Week 27

We had a joyful, warm and delightful week!

In Read to Self we had to make a reading goal based on teacher feedback and choose an area of fluency to work on. We will be working on this goal during Read to Self and Silent Reading for the next 2 weeks and will document progress at the end of 2 weeks.

We started analyzing paragraphs using the THIEVES strategy. First we had to read through the paragraph. Then we had to find the main idea and build off the main idea to find the supporting ideas. When determining our main idea we had to choose a sentence that had specific details. When finding our supporting details we had to relate the sentences to the main idea. This will become an option during Work on Writing and an activity we can practice when we are finished our work. 

In Science we explored the website Ed Heads and learned about simple machines. On the website, we have been scanning a virtual home for simple machines. For example in the bedroom we discovered a secret compartment which contained a ship. We learned that the ship's bow is a wedge and the propellor is an inclined plane. 

We had the chance to use a weigh scale to measure the force need to pick up items vs. the force needed to drag items across an inclined plane. 

In Social Studies we have been working on our Settler advertisements. First we researched the pros and cons of coming to Alberta. Then we planned a rough copy of our advertisements which needed at least 6 reasons to come to Alberta, a title and an eye-catching slogan. Lastly we plotted this information onto our final copy. 

In math we started two new games called Jeopardy and Bingo. During our games many students got pretty competitive and used their brains to calculate multiplication facts.

Passion Project!

This week, Gurpreet presented her Passion Project on Red Tailed Foxes. We learned that they can live in dens or old trees. Thank you for sharing!

Our spelling pattern next week: 

Focus: If a singular word ends in x, ss, sh or ch, you usually add es to make it mean more than one.  

fox + es = foxes 

axes 

bosses 

shoes 

kisses 

waxes 

foxes 

splashes 

ashes 

crashes 

matches 

sandwiches 

toothbrushes 

eyelashes 

sashes 

ditches 

flashes 

churches 

clashes 

Have a great weekend!

Reminders: 

• Mad Minutes: Next week we will be having our first Mad Minutes. Please take the time this weekend and next week to practice for our Mad Minutes next Friday. Students be given 1 minute for each section to answer as many addition, subtraction, multiplication and division facts. We will continue to use the same facts below for every Mad Minute. We will be challenged to beat our previous record.