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STUDENT SPOTLIGHT

Anna not only listens and enquires during discussions; she also applies what she is learning to her own life choices. Here she is seen adding fruit to her water after discussing ways to make drinking water easier and enjoyable.  

(see previous Student Spotlights below)

SECRET QUESTIONS

Write to Mr L your answer in Classcraft for XP!!!

GRADE 3 and 4 SECRET CHALLENGE QUESTION: What were the 5  types of gifts discussed in class?  HINT: Two had to do with holidays, one with home, and two with you.  

AND OUR WEEKLY
SENTENCE STRETCHLETICS 
WINNER IS . . . 

Anna
Our Spotlight student is also applying learned skills in her work! She effectively increases the quality of her sentences by adding adjectives, adverbs (and phrases with these), and replacing nouns with better ones. This week's 

THIS WEEK'S HOMEWORK

February 1, 2016 (check for updates!)

PLEASE READ NOTES

MONDAY

Words sheet #14

Library books due Tuesday.

Grade 4: Practice recorder each night (bring it in each day)

Math Yellow Group: Worksheet (due Friday)

Math Blue Group: Worksheet (due Friday)

Language: Finish plan for your reflection called  "A Special Gift"

TUESDAY

Words Pretest in booklet (a parent reads the current week's words for their child to spell. The child marks each word with a check mark or X using the word list.

Grade 3 Science: Review the concept of resistance  We dropped our homemade parachutes to slow the fall of sponge items from high up in the gymnasium. The idea of  the size of the item affects how much wind it catches (or "resistance") to slow it down. The concept of balance was explored too; If unbalanced, the parachute will turn and fall the easiest way it can (the least resistance). This concept will be important in our next unit on "Structures".

WEDNESDAY

Words to Fix mistakes from yesterday's home pretest. Write each misspelled word correctly, adding a trick to remember how to avoid the mistake (eg draw the two 'l's in really into a really long giraffe neck and head).

Grade 4 Science: Review Experiment: On Monday we constructed mini-guitars with which we demonstrated ways to amplify sound (resonance in the sound box) and ways to change pitch (increasing tension on the rubber bands. We noticed the rubber bands needed to vibrate and so not touch the sound box. We also noticed that low pitches were looser and had longer waves (like ocean waves) but high pitches had shorter/quicker waves. By pulling harder on the rubber band it vibrated a bigger wave (louder). Today we summarized our observations.


Tomorrow is "Sweater Day". The school will be colder than usual, so wear a sweater. There will be a contest for the coolest or nicest sweater per class. Winners will have their photos on our school Twitter account.

THURSDAY

"Sweater Day"

Grade 4 Math sheets due tomorrow.

Words to Study mistakes from home pretest for tomorrow's test.

Sentence Stretchletics  (see instructions on inside cover of Words duotang) Only a few students have been writing a sentence in pencil (with three circled words for the current Words list), then stretching it with a blue pen or pencil. I am expecting 4-5 changes in blue. A change could be an added adjective such as "sticky", "adorable", or "jealous". It could be a phrase that replaces such as this adverbial phrase replacing the word "later": "when all eyes had closed and the busy sounds of mice had begun."

Grade 3 Science: We learned a magic trick today to demonstrate a concept involving a special force which is, in this case, the opposite of gravity! Have a parent or sibling help your child reproduce it for another family member- it is a bit hard to do without help to practice from someone else. ;-)

FRIDAY NO HOMEWORK  ( except  SPECIAL  MISSIONS )