Thursday, December 4, 2014

Human Body Models


We began our day with a math lesson. Today students continued to practice dividing a decimal by a 1-digit whole number. Students are growing in confidence as they do this.   They are asked to complete practice questions on p. 156 and 157 of the MMS textbook. Students will be writing their Decimals unit test on Tuesday, December 9 or Wednesday, December 10 depending on how long it takes to get through our review work.

In our inquiry unit on the human body students had time to continue working on the respiratory system packages they received yesterday. We took up about half the pages in the package in class today. Some students have not yet completed the whole package. There will be some time in class to finish up tomorrow. We worked on our human body models. Students put together their respiratory systems and added them to their skeletons.
 

Students who had completed all their work on the respiratory system have started working on their graphic stories. In this assignment, they are to write a story that takes place in the digestive tract. It will incorporate all the elements of story telling (setting, characters, problem, solution) while describing the structure and function of the digestive system. Students were treated to a Bill Nye the Science Guy video about the digestive system. I was hoping the video would creative juices flowing ;-). 

Students attended French and Drama today.

Carollers are reminded to dress warmly for their outing to Streetsville tomorrow.

Homework & Reminders:

  • MMS p. 156 & 157, Decimal unit test on Tues. Dec 9 or Wed. Dec. 10
  • Human body test on Monday, December 8
  • Respiratory system colouring (in green) and cutting out  - past due
  • Return trip letter for the  Maples Christmas Concert by tomorrow
  • Tomorrow - Carollers go carolling in Streetsville 12:30  - 2:30
  • Return ArtReach form by Monday Dec. 8
  • Tues. Dec.9 - Maples Christmas Concert
  • Thurs. Dec. 11 - Carollers go carolling in Streetsville
  • Fri. Dec. 12 - ArtReach workshop, Lunch forms due
  • Tues. Dec. 16 - Christmas concert 11:45 am - All Welcome
  • Wed. Dec. 17 - Christmas concert 7 pm - All Welcome

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