Friday, May 3, 2024

Friday, May 3, 2024

 Today we:

  • read the beginning of Touching Spirit Bear for first chapter Friday
  • read three chapters from our class novel
  • had French class
  • learned how to find equivalent fractions
  • did experiments to show that air is moves like a fluid and that air can be compressed
  • had gym class
  • had some time to catch up on missing work
  • had an assembly
  • had a class circle
Don't Forget
  • Camp forms due this week
Upcoming Dates:
  • May 7 - Tennis Lesson
  • May 17 - No School
  • May 20 - No School / Victoria Day
  • May 28 - 30 - Outdoor School
  • June 19 - Social Studies PAT
  • June 20 - Science PAT

Thursday, May 2, 2024

Thursday, May 2, 2024

Today we:

  • typed our good copies of our Spring poems
  • started doing art for the background of our Spring poems
  • had time for our reading race work
  • read three chapters from our class novel
  • had French class
  • learned about ratios and how to represent them three ways
  • did experiments to show that air is made up of different gasses and that air has pressure
Don't Forget
  • Camp forms due this week
Upcoming Dates:
  • May 7 - Tennis Lesson
  • May 17 - No School
  • May 20 - No School / Victoria Day
  • May 28 - 30 - Outdoor School
  • June 19 - Social Studies PAT
  • June 20 - Science PAT

Wednesday, May 1, 2024

Wednesday, May 1, 2024

 Today we:

  • had our Haudenosaunee unit test
  • worked on the rough draft of our original lyrical poems about Spring
  • had time for our reading race work
  • read one chapter from our class novel
  • worked on a non-fiction book report using what we have learned about non-fiction text structures and text features
  • had gym class
  • learned how to multiply fractions by a whole number
  • did experiments to show that air has mass and air takes up space
Don't Forget
  • Camp forms due this week
Upcoming Dates:
  • May 7 - Tennis Lesson
  • May 17 - No School
  • May 20 - No School / Victoria Day
  • May 28 - 30 - Outdoor School
  • June 19 - Social Studies PAT
  • June 20 - Science PAT

Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Today we:

  • learned another affix as a part of our morphology study
  • worked on the rough draft of our original lyrical poems about Spring
  • had time for our reading race work
  • read three chapters from our class novel
  • had French class
  • worked on a non-fiction book report using what we have learned about non-fiction text structures and text features
  • had gym class
Don't Forget
  • Camp forms due by May 1
  • There is a Social Studies review in Google Classroom
Upcoming Dates:
  • May 1 - Social Studies test
  • May 7 - Tennis Lesson
  • May 17 - No School
  • May 20 - No School / Victoria Day
  • May 28 - 30 - Outdoor School
  • June 19 - Social Studies PAT
  • June 20 - Science PAT

Monday, April 29, 2024

Monday, April 29, 2024

   Today we:

  • started our Air and Flight unit with an examination of the Miracle on the Hudson, we predicted which words will be important during this Science unit
  • learned another affix as a part of our morphology study
  • started learning about poetry, we wrote a lyrical poem as a class
  • had time for our reading race work, we have 9 more books to go until we get a chip buffet
  • read three chapters from our class novel
  • worked on adding and subtracting fractions with unlike denominators
  • had gym class
Don't Forget
  • Camp forms due by May 1
  • There is a Social Studies review in Google Classroom
Upcoming Dates:
  • May 1 - Social Studies test
  • May 7 - Tennis Lesson
  • May 17 - No School
  • May 20 - No School / Victoria Day
  • May 28 - 30 - Outdoor School
  • June 19 - Social Studies PAT
  • June 20 - Science PAT

Thursday, April 25, 2024

Thursday, April 25, 2024

  Today we:

  • had an extra recess outdoors because we worked really hard and quietly in the morning
  • studied for our upcoming Haudenosaunee unit test by completing review assignments in pairs
  • worked on the Reading Race, we have read 71 books this year but we are trying to get to 100
  • had French class
  • started a new class novel, Front Desk by Kelly Yang
  • learned how to add fractions and mixed numbers with common denominators
Don't Forget
  • Camp forms due by May 1
  • There is a Social Studies review in Google Classroom
Upcoming Dates:
  • May 1 - Social Studies test
  • May 7 - Tennis Lesson
  • May 17 - No School
  • May 20 - No School / Victoria Day
  • May 28 - 30 - Outdoor School
  • June 19 - Social Studies PAT
  • June 20 - Science PAT

Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Wednesday, April 24, 2024

 Today we:

  • had gym class
  • worked on a visual journal page to express our understanding of consensus making in the Haudenosaunee Confederacy
  • Attended the David Thompson production of the Hobbit
  • learned how to order groups of three fractions with unlike denominators, using the common denominator method
Don't Forget
  • Camp forms due by May 1
  • We are going to see The Hobbit at David Thompson tomorrow after lunch
Upcoming Dates:
  • May 7 - Tennis Lesson
  • May 17 - No School
  • May 20 - No School / Victoria Day
  • May 28 - 30 - Outdoor School
  • June 19 - Social Studies PAT
  • June 20 - Science PAT

Friday, May 3, 2024

 Today we: read the beginning of Touching Spirit Bear for first chapter Friday read three chapters from our class novel had French class lea...