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Long time..no post.

It’s a pretty quiet week for a change. We have chosen our 2010 track team to represent AE Perry at the Zone track meet on Thursday, May 27th at Hillside Stadium   Permission slips will be coming home by the end of the week. Those competing in the 1500m races will be doing their race at Parkcrest Elementary on Thursday from 8:45 until 10:15.

READING

The grade four students need to have 4 book reports completed and the grade 5 students need to have 5 completed. Students who are not finished will be staying in at recess and lunch to catch up. We will be completing chapters 6-8 in The Cay this week as well.

WRITING

The students need to be completely finished typing their stories by Friday.

SOCIAL STUDIES

Finish all worksheets – Food pg. 42-45. Growing/ Using Corn p.46-49 due Tuesday.

That’s all for now. Don’t forget there is a long weekend coming up..yaaaayyy!

The last week of April..Will April showers really bring May flowers?  I hope so. We watched the talent show yesterday..Great job all who participated. Thursday from 6:00 until 8:00 p.m. the parents get to come see the talent. Also on Thursday are the class photos. This will likely happen before recess.  Wednesday after lunch (weather permitting) will be our first track and field practise session. We will also be practising next Monday, Wednesday, and Friday after lunch. The students must have proper gym strip to participate. Our play, Peggy the Pint-sized Pirate,  is coming along great. We will present it to classes and parents around the end of May.

READING

We are completing chapter 3 of The Cay this week. The vocabulary needs to be done by Wednesday and the questions by Thursday.

WRITING

The rough copy of the stories need to be finished this week and the second draft should be typed into the computers by next Friday. We will then discuss editing for the final draft.

SCIENCE

We will be discussing clouds and precipitation this week (strange how the rain suddenly came). There will be a final weather test coming up soon, likely next Friday or so.

SOCIAL STUDIES

1. Iroquoians and Algonquians Way of Life poster due Tues.

2. Corrections from worksheets

3. Quiz on Tuesday. Use worksheets and study guide to prepare.

That’s all for now.

Sorry about no post last week. It was a crazy week so I did not get a chance. This week there are a few things to remember. Thursday is our final Young People’s Concert. We will be leaving the school at about 9:15 and returning at approximately 11:00. Friday morning at 8:45 is our Care assembly. There will also be a special presentation made to our school during the assembly…It’s a secret…I can’t tell you. Next Monday afternoon we begin our school track and field training. We will train Monday and Friday afternoons for two weeks.  This will supplement what we have been doing in gym class. ***Also, all fundraising needs to be handed in by Friday.***

READING

Last week we began the novel The Cay. We completed chapter 1 last week. This week the students need to complete chapter two. I will be reading each chapter to the students as they follow along.  Grade 5 students have to complete their 3rd book report by next Monday (April 26th) and the grade four students have until April 30th.

WRITING

The students should be well into their multi-paragraph stories. They began typing them last week. I want the second draft to be completed by next Friday (April 30th)

MATH

We completed our geometry unit last week. Please discuss the results with your child. We now move on to 2D and 3D objects and motion geometry.

SCIENCE

This week we will finish temperature and talk about wind.

SOCIAL STUDIES

The students needed to hand their duotangs into Mrs. Davison last week.
That’s all for now.

I hope you all had a great long weekend (Easter). You now get two more short weeks, as next Monday is a professional development day. This Wednesday at lunch, some of our students will be learning high jump, triple jump and long jump from the Kamloops Track and Field Club. This is a great opportunity to learn techniques that are used by provincial and national level athletes.

Many of the students have brought in labelled water bottles. I would like to see every student have a water bottle to stay hydrated, as the weather hopefully gets warmer and warmer.

If any parents have a truck, could you please check periodically at Gord’s Maytag for Fridge or freezer boxes. We need 3 or 4 boxes to make the props for our play. Thank you.

READING

The students continue to read Newbery and Battle books and complete book reports on each book. All students should have completed their first book report and be working on their second. The grade five students need to have their second book report completed by April 13th and the grade four students by April 16th. We will also be starting a new novel study this week called The Cay.

WRITING

I want all students to be completed the 1st copy of their multi-paragraph stories by Friday. They should be a minimum of 5 pages. We will continue to discuss sentence variety and how to separate their ideas into paragraphs.

MATH

On Friday the grade 4 students will get a quiz on telling time, dates and area of rectangles. The grade 5 quiz will include perimeter, area and volume.

SCIENCE

This week we continue to learn about weather. Temperature will be the topic of the week.

SOCIAL STUDIES

Mrs. Davison would like the students to make sure that all work-sheets in their duotang are up-to-date.

That’s all for now.

Here we are at the last week of March. It is a very short week for the kids. Don’t forget that Friday and next Monday are holidays. As well, Thursday the kids go home at 12:30 so I can speak to any parents I need to about the second report card. Wednesday is the Multi-Cultural Day. Please bring a food dish to share if you can. After lunch we will be going to the gym to perform and watch other classes do their dances. Your child is bringing home the second term report card today. If it does not show up, please ask your son or daughter where he or she has hidden it. Please sign the report card envelope and have your child return it to me asap. As the weather gets warmer, we will be outside almost every day. Please send a water bottle to school with your child’s name on it so he or she stays hydrated.

READING

The grade 5 students should have finished and handed in their first Newbery/Battle book report. Any who have not finished will be staying in at recess, lunch and after school to get it done. The first one for the grade 4s is due on Thursday.

WRITING

All students are working on their multi-paragraph story. The rough copy (minimum 5 pages) will be due April 9th.

