Did You Know…? Moths and butterflies have anti-reflective eyes to see in poor light.

Good evening,

This morning we began with our April Virtue Assembly. This month’s virtue is Wonder. Congratulations to Brayden, Aparsh, Ashton, Matthew, and Chloe. They were our award winners this month. Keep up the good work!

In Math, the Grade 4 and Grade 5 students worked together today on some time-telling. We used this resource from learnalberta (username: la19 password: 1193), Math 5 Live, to review and begin learning about telling time on digital and analog clocks. This is a review lesson from Grade 5’s and a new concept for some Grade 4’s. Check out the resource at home if you are looking for more time-telling practice or print of the activity sheets below:

Math Live – Time (Activity Sheets)

In Science today, the Grade 4 students reviewed luminosity with this video:

Then we began to discuss how light moves. Did you know that light travels in a straight line? We can prove it. Today students were challenge to do their own version of the experiment below, so they could observe light travelling in a straight line:

Each group was successful! Next week, shadow boxes!

The Grade 5 students continued to look at mixtures of solids and liquids. More specifically, we began to look at how you could separate solid and liquid mixtures. Take our example of sugar and water from our previous class. We discussed evaporation as a method that could be used to separate the sugar from the water. Separation is one way that we can separate mixtures of solids and liquids. Today we also learned about decanting. Decanting works best when you can see both components. To separate, you can scoop off or pour off one of the components. We used blocks and water. It was very easy to pour the water out and to separate the water from the blocks. Finally, we moved on to filtration. We made a mixture of cornstarch and water. The cornstarch becomes suspended in the water, forming a cloudy liquid. This type of mixture is called a colloid. We then poured the colloid into a coffee filter. You’ll have to wait and see until Monday to discover how much corn starch we were able to recover – the coffee filters need to dry.

We also made it outside to play some Quidditch today. Good sportsmanship everyone!

Agenda:

Read 20 minutes

Language Arts:

• Mouse and the Motorcycle – Chapter 3

Math:

• Gr. 5 – Mathletics (Equivalent Fractions)

Health:

• FRIENDS – Home Activity 8A (Tuesday)

French:

• Mon Horraire (Wednesday)

Grade 5/6 Floor Hockey – Wednesdays 3:00-4:00 pm

Floor Hockey Tournament – May 6th-7th

STEM Club – Mondays, Thursdays 3:00-4:00 pm

2nd Annual Robotics Dinner & Social – May 5th @ Walter and Gladys Hill School (buy tickets online at:http://tinyurl.com/fmpsdsocial)