1. Study for s.s. test (tomorrow)

2. le francais

Reminders: Tomorrow is "Dress-up-as-your-favourite-story-book-character-Day", tomorrow is a 2:00 p.m. dismissal, and there is no school on Monday, March 3 for JS.

1. Study for s.s. test on Friday.

2. Representing Numbers test on Tues. March 4.

3. Prepare for Lit. Circle meeting on March 5.

Reminder: Habitat for Humanity basket donations in by tomorrow please.

1. Study for s.s. test on Friday.

2. Recorder music assignment due tomorrow.

3. Prepare for Literature Circle meeting (March 5)

4. French due Thurs. Feb. 28

Reminders: bring in donations for Grade basket for Habitat for Humanity fundraiser on March 6

1. Review s.s. test outline and study for test on Friday, Feb. 29.

2. Feb. 29 = 2:00 p.m. dismissal

3. Business letter, PS test and PS 110 signed.

4. Music homework due Wed.

Girls' basketball canceled tomorrow

Scholastic due Wed.

For the March 6 Bud Spud N' Steak fundraiser for Habitat for Humanity, each grade is donating a silent auction item/basket. Attached is the letter that will go home on Monday, Feb. 25 to our Grade 5 students requesting donations to this cause. Thank you for all your support to date.

1. Finish chapter 5 S.S. notes (pages 78-80) [a test on this material will be coming up soon]

2. Literature Circle Meeting on Monday.

3. Prepare Winter Activity materials tonight.

1. Prepare for PS test tomorrow.

2. S.S. notes (page 77)

Reminder: next Literature Circle Meeting is on Monday Feb. 25.

The Oscars are on Feb. 24.  Sound off on your predictions here.  Who WILL win?  Who SHOULD win?  Who didn't get nominated, but SHOULD have?  Say it out loud before the results are aired and you can brag to all your friends that you knew it first!

1. Complete PS practice questions for test on Wed.

2. Complete S.S. notes (page 76).

3. Complete division sheet.

4. Music: gongxi sheet.

5. PE: skating Tuesday

Reminders: no school Monday or Friday next week AND dress warmly for our field trip Tuesday morning.

The homework postings for Tues. Feb. 12 to Thurs. Feb. 14 on the 5AE blog were lost due to blog technical problems. Sorry for any inconvenience.

1. Muscular system quiz signed.

2. Complete PS # 38

2. Study for S.S. test.

1. Study for S.S. test on Tues.

2. Prepare for Lit. Circ.

3. Prepare for T.U.S.C.

4. T.U.S.C. signed

5. Music sheet completed by Wed.

* Multiplication quiz on Mon.

This year, the 20th Century Master Plywright Festival is celebrating the work of David Mamet.  Mamet is a contemporary American playwright known for gritty scripts and capturing realistic speech patterns of people in stressful or anxious states.  Details of the festival can be found here:

http://www.mametfest.com/

SJR's Grade 10 Drama students went out into the field to review and respond to their Mamet experiences and will be posting them here as a response to this entry.  Feel free to add your own comments to the reviews, especially if you saw the show yourself!

1. Study for muscular system quiz tomorrow.

2.Study for S.S. test Tues.

Check out these animations by Matthew.

Luigi.swf 

Mario.swf

1. Prepare for S.S. test (Tues.)

2. Prepare for muscular system quiz (Fri.)

3. Multiplication quiz Monday.

4. Prepare for T.U.S.C. (Feb. 15)

If you want to share animations, sound recordings, or other creations you made with a computer, let me know!

I'll post it on the blog, and I'll even show you how you can copyright your work!

What is copyright?

Copyright gives you ownership rights to your work, so other people cannot use it without your permission.  Copyright is also great because other people recognize that you are the owner of the material.

Let me know if you have any work you would like to share!  You can email me at rbuduhan@sjr.mb.ca

1. Daily math quiz signed.

2. PS #6 (a bit tricky)

3. Review s.s. test outline and study (10 min.)

4. Study for muscular system quiz (10 min.)

5. Skating tomorrow

1. Skeletal System quiz signed.

2. T.U.S.C. tomorrow.

3. Prepare for Muscular System quiz on Friday (10 min.)

4. Prepare for Chapter 4. S.S. test on Tues. Feb. 12 (10 min.)

5. le francais

*Scholastic deadline: Thurs. Feb. 7

1. Prepare for Daily Math quiz #6-7 Monday

2. Review S.S. notes (chapter 4)

3. Complete pink multiplication sheet.

Lit. Circle Meeting Monday.

T.U.S.C. meeting Tuesday.

Scholastic deadline Thursday

Math club canceled Monday

1. Science test signed.

2. PS test signed.

3. Prepare for skeletal system quiz (tomorrow)

4. Prepare for Daily Math quiz (# 6-7) for Monday

5. Music sheet signed.

1. Prepare for skeletal system quiz on Friday.

2. Prepare for Daily Math quiz on Monday.

3. PS test tomorrow (carefully review the "practice" test from today).

4. Lit. Circle prep (Feb. 4)

1. Prepare for PS test (Pattern) tomorrow.

2. Prepare for skeletal system quiz on Friday.

3. Literature Circle Prep.

4. T.U.S.C. Prep

1. PS # 62 signed.

2. Comparing Numbers Test signed.

3. Prepar for PS test on Wed. (practice problem # 111a has an error in the answer...it should be two more).

4. Prepare for T.U.S.C. (Feb. 5)

5. Prepare for Lit. Circle (Feb. 5)

1. Study for 3-systems test.

2. Practice PS problems for test on Wed. Jan. 30.

3. Complete Lit. Circle role for Mon.

Julian did this morning's weather podcast. It's outdoor recess.

