Countdown to Spring Break :)
Don't forget to book your conference with us this week. Parent-teacher conferences will be Thursday, March 22 (1:00 - 7:30pm) and Friday, March 23 (8:30-12:30pm). In Humanities, students are learning about the roots of democracy in Ancient Athens. Students started off the unit by researching Greece and taking sketch notes in their visual journals. We then looked at being a citizen in Ancient Athens vs. in Canada today. Students learned about the different roles in this society and how much equity and fairness there was compared to what we have now. We have also been continuing to read our novel, "Airborn." It is getting very exciting! Students are now writing about their own mysterious creature, after sketching them and getting feedback from their peers. We will finish this work this week and the journal pages will be due after Spring Break. Last week in class the students were presented with a challenge to design a parachute that supports weight. They had to choose one independent variable to test (size, material or shape of parachute). One of the main objectives is for them to understand what effects the flight of a parachute and what hinders it. There are a couple of websites on the resources page along with a diagram that the students can use in order to answer the " follow up parachute challenge questions" that are due after Spring Break on Tuesday, April 3. In math we learned the similarity between equivalent ratios and fractions and solved problems using them. Our last focus is to look at the relationship between percents, decimals and fractions. The students will have a quiz on fractions (mixed and improper), ratios, percents and decimals shortly after Spring Break.
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We have been working with improper and mixed fractions, ordering and comparing these, placing them on number lines and solving problems with them. We finished the week with a worksheet on the above which is due Monday. Science has us reviewing what we learned about the Bernoulli principle when we were working on our science fair projects. We have done some activities blowing paper in different ways to see how the air and pressure affects lift. Next we will be reviewing and looking more specifically at the four forces of flight (lift, thrust, drug and gravity (weight)) and how they are in constant tug of war with each other in order to achieve flight. That will take us to looking at a comparison of the flight of birds with airplanes. It's pretty cool how similar they are!
When: Wednesday March 7th, 5pm.
Where: School Learning Commons. Who: Sessions are open to parents of grade 4, 5 and 6 students. Convened by Mrs Meg Leach (Nose Creek Teacher). We are asking that students do not attend as we are working with limited space. Would you like to help support your Grade 4, 5 or 6 student in Math? Come to a fun, relaxed Math Master Class. The session is focused on teaching parents lots of fun games and activities that you can do at home with your children to help support their numeracy skills. All ability levels will be covered, with the main goal fostering a love of learning in our children. Register your attendance to allow us to be fully prepared by completing the Google Form at the following link: https://goo.gl/forms/cyr4j74wHEt0yV4K3 Thank you for your support. Mrs Meg Leach What a crazy but fun week!! We had two field trips, one to the Hitman hockey game and one to TELUS Spark Science Centre, and both were amazing! The students were engaged and well-behaved and we are so proud of them.
In Humanities, we have reviewed democracy and the pillars of democracy and are moving on to our unit on ancient Athens, the birthplace of democracy. We are continuing to read out novel, "Airborn," and students are creating their own mysterious creatures. We have brainstormed some features our creatures will have and have sketched them. Students gave each other feedback, which they will use for the descriptive writing portion of the assignment. In math we continue to work with fractions and have focused on mixed and improper fractions. The beginning of next week will have us solving problems using both of those and we will finish the week learning about how to order fractions using different strategies. We have learned about all of the 6 different properties of air. Ask your child what they are! Who knew!? haha We will continue to learn about aerodynamics and flight over the next few weeks. Many of the additional resources for Science and Humanities were deleted from our blog, so please be patient as we collect that information again and post it on the blog. Thanks for your understanding!
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