Subject

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Math

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

Decimals

-MQ260 all

-MQ261#1-18 (estimating decimal sums)

Decimals

-MQ262 odd #s

-MQ263 odd #s (adding decimal numbers)

-BONUS: Problem Solving

Decimals

-MQ264 all (estimating decimal differences)

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 both begin and complete our fourth type of poem, Tanka.  Students are being encouraged to write several Tanka and to select their favourite two for their anthology.  Some of our poets may even get to the fifth poem, Une mère.  Students will have ample opportunity to read the poems of their classroom peers as they have the added responsibility as peer editors.  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: This week’s journal entry will be based on the writer’s individual experience as he shared his journal writing with students in Mr. Morand’s grade 2 class.

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: Review Game

-Activity: students build anemometers in class in groups and then take them outside for their first test run

-Sheet: ’Tis Breezy Today

Weather Watch

No science today (we had an extra day of science last Friday when we had our Wetlands presentation by the Inglewood Bird Sanctuary)

Weather Watch

-Presentation by CTV meteorologist, Steve Rothfels!

-All 3 grade 5 classes will assemble to listen to this dynamic weather presenter.

(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.).