Math
We have completed our unit on Transformations and Coordinates. Students did an excellent job navigating plotting coordinates on a graph and manipulating images using reflection, translation and rotation to specific criteria.
Now we have started our geometry unit! We have already mastered using the protractor to create and measure angles. Now we are looking at angles within shapes and problem-solving using angles.
We will be starting a math/art project where students recreate an image using only lines - in the style of picasso's cubism. They will then look at geometric shapes in their art as well as acute and obtuse angles.
Science
We are now on the Flight unit. Students have discovered the history of flight, the properties of fluids, the forces of flight and Bernoulli's principle. Yesterday, we did an experiment testing Bernoulli's principle using two straws and a cup of water. Ask your son or daughter to show you how Bernoulli explains the dynamics of a squirt bottle and beyond.
Next, students will explore their understanding of flight as they create their own experiment using controlled variables.
Social Studies
It is once again election time. As we get ready to go to the polls for the provincial election, students are tasked with taking on the role of a news reporter, finding the scoop on voters' values. Students were tasked with talking to at least three different people to discover what it might be like in the mind of a voter. Feel free to only answer the questions with which you are comfortable. The intent of the project is for students to start to think like a voter might.
French
We are close to completing our french Book Club. Only four more sessions to go. Students are now deep into their novels and excited to see how they end.
We are now looking at verbs in the past tense: "le passé composé". Afterwhich, students should be able to conjugate verbs in the present, past and future.
ELA
We have completed the Red Wolf novel. Students have one final written response to demonstrate their reflections of the novel. It has been a meaningful journey together. I'm excited to see what they have to say about the novel as a whole.
Our poetry unit is almost complete as well. Student have this week and next to ensure their poems have meaning, juicy vocabulary and imagery and then to polish their poems in a final publishable copy.
