Wednesday, November 30th

Reminder:
Instrumental music tomorrow.
Movie night tomorrow.

Language:
Some students are still finishing up their Tuck Everlasting projects for tomorrow.  We're hoping to get them all wrapped up so we can move on next week.

Math:
Measurement review
Measurement test tomorrow

Social Studies:
Students are preparing mock newscasts of historical Canadian events that, collectively, will attempt to show how Canada has become a more inclusive and diverse country.  We're also trying to wrap this up tomorrow, but that may be ambitious.

Wednesday, November 23rd

Reminders
1) Pizza lunch on Friday.
2) House Event this Friday afternoon.
3) Moustache Day on Friday.

Language
1) Read for 20 minutes
2) Tomorrow we'll continue to work on our Tuck Everlasting culminating tasks.  Bring your novels.
3) Spelling, Lesson #8 (Friday)

Math
Metric Relationships.  Today we practiced how to convert between metric units.  Complete practice questions and IXL.

Social Studies
Tomorrow we'll continue to research an inclusion/diversity event from Canadian history and prepare newscasts to share our learning.

Thursday, November 17th

Language
1) Finish reading Tuck Everlasting
2) Chapter 19 to end questions (due Tuesday)

Enjoy your extended weekend!

Wednesday, November 16th

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Language
Novel study - Read Tuck Everlasting from Ch 19 to the end.  Answer questions on Google classroom (due Monday)

Math
1) Addition and Subtraction review.  Today we're reviewing adding and subtracting decimal numbers, #9-15.  We'll take the answers up tomorrow morning.
2) Unit test (Thursday)

Social Studies
Today we presented the slideshows.  Monday we'll get through the tableaus.

Tuesday, November 15th

Language
Novel study - Read Tuck Everlasting from Ch 19 to the end.  Answer questions on Google classroom (due Monday)

Math
1) Addition and Subtraction review.  Today we're reviewing adding and subtracting whole numbers, #1-8.  We'll take the answers up tomorrow.
2) Unit test (Thursday)

Social Studies
Presentations (Wed and Thurs).  If you haven't shared your slideshow with me yet, please do so asap.

Friday, November 11th

Language
1) Due to the assembly and instrumental music we didn't write our spelling test today.  We'll have to do it next week.
2) Novel study Chapter 12 to 18 questions (due Monday)

Math
1) Subtracting decimals practice (due Monday)
2) Data Management retest (Monday period 2)
3) Addition and Subtraction test (Wednesday).  Topics include...

• Using mental math to add and subtract whole numbers and decimals
• Using estimating to check answers
• Adding and subtracting whole numbers and decimals

Social Studies

1) Remember to share your slideshow with me asap.

2) We'll finish rehearsing our tableaus on Monday and, hopefully, begin to present them on Tuesday.

Have a great weekend!

Go Leafs!

Thursday, November 10th

Language
1) Novel study, Chapters 12-18 questions (due Monday)
2) Spelling, Lesson #7 (Friday)

Math
1) Adding decimals (Friday)
2) POTW (Friday)
3) Data Management retest (Monday)

Social Studies
1) Slides (due)
2) Tableaux (next Tuesday)

Wednesday, November 9th

Language
1) Novel study Chapters 12 to 18 (due Monday)
2) Spelling Lesson #7 (Friday)

Math
1) Using mental math to add and subtract decimals (hand in tomorrow morning)
2) POTW (Friday)

Social Studies
Slides (Thursday)
Tableaux (next Tuesday)

Tuesday, November 8th

Language
1) Read Tuck Everlasting Chapters 12 to 18.
2) Novel study questions Ch. 12 to 18 on Google Classroom (due Monday)
3) Spelling, Lesson #7 (test/work due Friday)

Math
1) Subtracting Whole Numbers
2) POTW
3) Addition and Subtraction quiz (tomorrow).  Topics include...

• Mental math strategies
• Estimating
• Adding and subtracting whole numbers

Social Studies

1) Slides presentation (due Thursday)

2) Tableaux presentations (due next Tuesday)

Monday, November 7th

Language
1) Spelling, Lesson #7 (test/practice work due Friday)
2) Read Tuck Everlasting, Chapters 12 to 18
3) Novel study questions on Google Classroom (due Monday)

Math
1) Adding Whole Numbers (due tomorrow).  Remember to estimate before or after you calculate to check if your answer is reasonable.
2) Problem of the Week (due Friday).  Please try this week's problem (it's in your mailbox).
3) Addition and Subtraction quiz on Wednesday. The quiz will be on:

• mental math strategies
• estimating
• adding whole numbers
• subtracting whole numbers

Social Studies

1) Try to have your group's poster completed by this Thursday.  Then we'll spend 3 classes preparing your tableaux.