Thursday, March 21, 2019

This week was magnificent!

In math we got our math check-ins back to check our mistakes and try to fix them. 

In science we are continuing to build our playground. Here are a few pictures:

In social studies we have been drawing and colouring our posters about coming to Western Canada. 

We also uploaded a couple artifacts onto IRIS. These artifacts include a picture of our pattern our and description of process to make it, and we took a picture of our descriptive writing. We are going to make a writing goal!

Our spelling pattern after spring break will be: 

The diphthongs ou and ow can make the /ou/ sound, as in without and towns.

The letter ow can also be a vowel pair making the /ō/ sound, as in hollow.

The letter ou can make the /ō/ sound in although, the /ô/ sound in thought, or the /u/ sound, as in southern. 

OU sounds​                         OW sounds

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"ou": without​                      "ou": towns

"ō": although​                      "ō: hollow

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"ô": thought​

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"u": southern

Some examples include:

hours

sparrows

towns

powerful

amount

without

allows

shower

brought

sought

hollow

swallowed

southern

thousand

thought

trouble

bouquet

although

mountain

chowder

Reminders:

• Spring break is from March 25th to March 31st. School will resume on Monday, April 1st. 

Have an amazing, adventurous, mysterious, fantastic, magical, and splendid spring break!

Friday, March 15, 2019

This week was nice, sunny, and stupefyingly warm!

In math we did problem solving using the strategy CUBES. 

Circle important numbers

Underline the question you need to answer

Box any math words

Evaluate and eliminate unnecessary information

Solve your work and double check. 

We also had a math check-in, to see where we were at in math. 

In science we are continuing to build our playground. Here are a few pictures!

In social studies we learned how Canada convinced people to come to Alberta by stretching the truth about how "good" all of the land in Alberta was. There were also some terrific reasons to come to Alberta too! We read in our Voices of Alberta Social Studies textbook to find out about the pros and cons of coming to Alberta. Here are a few pictures!

In language arts we did our cat/rat perspective writing. We edited our perspective writing. 

We were also treated to a special performance put on by the Grade 10 students at John G. Diefenbaker High School. The skits were hilariously cool! 

Reminders:

• Student-led conferences are scheduled next week on Thursday, March 21st and Friday, March 22. Conference bookings can be made through the PHS website. 
• Music tests begin on Monday next week.
• We will not be having Daily 5 next week, so there will be no spelling to practice. 
• We will continue to construct our playground parks for our simple machines unit next week. Please continue to collect items that you may find useful for building your equipment. Bring a bag to store all of your materials if you have one. 
• Spring break is from March 25th to March 31st. School will resume on Monday, April 1st. 

Have a enjoyable, and marvelous weekend!

Friday, March 8th, 2019

This week was kind of cold. 

In math we did some problem solving. We solved a problem about hockey goal differentials, and a few other word problems. 

In science we went outside to record and research our playground equipment to see different simple machines to put in the playgrounds we are building. We started making our blueprint for our simple machines playground. 

In social studies we looked at some of the posters that the government put up so the Europeans would come to the west. We wrote about the pros and cons of coming to Alberta. 

In language arts we gave feedback to each other on our cat/rat perspective writing, and then we typed it up. We used a cool tool called "voice typing" where when you talk to the computer, it turns it into a sentence. 

Our spelling pattern next week: 
The vowel pairs ai and ay make the /ā/ sound you hear in waist and fray. Diphthongs are different from vowel pairs in that the 2 vowels blend together to make one sound. The diphthongs oi and oy make the /ōi/ sound you hear in voices 

Some examples include:

voices

sprain

noises

disloyal

employ

waist

destroyed

fray

broiling

swaying

displays

praised

disappoint

railroad

royalty

appointed

crayon

boiling

soybean

spoiled

Reminders:

• We will be constructing playground parks for our simple machine unit, so please continue collecting items to use for the project such as, popsicle sticks, cardboard, straws, bottle caps, string, cardstock, pipecleaner, rubber bands, plastic lids/containers, tinfoil, thimbles, buttons, toothpicks, sticky tack, etc. 
• If you have a glue gun and/or Lego people that you are willing to bring in that would be very much appreciated. 

Have a wonderful weekend!