Language Arts

We have had a wonderful time reading and writing the past month. Students have been working on word study and Reader’s Workshop.  Students are involved in mini lessons, response writing, and independent reading during this time.  We have also been focusing on the writing process, through the use of our Writer’s Notebooks and have been doing activities that relate to other subject areas. Students have also been involved in a read aloud entitled The 39 Clues by Rick Riordan.

Some of the Nova Scotia curriculum outcomes covered are:

1.  Select, independently, texts appropriate to their interests and learning needs

2.  Describe feelings, reactions, values, and attitudes in their writing 

3.  Describe and discuss their own process and strategies in reading and viewing

Science

Science               

We began the year off with a look at Properties and Changes in Matter. This will continue into October.  Students are expected to know how to classify solids, liquids, and gases and explain the characteristics of each.  The students will be participating in an experiment called Ooblik in which they examine these properties.  We will also be looking at the properties that distinguish different solids and liquids from one another.

Some of the Nova Scotia curriculum outcomes we will cover are:

1. Describe situations demonstrating that air takes up space, has mass, and expands when heated.

2. Classify materials as solids, liquids, or gases, and illustrate this classification in a chart that shows their properties.

3.  Work with team members to develop and carry out a plan to systematically distinguish a material based on its chemical properties and display the results of the data.

Health

Health

Students have been studying respect. Respect for selves, others, environment and learning.

Some of the Nova Scotia curriculum

outcomes covered are:

1. Demonstrate respect and caring when relating with classmates.

Social Studies

 

In social studies we have looked at the job of archaeologists and historians in piecing our past together. We will be looking at artifacts from the museum. Students will be asked to bring in an “artifact” of their own in order to spur a writing activity. (An artifact is anything used by someone, so what students bring in will vary).

 

 

Some of the Nova Scotia curriculum outcomes covered are:

1. Demonstrate an understanding how historical investigations provide insights into our past.

 

Math

Students should be reviewing their multiplication tables nightly in order to master this area and other areas of the math curriculum.

The students have been working their way through a Place Value unit on whole numbers.  We will begin working on understanding the decimal place value system.  Students are learning how to compare, order, and read numbers up to the thousandths place. 

Some of the Nova Scotia curriculum outcomes covered are:

1. Represent whole numbers to the millions

2.  Compare and order large numbers

3. Read and represent numbers to millions