IMPORTANT REMINDERS:
DINNER AND SONGFEST - We would like to remind all parents that our annual Songfest will take place this coming Thursday December 16th. The DPTO will be selling Holiday food an hour before the student presentations, which will be starting promptly at 6:00 p.m. We invite all parents and students to come at 5:00 p.m. for supper, to catch up with friends, purchase the Choir CD and the Discovery School cookbook for holiday gifts, and enjoy the presentations our students have been working on. The program should last about one hour and thirty minutes. We hope to see you all there.
Also: For the songfest we are requesting that our students dress in a black clothes, so that they all match and look awesome during our dance number.
Science Fair Projects
To all the families that will not be travelling the entire holidays may I suggest that you and your child take a day or two to work on the science project. The final product with the display board, the logbook, and all the details of the experiment will be due on Jan 25th. Please do not be overly concerned with the data collection and graphing portion as these sections are more for middle and high school students. If your child can collect observations and simple data from the experiment and then explain what they have learned in the conclusion section then they will have done well. Remember to take lots of pictures during the experiment so that they can show all of the steps they went through on their final display board. Thanks to all the parents who have taken the time to help out and get involved in this science fair project. If you have any questions please contact me.
CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES:
Reading:
We will be completing our classroom novel, 'The Best Christmas Pageant Ever' and deciding how we feel about the way the author built up the action in the story, created an exciting climax, and then tied everything together in the resolution. We will also be taking some time to choose a holiday novel to read over the Christmas break. This is not homework, but each student will be encouraged to select a book or two to take home and read during those days when they have nothing to do.
Writing:
We will finish planning and writing our narratives this week. The students will practice planning out the main plot points of their story and then bringing them to life in their story. Most students are currently building up to their climax at present, so this week will be spent writing the climax of the story and the resolution, and then proofreading their stories with their classmates. Finally we will get a chance to publish and share our stories in the author's chair.
Science:
We will continue with our 'design and motion' unit. We will be designing and building new vehicles to carry a load, and then testing the effect that the extra weight has on the motion of our vehicles.
Spelling:
There will be no spelling this week due to the short week and the practice time needed for songfest.
Here's to a fun-filled final week before our well-deserved holiday. I hope to see everyone at Songfest!! All the best,
Jordan Rose
Monday, December 13, 2010
Monday, December 6, 2010
Activities for the Week of Dec. 6th-10th
Greetings parents and students,
We are getting close to the end of another quarter and the start of our Christmas holidays. I hope that our class is able to continue working hard right up to the end so that we can enjoy a well-deserved break.
Important Reminders:
December 16th is our Songfest night. The elementary classes at Discovery will be showing off their dance moves for all to see. We look forward to a fun night of song and dance. See you there!!
THIS WEEKS CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES:
Math:
This week in Mathematics we will be completing chapter 6 in our math text and preparing for our test on Friday. We will start the week by practicing our problem-solving skills and examining patterns. We will then work on applying our problem-solving skills in challenging word problems, and even write our own word problems. Thursday we will review all the multiplication skills we need for our chapter test, before writing our test on Friday. As usual, a practice test will go home with each student Thursday night for review at home. Good luck students! Study hard!
Reading:
This week we will continue reading and thinking about our class novel, 'The Best Christmas Pageant Ever'. We will be reading chapters 4 and 5 together in class and evaluating the way in which the plot of the novel builds and builds toward the climax. We will be writing our weekly 'reading letter' describing this 'build-up', critiquing the author's use of humour in the story, and drawing connections between the story and our own lives.
Writing:
This week we will be completing our 'plot mountain' as a way of planning out our narrative before we begin to write. The students will be asked to think about the key plot points in the story before they begin writing. Once complete we will work on writing, sharing, and editing our very own stories.
Science:
We will continue with our science unit entitled, 'design and motion'. The students will be building and testing their own vehicles and learning about the importance of design and concepts such as motion, force, and friction.
Spelling:
We will be focusing on how to properly spell pluralized words. Our words are ferries, crutches, monkeys, leashes, blueberries, taxes, dollars, countries, inches, suitcases, brushes, eagles, umbrellas, sandwiches, bicycles.
Due to the time needed to practice our songfest routine we will not be having a grammar or character study lesson this week.
Have a great week everybody!!
We are getting close to the end of another quarter and the start of our Christmas holidays. I hope that our class is able to continue working hard right up to the end so that we can enjoy a well-deserved break.
Important Reminders:
December 16th is our Songfest night. The elementary classes at Discovery will be showing off their dance moves for all to see. We look forward to a fun night of song and dance. See you there!!
THIS WEEKS CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES:
Math:
This week in Mathematics we will be completing chapter 6 in our math text and preparing for our test on Friday. We will start the week by practicing our problem-solving skills and examining patterns. We will then work on applying our problem-solving skills in challenging word problems, and even write our own word problems. Thursday we will review all the multiplication skills we need for our chapter test, before writing our test on Friday. As usual, a practice test will go home with each student Thursday night for review at home. Good luck students! Study hard!
Reading:
This week we will continue reading and thinking about our class novel, 'The Best Christmas Pageant Ever'. We will be reading chapters 4 and 5 together in class and evaluating the way in which the plot of the novel builds and builds toward the climax. We will be writing our weekly 'reading letter' describing this 'build-up', critiquing the author's use of humour in the story, and drawing connections between the story and our own lives.
Writing:
This week we will be completing our 'plot mountain' as a way of planning out our narrative before we begin to write. The students will be asked to think about the key plot points in the story before they begin writing. Once complete we will work on writing, sharing, and editing our very own stories.
Science:
We will continue with our science unit entitled, 'design and motion'. The students will be building and testing their own vehicles and learning about the importance of design and concepts such as motion, force, and friction.
Spelling:
We will be focusing on how to properly spell pluralized words. Our words are ferries, crutches, monkeys, leashes, blueberries, taxes, dollars, countries, inches, suitcases, brushes, eagles, umbrellas, sandwiches, bicycles.
Due to the time needed to practice our songfest routine we will not be having a grammar or character study lesson this week.
Have a great week everybody!!
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