Wednesday, January 29th

Reminders
House event (Friday afternoon)
Jump Rope for Heart (Tuesday afternoon)

English
Spelling Lesson #15 test (Friday morning)
Hana's Suitcase: Chapter 11-15 questions (Thursday morning)
Weekly writing prompt (If you could be immortal for one day, what would you do?)

Math
Chapter 9, Lesson 2, #4-10 (Thursday afternoon)

Science
Characteristics and Adaptations for Living Things That Fly handout (Thursday morning).  In Science today we learned about the characteristics and adaptations that allow some living things to fly.  Links to websites and the handout are in Google Classroom --> Science --> Flight.

Social Studies
Banknote design and description (Friday).  We've extended this assignment one day because a lot of people needed the extra time.

Friday, January 24

English
Read for 20 minutes this weekend (or longer!)
Hana's Suitcase Ch 5-10 questions on Google Classroom (due Monday).

Math
Ch 8, Chapter Review, #1-11.
We will write a unit test on Area on Tuesday next week.  Here are the concepts students will need to know...

• Convert squared metres to squared cm.
• Calculate the area of a rectangle, parallelogram, and triangle
• Calculate the area of polygons by breaking it into familiar shapes
• Problem solving involving area (see lesson 5 or chapter review)

Science

Finish Electric Car explanation on Google Classroom (by Monday)

Social Studies

Banknote design (due next Thursday)

Thursday, January 23

Reminders
Pizza lunch tomorrow.

English
Read Hana's Suitcase up to the end of p. 39 by tomorrow.

Math
Chapter 8, Lesson 5, #3-8 for tomorrow.

Social Studies
Banknote design and explanation due next Thursday, January 30th

Science
Electricity test signed and returned to school by Monday, January 27th

Wednesday, January 22

English
1) We've begun reading Hana's Suitcase.  Today students answered some questions based on Chapters 1-4 in Google Classroom.

2) We'll write a test based on Spelling List #15 (last week's words) on Friday.

Math
Today students worked on finding the area of polygons by breaking the polygon into smaller shapes (rectangles, triangles, and parallelograms) and using formulas to find those areas.  Nelson textbook, Chapter 8, Lesson 6, #1-6 (due tomorrow).

Science
Students are building an electric car in small groups.  When finished, they will independently explain how their car works using their knowledge of simple electric circuits.

Social Studies
We spent time looking at various Canadian banknotes and analyzing the symbols used.  We discussed how the symbols on the banknotes represent Canadian values, contributions, and identity.  Students are now going to design their own banknote, choosing symbols, themes, and a prominent Canadian that they feel represent Canadian identity.

Tuesday, January 7th

English
Read for 20 minutes
Spelling Lesson 14 (test Friday)
Poetry definitions sheet (finish for tomorrow)

Math
Test Monday on measurement
Chapter 5, Lesson 4 #4-7

Social Studies
Project due next week

Chinese Heritage Month Poster Competition information.