What a chilly start to the school year! We were careful to
dress warmly when we had to go into the main school building. We are thankful
that our portable is nice and warm.
Today is 2 months to the last day of term and the start of
March Break. With that in mind, we knuckled down to work right away, with a
promise to catch up with each other's holiday news during lunch time.
In math, we began a new unit called Transformational
Geometry. In today's lesson we learned to use a grid and coordinates to locate
the position of a feature on a map. In arithmetic, we reviewed what common
factors are. We then learned about the greatest common factor that any two or
more numbers have in common. Students worked on practicing these skills in
their workbooks.
In our inquiry unit, we reviewed our lines of inquiry and
the forces we learned about before the holiday break. We focused on friction
and texture in today's lesson. Students were given 4 objects to examine and
classify according to their texture. They ordered the objects from roughest to smoothest. They
made rubbings of each object to show their texture. They predicted which
objects would slow down the movement of a toy car from most to least. We then
designed an experiment to test our predictions. We had some results that were
surprising. Ask your child to tell you about it.
In language, we began working on a new spelling list - 20:
Spell words with vowel pairs ie and
ei, vowel digraphs ie and ei, and apply
a spelling rule: died, fields, brief, relief, shriek, weigh, believe, sleigh,
receive, eighteen, seize, neighbours, receipt, amplifies, chiefly, freighter,
deceive, perceive, pies, diet. We also began learning more about sentences -
that every sentence has a part called the subject and another part called a
predicate. Ask your child to explain what these mean to you.
Students attended French, art, and gym class today.
- Spelling - review list 20 words
- MMS p. 106 & 107
- Arithmetic p. 107 & 108
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