I trust that everyone had a fun-filled March Break! It’s been great to hear lots of stories of all the adventures that took place last week.We are back, recharged, and excited to get back into the swing of things in Grade 5 Immersion 🙂
Here’s what’s happening inside our classroom this week:
Grade 5
French- For our dictée this week, we will continue on with le passé composé. This is a very important, yet often confusing verb tense, and thus, we will be spending a great deal of time reviewing this concept before moving on to our quiz. As always, I’d ask that students practice a small section of their worksheet at home each evening.
We are well into our book club activity and I am pleased with the students’ interest and participation thus far. Not only does this activity help to improve our reading and our thoughts about what we’ve read, but it is a great opportunity to practice our oral communication skills as well as we discuss what we’ve read with our peers 🙂
As we further develop our understanding of the past tense, students have started a creative piece of writing of their choice that is set in the past. Following through the writing process will allow students to work on their individual writing goals and share their thoughts and ideas on paper.
In math, we have finished up our study of perimeter and area and will now move onto volume and capacity. Additionally, we will work together and in small groups on our flashback concepts in preparation for our next flashback quiz, which will take place late this week or early next. I would encourage each student to keep working on those problems that may be causing them some trouble at home each night.
Grade 7 and 8 Science
We continue to work through our unit on Heat. This week we will be examining heat’s impact on states of matter and how substances can move through the states of matter (solid, liquid, gas) with changes in temperature. We will also begin preparing for our first quiz on these concepts.
Have a fabulous week!
Madame April Walker