Thursday, October 31st

Reminders
Trip form
House meeting @ lunch tomorrow
House event tomorrow pm

No homework tonight!
Be safe and have fun.

Monday, October 28th

Reminders
We Scare Hunger food drive is on until Halloween.  Bring in non-perishable food donations.
Living Arts Centre trip form (return by Nov 1).
Halloween parade Thursday @ 9 am.
Halloween dance on Thursday pm.
House meeting Friday @ lunch.
House event on Friday pm.

English
Kidblog entry (due Friday).  Remember to write your blog post in Google classroom first, and then embed it in your Kidblog post.  See instructions in Kidblog.

Novel study job and reading response question (due Thursday).  Reading response question is posted in Google classroom.

Math
Chapter 6, Lesson 7 #A-C and 1-8.  We are practicing how to divide by 1000 and 10000.  Remember, to divide by 1000 and 10000, just move the decimal place 4 or 5 spaces to the left.

Ex.  943000 divided by 1000 is 943.  943000 divided by 10000 is 94.3.

Social Studies
First Nations inquiry project is due next Monday.

Thursday, October 24

Reminders
X-Dance session tomorrow
Pizza lunch tomorrow
We Scare Hunger Food drive on now.  Bring in non-perishable donations.

English
Novel study questions and job due tomorrow

Math
Chapter 6, Lesson 6 #4-8

Science
Pollinators inquiry project due tomorrow.  We will try to find time to finish the dioramas next week.  Presentations will start on Monday.

Tuesday, October 22

Reminders
X-Dance tomorrow
Pizza lunch on Friday
We Scare Hunger food drive is on now.

English
Novel study questions and job tasks (bring to book club meeting on Friday)

Math
Chapter 6, Lesson 3 & Mental Math #1 a-f

Science
Pollinator inquiry project

Monday, October 21

Reminders
X-Dance session #1 tomorrow.

English
Students choose a novel for their first novel study.  Tonight and tomorrow they need to read be reading so they can be ready for their meeting on Thursday.

Math
Students had a double math period today, so we finished the questions we didn't get to on Friday and then they had a lesson on Identifying Multiples.
Chapter 6 Lesson 1 #4-10 (Friday's unfinished questions on primes and composites)
Chapter 6 Lesson 2 #3-8

Science
Today was a work period for the students pollinators project.  We're hoping to have everything wrapped up by Friday.  Remember to bring in materials for your diorama so we can work on them.

Social Studies
There is a new assignment in the social studies Google classroom.  Students are investigating how First Nations, Metis, and Inuit communities or individuals have contributed to Canada.  They are allowed to work in pairs or by themselves.  

Thursday, October 17

Reminders
We Scare Hunger food drive

English
Read for 20 minutes tonight
Short story tasks (due tomorrow)
News Article (due tomorrow)

Math
Ch. 6 Getting Started and Do You Remember questions

Science
Pollinators inquiry jot notes (due tomorrow)

Wednesday, October 16

Reminders
The We Scare Hunger food drive is on now.  Bring in non-perishable food donations.

X-Dance is next week.  If you haven't done so yet, please check schoolcashonline for payment details.

English
Students are reading a short story of their choice and completing some tasks (story map, vocabulary log, response questions).  They'll be meeting with other students on Friday to discuss the story.  All work is due Friday.

Students are also writing a news article this week.  I've asked them to come to class tomorrow with a draft of their article for revising and editing.  The article can be on the Terry Fox Walk, the Ice Dump Challenge, or another news worthy event that they experienced.

Math
Tomorrow we begin our multiplication and division unit.  This year the students will use mental math, estimation, and other strategies to multiply and divide 4 digit numbers by 2 digit numbers.

Science
Students are working on an inquiry project on an Ontario pollinator.  They are making jot notes (due by the end of class tomorrow), creating a Google slideshow, giving a presentation, and making a diorama.  They were asked to bring in materials for their diorama so they can make it in class.

Social Studies
Students were asked to interview a family member who immigrated to Canada about their experience.

Yes, they're busy right now!

Wednesday, October 9th

Reminder
Pay for X-Dance and agendas using school cash online

English
Read for 20 minutes
Spelling (Thursday)
Practice news article.  Write a short news article based on one of the four images and captions shown during class today.

Math
Chapter 4, Lesson 6 - #4-7 (you also have to answer the lesson problem in order to answer question #4).

Science
Complete jot notes/research for pollinator inquiry by next Wednesday.

French
Finish French colouring.

Monday, October 7th

Reminders
Book Fair (Tuesday)
X-Dance (school cash online)

English
Read for 20 minutes
Spelling (Thursday)
Cougar attack news article.  We will look at them tomorrow, but you will have some time to finish in class first.

Math
p. 60 (Math Makes Sense) #1ace, 2bdf, 3, 6, 8-10

Social Studies
Mapping test (Wednesday)

Monday, September 30

Reminders
Photo Day is tomorrow.

English
Read for 20 minutes tonight.
Spelling Lesson #4.  Test Friday.
Student council speeches (tomorrow).  Written task due tonight.

Math
Numeration test (Wednesday) on the following topics...

• Reading and writing numbers to 1 000 000 and to decimal thousandths
• Comparing and ordering numbers to 1 000 000 and to decimal thousandths
• Rounding decimals thousandths

Social Studies

Mapping unit test (Friday) on the following topics...

• Canadian provinces and territories
• Latitude and longitude
• Time zones

Visual Art