Riddle of the week: What has a head and a tail but no body?
Reminders
Report Cards: Report cards will be going home on Wednesday January 31st.
Skating: Our next skating day Friday February 8th.
Pro-D day: Monday January 29th is a professional development day, no school for students.
Field trip to the Beaty Biodiversity Museum: Friday February 2nd. Thank you parent volunteers for offering your time to shuttle Division 3 to UBC 🙂
WEEKLY WORK
Math
Math Notebooks will be due for all three grades on Friday this week.
4s: Problem Solving – Fraction work due on Friday
5s: Problem Solving – Fraction and decimal work due on Friday
6s: Problem Solving – Fraction and decimal work due on Friday
Language
Etymology work will be due on Friday. All three grade groups will be having a test this Friday.
Students will continue their novel study project this week with a novel of their choice. The written portion of this project will focus on the writing traits we have learned so far in our Writer’s Workshop. This project will be due and presentations will start February 13th.
We will continue to listen to the CBC podcast “The World this Hour” (4 minutes) to learn how to pull important information out of a news broadcast. This skill requires time and we will be spending a couple afternoons learning how to take notes and listen for important stories.
Culture
Our first test on the skeletal and muscular system will be this Tuesday, January 30th at 2:00pm. The test will be written and will only focus on the main functions and details covered in class. Students are expected to study the notes they have taken. Students should use their time in class and at home to study.
French
We will continue reading The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. We will read chapters 10-12 in English and study some of the more famous quotations from those chapters in French. Through this study, students will be learning common, high-frequency vocabulary and sentence structures.
Classroom Community
All year students have been working on having a growth mindset. This month, we have put our growth mindsets to the test by learning about setting goals. This week we will be learning how to set achievable goals by using our dreams as a compass and we will write short-term goals that are designed to bring us closer to our dreams.