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Weekend of June 12-13

Can you believe that it is mid-June?
We are winding up projects....

Socials
- Explorer envelope due MONDAY
- Explorer Trading Card due TUESDAY

Social Studies - Explorer Trading Card

Your next Social Studies project is an ”Explorer Trading Card”. The idea is to do some research on an explorer of your choice, and present the information in a fun way (ie. not an essay ☺).

Choose an explorer that interests you from the 7 we have studied so far--Cabot, Cartier, Hudson, Franklin, Magellan, de Champlain and Columbus.

Research the explorer using the guidelines below and create your own trading card to present the information. You can use the trading card sample that I have on the website as a guide, but feel free to arrange the card the way you want. Feel free to google images of “trading cards”, “hockey cards”, etc., to get ideas for how to organize your own card.

Here is a sample.

You may use any resources to study your explorer: the internet, books, pictures, etc..

There are some elements that ALL trading cards must contain:

1) A front and a back (I will provide the paper for each side). These two sides will be glued to the two sides of a piece of manila cardboard and laminated.

FRONT
• simple
• large, colour hand-drawn/traced picture and name of the explorer
• you could also include the country that the explorer came from as the “team”!

BACK
• organize into sections
• paragraph(s) giving a brief “bio” of the explorer – quick overview of his life
• include the following info
- places and dates of birth and death
- places and dates of exploration (ie. Maple Ridge – 1798-1801)
- significant accomplishments
- interesting facts – at least 5 – but as many as you like!
- map of their route of exploration (I will provide printouts that you can draw on and colour)

2) ALL WRITING MUST BE IN YOUR OWN WORDS. You may NOT copy text word for word from any source.

3) All titles and headings must be in stylized print and easy to read.

4) All pictures must be hand-drawn or traced. All informational text must be printed or typed (no handwriting for informational text)

5) The entire project must be well-organized and not cluttered.

Week of May 24-28

Happy Victoria Day! Hope everyone had a relaxing long weekend.

Poetry - all illustrated poetry due Tuesday.
Math - p.192 1,2,3,5,6 due Tuesday, yellow Fractions review due Friday--remember to evaluate your understanding of each question!
Socials - Explorer map and grid now due.
No spelling test this week.

Weekend of May 15-16

Socials - finish Explorers grid; finish good copy of Explorers map (fine-line at school - must use permanent ink for tea-staining later)
Writing - all poetry is now due. Illustration of poems ongoing.

Week of May 10-14

Poetry - I Don't Understand poem--rough draft due Friday, May 14
Social Studies- Explorer grid due Friday, May 14
Spelling test on Friday - names of explorers + 5 challenge words from Explorers reading
Jacques Cartier, Henry Hudson, Samuel de Champlain, Ferdinand Magellan, John Franklin

Homework for Weekend of May 8-9

Writing - Can You Imagine? poem...ROUGH draft
Math - P. 185 #7-11
Spelling Test - correct 3x each, parent sign, return to school
Art - both Scratch designs due....indicate which one for me to mark.

Poetry Links

Click here for the "I am" poem link.

Click here for the full list of poems available.

Click here for a great Rhyming Dictionary

Week of May 3-7

Thanks to all Div. 7 Mom's for attending Muffins with Mom this morning!

Homework and other info:

Writing - School-wide write this week. Students wrote at the start of the year; now, they write again on the same topic to demonstrate growth in writing skills over the year. Topic is "A Favorite Place" or "A Special Time or Event". Today we did the outline.
ROUGH COPY DUE FRIDAY, MAY 7

Math - orange fractions sheet - fractions of a set

Spelling - Explorer words.

Social Studies - beginning unit on Explorers

Art - last period to work on scratch designs - Friday.

Week of April 26-30

Tuesday, April 27..
- Writing - we began our final copies of our Life of a Colour poems. Final copy due Friday, April 30.
- Math - we did a lesson on fractions - the concept of 1/2 and fractions that are equal to, more than and less than 1/2.
- LAWS - words for Friday's test - Fraction words. numerator/denominator/fraction/decimal/equivalent /whole/half/tenths/hundredths
- also 5 challenge words
Art - students will be doing 2 pastel/paint scratch projects. They will hand in their chosen best for marking.

