1. Number Theory Practice Test

2. Review logical reasoning problems.

*Reminder: Friday is a 2:00 p.m. dismissal

ELA We read pages 100-105 in our Social Studies textbook about the start of the fur trade and why it was so popular, and when we were done, that, we read a novel of our choice.

 Science We worked on our Virtual Science Fair projects, and we checked out our info on the VSF website. We worked on putting the finishing touches on our projects, and some of us started making quizzes.

Art We finished off our hot and cold collages, a collection of hot and cold colours, taken from magazines. We also started our monster pastel drawings, inspired by, “Where the Wild Things Are” Ms. Payne explained to us the different techniques of using pastel, and most of us got a good deal into this project, finishing our rough copy and starting our good copy.

ELA We discussed an earlier assignment, which was about a book called DISASTER! Ms. Elkins had us put down the bibliographic information, and she discussed with us what we thought the most interesting ...

1. Complete PS practice questions for tomorrow.

2. PS # 70 signed.

Today is Monday April 28, 2008. We had an interesting day and we accomplished many things!

In period one, we had ELA. All of the class took a survey on their learning experiences at school, and how the teachers can make it even better. The survey had sixteen questions, with the choices: “agree,” “disagree,” and “no opinion.” Also, there was a small comment box. We tried to avoid answering with “no opinion,” because we wanted thoughtful answers.

We had science in the second period. At that point, we worked on our Virtual Science Fair (VSF). VSF was a project on the computer where we picked a topic and researched it. Then, we converted it into a web page which was submitted to the VSF web site. Working on our Virtual Science Fair projects is lots of fun, and we learn a lot of new things about computers!

After we went outside for recess, we had math in period three. We did Daily Math #9 Thursday, and then we corrected it. Some of those question ...

1. Number Theory test Tues. May 6 (review handout)

2. PS test Friday, May 2

3. Prepare for T.U.S.C. (May 1)

4. Work on music assignment (due Friday)

There was no assembly today. Before we went to music we corrected Daily ELA (English Language Art) Tuesday Week 4, which is in the English binder, and we also corrected Daily ELA Wednesday Week 4.

Music: Mrs. Zelinik assigned us new homework. The homework is to pick a song artist for the “Rock Show” wall of fame and make three solid reasons why you picked that song artist. You must know who you are choosing by Friday, April 25. After Mrs. Zelinik explained the homework we practiced the “Footloose” dance moves. Then the girls practiced the Avril Lavigne song Sk8terboi. After the song we sang D-I-S-C-O with the Actions.

French Computer Lab: We continued Aviation and Mr. Budahan taught us how to add the special effects like “Fade In” and “Fade Out”, Mr. Budahan told us to do a self-evaluation after we are done our Aviation animations.

Math: We did Conceptual Understanding Lesson One and Two. In Conceptual Understanding we discussed about frac ...

Science: In Science we worked on our Virtual Science Fair projects. Our goal was to complete the project by the end of class.

Math: My classmates and I reviewed how to calculate area. We completed math questions, which we call Conceptual Understanding. During period 5, we reviewed how to find the area of irregular shapes and recorded it in our grid books. For period 8, the class did a final review on finding the area of irregular shapes. We also made our own irregular shapes for the class to solve. Irregular shapes were definitely the highlight of math today!!

ELA: We corrected our daily L.A.

French: During our French class, we corrected our quiz based on the verbs Etre and Avoir. We also sang an amusing song about the verb Etre. We read our promenade Deux (2) booklets.

Music: In music we practiced our songs for our upcoming rock show. The songs we rehearsed were, We Never Cut Our Hair, Footloose, and Hot Summer Nights.&l ...

1. PS # 70

2. PS test on May 2 (Logical Reasoning)

3. Prepare for T.U.S.C. on May 1 (in periods 6 and 7 instead of 8/9)

*Reminder: "Rock" JS musical ticket deadline is Mon.

Our classes today were quite fun.

Guest Speaker: In periods one and two, Mr. Carsted came to gave the grade 5's a presentation on the Battle of the Plains of Abraham. After that, he gave us a demonstration on how to use a musket. It was loud. Then we played a game with fake musket's.

S.S. Test: In periods 3 and 4 we had a Social Studies test. It was not very hard, other than 1 or 2 questions.

Survey: In period 5, Ms. Elkins surveyed the class on when we go to bed on an average school night, when we wake up on a school day, wake extra-curricular activities we do and stress.

P.E.: In periods 6 and 7, we had gym class. Mr. Plant chose our partners. We played badminton. to start off, we warmed up. Than we played mini-games against other partners. Near the end, Mr. Plant had us practice our serving.

Choir: In period 8, we had choir. In choir we practiced the songs Footloose, Hot Summer Nights/let's surf, D ...

1. Music Homework

a) choice of artist due tomorrow and b) assignement due Friday, May 2 (see attached instructions)

*Since there is no other homework tonight, you should begin your research on your artist. Make the best use of this time.

Assembly: the grade 2 and 3 choir performed a live performance. The song was called, "What do you do with a water waster?"

