Week of April 19th - 23rd

 We have been having fun learning about the fairness and equality with the principles and founding ideals of democracy. We had students engage in a Ancient Athens trial, which left many students questioning how this was the preliminary model of democracy. We have been having fabulous discussions!

In mathematics, we are coming to the end of our Order of Operations investigations and practice. We will be moving on to multiplication, division, area, perimeter and volume.

In Science, we are still exploring air and flight through Bernoulli's principle. However, later this week we will begin to explore how things fly, including birds and insects.

This last week, students explored hyperbole through a writing assignment in connection to our reading of Underground to Canada. This novel is spurring some fabulous discussions, questions, and wonderings; as well as helping use to explore inclusive language.

Here is the agenda for this coming week:

Agenda for April 19th - April 23rd

Classes will be run Monday to Thursday:

 

For Mrs. Matikainen’s Class - Meet code: chatwithmat

For Mrs. Easton’s Class - Meet code: learningwitheaston

·  8:30

If you need further support with your work, please come to drop-in:

·      Afternoon drop-in: 1:00 - 1:30 

Assignments for this week:

 

Monday:

• ELA - Underground to Canada Chapter 9 and Quiz

• ELA - Characterization Summary

• Social Studies - Fairness and Equity - Part B

• Math - Order of Operations - Simplify Exponents

• Phys.Ed/Health - Fab Fitness Variety and May the Force Reflection

Tuesday:

• Math - Order of Operations - Planning for Kahoot Tournament

• ELA - What are Human Rights? - Part J-1

• Social Studies - Fairness and Equity - Sharing - Part B

• Phys.Ed/Health  - Fab Fitness Variety

Wednesday: 

• ELA - Chapter 10 - Human Rights - Part J-2

• Math - Order of Operations - Leaf

• Social Studies - Trial of Athens Group Planning

• Phys.Ed/Health - Fab Fitness Variety

Thursday:

• ELA - Chapter 11 -  Red Light, Yellow Light

• Math - Order of Operations - Kahoot Tournament

• Social Studies - Ancient Athens Escape Room

• Phys.Ed/Health - Fab Fitness Variety

Friday:

• ELA - Reading Comprehension

• POTW - Winner

• Phys. Ed/Health - Fab Fitness Variety

As soon as you’ve completed an assignment you can submit it. Please submit all assignments by April 27th except MathBeat/YouthBeat is due on APRIL 29th. May the Force reflection is due May 19th. 

Thank you for all that you do!

Sincerely,

Mrs. Easton

Week of April 12th - 16th

Welcome back!

This last week went by incredibly fast. But it was so lovely to see students with more energy and sharing their ideas and thinking more in class. Hopefully everyone had a fabulous Spring Break!

Here is our agenda for the coming week. 

Agenda for April 12th - April 16th

Classes will be run Monday to Thursday:

 

For Mrs. Matikainen’s Class - Meet code: chatwithmat

For Mrs. Easton’s Class - Meet code: learningwitheaston

·  8:30

If you need further support with your work, please come to drop-in:

·      Afternoon drop-in: 1:00 - 1:30 

Assignments for this week:

Monday:

• ELA - Underground to Canada Chapter 6 and Quiz

• Science - Bernoulli’s Principle

• Social Studies - Present our ideas about democracy and the trial of Athens

• Math - What is the difference between an expression and an equation?

• Phys.Ed/Health - May the Force Fitness

Tuesday:

• Science - Bernoulli’s Principle Quiz

• Math - Intro to Order of Operations - Part 2A and 2B

• ELA - Chapter 7 and visualization - Using figurative language to capture a scene/setting

• Social Studies - Fairness and Equity - Part A

• Phys.Ed/Health  - May the Force Fitness

Wednesday: 

• ELA - Chapter 8

• Math - Multiplying and Divide BEFORE - Part 3

• Social Studies - Fairness and Equity - Part B

• Health - Qualities/Virtues

• Phys.Ed/Health - May the Force Fitness

Thursday:

• ELA - Chapter 9 

• Math - Order of Operations: From LEFT to RIGHT (Part 4)

• Music - YouthBeat/MathBeat - Create your own song!

• Social Studies - Create your own studying guide - partners

• Phys.Ed/Health - May the Force Fitness

Friday:

• Math - Order of Operations: (...) FIRST! (Part 5)

• ELA - Underground to Canada - Comprehension Quiz

• ELA - S.T.E.A.L.

• May the Force Fitness

As soon as you’ve completed an assignment you can submit it. Please submit all assignments by April 19th except MathBeat/YouthBeat is due on APRIL 29th. 

This past week, we completed our work with multiplying and dividing decimals in math. We continue to read Underground to Canada, discussing the social justice issues and how our society changes over time. We are still exploring cultural understandings and how democracy works as we explore the events and time of Underground to Canada. In science, we are finalizing our understanding of the properties of air, by exploring air compression. To help students continue to understand the abstract principles of air pressure, please help them discover how many wonderful everyday technological advances work in our everyday lives (taps, water pressure, washing machines, driers, tire pumps, gas pumps, and so forth). This coming week we are moving on to learn about Bernoulli's principle of aerodynamics.

Thank you for all that you do! You are sincerely appreciated!

