We took quite a bit of time today to finish our three projects.

We are now working on our famous Canadian posters who has had an impact on our history and culture.

Trying to simplify long division, I seem to have made it more difficult. Practice continues tomorrow.

We have DARE from 9:00-10:00.

Projects that you should be finishing and handing in:

1. letter from a loyalist
2. Inventor baseball card
3. Five paragraph essay

You should have also chosen a Canadian who has had an impact on our history and culture and researched their life. We are creating a poster with the info and pictures.

You should be able to multiply two digit by two digit numbers with no problem.

Take the initiative to master long division as we will be practicing it in class. It is one of the most commonly forgotten skills as students go into Grade six.

Despite lots of practice in class, many students are still not fluent with basic facts in math (broken record). This is an essential math skill that requires PRACTICE! Personal math trainer for the DS is a good game. There are many websites with math games and paper and pencil works too.

I was away yesterday.

Math: Review long division. Finish up to page 100.

LA: 5 paragraph research project. If you are not finished, you may need to work on this at home.

Social: Letter from a loyalist.

Science: Inventor baseball cards need to be finished.

Choose a famous Canadian to research. Also, find your pulse. It was surprising how many students have never taken their pulse. We discussed resting, maximum and target heart rates today.

Math: We have finished up to page 90 in the booklet. Make sure you are very good at two digit by two digit multiplication. We need to review long division. Math basic facts practise sheets will be coming home until our average goes up. This actually requires practise and work!!!!

LA: 5 paragraph research project. If you are not finished, you may need to work on this at home.

Social: Chapter 7 and 8 - New France and the fur trade test tomorrow.

Science: Inventor baseball cards. Due Friday.

We had DARE today with Constable Smith. We are lucky to have her in our community. Topics covered should be discussed with parents.

Math: We missed math today up because of DARE. Make sure you are caught up (to page 85 in booklet.

LA: 5 paragraph research project. This is coming along nicely.

Social: Chapter 7 and 8 - New France and the fur trade practise tests are due Monday. Test will be next Wednesday. We read the book "Charlotte" about a loyalist family.

Math: up to page 85 in booklet. Despite lots of work in class, some people are not showing improvement in their fluency with basic facts in math. Extra sheets will be sent home.

LA: 5 paragraph research project. This is coming along nicely.

Science: Students should be experts at building circuits by now. We created resistance circuits today.

Social: Chapter 7 and 8 - New France and the fur trade practise tests. Test will be next Wednesday. We will be doing a poster on an influential Canadian for education week.
Students should be familiar with the Acadians and the Loyalists. (Who they are and their place in Canadian history.

Math: Page 78, 79 in booklet. We drilled basic facts quite a bit today. Keep working at it.

LA: 5 paragraph research project.

Science: Students should be experts at building circuits by now. We created short circuits today. We will finish the electricity unit by the end of the month.

Social: Chapter 7 and 8 - New France and the fur trade practise tests. Test will be next Wednesday. We will be doing a poster on an influential Canadian for education week.

Math: Page 72 in the antique textbook. Make sure that two digit by two digit multiplication is rock solid for next year!

LA: We are doing a new research project on a topic of your choice. We will be following the usual 5 paragraph format. Make sure you are caught up on DLR (week 28, Tuesday) and CS up to page 35.

Science: We experimented with liquid conductors today and Mr. Maltais did not shock himself.

Social: Chapter 7 and 8 - New France and the fur trade practise tests. We will be doing a poster on an influential Canadian for education week.

We had an excellent trip to the museum. Thanks once again to our parent volunteers.

Language arts: Daily Language Review - finished up to week 27 Monday. We wrote about what we did this spring break then discussed what to avoid in this type of writing (writing a "list", lack of detail, not connecting to your audience.) and what you can do to make it interesting. (adding detail, connecting to others by writing about things they can relate to, and giving just one moment in time in depth, not an entire trip in one paragraph.

Math: Are you a basic facts master? If not, why not?! Finished page 63.

Social: New France and the fur trade. Know this material, it comes back in Grade 7 and we will be having a test on this next week. Review questions will be coming home shortly.

Science: Make sure that you have your electricity reading for Monday done. No excuses!