Words of the Week:

• Science Vocabulary:
• Website: Science Vocabulary

Writing:

• Our writing focus over the next while is narrative.
• Below is a site where you can go on to practice brainstorming ideas to help you write a narrative.
• Website: Read, write, think

Math (Multiplication and Division):

• We are learning multiple strategies for multiplying numbers.
• Website: Multiplying 2 digit by 1 digit numbers
• Website: Multiplying 2 digit by 2 digit numbers

Science: (Changes in Matter)

• Website: Watch these videos to learn more about changes in matter

Socail Studies: (Government of Canada)

• Search the web to find out what democracy means

IN OUR PLANNERS:

•  Math problem of the week due Friday
• Two Math tests back signed if they have not yet come back to me.
• Report Card Envelopes Signed and Returned.
• Dance-A-Thon: dress like a rock star; bring money to purchace items; dance from 11:30-1:00; bring pledge sheets (Friday February 22)/(This Friday is also pizza day). 
• Pizza Order Forms Due Februrary 28th.
• Sciene Fair @ Lambton College on April 12th and 13th. (If you want to develop a Science Fair Project visit www.lambtoncountysciencefair.ca to register) (Registration closes Monday, April 8, 2013).
   

Words of the Week:

• More vocabulary from our book Holes:
• Website: Spelling City 

Writing:

• Our writing focus over the next while is narrative.
• Below is a site where you can go on to practice brainstorming ideas to help you write a narrative.
• Website: Read, write, think

Math (Multiplication and Division):

• We are learning multiple strategies for multiplying numbers.
• Website: Brush up on your multiplication facts (play these games)
• We will also begin learning multiple strategies for dividing numbers.
• Website: Who wants to be a Mathionaire (easy)
• Website: Who wants to be a Mathionaire (advanced) 

Science: (Changes in Matter)

• We are beginning to learn about Changes in Matter
• Website: States of Matter

Socail Studies: (Government of Canada)

• We have finished up our Medieval Times unit, and are now learning about Government in Canada.
• Website: Read Facts about Canada and it's symbols

 

IN OUR PLANNERS:

•  Math problem of the week due Friday
• Two Math tests back signed if they have not yet come back to me.
• Valentines Day Celebration this Thursday February 14th (Students can bring Valentines and Snacks)
• Flag Day is on Friday February 15th (wear the colours of your flag)
• Monday, February 18th is Family Day (No School)
• Multicultural Night (orange slips back by Monday February 19th)
• Bring in your Canadian Tire Money (Fundraiser for CanStruction)
• Sciene Fair @ Lambton College on April 12th and 13th. (If you want to develop a Science Fair Project visit www.lambtoncountysciencefair.ca to register) (Registration closes Monday, April 8, 2013) I will be holding a recess discussion for students interested sometime this week.

Words of the Week:

We will be working with the same words as last week. The students didn't have time to do the quiz and need a little more practice with the words seeing as they are quite big. We will also be doing a whole class activity with last weeks words. Today, since buses were cancelled we will be have the quiz Tuesday.

Writing Focus:

The students will be creating a poem for Mr. Noble this week to present in the gymnasium on Wednesday. Mr. Noble has taken a job at another school. This week will be his last. At home, the students are encouraged to make individual cards for Mr. Noble to thank him for everything he has done for us.

Reading:

We will finish reading Chapters 1-7 from Holes and working on reading responses based on the book.

Math:

We are continuing to learn more about perimeter. We are focusing on finding perimeter from reading word problems. We will have a quick quiz on Wednesday about elapsed time and perimeter.

Science:

We will be completing our Science unit on gears and pulleys. The students will have to build a gear train and label the direction of force.