Weekend of April 24-25

Congratulations to Cam for placing 2nd of all Grade 4's in the 2010 Alouette Public Speaking Competition! Congratulations, too, to Nolan and Avri for making it to the finals! Excellent work by all.

Math - pp.175-177 #1-11, Reflect was due this past THURSDAY, Apr. 22
Poetry - rough draft of Life of A Colour was due WEDNESDAY, Apr. 21
Art - pastel needs finished for Tuesday. I initially asked if students could bring a small, slot-head screwdriver to do our Scratch Art. I have changed the plan and will use nails instead. All screwdrivers can stay or go home. :-) Thanks!

In Math, we will be learning about Fractions over the next few weeks.
In Writing...poetry.
Social Studies...Explorers
Spelling...variety of words from curricular areas as well as certain, reliable patterns.
Art...a variety of projects.

Homework for Week of April 19-23

District Pro-D Day on Friday - No School.
Public Speaking on Thursday afternoon in the gym, 12:45.

Math - pp.175-177 #1-11, Reflect - due THURSDAY (no school Friday)
Poetry - rough draft of Life of A Colour due WEDNESDAY
Art - pastel finished for Thursday; also, if students can bring a small, slot-head screwdriver to do our Scratch Art, that would great. Please label with name. I will keep them safe.

Public Speaking 2010

Public Speaking for Grades 4/5 will be held in the gym on Thursday, April 22, after lunch. Things should get started around 12:45.

This year, Division 7 students did a truly fine job on their speeches. It is too bad that only 3 can be picked to go to the gym!

Congratulations to Nolan, Cam and Avri for making the final cut, and well done to everyone else for making my job of choosing the finalists so difficult!

Good luck on Thursday!

UBC MOA Field Trip

We had a great day at the UBC Museum of Anthropology. Thank you to all of the parents who helped make the day a success!

(Note: Apologies for the blurriness of some of the pictures...poor lighting inside the MOA)

Homework for Tuesday, April 13

Greatest apologies for not having the homework up on Friday!

FIELD TRIP TO UBC THIS FRIDAY, APRIL 16. Please return UBC field trip notices and $11.00 ON TUESDAY THE 13TH. Thank you!

Speeches - we begin grading speeches on Tuesday the 13th for those students who wish to 'try for the gym'.

Math
- we began learning about fractions on Friday.
- return Symmetry quiz signed and corrected by Friday, April 16.

Spelling - corrections 3x each, sign and return quiz. NO SPELLING TEST THIS WEEK BECAUSE OF FRIDAY FIELD TRIP.

Fractions Learning Links

Fractions Activity #1

Fractions Activity #2

Geography Game link

Geography Game

Homework for Week of April 6-9

Please return UBC field trip notices and $11.00 ASAP. Thank you!

Speeches - all speech cards must be complete by this Friday. On Friday, we will be working in small groups to become more comfortable with speaking before an audience. We will also provide an opportunity for those students who wish to try for the school-wide competition to present in front of the whole class before Tuesday, when we begin presenting speeches to be graded.

Math - we had a Symmetry quiz today. No homework for Friday.

Spelling - quiz on homonyms/homophones (yes, again!) on Friday - if one word in the set is spelled incorrectly, no marks will be given. Study hard--practice!

If you are not done writing the sentences below in your LAWS book, these are due on THURSDAY.

Spelling words and sample sentences

Desert – He wandered through the desert for 5 years.
Dessert – For dessert, we had apple pie and ice cream.

Accept – I can’t accept this money from you.
Except – I like all kinds of vegetables except broccoli.

Whether – I don’t know whether to go or stay.
Weather – We are having terrible weather this week.

Through – Just go through those trees to get to the park.
Threw – My brother threw a ball to our dog.
Thorough – You need to do a thorough job of cleaning your room.

Who’s – Who’s going to take me to school?
Whose – Whose mess is this?

Than – I am taller than my Dad.
Then – I saw the ghost, then I screamed!

