I really enjoyed our tri-conferences this week as well! It was a lot of fun celebrating the great progress so many students have made since the beginning of September. For many of the students their goals for our last two months of the year were improving organizational skills, continuing to put in that extra "T.L.C." and preparing themselves for grade 6! What an ambitious and forward thinking group!
So here's what we've been up to and what is coming up:
LANGUAGE ARTS:
As you know (and many of you saw at our tri-conferences), our Chicken Soup books are completed with the self-evaluations ready for my final assessment. Believe it or not, I'm really anxious to begin reading and marking their books. The students have really poured their hearts into their stories and revealed their "inner writers". We had a fun celebration on Thursday to autograph each other's books, read each other's stories and enjoy a well-deserved treat (on me!).
On Tuesday, we began our Poetry unit! To spark the excitement of poetry, I purchased special notebooks for the students to use for collecting and writing their poems over the course of this mini-unit. We had a lot of fun with our first poem "I can't write a poem"! It was a silly list poem of unique excuses why they couldn't write poetry. Next week we will continue with poetry as we read the novel "Love that Dog" which is written entirely in verse!
There are only 7 T.U.S.C. meetings left in our program (plus our "Fun meeting"!) I think everyone is determined to get a few more "3's" before our very last meeting. Next week we have 2 meetings, one on Tuesday, May 12th and Thursday, May 14th!
MATHEMATICS:
This past week we squeezed in another problem solving strategy "Looking for a pattern"! Now it's time to finish off our year with an intense study of multiplication and division. As we approach LONG multiplication and division, it's an important time to start "honing" our multiplication facts once again. I have put a fun multiplication site on to our blog sidebar to warm us up for this next unit. Get ready!
SCIENCE:
What a fun week in Science as the students worked in cooperative groups to create their homemade thermos' and finally tested them on Tuesday! The students learned how to read a glass thermometer and record their results in the form of a line graph as they observed the temperature drop over a 15 minute period of time. As a group, they wrote up their experiment using the correct scientific process and designed attractive posters. Next week they will be presenting their thermos' in the form of a commercial (just like T.U.S.C.)!
On Wednesday, the students were given time to work on the review for their test coming up this Tuesday, May 12th! We corrected the review on Thursday so it is ready for studying this weekend.
Our final unit in Science this year will be studying WEATHER! (Hopefully I can fit in one more technology project here too!)
FRENCH:
The students handed in their Family albums this week and they look fantastic! As we finish up our unit on "La Famille", the students have begun working on their review for our final test. On Tuesday we will go over the answers to the review and practice the unit vocabulary in preparation for the final test on WEDNESDAY, MAY 13TH.
For our next study in French we are going to take some time to re-learn our numbers up to 100 as well as how to correctly tell time in French! Quelle heure est-il?
OTHER:
- The students had a very eye-opening and philanthropic visit to Winnipeg Harvest with Mrs. Rappaport on Monday! They helped sort potatoes and had the opportunity to see where all the action takes place once food is donated through such learning service projects as Operation Donation and Empty Bowls...speaking of Empty Bowls!
- Hopefully you have all received the letter regarding EMPTY BOWLS this year! Our date is June 4th from 4:30-5:30. It's a fun after school event with entertainment and yummy homemade soup, prepared by the students themselves. Please return the RSVP as soon as possible, along with your $10 donation to Winnipeg Harvest to purchase your child's bowl. We had Cameron Cross, the Art consultant for PTSD, visit the students Thursday morning to tell them more about the program. This year Linden Meadows is fortunate and excited to have the founder of Winnipeg Harvest herself, as a guest speaker at our Empty Bowls event!!!
- Once again, thank you to all the parents who were able to attend tri-conferences this week and I look forward to those few phone calls over the next week, with those of you who were unable to attend, just to connect and answer any questions!
- FYI...Mrs. Rappaport and I have switched days this week so she will be teaching her curriculum on Day 5 (Monday) and I will be there on Day 6 (Tuesday) doing what I do!
Have a very Happy Mother's Day!
I know it is also the Lindenwide Garage Sale as well this weekend so good luck if you're a seller or a buyer! (Let's hope this cold weather disappears very soon...mini-soccer is just not any fun with mittens and toques on!)
Mrs. Eby
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