Sincerely,

Mrs. Easton

Before Spring Break

My time is going so fast! It is so hard to believe that at the end of this week, Spring Break is here! Everyone is need of a break, rest, and time away from daily class routine and learning activities. Spring Break begins at 12:00 noon on Friday, March 26th. Classes will resume on Tuesday, April 6th, at 8:30 am.

Over the last two weeks, we have been building up our conceptual understanding of multiplication, decimals, and multiplication of decimals. We have also continued with our investigation into the properties of air and how air moves, with a few experiments. This coming week, we will be conducting three more experiments to help us make inferences about air. Students will need a straw, two empty pop cans, paper, a ruler, tub of water, an index card (or sturdy paper), and a glass.

We have also been working through our understanding of Ancient Athens government forms and how elements of democracy are rooted within our own governance models. We are continuing to work towards our study into the Iroquois Confederacy. 

Over the last few weeks, we have also been working on deepening our understanding of how to craft interesting beginnings, suspenseful middles, and extended meaningful endings. Several students are still completing their narratives, and are encouraged to complete these before Spring Break. 

Here is the agenda for this coming week:

Agenda for March 22nd - March 26th

Classes will be run Monday to Thursday:

 

For Mrs. Matikainen’s Class - Meet code: chatwithmat

For Mrs. Easton’s Class - Meet code: learningwitheaston

·  8:30 am

If you need further support with your work, please come to drop-in:

·      Afternoon drop-in: 1:00 - 1:30 

Assignments for this week:

 

Monday:

• Mathbeat visit with Robey

• Math -  Multiplying Decimals - Part 15

• ELA - Chapter 1

• Science - Air Test - Part 1

• Phys.Ed/Health - Duking it out with DC

Tuesday:

• Science - Air Pressure 5B

• Math - Multiplying Decimals  - Part 16

• Social Studies - Citizenship & Social Status - Presenting Part B

• ELA - Chapter 2

• Phys.Ed/Health  - Duking it out with DC 

Wednesday: 

• ELA - Chapter 3 and Quiz

• Math - Math Talk

• Science - Air Pressure (Part 5 C)

• Phys.Ed/Health - Duking it out with DC

Thursday/Friday:  (ALL ASSIGNMENTS WILL BE RELEASED THURSDAY)

• Art - Intro to Colour Theory

• Science/Math/Social - Einstein

• Music - YouthBeat/MathBeat - Week 6  and Flipgrid Reflection

• Phys.Ed/Health - Duking it out with DC and Reflection

• Science Quiz - Air Part 2

• Reading Comprehension

As soon as you’ve completed an assignment you can submit it. Please submit all assignments by March 26th except MathBeat/YouthBeat is due on APRIL 8th. 

Thank you for all that you are doing! Your support, encouragement and efforts in helping your child with their learning, is sincerely and deeply appreciative.

Warmest regards,

Mrs. Easton

Week 24

 This past week, we had fun learning more about air movement and finding evidence of air in the world around us. As we continued in our learning, we learned about oxidation, combustion, convection currents, and three sources of heat transfer (Conduction, convection and radiation). We also worked on adding and subtracting decimals to the thousandths place value. In our literacy investigations, we worked on finding themes using S.L.I.M.E. Our continuation in our investigation of democracy, we explored the Athenian government structure.

Thank you for attending our class's Student Conferences, it was a pleasure to meet with you all again. Thank you for your time, and all that you are doing within your role of Leaning Coach. Thank you for all that you do!

Here is next weeks schedule:

Agenda for March 15th - 19th

Classes will be run Monday to Thursday:

 

For Mrs. Matikainen’s Class - Meet code: chatwithmat

For Mrs. Easton’s Class - Meet code: learningwitheaston

·  8:30

If you need further support with your work, please come to drop-in:

·      Afternoon drop-in: 1:00 - 1:30 

Assignments for this week:

 

Monday:

• Social Studies -  Citizenship & Social Status - Part A

• Math -  Multiplying Decimals Intro - Part 12

• ELA - Building our background knowledge - Part B  and Vocabulary - Part C

• Phys.Ed/Health - Duking it out with DC

Tuesday:

• Health - What Qualities and Values can you Spot?  - Part 2

• Math - Multiplying by Tenths - Part 13

• Social Studies - Citizenship & Social Status - Part B

• ELA - Chapter 1 and Map

• Phys.Ed/Health  - Duking it out with DC 

Wednesday: 

• ELA - Chapter 2

• Math - Math Talk

• Social -  Citizenship & Social Status Presentation

• Science - Air Pressure (Part A5)

• Phys.Ed/Health - Duking it out with DC

Thursday:

• ELA - Chapter 3

• Art - Intro to Colour Theory

• Math -  Multiplying Decimals by Hundredths

• Music - YouthBeat/MathBeat - Week 5 and Reflection

• Phys.Ed/Health - Duking it out with DC

Friday:

• ELA - Chapter 1-3 Quiz

• Phys.Ed/Health - Duking it out with DC

• Math - POTW

As soon as you’ve completed an assignment you can submit it. Please submit all assignments by March 22nd except MathBeat/YouthBeat is due on March 18th. Vocabulary is due on March 16th and Citizenship and Social Status Presentation is due on March 17th.

Please do not hesitate to connect with me, should you have any questions or concerns.

Thank you!

Mrs. Easton