continue to write school subjects in brief, easy sentences using the conjugated verbs, ÉTUDIER and AIMER.

-Pronunciation will be developed through small group work and by playing the game, Tribal Pronunciation.

-French is taught using the four modes/skills of learning.  This means that all students have the opportunity to learn through listening, speaking, reading and writing.

Science

Weather Watch

-preparation of titlepage and table of contents

-Glossary: atmosphere, climate; meteorology, temperature, thermometer, weather

-Activity: Describing the Weather – Students will go outside and describe the weather according to descriptors (cloud, wind, precipitation & temperature) on page 5 of their duotangs.  Then they will make predictions as to tomorrow’s weather.

Weather Watch

-Glossary: convection current, draft, front, wind, wind chill)

-Describing the Weather (students go outside and record their observations and verify their predictions from yesterday)

-Demonstration: Classroom Temperature (students will record the temperatures from various locations throughout the classroom and relate it to a much larger system – outside)

Weather Watch

-Classroom Temperature (review and completion of pages 7 & 8)

-Work on page 6 of the duotang by searching for articles about the weather in newspapers

(next week)

-Complete newspaper article search

-Demonstration:  The Wind Spiral – students will see what happens when there’s a heat source and what the implications are regarding air/wind.

Art

-We will continue to use our 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.

-Tessellations 2 art/math projects are scheduled for next week.  We will create an irregularly shaped tessellation and, once we determine are working on two tessellations: the first is on square dot paper and the second one is on isometric dot paper.

S.S.

Social studies is taught by Ms Sparrow

Other

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