Ask Me About...- Child Care Tax Receipts came home today - We went to SpacePort to learn about how airplanes fly and properties of air. - In The Girl Who Owned A City, we know that there are no more adults. Lisa is 10 and her brother, Todd, is 5. They are trying to make an alliance of kids to protect themselves from the gangs. She also learned how to drive a car so she could get more items instead of the wagon. - We are continuing to learn to multiply decimals in math. - We learned about the surfaces that control a planes movement and will have a quiz on Tuesday. - We are finishing our Day in the Life of and our review of Ancient Athens. We also started to plan an opinion piece of writing where we will answer the question, "Is the democracy of Ancient Athens fair?" - We have been learning some strategies to edit our news articles. We learned to use different nouns and to add adjectives instead of writing panda over and over and over! We also learned to take a"Just The Facts" statement and add "what it looks like" and "why it is important" to expand our sentences. We will continue this work next week. Upcoming- we have an Ancient Athens quiz on Tuesday
- we have a Control Surfaces quiz - Wednesday is Pink Shirt Day - we are wearing pink shirts for an anti-bullying day. for more information go towww.pinkshirtday.ca/ - Book orders due Friday! Ask Me About...-We started a new book called The Girl Who Owned A City. It is connected to our study of government and democracy. - We have been doing Daily Math which is practicing 3 multiplication questions of our choice (at our just right level) each day. The goal for grade 5s is to be able to multiply 2 -digit by 2-digit numbers and for grade 6s to multiply with decimals (1-digit whole multipliers). - Today was Valentines' Day. We all wore red, white, and or pink and some students chose to bring Valentines for our classmates. - We performed our Properties of Air movement piece at our Tuesday afternoon assembly. - We watched the launch of the Falcon Heavy and have begun an exploration of rockets. We are comparing how rockets get lift and thrust, how they are controllable in space where there is no air, and how this compares to airplanes that need air to create lift. - We went back to our Science quiz about properties of air and answered the questions that we didn't know yet last time. We continue to develop our growth mindset skills as we go back to questions that we didn't know the first time. Knowing about how air can be compressed and better understanding how differences in air pressure affect movement helped us all to demonstrate stronger understanding of the concepts. - We are working on our Day in the Life... of a citizen, metic, or slave to better understand the social structure of Ancient Athens. - We started an Ancient Athens review - where we each answered a question and used a simultaneous learning strategy to shared and extend our understandings. This will help us with the quiz we will be writing on Tuesday,February 27. - We are starting to multiply decimals. - Today we had our Work On Work (WOW) time where students finished up assignments from the week that hadn't been completed yet. Students who were finished brought board games to play. Many are students beginning to accept responsibility for completing unfinished work at lunch or at home so that they can participate. Upcoming...- Monday - Family Day
- Thursday - SpacePort field trip - Friday - Work On Work/boardgames for students who are finished all of their work. Ask me about...- DJD came to our school and we had a performance this morning and afterward the students reflected on their experience The grade 5 performance was to the quote: "There's freedom waiting for you in the breezes of the sky and you ask what if I fall, but my darling, what if you fly?" Jadah reflected: "I think that the quote really goes with the dance because the quote is very airy and the dance is light and airy and wavy." "I think that this poem is about being able to take the extra step when you are at your lowest point," Preslie wrote. The following quote, framed the grade 6 performance. "and what do the flower buds pushing up from the broken earth say about you? we break to grow." ~ pavana Cadence reflected, "When I did the dance it changed my way of thinking about it. I now think it means we can grow further, the more we work on it." - We are on the last chapter of In Over Their Heads. The entire book, all 49 chapters has happened in two days! It's been very busy. - We had an Athenian court where Mrs. Austman charged Mr. Symington with stealing her whiteboard markers. The jury decide he was guilty, but they didn't banish him because that didn't fit the crime. His sentence is to pay Mrs. Austman $1 per marker that he takes out of the room. - We did some more air experiments about air pressure. We know that planes fly because they get lift. When a plane is propelled forward (thrust) by an engine or propellor, the air goes around the wing. The air molecules that go over the wing move faster, causing the air pressure to be lower above the wing so the higher pressure below the wing pushes the wing up. - We are researching how birds can fly. - We learned about the role of men and women in Ancient Athens and will use this in our "Day in the Life". - We started geometry week where we are learning about lines and angles. We are making a creative presentation to share our learning. - We have been using an on-line thesaurus to help find words to describe an image. We will use these words to write poems. - We wrote another newspaper article, and will be editing and improving them over the next few weeks. Upcoming.... We will be presenting our Air Movement pieces at the assembly on Tuesday at 2:30. Please join us!
- SpacePort field trip forms are due Wed. - Wednesday is "Red, White and/or Pink" Day! - We Care Club is selling cards for $1 on Mon. and Tues. at lunch. They will be delivered within the school on Wed. Feb. 14. Money collected will go to the Mustard Seed. - We Care is also collecting non-perishable food donations for the Food Bank, by Thursday. - Thursday and Friday are Teachers' Convention and the following Monday is Family Day. Ask me about...- We played Rescue Mission in math. We learned about probability with spinners. We also learned how to write ordered pairs. (3,0) - We went swimming and today we got to swim in the waves. Some of had to swim in our clothes. We learned to take our clothes off in the water while treading and to fill them up with air as a floatation devices. This would help us to know what to do if we ever fell in the water with our clothes on. Some groups had to try to pick up 10 pound bricks off the bottom of the pool, either the dive tank or the deep part of the other pool. - Decidedly Jazz Danceworks will be here until next Friday. We have a quote or poem that we responded to in our visual journals and today we will start to put our ideas to movement. Our performance is on Friday morning. Parents are welcome. - We are embodying the properties of air with Ms. El. Watch for information about our upcoming performance. - We experienced a Council of 500 in social studies to help us understand more about how the democracy of Ancient Athens was run. - We found out that Lida Mae was actually a robot in the novel, In Over Their Heads. - We started researching about an animal that flies, to learn the adaptations of how they are able to glide, soar, and/or flap. - We learned that there are the Four Forces of Flight - Thrust, Drag, Lift and Weight. - We wrote a quiz on the properties of air to help us understand what we already know and what we still need to know. - We learned about low pressure and high air pressure and how it can cause objects (a piece of paper supported by two books) to move in ways that we didn't expect. Upcoming....- We are divided into grade 5 and grade 6 groupings for our Decidedly Jazz Danceworks Residency next week.
-Opposite the grade 5 and 6 dance activities, students will be working on developing their understanding of geometry vocabulary. through creating a visual representation. - We will continue to think about the democracy in Ancient Athens, and the roles of men and women. - In science, we will continue to learn about how animals fly, the four forces of flight and Bernoulli's Principle which helps to understand how people have achieved flight. - You are welcome to come to our school DJD presentation on Friday at 11:00. |
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