Thursday, March 24, 2011

Tomorrow is beach day. We are also walking to the swimming pool in the afternoon so don't forget your swim gear and a lock if you want to lock up your things. Dress appropriately for the walk.
Finish Bridge to Terabithia first assignment for chapters 1-3.

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Math: fractions - textbook page 173.



Science: Finish AIM 2, 3, 4 if you want to do the experiment tomorrow.



Social: Practice history tellers. Review pages 120-130 in the text on New France in textbook- we will have a test on it!

Key points: Look for bolded words, pictures, maps.p. 120 Samuel de Champlain, first French settlement. (Reader's theatre we did)

p. 122 - What was life like in New France -

123. New France expands - gets bigger - Montreal

124, 125. seigneurial system - long strips of land, seigneur means lord

126. Habitants - their jobs

130 - filles du roi- daughters of the king, population of New France grows.

fur and fish fights: $$$$$$

Confrontation: Huron and Iroquois, French and Hurons, England and France,

Hurons crushed: by the Iroquois

Monday, March 21, 2011

Math. P. 70, 71, I will copy

LA: Bridge to Terabithia: finish bookmark ch.1 . Read ch. 2 and add post it notes to good imagery. Start ch. 2. bookmark.

Science: Finish AIM 2

I had a great day today!

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Math. Page 211, 212, 213, 214, 215, - we worked hard on fractions today. Make sure you have these pages done.
Social - re-read pages 122, 123, 124 - make notes, make sure you understand.
Tristan has an agenda!
Report cards tomorrow.
No microwave lunches tomorrow.
I had a great B-day today!

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Get interview request sheets filled out.
Math: review fractions. Do pages 204, 205.

Science: review electricity. Quick quiz tomorrow. Didn't have one today.

Social: Explorers quick quiz. Where did they come from (who did they explore for)? Where did they go? What happened to them on the way?



I had a great day today. Wait for a stamp!

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Math: review fractions. Finish pages 203, 204

Science: review electricity. Quick quiz tomorrow just like the practice one today.

Social: Explorers quick quiz. Where did they come from (who did they explore for)? Where did they go? What happened to them on the way?

History tellers (plus).
I had a great day today but Edward was grumpy.

Monday, March 7, 2011

Math: First two pages of fractions booklet.

Social: Finish all the explorers sheets. Quick quiz on history, explorers, etc. On Wednesday.

Science: Another quick quiz- symbols for circuits, conductors, resistors etc. what is electricity?, review your notes.

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

New unit in math tomorrow: fractions.

Review electricity. Quiz on symbols, resistors, conductors, insulators, how to make a circuit.

Social: Jacques Cartier.

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Some people still need to get their tests signed.

Tomorrow: math quiz on transformations. On what? Transformations. What's a transformation? Rotation, reflection, and translation. AKA turns, flips, slides.
We have completed our measurement unit. We will now do fractions. Still to come, decimals, patterns (algebra) and statistics and probabilty.

Field trip form is due March 11.