lundi le 4 mai, 2015
In Language Arts, students are working hard this week on writing and illustrating their bilingual book entitled "If I were 100". This is a great way to learn the various steps involved in writing, from note taking, to draft and a final copy. We are also applying all the knowledge we are building around topics such as sentence structure, grammar, punctuation and verb conjugations. Our book show will be on May 13th, more details to come!
In Math, students are doing "math minutes" this week, which are designed to help solidify basic math skills in addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. You may see your child coming home with some practice ones. Today, students did an addition and subtraction one. All students took home a multiplication one today, which is due back tomorrow (only takes about 1 minute). We are also continuing our geometry unit by looking at axis of symmetry and the description and identification of various 2-D and 3-D shapes.
In Science, students are now finishing up with plant studies and moving onto animals and their habitats. Each student has chosen an animal to study. They will be researching and creating a PowerPoint presentation about their animal's habitat and physical appearance. We will continue our Canadian geography unit next week, once we finish our books.
Tomorrow we have a special performance by Axe Capoeira, an Afro-Brazilian martial art. This will lead nicely into some gymnastics we'll be doing in PE. In Art, Mrs Bourque will be coming in to do some more Indigenous crafts, and we are also integrating art into our books.
Have a wonderful week everyone! Mme Garcin