Science/VSF: we kept working on our web page and finishing up. The dead line is Friday.

ELA: we reviewed our vocabulary words. The words are infallible and incorrigible. We took off a piece of the reading comprehension. We did a monitoring activity. What we did was we went in a group of two and had to read a part in a book called Disaster. The part was called Halifax Disaster.

S.S: we watch a short clip of the Battle of the Plains of Abraham. The movie was very informative.

PE: we were in the mini gym today. We started with a game of fitness rattails. Then we played revenge rattails. We also played jail dodge ball. Jail dodge ball was really fun. The last game we played was elimination dodge ball.

French: we went over regarde and il y a. qu’est-ce que = what

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

a) Review peer questions

b) Read "British Forces Assemble" (testable)

2. Both T.U.S.C.'s signed.

1. French:  In French we wrote our quiz and after everyone was done there quiz we watched telefrancais.
2. Music:   In music we worked more on our musical and we also had some homework to do. 
3. ELA: In ELA we wrote in our journals about how we think our class is fun, special, and enjoyable. We thought our class was enjoyable because of the library we have, we thought the class was special becaus ...

When asked how old she was, Suzie replied, "In two years I will be twice as old as I was five years ago."

How old is Suzie?

See attachment for May 27 T.U.S.C. roles.

ROLES May 27.doc

See attachment for T.U.S.C. roles for May 13.

ROLES May 13.doc

This is a YouTube video found on the Literacy with ICT blog. It is informative and well done, although there is some "Google" advertising within it. Click on the link below to take you to the site. Thank you to Mr. Buduhan for pointing out this video.

http://www.literacywithict.ca/?p=86

1. Study for chapter 6 social studies test on Thursday, April 25.

2. Begin thinking about your next T.U.S.C. role on May 1 (see roles list under "T.U.S.C." section of our blog).

See attachment for May 1st T.U.S.C. roles.

Science: Today in science class (which was 3 periods) we learned about Mechanical Advantage and how it makes work easier. We also did an experiment about levers, using scales and paper clips .It was fun.

French: Madame Berthelet talked to us about when to use the letter S when writing in French. We also received the marks from our latest quiz. When the end of class found us we were watching Telefrancais.

Computer: We had a triple period in the lab, the entire time we worked on our Virtual Science Fair projects, some of us started making animations to add to our web pages.

Physical Education: In PE we ran one lap around the outside of the soccer field. We the started a game of Ultimate Frisbee with 10 person shifts every 4 minutes.

By Keegan

1. T.U.S.C. tomorrow.

2. Social Studies: Study sheet #3 and write three strong questions.

3. PS #40 signed.

4. Study for French quiz tomorrow.

Math: Today during math at 9:00 a.m. , We had a math contest called Fibonacci. I found it pretty easy at the begining but as you went on it got harder. We had one hour to do this contest. There was 40 questions. After that we had 10 minites untill recess so if we were not done our Daily L.A. we did that but if we were done we read.

Art: Not much happend in art. All we did was fire our fish

Math: We did a Problem Solving sheet to start, the stratagy was use logical reasoning . It was pretty hard but once you understood it, the problem was pretty easy.

Music: In music we practiced for our rock show, it was fun.

French: In french we learned more about the verb etre and avoir. We had time to to study for our upcoming test on those verbs. We read our french books with our partners.

Computer: We worked in our groups on our Virtual Science Fair for the whole class.

Health: We started with ...

1. Prepare for T.U.S.C.

2. Social Studies: sheet 2: a) study and b) create 3 strong short answer questions

3. PS # 40

In the morning we had a bus meeting. We talked about what can improve on the bus and what was going well on the bus.

In social studies we went over the answers for sheet 3 of our social studies text book. We also went over our words of the day benign and innocuous. Then we corrected our daily language arts Monday #4.

In math we prepared for the Fibonacci quiz tomorrow (dose not count for marks) by filling out our name on it and what school it was from.

In French we reviewed etre. We also found out we were going to have a test on Friday. On avoir and etre. We also played a game where we wrote questions and answers for avoir and etre on pieces of paper. Then we had to match them when they were all mixed up.

When we were working on our vsf projects Ms. Elkins asked groups wich step they were on while other people read. We then went on the computers. Our goal was to get everyone copying there paragraphs onto dream weaver.< ...

1. Prepare for T.U.S.C.

2. S.S. Chapter 6: sheet 1 a) study sheet and b) write 3 strong short answer questions

Optional: review Fibonacci tests 

Period 1/2 Science: Before Period 1, in assembly we listened to Titus Pricu play a song from The Lord of the Rings on Piano, and watched a scit about perserverance.We reviewd our very first simple machines sheet that we got, and we did a science activity about measuring force.

Period 3/4 Social Studies: We recieved our chapter 6 notes we did, and looked over them. Then, we got our answer sheets back. For the remainder of the period, we corrected Daily L.A. # 3 Thursday.

Period 5 Social Studies: We started our chapter 6 notes sheet 3.

Period 6 French: We read page 59 in Promades 2 and read it with our partners.

Period 7 Music: We practised from our rock show: "We Never Cut Our Hair" and "Together."

