Wednesday's What's What

Wow! We had all 24 of my students participate in Kilometre Club today, and even I ran 5 km myself! Ms. Schwartz's class doesn't stand a chance against us if we keep up this pace!

Students took turns reading parts of Chapter 2 of Tuck Everlasting, and we had a class discussion about the positive and negative aspects of having eternal life - like the family in this novel received after they drank water from the magical spring in the forest. Some of the family members view this power as a blessing while the others regard it as a curse.

We also took some time to proof read each others' Reading Response Journal entries - the good copies of which are due tomorrow.

Math consisted of new lessons for both the Grade 5 and 6 students, after which, they worked on textbook problems in class. Whatever questions were not completed in class, are to be finished for homework. The Grade 5 students were also assigned some extra practice questions in their Math Workbook.

In Science, the Grade 5 students performed an experiment to determine which type of glue was the best at sticking popsicle sticks together, while the Grade 6 students experimented with how two objects of similar size and different weight moved through the air as they were dropped from the same height. Both experiments involved the scientific process:
Purpose
Hypothesis
Materials
Method
Diagram (Grade 6)
Results
Conclusion
Application
Science Vocabulary Terms (Grade 6)
These steps above will be followed in all of our experimentations throughout the year.

Homework Assigned Wednesday September 12, 2007:
Grade 5
-Read 20 minutes, update reading log
-Reading Response Journal entry due tomorrow (5 paragraphs answering 3 questions)
-Spelling Unit 1 due Friday, Spelling Test Friday morning
-Math Workbook page 3, # 1-3
-Science experiment (Glue) due next Tuesday
-Arrow Book Order due tomorrow

Grade 6
-Read 20 minutes, update reading log
-Reading Response Journal entry due tomorrow (5 paragraphs answering 3 questions)
-Spelling Unit 1 due Friday, Spelling Test Friday morning
-Math Textbook pg. 10 # 4, 5, 7, 8
-Science experiment (Aerodynamics) due next Tuesday
-Arrow Book Order due tomorrow