Wednesday's Work

***Language Arts - Students are to complete their shape poems on construction paper for tomorrow. Please make sure you have a look at what they've done. Students be proud of what you've done and show your work to your family.

*** Math - Please have pages 356 and P360 done for tomorrow's class.

*** Social Studies _ Students should be reviewing for their test next week. See data sheet and notes from Power Point presentations as well as their textbook to review. We started on a new project today that will give students a chance to show what they understand about the different regions of Canada. Again students be sure to show your parents copies of the assignment and the rubric. They can be great source of help to you in completing this. I haven't set a deadline for this yet but we will have lots of classtime and support for the students to get it done. Studying for the test next week is more of a priority right now. I will set a due date for the project next week.

***** Pictures - please note our class picture will be tomorrow and any retakes will be done at this time provided students bring their old package back to school.

Cool Weather

Tuesday Stuff

*** Language Arts - Students are to complete a planning web for creating a shape poem. The poem doesn't have to rhyme but must be created in the shape of the whatever the author is written about. Planning sheet must be done for class tomorrow and if they want they can create a rough draft of the poem.

*** Math - Complete P.351 -354 of the homework pamphlet. Please refer to Activity booklet if you encounter difficulty.

Monday Stuff

* Language Arts - no assignment today unless students have decided to revise their bug paragraphs after sharing them today. Parents - Have you been able to identify the bug from your child's description?

* Math - Today we corrected pages 78-94 which were assigned on Thursday. Students have pages 88 and 89 to be done for Tuesday.

* Social Studies - Today the students created questions on their regions. These questions will be used as the basis for a test on the regions to be held next Monday, December 5th.


**** Notice **** Tomorrow is Pajama Day for all students so just roll out of bed and head to school.

Science Quizzes

Just a reminder to study for weekly science quizzes. Each week we add 8-10 words to the list as well as any topics or lab activities we have discussed during the week.

Friday

Language Arts - I guess Mr. Harker didn't get as far as I thoght yesterday so student had time today to work on rough copies of their bug paragraphs. A good copy is due on Monday.

Math - see yesterday's blog.

News

Gently used toy drive forms went home tonight as well as picture information.

St. Josephs has a float in tonight's parade.

Arrow orders will go out on Moday so last chance if you want something before Christmas.


Pictures for grade 5 and retakes Thursday Dec. 1

Thursday

*Language Arts - I hope you all had great day with Mr. Harker. Ecosystem webs should be completed. A rough copy of "Guess the Bug" Game should be ready for class on Friday.

* Math- Pages 79-84 are due for class on Monday 28th.


See you all tomorrow. If you have questions on any of these assignments please email me.

Assignments

** Language Arts- Spelling unit 7 test was held today. I gave the kids the work for Unit 8 but they don't have to get started until next week. I will post on Friday. Our ecosystem discussion groups will be presenting the relationships they found between plants and animals tomorrow. They will have a web to show you on Thursday night.
Library class will be moved to Friday so please bring books back for class then.

* Math - Checked P 74-76 assigned page 77 for tomorrow.

* Social Studies - World in News Handed back today and November assignment out. Due Dec. 19th.

Notices

- Picture reduces are rescheduled to Thursday, December 1st.
- We will be holding a gently used toy drive like last year. More information to follow.

Assignments

* Language Arts - students are working in groups to see the relationships between people and the plants and animals in the local ecosystem. We had a presentation on winter safety from the people at Safety City during our second class so we'll have to finish that up tomorrow.
******** REMINDER - Spelling work for Unit 7 is due for tomorrow and the test will be on Thursday!

* Math - We took up the test handed back yesterday in class. Students are to complete 74-76 for Wednesday. Please have the tests signed and returned before Friday.

**** NOTICE - If you haven't given me an email address please do so because it will really help us stay in touch. Thanks!

Assignments

* Language Arts- students were returned a number of assignments today which should be properly filed in their Language Arts binders. They may still bring magazines in if they want to for our new unit.

* Math - Math tests from last week were returned to students today. We haven't gone over them yet but they should be able to show you their marks. A quick initial of the test will tell me that they have shown it to you. We will take it up tomorrow so please have them return it to school with them. Pages 70 - 73 in their booklets are due tomorrow.

* Social Studies - We began filling in the chart together today so that all students will have the same information from the power point presentations. A major project is in the works and I will be letting them know about by the end of the week. Look for another World In News before weeks end as well.


News - Pizza Lunch forms are due back tomorrow. Thanks

Assignments

* Not much in the way of work assigned for today but they do have math assigned from Thursday.

* Students enjoyed a marvelous performance from Quest Theater today. Be sure and ask them about the performance.

Assignments from today

* Language Arts questions " A Forest Ecosystem" should be completed for tomorrow. Students had ample time to finish them in class today so if they brought their books home just a re-read of the selection may be done as a review.
* Math due for Monday pages 65-70. The work involves rounding off decimal numbers and adding and subtracting. The last few pages involve representing numbers with pictures and displaying the operation graphically.
* Social Studies World In News is due tomorrow.


Don't forget about our performance tomorrow morning before recess.

Nov 16

* Language Arts - If students have magazines that they enjoy reading at noon please bring them to school. Our new unit looks at magazine articles and the more samples we have the better our study will be.

* Math - Rounding question P 62-64 for tomorrow please. Students can begin to gather restaurant menus for an activity later in the unit.

We did have time to do some World in News in Social Studies today.

November 15th Assignments

Homework Assignments for Tuesday, November 15th.

* In LA we had a Spelling Test and below is the assignment for Unit 7.
* Social Studies the students are presenting Power Points on the different geographical regions of Canada. We will continue this tomorrow.

*Unit 7 Spelling Assignment Due November 23, 2005
Unit Test Thursday, November 24th
***WRITE OUT LIST WORDS
Observing Patterns 1,2,3,4,5
Discovering Patterns 1, *2
Exploring Patterns 1, 2, *4
Challenges with Words 1, *3,6
* Write out/draw shapes


*In Math we've begun a new unit and students have one problem on page 87 to complete for class tomorrow.

November 15th-18th

*Hope everyone enjoyed the extra long weekend. The weather has been fantastic for this time of year. Not much in the way of homework for Tuesday.

* Grade fives will have a spelling test on Unit 5 that we didn't get to on Thursday.
* The Spelling assignment for Unit 7 will be posted on Tuesday.
* Most of you have finished the LA questions on "Sharing the Alley". We want to talk about them in class on Tuesday so please have them completed.
* World in News is due on Friday. Probably there won't be any more class time before it's due.
* We will be beginning a new Math unit on Tuesday. I should have the exams completed on Thursday back to the kids before the end of the week.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

* Arrow book orders for the grade 5s are due on Tuesday. Please make cheques payable to scholastic.
* December Arrow orders will go home on Wednesday.
* Library books are need for Thursday morning's library class.
* We are looking forward to Quest Theatre production on Friday morning.