Week Six

Hello!

We started off this week with a little bit of French. So far we have covered basic conversation and masculine/feminine concepts. We have started looking at stating preferences using words such as ‘aimer’ (to like) , ‘adorer’ (to love), and ‘deteste’ (to hate).

In Language Arts, we prepared for our grammar test by making silly sentences about animals using verbs, adjectives, and adverbs. Our test on Thursday went well, gave me a good look at which area some students need to review.

Math took a little longer this week to understand. We looked at place value by exploring standard form, expanded form, and written form. At first, there were too many numbers to pay attention to, but one we were able to organise and put each digit into their place value, the students were able to grasp the concept.

During science, we challenged each other to a solutions separation, where each group would make a solution mixutre, and another groups would have to try and separate the ingredients.

Eventually groups figured out faster methods to separating their solution, filtering it as much as possible before trying to evaporate.

Hopefully next week we will see some evaporated crystals.

In social studies this week, we looked at the forestry industry of BC, primarily focusing on clear cutting, discussing the pros and cons. So far out resource booklets are coming together nicely.

And finally in art, we are also finished our Picasso self portraits. About 8 of them are up, I will post a picture when more are completed.

Next week, we will be looking at rounding and estimating on math, scary story writing in language arts, the fishing industry and aqua farming of BC in Social studies, and finishing our solutions unit in science, with a Jepordy Game to review for our test on Thursday.