Monday, 2 April 2018

Welcome Back! Let's Make Term Three Productive...

Hope everyone is well rested and ready for term 3!

We are improving! Still, MANY students are in need of more practice on division facts.
Here are many games to help... Division Games

Please return the Communicating Student Progress / Learning ENVELOPE when you can. Please see Mr. Bartraw if you have questions or concerns about your child's TERM 2 progress.
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April 11 - Fire Drill at 1pm

April 12 - DARE

April 13 - Non-Instructional Friday

April 16 - Professional Development Day - No school

April 19 - Talent Show  (pm)

April 20 - Metis Fiddlers 1:30

April 23 - Band Concert

April 24 to May 3 - Gymnastics in our gym

April 27 - Michael Bortoletto Assemblies

May 4 - Pro-D Day

May 8 - Fire Drill @ 9am

May 9 - Book Fair in Gym

May 17 = Highlands Track Meet at COTR.
                 (back up date = May 23)

May 24 - CBEEN Field Trip for Mr. B and Mrs. A's classes

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L. ARTS...
          - Short stories... theme of "Mystery"
          - Tons of reading integrated with our Socials and Science units

          ...soon... ~ literary devices will be studied... alliteration, personification, and hyperbole.

Writing - we commence "dialogue writing" next week. (3 short mystery stories - we publish our best one each) 
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Word Work - TEST on Friday - 20 words.       
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Weekly Journal Entries continue.
          - topics focused on science
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Math -Fractions unit - proper, improper, mixed numbers, equivalent fractions,...
          - later... converting fractions to decimals and vice-versa, and eventually to percentages for grade 5's

Fraction Concepts

Sheppard software fractions

Fractions and Decimal Games

          - Test on Fractions Wednesday, April 25.

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Health:  DARE - Gr 5's have homework... write a letter to their future self.

~ next week we start a unit called "Health Matters" 
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Science - Earth’s axis, rotation, and orbit cause changes locally:
  • day and night: animals are nocturnal (active at night) and diurnal (active during day)
  • annual seasons: plants and animals respond to the seasons (drop leaves, change colour)
  • phases of the moon, tides, etc.
  • tides affect living organisms
  • lunar and solar eclipses
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PE - Badminton Skills...specific shots, service, rules, and strategies for doubles badminton
      - (Track and Field practices on Thursday after lunch recess)
      - Highlands Track Meet is on May 17.
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Technology - info-graphics... integrated with socials
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Socials - Motivations for Explorations (Early Explorers)
             - Life aboard ships in 1497, 1498
             - cool info-graphics poster online
Infographic-the-age-of-exploration... life-on-the-open-seas

Key questions:
  • What motivated explorers and settlers to come to Canada?
  • How did the geography of Canada affect European exploration?
  • Other sample topics:
  • disease
  • European and American settlement and migration
  • increases in raids causing decreases in population
  • relocation/resettlement of First Peoples
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 Career Ed - work at your goal you indicated
                    - continue to earn $ toward your trip to Pines Camp
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ART - vanishing point ART!
         Vanishing point art
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Congrats to  ____________ for being the next Worker of the Week!

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