Period 8/9 Math/Lockdown practice: We started correcting our Practice 5-5 Math Assignment, then we had a lockdown and evacuation practice, and we completed correcting the math assignment.& ...

1. PS # 36 signed

2. Finish sheet #3 for Chapter 6 AND review/study sheets #1 and 2 (Chapter 6 test on Thurs. April 24)

ELA: We reviewed yesterday’s vocabulary words and learned today’s words which were longevity and interminable. We also learned the definition of apathy and lethargic. We watched a video on You tube called the Lost generation.

Math: We went over problem solving question 35 and reviewed how converting units of length into other units using millimetres, centimetres, and decimetres.

Library Circulation: We took turns borrowing books from the library.

Science: We worked on our VSF projects using the laptops. Some of us converted notes into paragraphs while others transferred their written paragraph from word onto Macromedia Dreamweaver which is the program we are using to create our webpages.

Physical Education: We went outside and ran a mile! Some people chose to run 1.5 miles or even two miles!

Choir: We practiced our songs and movements for the upcoming ROCK SHOW! We made the girls stand on one side of ...

1. PS # 36

2. Practice 5-5

3. Review the six simple machines.

Today we had lots of fun during Music, French, Math, Health, Computer, and Art.

Music: Today Mrs. Zilinek wanted people to play in assembly next week so we had to volunteers to play for us. Zach played "Robots" and Varshana played "Penguins". We also practised for the Grade 5 Rock Show. We practised 2 songs. "I'm the King" and "Hot Summer Night/Lets Surf".

French Lab: We worked on animations that the Grade 5's have been working on for a pretty long time. We have to make an animation about aviation (l'aviation in french). We made them in Windows Movie Maker.

Math: Today in math we had to do question in our math text book and write the answers in our math grid book. We were inquired to do question 1-21 but odd numbered questions only. After that we worked on math problem solving #35 (they are numbered). Then we worked on a math sheet called "Dynamath" which has math questions on them.

1. PS  # 22 signed.

2. Complete both sides of sheet 2 for Chapter 6 in S.S. text.

Scholastic deadline tomorrow!

ELA: We did Daily LA, Wednesday #3. We corrected Daily LA Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday #3. We also looked at and used the words "oblivious"and "canny"

Reading Buddies: We read books lik we always do. We came back to the classroom and Talked about our liturature circle group.

Math: Mr.Plant came in and told us to organize our Duotang. Then we talked about measurement.

Math: We learned how to use a ruler propery and practiced on our name tag and on the smart board.

ELA.: We had D.E.A.R. time and Ms. E. read RATS of NIMH.

P.E.: We went outside and walked and ran on the street. We took turns running with our parteners. We timed everybody.

French: We took a test on "verbe avior" and read pages 56-60 in Promenade 2 with a partener.

S.S.: We read Pages 82-86 in S.S. textbook and made up questions on the pages. We got our literature circle ...

1. Finish S.S. chapter 6 questions # 1-7

2. Literature Circle Project sheet signed.

3. Use "oblivious" and "canny"

4. Measure the perimeter of your kitchen/dining room table to the nearest mm, cm and dm. (if table is oval, measure the length and width down the centre)

We learned many different things today in Math, French, Music, Library, ELA and Science and French:

We learned in French about the verb “Avoir and how to say it in a sentence. We also read some pages in our books Promenade 2. Then we watched a video call “Telefrancais”.

Music: In music we watched some videos on Elvis, the two songs that we heard were called “Blue Suede Shoes” and “Hound Dog”. We also watched the “Beatles” on the Ed Sullivan Show

Math: We wrote down words about Geometry like, cm, m and L. After we had a pre-test in it to see how we were doing. We also started a new strategy for Problem Solving called Logical Reasoning. We started a new topic called Number Theory.

ELA: We spent some time picking who was going to be assembly set-up and clean up. We also decided who was going to feed the millipedes. Then we read the book Rats of Nimh.

Library: In library we went over what we learned for ...

1. Complete PS # 22

2. Use both our vocabulary words tonight in conversation.

3. Read for 20 min.

4. French quiz tomorrow

* Scholastic deadline is Friday.

1. Goal and Star sheet in by Wed.

2. PS Test signed

3. Discuss Scribe of the Day with parents

4. le francais

5. Read for 20 min.

* Scholastic due Friday

1. Study compound machines

2. Make it Simpler test tomorrow: complete practice problem (clown problem)...see answer below

3. S.M. quiz signed

4. PS # 95 signed

PS practice answer: 36 bumps would have been made.

David, Philip

1. Study levers, wheel/axle and screw

2. Visit www.vchc.ca to prepare for tomorrow's field trip.

3. Read for 15 min.

1. Skating equipment for tomorrow.

2. Complete PS # 68

3. Study: 1)screw and 2) wheel and axle

1. Complete problem # 42

2. Prepare for T.U.S.C.

3. Read for 20 min.*

* apologies for the homework not being posted twice this week...there were technical difficulties. Yesterday's homework was: a) simple machines quiz signed b) no other homework.