Allowed – I am allowed to come over today!
Aloud – Please read your poem aloud to the class.

Morning – Good morning!
Mourning – Canuck fans are in mourning every spring.

Homework for Tuesday, April 6

No school on Thursday (Pro-D), Good Friday or Easter Monday.

Please return UBC field trip notices and $11.00 ASAP. Thank you!

Homework:

L.A. - rough draft of speech due Tuesday.

Math - symmetry quiz on Tuesday.

Material on symmetry quiz:
- identify the characteristics of given symmetrical and non-symmetrical 2-D shapes
- sort a given set of 2-D shapes as symmetrical and non-symmetrical
- complete a symmetrical 2-D shape given half the shape and its line of symmetry
- identify lines of symmetry of a given set of 2-D shapes and explain why each shape is symmetrical
- draw a symmetrical shape
- show understanding examples of symmetrical shapes found in the environment and identify the line(s) of symmetry
- sort a given set of 2-D shapes as those that have no lines of symmetry, one line of symmetry, or more than one line of symmetry

Homework due Tuesday, March 30 and UBC MOA Field Trip

Math - symmetry - second design on dot paper must be COMPLETED

Spelling - test corrected, signed, returned.

Speech - bring all materials for Tuesday.

UBC Museum of Anthropology notice (field trip is Friday, April 16, Divisions 7&8) - please return ASAP. We are asking for parent volunteers to come along to supervise small groups in the museum. Your admission will be free, and if you wish you can carpool together in peace and quiet (and stop for coffee). :-)

The field trip is wonderful--plus, the Museum had built new sections since our last trip, so it should be even more interesting. I thank you for your continued support.

You can learn more about this excellent Museum here.

Homework due Friday, March 26

Speech outline - yellow sheet - subtopic details should be completed and yellow sheet returned to school by THURSDAY (to ensure that everyone has their work at school on Friday)
- speech does not have to be written in paragraph form yet - we will work on this on Friday

The speeches are written in essay format - ie. introduction, subtopics, conclusion.

It will be at LEAST 2 weeks before we begin presenting speeches formally. Until then, it's practice practice practice!

If you need a new copy of the speech outline, click the links below (prints in LEGAL size paper):
Page 1
Page 2

Math - symmetry - first design on dot paper must be COMPLETED

Spelling - quiz on homonyms/homophones on Friday - if one word in the set is spelled incorrectly, no marks will be given. Study hard--practice!

there/their/they're.....by/buy/bye.....you're/your....right/write.....to/too/two.....do/due/dew.....piece/peace.....which/witch
Also 5 challenge words.

Homework due Friday, March 19

- PUBLIC SPEAKING TOPIC - all students must bring at least one strong topic to use for their speech (Public Speaking is in early May). We will be working hard on speeches for the next month.
- Spelling test.... +er and +est words - see student planner
- yellow Symmetry worksheet

Next Tues., March 23
- students need to bring 5 challenge words for the week's spelling test

Line Symmetry - Interactive Learning Video

We are beginning a short unit on Line Symmetry. Below is a link to a fantastic teaching video that our class used in our exploration of this concept.

Click here to use this video for practice and/or review of Line Symmetry. Make sure your volume is up.

Homework for weekend of Feb.6-7

Math quiz upcoming!
On Friday, Feb. 12, there will be a Math quiz on the following concepts (see pages 150-161 of the Math Makes Sense textbook):
- measuring area of rectangles and squares
- estimating areas of shapes - using benchmarks, using symbols (*, X, etc.)
- different shapes with the same area (show equations) - ie. a rectangle with an area of 12 square cm could be 4x3, 6x2, or 12x1
- should you measure in square cm or square metres? Which unit makes the most sense to use?
- Reflect-style questions - thoughtful answers that require more explanation than just a number answer

More Educational Links!

AAAMath - huge Math website for practicing basic facts, etc.

A+ Math flashcards - flashcards for lots of different areas of Math

Quia - Multiplication - 3 different multiplication facts activities.

Homework for Friday, January 29

Math p.154-155, 1-6, Reflect