Hope you had an eggcellent weekend. Caught on camera - Easter eggs in East York (left) and Canada Goose eggs (below) discovered at Bluffer's Park. It's a wonderful life.Language - Media Literacy/Reading: We will be comparing the traditional version of Little Red Riding Hood, with an animated retelling. Students will begin planning his or her own modernization of a fairy tale or folk tale. We will also be learning about camera angles.
Writing: Writer's Workshop (horror narratives). Students will meet with me to discuss progress of story.
Math: Not every student finished the math test last Thursday and some students had difficulty answering questions about 3-D solids. We will review terminology and students will be given a short, hands-on homework assignment to help better understand prisms and pyramids. Marked tests will go home next Monday. We will also review capacity (water displacement and volume), and mass. There will be another test next week and then we will be moving on to fractions!
Science: We will begin recording soundscapes on Friday. Musical instrument planning sheets will go home and students will have until Friday April 24th to construct them at home. If we have time, we will begin our unit on Light.
Social Studies: Grade 4: timeline of Medieval Europe and village life cont. Grade 5s social class structure in ancient Egypt.
Art: Painting hieroglyphs on papyrus and completion of our bas reliefs. What a relief!
Homework: Literature Circles Breadwinner chapters 7-9, Math: creating 3-D prisms and pyramids with toothpicks, Reading/Media Literacy: modernizing a fairy tale planning sheet.
* Lit circles must be ready for Thursday morning. All other homework due Friday.
