Tonight (Tuesday) - please check in with your child about their progress on their Social data sheet project.  Today was the third class period of work time (about 2 hours of class time) and the expectation is that they have their title, name and at least the beginnings of one of their two paragraphs completed by now - along with the links to the sites they are using for info. 

Also - hopefully there has been studying at home for the Weather unit test next Thursday.  Here's the link again to the study notes we've been creating in class to help you at home.

Week of: Nov.25

Monday: Coming home tonight - math weekly #5 (due Friday)

Tuesday: Don't forget to keep studying in the evenings for our Weather unit test coming Dec. 5th.  Here is the link again to our collaborative study notes.

Wednesday: Please consider sending 2$ for purchasing a treat from our We Day group to help support their initiatives this year.  Treat will be sold in the classroom at lunch time Thursday.

Thursday:  9:00 Meteorologist presentation (comfy pillows allowed for floor seats), We Day bake sale at noon

Friday:  Half day Friday.  Math weekly #5 due

The Water Cycle

Inspired by this catchy song from youtube here are the original, student created songs and poems sharing their knowledge of the water cycle and using the important science terms: condensation, precipitation, ground water, evaporation and saturated!

 Dec.5 Science Unit Test
We will be having our first unit test in science in a couple of weeks.  Today students have received a study guide which helps them to focus on the most important parts of the unit.  We are also working together to create online study notes with information for each topic.

How can you help?  This may be one of the first times your child has written a unit test.  Some of this information goes back to September.  Please help them to develop study cards, to ask them questions and to put aside some time most evenings to do a little review. 

Study guide prompts

• 1   What is a convection current?  how is it caused? Where could we find one?
• 2   What makes air rise? How does air move through THE CONVECTION BOX OF SCIENCE?  Why?
• 3   Is hot air or cold air lighter?  How do you know?
• 4   What device do we use to measure wind speed?  How does it work? What does it look like? Be able to draw and label the one that we built in our classroom and tell me what wind speed is measured in
• 5   What device do we use to measure wind direction?  Which way would it point? How would we label the wind direction? Be able to draw and label it.
• 6   What is condensation? Be able to give examples and tell how it happens.
• 7   What does it mean if air is saturated?
• 8   What conditions would make your clothes dry faster outside?(saturated, dry, hot, cold..)
• 9   What are the 4 types of precipitation that we talked about.  How and where do they form? Be able to compare them (like on your Venn it rains)
• 10   What measures air pressure? Be able to label and draw one. What do we measure the changes in?
• 11    What time of day is normally the hottest/coolest.  Why?
• 12   What types of things do you want your clothes to have for your to stay the warmest, driest, coolest…?
• 13    What are the 4 main types of clouds?  What do you know about their look and weather?

week of: Nov. 18 - 22

Monday:  Please read and return the photo permission for our presentation coming Nov. 28 by Mr. Matthew Corkum.  He is volunteering his time to come in and talk to our students about the job of a meteorologist and his first hand experiences predicting weather.

Tuesday: taping for CBC Music Challenge - please have students wear white, black, gold or teal

Wednesday: taping for CBC Music Challenge - please have students wear white, black, gold or teal

Thursday: 

Friday: Spelling list #5 and assignment 5 are due in the morning.  Water cycle songs or poems are due.

Want to take a look at the type of competition we have for the CBC Music Class Challenge next week?  Here are some of the past submissions and winners on the CBC Music Class Challenge YouTube channel.


Please remember that Tuesday and Wednesday we are asking students to wear Black, White, Teal or Gold so that we all match for the final recordings.

Oh no!  Thanks to Max in our classroom I realized my mistake - tomorrow is not a full day Friday for students.  Dismissal will be at noon for half day Friday :)

Week of Nov 12 - 15

Tuesday: math weekly went home

Wednesday: We've been working on better beginnings in LA.  Ask your child to tell you about some options for hooking readers from the very beginning of their writing.

Thursday: Reading records are due

Friday: (full day)  Math weekly #4 due

Next week Tuesday and Wednesday - during music classes we will be recording for the CBC student music competition.
Students are asked to try to wear LGMS colours: Teal and gold, or plain black and white to match their peers and present a united look for the final recording.

Week of Nov 4 - 7

Monday: As a special bonus for this short week there will not be a homework assignment this week.  Please check in with your child about overdue work though and spend time this week helping them to get caught up or working on building up their mastery of multiplication facts.

Tuesday: Poinsettia order forms coming home.  Get into the spirit of Christmas and help out our band program at the same time :)

Wednesday:

Thursday: 9:15 Remembrance day ceremony.  Poppies will be available at the school for all students.  Donations to the Legion are also encouraged and can be sent that morning.

Friday: No school Friday or Monday.  Enjoy the long weekend.