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

December 10- December 14:

Language:
The students are continuing to choose a writing task that suits thier interest. They will be conducting research sometime this week on thier writing topic. They will be given class time as well as expected to research some facts at home on thier persuasive writing topic.

Words of the Week:

• scale
• interval
• mode
• mean
• data
• axis
• range
• interpret
• conduct
• organize

Math:

In Math this week we will learn to collect data and organize it into interval bar graphs.
Below is an example of a interval bar graph.


Science:
We are learning how a fixed pulley system to lift a load.


In Our Planners This Week:

• We are still collecting brand new books for the organization for literacy.
• Friday is Pizza Day and Red and Green Day
• Friday is also the Winter Carnival. The grade 7/8 students are holding a winter carnival to raise money for their graduation. It will consist of games and items to purchase. The students will be going on Friday from 10:00-10:40. They will need to bring money if they wish to purchase any items. The items range in price from $0.25 - $5:00.  

Week of Dec 3- 7:

Language:

In reading we are making sure to start writing longer reading responses and make sure we are filling out our reading logs.
In writing, we are going to begin organizing a persuasive writing piece in a graphic organizer. The students will pick what they would like to write about this week.

Words of the Week:

• adaptation
• communities
• ecosystem
• producers
• decomposers
• organisms
• populations
• omnivore
• herbivore
• carnivores

Math:

So far, we have created a classroom survey about what graphs we remember learning about and organized our information into a bar graph. The students then created pop-up graphs for their Math books.

We are reading data in t-charts and organizing them into pictographs. We are learning how to choose an appropriate scale to create our  bar graphs and pictographs. 

Science:
We have completed our Sciene unit on Habitats. The students did a wonderful job on thier dioramas and presentations. We will be moving on to learn about pulleys and gears. We will first focus on Pulleys!!!!!

Socail Studies:
This week in Social Studies, we are learning about the inside of the castle (or keep). We are also beginning to talk about the influence of the Church in Medieval Times. We have discussed and will continue to discuss that their was only a few out of many religions practiced during the medieval era. We will try to understand the reasons why?

What should be in our planners:
- Tuesday Dec 4th is the Yearbook Committee Bake Sale. We will be going at 12:00
-Bring in your Boston Pizza Reading Records so you can claim your free kids meal.
-We are still collecting brand new books to donate to the organizations for literacy.
- Math problem of the week due Friday!

Week of Nov 26- Dec 1:

Math:
This week in Math we are beginning our Data Management unit (Chapter 3).
Throughout the unit, we will be:
-collecting and organizing data
-organizing data into pictographs, bar graphs, circle graphs,  and broken-line graphs.
-read and interpret tables, charts and graphs.
-calculate the mean and identify the mode of a set of data.


Language:
We are beginning to focus on making sure our reading logs are up to date, and that we are completing all of our daily 5 activities. This week we are also making sure that we are collecting new words during our independent read to self. We will brainstorm a persuasive checklist this week, as well as come up with a list of things we can write about for a persuasive argument.

Word Study Words: (Word Study Quiz on Friday. The students should have wrote the words down in their planners) This week, we have picked words from our class word collector. During a whole class read aloud, the students pick out words that are unfamiliar to them and we add them to our class word collector. The students have their own individual word collectors. The words to study this week, which will be quizzed on Friday are:

-calisthenics
-union
-steerage
-deportation
-sustained
-obtained
-remote
-torpedo
-lumbered
-pumps


Science:
The students are presenting thier Science dioramas, which turned out beautiful. We are going to try and complete our presentations this week.


What should be in our planners!!!
-The school is still collecting brand new  books to donate to the organization for literacy.
-Thursday is MOVIE NIGHT at the school. It starts at 6:15.
- Friday is backwards day!!!!
- Hot Lunch Orders are DUE Monday December 3rd.
-Wear warm clothes to school. Winter is here!!!!!!
 

Anti-Bullying Week:

This week we are learning about bullying, targets, and bystanders.

Important Information:

1. Science Projects are Due on Thursday (We will begin presentations on Monday)
2. We are collecting brand new books to donate to the organization for literacy. (House colour with most books collected wins!!!!!)
3. Parent teacher interviews are Wednesday and Thursday (Check your planners for your time. If you have misplaced it, ask Ms. Mac again!!!!)
4. Students were sent home with order forms for school attire!!!
5. Math (Numeration and Number Sense) Assessmnt on Monday

WEBSITES: 

Anti-Bullying Website

• This website has interactive books, videos, posters and much more. Click on the link and check it out!!!!

Math Website (Place Value) 

• This website has many interactive spots where you may practice your numeration skills. It helps you better understand how to; determine place value, write numbers in extended form, write numbers in word form, write numbers in standard form, understand place value of tenths and hundredths, round various numbers and order various numbers.

Math Website (Decimals)

• This website will give you practice with decimals (tenths and hundredths). Mainly for grade 5 students, but I encourage the grade 4's to give it a go!!!!

Updates:

Tomorrow is the bookfair. We are going to the bookfair in the last block at 2:30-3:00. Students, bring money tomorrow if you would like to buy some books. Do not take it out of your bags in the morning. Find a good spot in your bags to keep your money until we go to the bookfair.



Friday:
-Progress reports will be sent home. Parent/Teacher interviews will be next week. The students were sent home with the time of the interview last Thursday. If they have misplaced the interview time, please send a note!!!!

November 5- November 9:

This week the students will be hard at work:

1. Finishing our recount writing,

2. Practicing our daily 5 choice,

3. Also, researching our Science projects.

Reminders and Events this Week:

-Please bring donations for poppies. Fiday we will be celebrating Remembrance Day. Feel free to join. Our class had made some wonderful art portraying Flanders Field, which will be displayed in the gymnasium during the assembly.
- Parent/Teacher interview slips will be sent home with students on Thursday!
-On Sunday (Remembrance Day), don't forget to take a moment of silence at 11:11 a.m.

Student Websites:

Remembrance Day Site with poems and other information regaring Remembrance Day:

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/remembrance/poems.htm

Website which students have done in class to learn about food chains:

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/content/animals/kidscorner/games/foodchaingame.htm

Have a great week!!!!!!