Week of February 6 - 10, 2012

I have updated my class web page at http://www.areynolds.org/ with the class newslettter for the month of February.  Click by for a look.

Friday HW
1.  Math Quiz Unit 6 Lessons 3 and 5 (Money to $10 000 and Surface Area).
2.  Sign and correct test packs for Wednesday February 15.
3.  Book Report due February 23.

Thursday HW
1.  Finish colour work on the two five sense poems.
2.  Spelling text page 33 # 1,2,3 and 4.
3.  Math Quiz 2:  Unit 6 Lesson 3 and 5 (Money and Surface Area) on Tuesday February 14, 2012.
Students should be able to add and subtract amounts of money up to $10 000 using decimals and dollar signs.  They should also know what the terms balance, deposit and withdrawal mean and be able to determine a month-ending bank balance after several deposits and withdrawals.  The surface area concept includes the formula (A = l  x  w) and the conceptual understanding of finding the top, side and front areas of a given rectangular prism (described in words or with a picture), adding them up and doubling that sum for the total surface area.
4.  Book report due February 23.
5.  Report cards go home on Monday, February 13.
Today we worked on 4 experiments for Space in class which we will finish first thing tomorrow morning.  Here is a short video of Canada's latest space exploration:  Lego Man in (near) Space.



Wednesday HW
1.  Math Quiz on Unit 6 Lessons 1 and 2 (time zones and 24 h clock) on Thursday February 9.
2.  Book Report due February 23.
3.  Math HW Book pages 86-87.
4.  Spelling text page 31, # 4 and 5; page 32 # 8,10 and 11.  Write this work in your notebook after today's cycle activities.
5.  Spelling Cycle 7 -- no sentences.
6.  Sign and correct test packs for next Wednesday.


Tuesday HW
1.  Five sense poems due in class tomorrow.
2.  Spelling Cycle 6 Dictation tomorrow.
3.  Math Quiz on Unit 6 Lessons 1 and 2 (time zones and 24 h clock) on Thursday February 9.
4.  Book report due February 23. 
Here is a short refresher video  on the measurement concepts we are learning now from the Khan Academy.



Monday HW
1.  Grammar quiz on sentence stucture tomorrow.
2.  Five sense poems.  Two rough versions due tomorrow.
3.  Spelling Cycle #6 including sentences.  Dictation on Wednesday.
4.  Math Quiz on Time Zones and the 24 h clock on Thursday February 9.
The return of Music Monday!  In anticipation of our Electricity unit, here is an interesting video.