Good afternoon!
Can you believe that it is almost June? The school year has just flown by! We started off our day with some Math. The Gr. 4 students are exploring symmetrical sides, and the Gr. 5 students are exploring the bases and faces of pyramids and prisms.
In Science today the Gr. 4 students finished examining colour. We discussed the primary colours of light (red, blue, green) and the secondary colours of light (cyan, magenta, yellow). We also learned that when you mix colours of light, you can have the following combinations:
- red + blue = magenta
- blue + green = cyan
- green + red = yellow
- magenta + cyan = blue
- cyan + yellow = green
- yellow +magenta = red
- red + blue + green = white
- cyan + yellow + magenta = black
We will continue to explore this concept tomorrow, and then we will be working on creating some optical devices. The Gr. 5 students reviewed reversible and irreversible changes. We then demonstrated an irreversible change by mixing vinegar and baking soda. We knew that a chemical change was occurring because a gas was produced (bubbles/fizzing, odor). Students will continue working with chemical changes tomorrow.
We started our Novel Study today. We are reading Farley Mowatt’s Owls in the Family. This is a great novel, that meets some of our Social Studies outcomes as well. By reading about Farley’s experiences growing up in rural Saskatchewan, students will be getting a much deeper understanding of the differences between some of the regions of Canada, and the way that geographic can impact our way of life. Today we travelled through the prairies with Farley and his friend Bruce. They were looking in nearby bluffs for owl eggs. They had to walk over lots of sloughs to get to the bluffs. Does anyone remember what a bluff or a slough is? Let me know tomorrow if you do!
Homework: Read 20 minutes
Reading Journals (Friday)
Multiplication Quiz (Friday)
Spelling Quiz (Friday)
Math: Gr. 4 – pgs. 234-235 #1-4
Gr. 5 – pgs. 244 # 1-4
Social: Creative Journal entries (tomorrow!)
Science: Gr. 4 – transparent, translucent, opaque, etc.
Gr. 5 – reversible/irreversible
French: Gr. 5 – Dream Homes (Wednesday)
Mega Boys (Gr. 5): May 29th (Wednesday)
Spelling Words: construction, construct, constrict, unicorn, unison, union, unit, contour, tourist, coconut