Week 11

Hello!

A short one this week, with Thursday dedicated to Parent Teacher interviews, and Friday being a Pro-D.

In math we continued working with multiplying numbers, and breaking larger numbers up, making the numbers more managable to multiply.

In language arts we focused on our writing process and paragraph format by editting, revising, and publishing good copies of three of our past writing projects.

We continued looking at facts and opinions this week in social studies, how to distinguish between them, and how to give examples on both.

In science we looked at the lever and fulcrum as a simple machine. We investigated how the placement of the fulcrum impacts the force needed to lift an object.

We started with placing the fulcrum in the middle of our lever, and recorded our observations on the effort needed to lift the object. It took about 4 fingers to lift the object.

We then placed the fulcrum closer to the weight, and found how light and easy it was to lift our object. It took 1 finger to lift the object.

Finally we moved the fulcrum furthest away from the load, and recorded our results. Most students were not able to lift the object.

It ended up being a fantastic experiment looking at how the placement of a fulcrum affects the force required to lift or move an object.

And finally in French we have almost finished our “All about me” preference posters. They are looking fantastic, and will be on our wonderwall next week.

It was great seeing and meeting many parents and guardians Thursday night at parent teacher interviews. I hope those who attended have a better picture of our classroom, my teaching practice, the student’s school behaviour, and goals we are working on and will continue in the future.

It was also a great opportunity to check out our Picasso Guess Who display in the hall.

If you haven’t yet, come by and try your luck guessing who is who.

Next week we will finish our scripts for our friendship stories in language arts. Continue multiplication in math, looking at double digits. Look into mixing facts and opinions in social studies, how propaganda works, and the negative impacts it can have. Investigate how a pulley can help lift objects, and make our own pulleys in science. And start looking into numbers in French. Should be a good week.