SCIENCE

Today we talked about air pressure and how it affects weather. They need to be done all of page 8 and questions 2 and 3 on page 10 by tomorrow.

SOCIAL STUDIES

Grade 4s need to have read chapter 4 by tomorrow.

Grade 5s need to have read chapter 2 by tomorrow.

FRENCH

The students did the rewrite of the quiz from last week. It concerns me that some students still did not pass this quiz, even after the second try.

FINE ARTS

Keep studying the lines for the play. The sooner the lines are memorized, the sooner we can make props and practise the play.

That’s all for now.

It’s spring…yaaayy. Track and field season has begun, with many of the students running in Relay Fest tomorrow at the Tournament Capital Centre from 3:15 until 6:30. I expect all students to have proper gymstrip at school every day, as we will we outside every day unless the weather is bad.  Report cards go home next Monday and there will be an early closure next Thursday for any necessary parent teacher interviews. The multicultural day is also next Wednesday…a busy short week.

READING

All students should be mostly finished or finished the first Newbery/battle book. The first book report is due on Monday for grade 5 and Wednesday for grade 4.

WRITING

The students are well into writing their multi-paragraph story (or should be). I expect the rough copies to be finished by Tuesday after the Easter weekend. Then they can start editing and typing them into the computers.

FRENCH

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The students have a quiz tomorrow on the verbs avoir and être. I say the English and they write the French.

That’s all for now.

It’s been a long time. I was in Florida for two weeks visiting Mickey and the gang.

It’s going to start getting busy again very soon. Wednesday is Pizza day, if you ordered before spring break. It is also St. Patrick’s Day, so don’t forget to wear green…or you might get pinched. I expect the students to have proper gymstrip every day, as they will be doing some physical activity daily. I will also begin teaching them all the different track and field events, so they are prepared for the upcoming track meets. Grade 4s are bringing home their FSA results today. If it does not arrive, or you have any questions, please contact me.

READING

The students will be reading Newbery award winning books this term and doing extensive book reports on each book they read. The grade 4 students will have to complete one book report every two weeks and the grade 5 students will need to do one book report every 10 days. They can find these books in the classroom, our school library and at the public library. I will have a list of all the books to choose from in the classroom. The students will pick their first book tomorrow. The first book report is due March 22nd for grade 5 and March 26th for grade 4.

WRITING

The students will be learning how to write multi-paragraph stories this term. They were all given 14 story starters to choose from and a story map to plan their story ahead of time. The story map needs to be completed by Friday so they can begin the rough copies next week.

MATH

We are doing a measurement unit this term. Anything you can get them measuring at home will add to their learning. This week we are just focusing on units of length (metres, centimetres, and millimetres).

SCIENCE

The students are learning about weather.

FRENCH

Next Thursday (March 25th) there will be quiz on the subject pronouns, and the verbs avoir and etre.

That’s about all I can think of for now…..

A relatively slow week…..there must be something I’m forgetting.

Thursday night from 6:30p.m. -8:00p.m.  is family games night.

Friday @8:45 a.m. is our February Care assembly.

Friday afternoon I am throwing a hot chocolate afternoon for the kids. I’ll bring everything.

Also, I will not be here all next week…M-i-c-k-e-y M-o-u-s-e…so you will not be able to reach me until after spring break. Unless something crazy happens, Mr. Phillips will be in my class covering for me.

All of the assignments are done for the term, as I’m writing second term report cards before I leave. Everything from now on is third term.

READING

The students are completing a map of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which the two main characters lived in for a week. It is due Friday.

WRITING

Communicating Skills pages 85 A &B, 90, 91 A & B, and 93A will be completed by Friday. These pages are about suffixes.

SCIENCE

We are beginning a weather unit, so any knowledge you can share at home will be helpful.

SOCIAL STUDIES

Any students who have not presented their research projects will be presenting tomorrow.

I think that is all for now.

Wow, already half way through the month…crazy. This week is a short week. Today we have our third Young People’s Concert, called Project Soul. I think the students will really enjoy this concert. Remember that Friday is a Professional Development Day. The students get the day off while the teachers are off at various workshops.

The fairytales are all officially finished. The students worked very hard on these and should be proud of them. I have laminated and bound all of them. If the laminating plastic starts to come up, you can easily fix them at home by putting a thin towel or pillow case over the page and using an iron on low.

READING

We will be completing our novel this week. Chapters 9 and 10 are due by Thursday. There will be a final project the students will do about the novel. They will create a map of what they think the museum the kids stayed in looks like.

SOCIAL STUDIES

All posters were collected and about half of the presentations are completed. The rest of the presentations will be done next Tuesday.

SCIENCE

Tomorrow is the quiz on the two diagrams of the circulatory system.

That’s all for now.

This week the students must get their fairytale completely finished. Any who are not within 2 pages of being finished today will be staying in at recess, lunch and after school until they are finished. This means no basketball team or any other extra-curricular activities (including the dance Friday afternoon). We started this November 24th, so they have had plenty of time to get it finished.

Many of the students are also behind on their Social Studies research project. This was not an overly difficult project, yet many have not completed it yet.

FRENCH

There will be a quiz Monday on the 20 Salutations and Courtesy Phrases. The first 10 on the list I will say in French and the students need to write the English. The second 10 I will say the English and they need to write the French. Spelling Counts. I will give bonus marks if they get the accents right.

SCIENCE

Next Wednesday we are having a quiz on two diagrams of the circulatory system. One is the heart and the other is the full system. Spelling will count for this quiz.  The students have also been learning about blood and how it moves through the heart and the rest of the body.  I have been discussing this and testing them orally, but there will be no formal test on this system, other than the diagrams.