Tuesday's Gone

Chair Aerobics started our day with some Daily Physical Activity (DPA), as we worked out to some music by K-OS (from Toronto) and the Bloc Party (from the United Kingdom). Let's all be sure to do our best to come out for Kilometre Club each morning at 8:20am, and lunchtime at 12:15pm, to run as many laps and get as manny popsicle sticks as we can each day. WE NEED TO WIN OUR BET WITH MS. SCHWARTZ'S CLASS, so that they will have to come sing us a song. Every popsicle stick counts toward half a kilometre, and EVERY KILOMETRE COUNTS! I will be lacing-up my runners to join you tomorrow!

We began reading Tuck Everlasting in class for our novel study. Today I read the Prologue and Chapter One aloud to the class, explaining some of the author's descriptive imagery with drawings on the chalkboard. The Prologue hinted to us that 3 events will take place which seem unconnected at first, but these things will come together in the end. Tomorrow, we will do some shared reading of Chapter Two and Three, where the students can take turns reading parts, followed by a classroom discussion. The students and I went over expectations for Reading Response Journal entries, and how to fill out their Reading Log sheets in order to keep them updated. I have pushed this week's Reading Response Journal entry due date back to Thursday, so students will have a chance to peer-edit each other's work, and I will also do some editing with them.

In Math, the Grade 5 students took up their homework, and went over the problems in detail with me. The Grade 6 students worked in pairs, extending a pattern t-chart from design #1 up to design #20 of a pattern, in order to determine perimter of the 20th design. Homework was assigned (see bottom of this blog entry).

Science class had the Grade 5 students were introduced to their unit, Properties of and Changes in Matter, by examing three different types of glue (white glue, glue sticks, and clear glue) to compare their characteristics and determine their states of matter (solid, liquid or gas). Tomorrow, they will experiment with these glues to determine which types work the best. Grade 6 students began their unit, Properties of Air and Characteristics of Flight, with a review of the new Science Vocabulary that they will encounter. Grade 6 students must keep an updated list of Science Vocabulary terms, definitions and diagrams in their duotangs, as we come across them. This vocabulary page needs to be complete prior to the unit test, as it will help students when they study. The Grade 6 students then began working on listing characteristics of plant and animals that move through fluids (air and water/liquids) in a chart.

Our class ends the day each Tuesday with Music in Ms. Lee's room.

Homework Assigned Tuesday September 11, 2007:
Grade 5
-Read 20 minutes and fill-out Reading Log
-Finish Rough Copy of Reading Response Journal Entry for editing in class tomorrow (Good Copy is now due Thursday)
-Spelling Unit 1 is due Friday (do one section per night)
-Science: Finish Chart - Examining Glue

Grade 6
-Read 20 minutes and fill-out Reading Log
-Finish Rough Copy of Reading Response Journal Entry for editing in class tomorrow (Good Copy is now due Thursday)
-Spelling Unit 1 is due Friday (do one section per night)
-Math: Workbook page 2
-Science: Finish Chart - Moving Through Air & Water