It's indoor recess again this morning.

1. Prepare for science test on Mon. Jan. 28 (review test outline: respiratory, circulatory and digestive systems)

2. S.S. project rubric signed.

3. PS #34 signed.

4. Multiplication quiz tomorrow (3 and 4 digit by 1-digit only)

1. Study for digestive system quiz (Monday)

2. Review respiratory and circulatory sytems (test with digestive system on Jan. 28)

3. le francais

Ensemble: bring back your blazer and shoes on Monday

CoCo's Adversmarts is a website that teaches younger children (ages 5-8) about advertising and marketing techniques businesses use on webpages.

It is an important topic, as many young children visit webpages.  They should be aware of the purpose of different websites and what people do to try to sell their products.

Students may click this link to get to the website.  Please share what you learned after yo ...

1. Heart quiz signed.

2. Complete PS # 34.

3. PE tomorrow: skiing

4. Prepare for digestive system quiz on Monday.

1. Prepare for digestive system quiz (Mon.)

2. Complete Practice 3-2 (Odd #'s only)

3. Prepare for T.U.S.C.

*Winter Activity Sheet due Friday...bring tomorrow if possible

1. PS # 10 signed.

2. Winter Activity Sheet signed.

3. Study for Heart Quiz (tomorrow)

4. Skating tomorrow

* Scholastic deadline tomorrow.

Tuesday's homework is:

• ELA (20) - Hatchet Exploring Plot page
• Math (20) - Practice 2-8
• SC (10)

Please get your Excel assessment and rubrics (weather brochure and cloud paragraph) signed.

1. Read pages 142-145 in Writers Express

2. Complete Practice 6-5

3.Study heart parts and blood flow through the heart.

*Scholastic deadline Jan. 15

1. le francais

2. Study circulatory system: a) heart parts and b) blood flow through the heart.

3. PE: Find skating and skiing equipment/clothing.

Well, only a few more days until I see you all again. I hope all 5AE students and their families had a terrific and restful holiday.

If you are already craving school work (as I am sure most of you are!), feel free to review your respiratory and circulatory system notes. We will finish up the circulatory system in the first week and move on to the digestive system. Check out the science links on our blog for pages to help you review and also to gain a sneak peek at the digestive system. If that is not enough for you, preview chapters 4-6 in your social studies textbook by scanning the titles and subtitles (this is assuming that you have already read those chapters).

See you soon, Ms. E.

Have a terrific holiday, everyone.

Just a reminder that Computer Club will be starting in Term 2.  There will be two sections: beginner and advanced.

Beginner computer club is perfect for people new to computer club.  You will learn about animation, multimedia software, and other cool computer activities.

Advanced computer club is for experienced computer club members.  You will learn about advanced animation techniques using Swish and Flash, as well as game making and web page design.

Let me know if you have any questions!

Wow,

The debate about what is better, the Sony PSP-2000 or the Nintendo DS Lite was the most popular topic in this blog so far.  Twenty five people registered their thoughts and opinions.

I appreciate everyone's comments, and thank you for being respectful of other people's views.

I was lucky enough to receive a Sony PSP-2000 for my birthday, so I have both systems.  Here's what I think:

They both have their strengths and weaknesses.  I love the PSP for its excellent graphics.  The DS Lite does not come close.

But I have to admit that so far the games on the DS Lite are more fun.  The games I have played on the PSP seem so serious, while DS Lite games are funny, colourful, and easy to play.  That's another difference I noticed: The games on the PSP so far are MUCH harder than on the DS Lite.

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I am posting this entry from a EEE pc laptop. A computer teacher let me borrow it, and so far it's a joy to use. I am finding the keyboard is a little small and takes some getting used to.
The screen is seven inches, a little small, but it works fine.  It has a 4 gigabyte "flash-based" memory, meaning there is no spinning hard drive and no noisy fan: It is completely silent! It uses an operating system from Linux which is much faster than any other system I've used. And, it only costs $400! Most laptops cost well over $1000.
It looks like a larger iPod, or a smaller MacBook laptop. It looks really cool!
Is this the way  of the future for computing? Smaller is better? Simpler is better? We'll find out.
So far, I am impressed with this little laptop. Very cool!
The school has purchased one to tes ...

1. Study for circulatory system quiz tomorrow.

2. Music: a) complete concert reflection and b) complete goal sheet

Homework for the Winter Break: Read chapters 4-6 in your S.S. textbok before Jan. 8. Today's notice of this homework will give you 3 and a half weeks to complete it. There is a lot of reading required in Term 2 for S.S., and having read the chapters ahead of time will help you understand the material better as we get into it. There are 47 pages to read. If you count the number of days between now and Jan. 8, there are 26 days. There are 47 pages to read, so if you spread out your reading, this means approximately 1.8 pages per day. You ARE NOT expected to study the material, just read it.

Note: If you are unable to complete this homework, you ...

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