May 30

No post yesterday as I was recovering from my marathon on the weekend. Had a great time running in the rain but it was a bit painful yesterday.

Language Arts - Students are working on creating games based on the story we have just finished reading. They may need to borrow household items etc. to use in their game.

Math - Students have to complete page 186 "On Your Own" and "Practise Your Skills" for class tomorrow. I'd also like them to bring a set of dice for doing probability in class tomorrow. They will get them back.

Social Studies - Students are working on Power Point presentations on imported and exported items to and from Canada. These should be ready for presentation soon.

***** Reminder of Penny Carnival and dedication of our Wall of Fame tomorrow. Students should bring money to participate in the events happening in the afternoon. *****

May 23

Language Arts- Students are working through the novel "The Capture". A spelling test on the vocabulary words will be held on Friday.

Math - Students completed a unit test on " Collecting and Analyzing Data". No homework this evening!

Reminder to get Arrow book orders for June in by Friday please. This is our last order for the year and there are some great deals.

Also I think this is the last week for "pennies for patients" fund raiser so if we want that pizza party we have to get in more spare change than those grade fours.

May 17

Language Arts - Students are to finish their sentences from their spelling list and email them to me before class tomorrow.

Math - Complete worksheet page 88 and 89 for class tomorrow. Due to the Mark Mallet retreat for the students tomorrow afternoon the test scheduled for tomorrow will have to be held after the long weekend. Be prepared for the test on Tuesday May 23rd.

Social Studies - World in News is due for class tomorrow.

**** Reminder that tomorrow is library day and students need to return books to school to have them renewed or returned before they can take out more materials.

*****Reminder about the concert tomorrow evening at the church. Tickets are $10.00 and students under 17 are free if accompanied by an adult.

May 15

Language Arts - No assignment today as students will be reading the next two chapters in class tomorrow.

Math - For tomorrow complete the questions on page 175 that we began working on in class today. Reminder of the unit test this Thursday.

Quiz Update

Due to the long weekend our next quiz will be May 29th.

May 11

Language Arts - Students have no assignment but they could review spelling/vocabulary words as well as review the two chapters we read today in class.

Math - for Monday May 15th complete "On Your Own" 1-6 page 169.

Some students need to get some overdue library books back as soon as possible. Our "pennies for patients" has been very successful and wehave a few real entrepenurs who are using theie time and talents to make items for sale. God Bless everyone for thier generousity.

May 9

Language Arts - Students are to complete their vocabulary/spelling lists we worked on today. If they want to make some revisions to their "Soren letter" they can do that tonight because tomorrow involves doing a good/final draft of their letter.

Math - Complete "On Your Own" on page 166 for class tomorrow.

May 5

Lang Arts - students must have completed their first draft of their letter from Soren to his family. Parents please sign your child's work. Students are also to have completed reading to the end of chapter 12 and write at least 3 questions about the story in their journal.

Math - see yesterday's assignment

Quiz Reminder

Quiz Monday May 8th. Study the last of the glossary words.
Note: Now that we have reached the end of the glossary section, random word selections will be made for remaining quizzes before the exam.

May 4

Language Arts - no assignment this evening

Math - due for Monday May 8th. Using the information provided create a set of data that would work for at least 5 of the different types of deer listed on the pages.

Reminder - Pennies for Patients - loose change, etc.

Wednesday May 3

Lang Arts - Complete the assignment of locating five of the spelling words in the novel and copying the sentence that you found the word. Remember to tell what you think the word means in your own words.

Math - complete page 86 for tomorrow

May 2

Language Arts - Please read chapter 10 for tomorrow.

Math Pages 161-164 Make a line plot and stem and leaf plot for the data on the size of dinosaurs. Find the medain and the mode for the data.

Monday May 1

Wow! Wasn’t that a great performance from the band this afternoon? Awesome!!

LA 5 Please read to the end of chapter 8 for class tomorrow.


Math - complete pages 83,84 ad 85 of the practice handout for class tomorrow


Go! Oilers Go! Flames! Wouldn’t the battle of Alberta just be great again? Let’s all cheer for our favorite teams do well in the spirit of good sportsmanship and fun!!