TABLEAU PERFROMANCES

We performed our tableaux today in the gym. Some very creative pantomime interpretations of action scenes. I have some pictures below of their 'frozen' scene.

Culminating Activity

The students are working on their culminating writing activity for this unit. The grade 6's are working on creating a biography of a famous Canadian. The grade 5's are working on creating an Historical Fiction story. The learning goals and success criteria for both assignments are below. We will be looking to have a rough copy ready by Friday.  I am encouraging students to continue to do research at home over the next few night, especially for the grade 5 students. Their assignment involves them having some basic knowledge of the historical time period they chose to write about.

Amazing feeling!!

The energy is amazing in church this morning!! Having close to a 1000 kids singing and sharing the Eucharist was a very powerful experience.

Drama, drama and more drama!

Kids working on their skits today! We have some very talented and creative actors in this bunch. Check out some of the pictures. Hoping to download some video clips on the website in the next week.  Enjoy!

MATH TEST THURSDAY

We will be wrapping up this unit by the end of this week. We will have a test on Thursday, January 23rd. They will be completing a unit problem on Friday that helps tie a lot of the concepts together that we learned.

FORMULAS THAT WILL BE USED: A=L x W, V=LxWxH
GRADE 6

• NEED TO KNOW HOW TO FIND SURFACE AREA OF A RECTANGULAR PRISM
• NEED TO KNOW HOW TO CONVERT FROM METRIC UNIT TO ANOTHER, FOR EXAMPLE CENTIMETRES TO METRES
• SOLVE WORD PROBLEMS THAT DEAL WITH AREA OR ROOMS AND SURFACE AREAS OF OBJECTS--FOR EXAMPLE, MAY HAVE A PROBLEM INVOLVING HAVING TO BUY ENOUGH PAINT TO COVER A CERTAIN ROOM

GRADE 5

• NEED TO KNOW HOW TO CONVERT FROM METRIC UNIT TO ANOTHER, FOR EXAMPLE CENTIMETRES TO METRES
• ONCE CONVERTED ORDER UNITS FROM SMALLEST TO BIGGEST OR BIGGEST TO SMALLEST
• DETERMINE VOLUME OF A 3D SOLID USING THE VISUAL CM CUBE METHOD AND ALSO BY USING THE FORMULA FOR VOLUME 
• SOLVING PROBLEMS INVOLVING ELAPSED TIME
• SOLVING WORD PROBLEMS INVOLVING ELAPSED TIME 
• SOLVING WORD PROBLEMS INVOLVING CONVERTING OF METRIC UNITS

VIEW METRIC CONVERSION VIDEO

I would like the students to view a 3 minute video on metric conversion over the weekend. I have included the link below to the class website page where the video is stored. Click on the link and then scroll down to the bottom of the page. We will be discussing the conversion steps on Monday, January 13th.

METRIC VIDEO

 

JANUARY FINALLY UNDER WAY!!

Well, the weather has been terrible, but finally we have a complete class.  Today the students received several tests to bring home and have signed.  They also organized their portfolios in preparation for student led conferences later this month.  News will be going home soon detailing how our traditional parent interviews will change school wide this year.  Keep checking out the blog for daily updates and peeks into our classroom.