Social Studies:

The students are presenting their posters this week (If I were a king, queen, lord, lady, knight, serf)

Planner Notes:
-Students need to make sure that they are wearing the proper shoes outside. The playground is very wet and they will have soaked feet all day long if they do not wear the proper shoes. Also, when we come in from recess we need to make sure that we are changing our shoes. We don't want our classroom floor to get soaked, so we don't have any dangerous falls.
-The students are expected to be using their planners on a weekly basis.
-They should be writing their words of the week in their planners from now on.
-Also, a lot of people have been forgetting to hand in their Math problems of the week, and will need to use their planners to remind themselves to hand them in every FRIDAY.

Have a great week!

Ms. McNamara
 Why can't the weather make it's mind up?  :)

Reading:
Last week we began reading a class book. The book we have started reading is called Holes, by Louis Sachar.

Words of the Week:

The words of the week will be based on vocabulary from the book Holes. Click on the link below for practice and definitions:

Holes Vocabulary Chapters 1-7

Writing:

We will be writing an on demand writing task on Tuesday. They will be assessed on what they have learned throughout our persuasive writing unit.

Math:

Monday, we will be writing a Math assessment for data management.
We have been learning to tell time to the second on an anolog clock and interpreting elapsed time between two clocks.
This week we will also focus on finding the perimeter of various shapes and objects.

Websites for Math Practice:
Elapsed Time
More Elapsed Time
Perimeter Practice

Science:

We will be learning all about gears this week and how they work.

Rear Cog

Front Cog

January 14-18

Word Work:

WORDS OF THE WEEK:

Homophones

Homophones Extra Practice and Review :
Practice using they're, there, and their. These are called homophones.
This week we are going to focus on homophones.

they're, there and their

homophones game

Writing: 

Our persuasive writing pieces are due this Friday.

Math:

We will finish up data management this week. We will have a Math test next Monday!
You can sign out a text book to study.
First, we will finish up with mode, median and mean.

Go to the following websites for extra practice:

mode median and mean

mode, median, mean game

We will also begin our measurement unit with telling time.
Go to the following website to practice using two different types of clocks (digital and analog)

Learn to Tell Time

Words of the Week Online Word Study:

Dear Students and Parents: 

Each week a new list of 10 words will be put up on the website bekow. The students will have the opportunity to read, spell, test themselves, and play games with the words. The games they can play are under the green column listed free activities. Playing around with the words each week will help improve the students understanding of our vocabulary lists each week. Enjoy! Ms.McNamara

WEBSITE:

Words of the Week

December 17-21:

Language:

We need to complete (at least) our rough draft of our persuasive writing pieces this week.

Math:

Don't forget to hand in your Double Bar Graph and Survey that you conducted with your classmates.
The outline is as follows:

Page 1 (on lined paper)
Survey:
Sample:
Collecting and Organizing Data:

Page 2: (on graph paper)
- a graph that includes (title, legend, labels, numbers, and two different colours)
-please use the lines and a ruler when making your bar graph. That is the reason why graph paper was created, wasn't it?

Science:

If time allows, we will create a broken line graph with our information we gathered in our chart during our pulleys experiements.

Social Studies:

We are watching a DVD which summarizes everything we have learned about Medieval Times up to this point.

In our planners:

- We need to bring in our pennies for the penny drive.
-I have asked the students to donate any shampoos, soap, loation, new socks, or anything else they have lying around the house to give to the womans interval home this year. It is a charity that I like to donate to myself, and am willing to drop off all the collected items if they are brought in.
- If you have not brought your Science diorama home, please arrange for it to be picked up this week.

On Friday:

-we will be having a fun filled day. We will be following a procedure to create gingerbread houses. We were asked to bring in candies to help decorate the houses.
-Also, in our last block, we are having a Holiday get-together and we will play board games and eat snacks. The students were asked to bring in board games they want to play in the last block. If the students bring in snacks we are asked to label which snacks contain milk products.

That is all the news for this week! Have a safe and happy holidays!!!!!!

We will see you in the NEW YEAR (2013) Can you believe it?

 HAPPY HOLIDAYS