Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Happy New Year!


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.

 Homework & Reminders

  • Spelling - review list 20 words
  • MMS p. 106 & 107
  • Arithmetic p. 107 & 108

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