Wednesday, November 21st

Reminders

• Lazy Day (tomorrow)
• Wear green on Friday for Minute to Win It assembly

English

• Read for 20 minutes
• Spelling Lesson #10.  Work due tomorrow.  Test on Friday.
• Literature Circle Stop 3 (Friday)
• Reading Response Letter (Thursday)

Math

Chapter 6, Lesson 6 - Identifying Multiples, #4-8 for practice.  Hand in tomorrow.

Social Studies

Inquiry Projects are due this week.

Science
In Science we have been discussing the following terms...

• vertebrates
• invertebrates
• endoskeleton
• exoskeleton
• warm-blooded
• cold-blooded

In small groups, students discovered the characteristics of animals that are in each category and came up with a few examples for each.

Today, we used a venn diagram to compare and contrast animals from different categories (for example, fish and birds).

Students then added each term to their glossary, and updated the entry for species so it reads, "a set of animals or plants, in which the members have similar characteristics to each other and can breed with each other."

Tuesday, November 20th

Reminders

• Lazy day has now been moved to Thursday.  So wear lazy clothes on Thursday.
• Wear green on Friday for Minutes to Win It Assembly.
• Return your report card envelope if you haven't already done so

English

• Read for 20 minutes
• Spelling Lesson #10.  Work due Thursday.  Test on Friday.
• Literature Circle Stop 3 (Friday)
• Reading Response (Thursday)

Math

• Chapter 6, Lesson 1, #5-10

Social Studies

• Inquiry Project (due this week)

Monday, November 19th

Reminders

• Lazy day (Wednesday).  Dress like you are lazy.

English

• Read for 20 minutes
• Spelling Lesson #10.  Practice due Thursday.  Test on Friday.
• Literature Circles Stop 2 group meeting (tomorrow)
• Reading Response Letter based on Literature Circle book (Friday)

Math

• Chapter 6.  Getting Started #1-4.  Multiplication/division review from Gr. 5.  Due tomorrow morning.
• Problem of the Week (POTW).  Due Friday.  **This work is for extra marks, and should only be completed after you complete the practice questions each day.

Social Studies

• Interactions between Canadian Communities inquiry project.  Due this week.  You'll have 2 more full classes to work on it.  Submit to Google Classroom when complete.  Remember to review the Success Criteria (in Google Classroom and on the whiteboard in our classroom) before you submit for marks.

Science

• Animal Kingdom organizer.  Fill as much in as you can.  Due tomorrow.

Tuesday, November 13th

Reminders
YPT (Thursday)
PA Day (Friday)

English
Read for 20 minutes
Spelling Test (tomorrow)
Literature Circle stop 1 group meeting (Wednesday)

Math
Chapter 4 Review #1-15
Addition and Subtraction test (Wednesday) **See yesterday's post for study guide

Monday, November 12th

Reminders
Internet Safety Presentation - tonight @ 7 pm
YPT - Thursday
PA Day - Friday
Cover your webcam with a bandaid!

English
Read literature circle novels
Take jot notes for literature circles
Spelling test on Thursday

Math
Chapter 4, Chapter Review #1-8 today, #9-15 tomorrow
Adding and Subtracting test on Wednesday

Study Guide for Adding and Subtracting test

• Mental math strategies
• Estimating to check reasonableness of your answer
• Adding and subtracting whole numbers
• Adding and subtracting decimals to thousandths

Social Studies

Work on your Interactions Between Communities inquiry.  Due next week.

Science

Bring in 5-10 pictures of animals (amphibians, birds, fish, mammals, reptiles, sponges, jellyfish, worms, mollusks, parasites, insects, starfish/sea cucumbers).  We are going to use these on Tuesday for a science classification lesson.

Friday, November 2

English
Read for 20 minutes
Personal Narratives due on Tuesday

Science
Test on Tuesday
Study guide...

• static electricity - what is it?
• current electricity - what is it?
• energy transformations (example, a flashlight transforms chemical energy, the battery, to light and heat energy)
• chemical energy (understand how a battery is made and how it functions)
• the components of an electric circuit
• conductors (can transmit electricity) and insulators (cannot transmit electricity).  Know the difference and one or two examples of each.
• Switches (what do they do)
• parallel and series circuits (know the difference and advantages/disadvantages)
• renewable vs. nonrenewable sources of electricity (know a couple of each)
• tips on how to conserve electricity (know a few)

Social Studies
Gather and organize information (p. 50-51, #3)