Good afternoon!

What a wonderful Friday! We started off our Friday with Computers. The Gr. 5 students were doing some research for our current Health Unit. They researched some of the causes of, myths about, and solutions for acne. This is something we are going to discuss together on Monday in class. The Gr. 4 students completed a Science activity called “The Secret Life of Trees” which was a great way for them to explore some of the topics of their final Science Unit.

In Art today we continued to build our masks to use in Social Studies next week. They turned out wonderfully. Students will be using the masks in a final snapshot activity. This time students must include each character in each snapshot. That will require groups to do some inferring about what some of the background characters might have been doing during different parts of the story. For example, what where the Mom and Dad doing while Allashua is out fishing? They must also include one sentence of narration for each snapshot. Again, students have to retell the story using only three snapshots, so a lot of summarizing and determining of importance has to occur.

Computer Class Links

Gr. 5 (Health) – http://kidshealth.org/kid/grow/body_stuff/acne.html

Gr. 4 (Science) – http://urbanext.illinois.edu/trees2/

 

 Homework: Read 20 minutes

                          Math:

                          Gr. 4 – pgs. 243-244 #1-5

                                     – Unit Test (Wed.)

                          Gr. 5 – pgs. 250-251 #1-8

                                     – Unit Test (Mon.)

                          Science: Gr. 4 Unit Test (Mon.)

                                            Gr. 5 Unit Test (Wed.)