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Our focus for June:
LANGUAGE ARTS - Continue with the novel, Hatchet; vocabulary work, comprehension activities, creative/connecting activities
MATH - Finish Transformations; Start Data Analysis & Probability; continue with multi-step problem solving
SCIENCE - Continue Weather Watch
LANGUAGE ARTS - Continue with the novel, Hatchet; vocabulary work, comprehension activities, creative/connecting activities
MATH - Finish Transformations; Start Data Analysis & Probability; continue with multi-step problem solving
SCIENCE - Continue Weather Watch
Our focus for April:
LANGUAGE ARTS - Finish reading Space Case; writing mystery stories; start novel study on Hatchet; continue with grammar practice MATH - Finish Geometry; start Measurement; continue with Number Talks and Problem Solving SCIENCE - Finish Mechanisms Using Electricity SOCIAL STUDIES - Building Canada (confederation, building the railway, First Nations) |
Our focus for March:
LA - Continue with parts of a mystery story; continue reading Space Case; word work on grammar
MATH - Starting Geometry (describing 2D shapes and 3D objects; using parallel, intersecting, perpendicular, vertical, horizontal to describe edges, faces and vertices)
SCIENCE - Mechanisms Using Electricity (making electric cars, burglar alarms, "light up game")
FRENCH - Continue working on Les Animaux
LA - Continue with parts of a mystery story; continue reading Space Case; word work on grammar
MATH - Starting Geometry (describing 2D shapes and 3D objects; using parallel, intersecting, perpendicular, vertical, horizontal to describe edges, faces and vertices)
SCIENCE - Mechanisms Using Electricity (making electric cars, burglar alarms, "light up game")
FRENCH - Continue working on Les Animaux
Our focus for February:
LA - Finish up the final project for The Boundless; begin working on Mystery Story writing; Read Aloud: Space Case by Stuart Gibbs; word work on spelling and grammar; Family Literacy Night (Feb 7th 6:30-8:00pm) MATH - Continue with fractions (comparing, ordering); changing fractions to decimals and decimals to fractions SCIENCE - Electricity and Magnetism FRENCH - Les Animaux |
Our focus for January:
LA - Finish the novel study: The Boundless, Vocabulary Work, Snack & Chat
MATH - Finish up Multiplication & Division; Begin Fractions & Decimals; Problem Solving; Deductive Reasoning and Games to reinforce concepts
SS - Research Cordillera Region and Arctic Region; Finish Pokemon Project
LA - Finish the novel study: The Boundless, Vocabulary Work, Snack & Chat
MATH - Finish up Multiplication & Division; Begin Fractions & Decimals; Problem Solving; Deductive Reasoning and Games to reinforce concepts
SS - Research Cordillera Region and Arctic Region; Finish Pokemon Project
Our focus for December:
LA - Continue with Novel Study: Boundless by Kenneth Oppel, Vocabulary Work, Finish Read Aloud: Restart by Gordon Korman
MATH - Finish with Multiplication, Work on Division (3 digit by 1 digit; problem solving situations)
SS/SCIENCE - Finish up Classroom Chemistry; Work on Interior Plains in SS
Our focus for November:
LA - Continue with Novel Study: Boundless by Kenneth Oppel, Writer's Workshop, Vocabulary Work, Read Aloud: Restart by Gordon Korman, Snack & Chat (monthly book talk)
MATH - Finishing Estimation, Work on Multiplication (review of basic facts, work on 2 digit by 1 digit multiplying, 2 digit by 2 digit multiplying, solving problems using multiplication)
SS/SCIENCE - Finishing up Canadian Shield region in SS, beginning Classroom Chemistry in Science
Our focus for October:
LA - Finish Autobiographies, Novel Study: Boundless by Kenneth Oppel, Writer's Workshop, Vocabulary Work, Read Aloud: Restart by Gordon Korman
MATH - Place Value (numbers to a million), Estimation, Problem Solving
SOCIAL STUDIES - Regions of Canada: Atlantic, Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Lowlands, Canadian Shield
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Our focus for September:
LA - Autobiographies, Writer's Workshop, Read Aloud: Restart by Gordon Korman, Vocabulary Work,
MATH - Review of Grade 4 Math, Patterns & Equations, Problem Solving
SCIENCE - Wetland Ecosystems
Our focus for September:
LA - Autobiographies, Writer's Workshop, Read Aloud: Restart by Gordon Korman, Vocabulary Work,
MATH - Review of Grade 4 Math, Patterns & Equations, Problem Solving
SCIENCE - Wetland Ecosystems