Thursday May 13 - Online

 Thursday May 13 - Online

This morning we enjoyed reading Chapter 3 of Owls in the Family.  How many of you felt badly for the baby owls? We all had a funny vision in our minds about how the owlet looked stuffed into the backpack!!  I wonder what challenges the boys will face trying to raise a wild bird as a pet?

During the rest of Literacy time, students were asked to work on:

-their book club assignments (if they have already met with Mrs. Zwack or Mr. Kelly this week).

-practicing Words Their Way

-reading to self - new books assigned in Epic about Engineering if you are interested or any book of your choice

Mr. Kelly and Mrs. Zwack met with two Book Clubs each this morning and those students have had work assigned due next week.

**If you have not had a Book Club Meeting yet you will do that tomorrow in Literacy!

Math

We are working on building a graphic organizer about Measurement.  Our task today was to set up our Linear Measurement box.  Then, we were asked to choose something interesting to measure.  At the bottom of the box we were to write a sentence or two about what we measured, what tool we used and how long or high it was.

Don't forget to add the units you used!  Then you can sketch in the space left over. For example Mr. Kelly could sketch his dog and a metre stick.

Grade 3's had an introduction to the literary device - hyperbole!  They discovered it meant an "exaggeration".  

Grade 4's had French with Mr. Strand.

Inquiry - today we reviewed characteristics of materials that are used to make everyday items, using videos.  There are several of these videos in Google Classroom for review if needed.  

Today's assignment was to complete their MATERIALS chart for Monday.  In each box, they should have examples they found and words to describe the material, just like we did for "plastic." We are looking for "engineering" type words such as:  transparent, opaque, absorbent, waterproof, flexible, rigid, etc.  

Reminders

-keep working on Words Their Way

-if your reading video won't load onto Iris, do not panic!!  We are working on a solution.  

-work on your GRIT assignment!  Details in Google Classroom.

-next week we have a PD day on Friday May 21.  We hope to be returning after the long weekend!

We MISS you all!!