Subject

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Math

No School

(P.D. Day)

Decimals

-MQ234 discuss

-MQ235 #1-3 in small groups (problem solving)

Decimals

-MQ236 review of decimals (place value, comparing decimal numbers, greater than and less than)

Decimals

-Centres: Students rotate through 4 centres in 4 days, completing various tasks related to their learning of decimals

Decimals

-Centres: Students rotate through 4 centres in 4 days, completing various tasks related to their learning of decimals

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 are scheduled to finish our third type of poem, Haiku.  Students are being encouraged to write several Haiku and to select their favourite three for their anthology.  It is our goal to work towards beginning and maybe even completing our fourth type of poem, Tanka, that was actually created as a response to 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.

F.L.A.

-Verb: être (to be) Students will conjugate the verb être prior to using it in such sentences as, “Je suis dans la bibliothèque.” I am in the library.  A new list of vocabulary will be added this week for the rooms inside a school.

-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

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

-Video: What Makes Weather? Students will complete a fill-in-the-blanks half sheet of paper while listening to this brief video.

-Activity: Work on page 6 of the duotang by searching for articles about the weather in newspapers (last day)

Weather Watch

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

-Discussion and graphing of findings

-Completion of both sides of photocopy

-Reading: What A Blast! (time permitting)

Weather Watch

-Glossary: anemometer, Chinook

-Sheet: ’Tis Breezy Today

-Activity: Students create anemometers in small groups prior to taking them outside for testing

(next week)

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.

-We are going to be working on tinting (lightening colours) as we prepare our classroom’s tri-fold display in paint.  This will be a cooperative project that will incorporate significant student communication in the preparatory and intermediate stages of the final display.

S.S.

Social studies is taught by who is substituting for Ms Sparrow this week

Other

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