April 25, 2016
(This week's homework below)
Dinner Topics
ILPs
ILPs are well underway (see photos below) If your child has not yet presented, please keep reminding your child of his or her presentation date so that s/he will be on time and leave time to rehearse.
Take Three
We are improving our musical theatre routine. We will perform on Education Week. Please continue to have your child practice the lines to the song.
London Bridges not Falling Down
The Grade 3sbuilt a suspension bridge to demonstrate how the combination of compression (on the deck and towers, for instance) and tension (on the cables) share the force of a load. Grade 3 students are still building shapes to experiment with which shape gives the most strength and which design provides the most stability. The Grade 4s made gear trains and will experiment with gears until the End-of-Unit Test. Review notes and look for examples of concepts in real life (triangles in bridges, where and how gears are used: watches and clocks, bike...)
In Math the Grade 4s starting learning about Fractions. Have your son or daughter divide a pizza (Parts of a Whole - early this week) and a box of many items (Parts of a Set - later this week / next week) to practice naming fractions.
Narratives
The students are putting the finishing touches using our colour-editing routine on their descriptive texts as we move along our narrative text unit. Your child will be writing a realistic narrative, practicing paragraphing, transitions, and of course how to develop engaging, effective settings, characters, plot / sequence of events, and resolution.
Book Your Time
Don't forget to record your Home Reading - remember that just 105 minutes a week earns your child XP in our Classcraft live video game!
Take Three
We are improving our musical theatre routine. We will perform on Education Week. Please continue to have your child practice the lines to the song.
London Bridges not Falling Down
The Grade 3sbuilt a suspension bridge to demonstrate how the combination of compression (on the deck and towers, for instance) and tension (on the cables) share the force of a load. Grade 3 students are still building shapes to experiment with which shape gives the most strength and which design provides the most stability. The Grade 4s made gear trains and will experiment with gears until the End-of-Unit Test. Review notes and look for examples of concepts in real life (triangles in bridges, where and how gears are used: watches and clocks, bike...)
In Math the Grade 4s starting learning about Fractions. Have your son or daughter divide a pizza (Parts of a Whole - early this week) and a box of many items (Parts of a Set - later this week / next week) to practice naming fractions.
Narratives
The students are putting the finishing touches using our colour-editing routine on their descriptive texts as we move along our narrative text unit. Your child will be writing a realistic narrative, practicing paragraphing, transitions, and of course how to develop engaging, effective settings, characters, plot / sequence of events, and resolution.
Book Your Time
Don't forget to record your Home Reading - remember that just 105 minutes a week earns your child XP in our Classcraft live video game!
Mr . L.
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Our Grade 3 winning group. They used rolled up paper to construct cylinders that supported many text books!!!
Amelia invites students to see first hand her rabbit after explaining in her ILP how to care for it.
Anna leads stretches in the Learning Commons as part of her Lions Club Athletics ILP presentation.
Hugh models how to draw a penguin and helps students, learning how to gage time when presenting his ILP.
Kyler and Nate divide tasks, rules and equipment, to present their interactive ILP on hockey in the gymnasium.
For Theo's ILP, he not only shows us the parts of his violin, but also how easy it was to break one! Thanks for the lovely playing, Theo!
Our class practicing our dance, "Be the Hero"
Sararose builds and then orders fraction towers, noting that equal height towers (fractions) can be made out of different-sized parts.
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THIS WEEK'S HOMEWORK
April 25, 2016 (check for updates!)
DISCUSS ILPs EACH EVENING
Words sheet #21
Math Blue Group: Worksheet (due Friday)
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 4: Keep studying times tables . Look for fractions in real life (pizza, entrance tiles...)
Grade 4 Science: Review how different size gears mesh to rotate at different speeds / number of times. A small gear turns faste / more than a big gear (a gear with 5 teeth turns 2 times when meshed with a gear having 10 teeth that turns 1 time).
THURSDAY
Words to Study mistakes from home pretest for tomorrow's test.
Sentence Stretchletics (see instructions on inside cover of Words duotang) Most students are now 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." However, several students still need to do one of the expectations.
Grade 3 Science-review lesson.
FRIDAY
Review health sheet
MONDAY
Words sheet #21
Math Yellow Group: Worksheet (due Friday)
Math Blue Group: Worksheet (due Friday)
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 pros and cons of each bridge type.
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).
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: Keep studying times tables . Look for fractions in real life (pizza, entrance tiles...)
Grade 4 Science: Review how different size gears mesh to rotate at different speeds / number of times. A small gear turns faste / more than a big gear (a gear with 5 teeth turns 2 times when meshed with a gear having 10 teeth that turns 1 time).
Words to Study mistakes from home pretest for tomorrow's test.
Sentence Stretchletics (see instructions on inside cover of Words duotang) Most students are now 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." However, several students still need to do one of the expectations.
Grade 3 Science-review lesson.
FRIDAY
Review health sheet
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