We will be wrapping up our focus on patterns this week with a quiz on Friday, May 25. The students are being encouraged to take home their duotangs to review the work that we have done in class in order to prepare for the quiz. Next week we will start our last unit on geometry and angles. The world is filled with shapes large and small, with angles, lines and different geometric shapes. It’s the oldest math, the most basic math - “What shapes fit together to let me build something?” In this unit, students will be exploring the world of angles, polygons, volume and area, as well as how we can measure these. Lastly, students will be exploring 2D and 3D shapes with their different characteristics and learning how to transform (move) them around coordinate grids.
In science the students will be learning about the sun, moon and constellations this week. We are wrapping up our unit on the Iroquois Confederacy this week in Humanities and students will have a quiz next week. We will be working on a final democracy project in which students will need to think back about the pillars of democracy and how they fit into each type of government we have learned about. They will get an opportunity to videotape themselves talking about their own points of view and how fair and equitable each type is to them. This will lead us to talking more about democracy in action and how citizens can take part in the government. After that, our final unit of study in Humanities will be on the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Only 6 weeks to go...
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