Wednesday 29 April 2015

Writing is the focus!

Religion

May 4 - Page 106 #1-4

L.Arts

Writing prompt with clear intro is still needed from several students.  You know who you are!

Math

May 4 - Geometry Test

FYI

Apr. 30 - School Survey Sheet for 9:15 am with Mrs. Forrest
Apr. 30 - Litter less lunch
Apr. 30 - Raffle Tickets due
May 22 - Yearend trip $5 plus permission slip

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Thursday 23 April 2015

FINAL PREPARATIONS FOR TESTING HAVE BEGUN!

Writing

We have been working on developing student choice expository prompts and introductory paragraphs for the last 4 days. 

Math

Apr. 24 - "Try These" sheet with quadrilateral drawings on dot paper with attributes due

Health/Religion/Viewing & Representing in L. Arts

Apr. 27 - "Unique Person" assignment in Health due.  It must follow all assignment requirements and be saved on his/her memory stick for color printing.  NOTE:  I will not print an assignment with spelling or capitalization errors. 

FYI

Apr. 27 am  - Track Meet at Douglas Park (students were given events, told how to dress, what food to bring, and how to eat for success)

Apr. 30 - Raffle Tickets due or $ submitted

May 4 Geometry Test


REVIEW RAD STRATEGIES ALL THE TIME WHILE READING FOR RAD YEAREND TEST

Thursday 16 April 2015

Finally, its SUNNY and not WINDY!

Today was jam- packed with work time towards outcomes.

L.Arts

Sentences final copy is due tomorrow.

Math

Sheets 92/93  are due tomorrow.




Wednesday 15 April 2015

RAD, RAD, where's my RAD?

L. Arts


We continued to work on our RAD assignment in class.  Tomorrow will be the completion day.

All sentences for the 3 topics were to be completed today with editing/revising to be done today and tomorrow.  The final copy is due on April 17.

Continue to do AR reading at home practicing the reading strategies for the final RAD in May.

FYI

-Apr. 22 - Picture Day (I sent home a small leaflet yesterday)
-Apr. 27 - Leave at 9:10 am for our school track meet at Douglas Park
-Apr. 27 - Perform group commercials in pm (will be videotaped)
-Apr. 30 - Raffle ticket money due as well as any unsold tickets.  Each student is to return any unsold tickets as they are responsible for them.

-Do IXL 4X/week focusing on Geometry concepts.  This is an expensive program that our school paid for to help students practice their math skills.  Please use it or we will lose it! It has shown great improvement results for the students in the class who are actually using the program. 

Monday 13 April 2015

Easter is here, our Lord has risen!

I welcome everybody back to school after a very restive Easter.  We now have less than 10 weeks of school!  Wow, it has sure gone by fast...supersonic speed!

L. Arts

Apr. 17 - Sentences assignment due.  We will work on it daily until Thursday.

Math

Look at Lesson 1:  Describing Shapes and practice the information we covered today.  Here are the Lesson 1 notes I put together for today.

Geometry Grade 5 Lesson 1 - Describing Shapes Notes

Here is the Geometry Attributes sheet you need to refer to for the whole unit.

Geometry Attributes Checklist

FYI

April 27 - Perform group Commercial
April 30 - Raffle Tickets money due or return unsold tickets