Wednesday, April 3

Reminders
House meeting @ lunch on Friday
House event Friday afternoon

English
Read book club novel to 1/2 by Friday
Craft two questions and post to kidblog (Wednesday).  Respond to your own questions.
Respond or comment to two questions on kidblog

Math
Chapter 12 review, #7-12
Test on fractions, decimals, percents, and ratios (Monday).  I'll post a study guide tomorrow.

Science
Please try to have the all work caught up by next Monday.

Friday, March 29th

Announcements
House event next Friday
House meeting next Friday at lunch

English
1) All work for book club (week 1) is now due, including 2 questions posted and responded to on kidblog, the reading response question in Google classroom, and, of course, you've read 1/4 of your novel.  Please have your questions for Week 2 posted to kidblog by Tuesday.

2) You should have finished your persuasive essay planning organizer, conferenced with me, and are now writing up a rough draft.  We'll continue working on Monday.

Math
Today we learned how to estimate and find a percent of a number.  For example, to find 30% of 40, first find 10% (4) and then multiply by 3 (12).  We worked on question in Math Makes Sense today, p. 318-319 #3-6 & 9.

Social Studies
Today we created a flow map showing either the top 5 imports or exports between Canada and another country.

Thursday, February 21

Reminders
Pizza lunch (tomorrow)
Students brought home some information about the trip to Mono Cliffs today

English
Read for at least 20 minutes tonight
Spelling Test #23 (tomorrow, period 3)

Math
Chapter 11, mid-chapter review #1-4
IXL CC.11, CC.12, CC.13
Quiz tomorrow, period 4

Science
Flight test (Monday).  See Tuesday's post for study guide.
Airshow (next Wednesday).  This is where each student/pair will throw their airplane 3 times, once for distance (5 metres), once for a stunt (double barrel roll, loop-de-loop, circle around an object), and once for carrying a load (as many pennies as possible).  They will need to be able to explain why their plane is able to complete all 3 actions based on their understanding of the 4 forces of flight and pitch, roll, and yaw.

Wednesday, February 20th

Reminders
Mono Cliffs forms (tomorrow)
Mike Ford presentation (tomorrow am)
Pizza lunch (Friday)

English
Today we mostly worked on our performance for Friday's sharing assembly.
Read tonight for at least 20 minutes.
Finish any late Google Classroom assignments.
Spelling will be checked tomorrow.  Test for Lesson #23 is on Friday, period 3.

Math
Today we worked more on the volume of a triangular prism.  Students finished p. 364 #6 (independent) and #9 (with a partner).  We took up both questions as a whole group.

Homework: IXL C.11, C.12, C.13 (you can work on this over the next two evenings)

Science
Test Monday on Flight.  See yesterday's blog entry for the study guide.
Our airshow will take place on Wednesday.  You will have more time to work on your planes in the classroom.

Tuesday, February 19th

English
1) Read for 20 minutes
2) Reading Letter (if you wrote one last week, you do not have to do one for this week)
3) Spelling Lesson #23 (show me work by Thursday, test on Friday)

Math
1) Today we learned how to calculate the volume of a triangular prism.  The formula is (the area of the base) x (the height of the prism).
p. 364 #1-5 for practice.

Science
1) Test next Monday.  You need to know the following...
- the properties of air (know an experiment that proves two or three of them)
- the four forces of flight (thrust, drag, lift, gravity)
- the unbalanced forces (pitch, roll, and yaw) and the parts of a plane that control them (elevators, ailerons, and rudder)
- Bernoulli's Principle
- ways we can alter the four forces of flight (e.g., the force of gravity can be altered by using lightweight materials; different types of engines produce more/less thrust)
2) Airshow (next Wednesday)

Wednesday, February 6th

Announcements
Skating @ Mastercard, Tuesday, February 19th (pm).  Every skater must wear a hockey helmet. 

English
Read for 20 minutes
Spelling test, lesson #21 (Friday)
"All Summer in a Day" summary (tomorrow)

Math
Chapter 9, Lesson 3 #5-9, 11

Science
Four Forces Affecting Flight (1st page only)
**We drew a diagram of an airplane that shows gravity, lift, thrust, and drag.  Then we wrote a short descriptive paragraph explaining how each force affects flight.

Monday, February 4

English
Read for 20 minutes
Spelling Lesson 21 - work due tomorrow; test Friday
Read "All Summer in a Day"

Math
Ch. 9, Lesson 2 #5, 7, 10
Ch. 10, Lesson 4 #5, 6, 7
Early finishers do IXL G.10

Science
We're testing Bernoulli's Principle by building wings.  We're also testing the effectiveness of the principle using different types of materials (paper).  We'll continue tomorrow.