Subject

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Math

Decimals

-Peer Evaluation

-MQ265 all; BONUS: problem solving (adding decimal numbers)

Decimals

-Peer Evaluation

-MQ272 all

-MQ273 #1-15 (estimating decimal products with only one decimal factor)

Decimals

-Peer Evaluation

-MQ276 all

-MQ277 even numbers (calculating products with only one decimal factor)

Decimals

-Peer Evaluation

-MQ279#1-12 (calculating products with two decimal factors)

Decimals

-MQ282#1-12 (multiplying by 10, 100 and1000)

-MQ283 even numbers (converting to smaller linear units)

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 continue to build upon their own poetry anthology.  This week, we hope to complete our fourth type of poem, Tanka.  Last week we busied ourselves with the Volunteer Tea tri-fold and so have more work to do before completing Tanka.  Students are being encouraged to write several Tanka and to select their favourite two for their anthology.  Our goal for this week is to 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: My Thoughts on Poetry Thus Far

F.L.A.

-Students will be using the classroom’s French-English dictionaries to translate their One Mother poems into French.

-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

-Video: Bill Nye - Wind

-Quiz (based on the video)

-Discussion

Weather Watch

-Video: Bill Nye - Storms

-Quiz (based on the video)

-Discussion

Weather Watch

-Activity: creating wind vanes

-go outside to use our anemometers and wind vanes

-Reading: What a Blast! (time permitting)

(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 finishing our tinting (lightening colours) as we prepare our classroom’s tri-fold display in paint.  This has been a cooperative project that incorporates 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.).