Artist in the School

We have an Artist in the School coming the last week in April!  She is going to try and incorporate  environmental sustainability and responsibility, as well as social justice into her activities with the kids and is asking that everyone collect plastic bottles (dish soap, pop, windex etc., milk containers,sour cream and yogurt containers..) to bring to use.

Thanks!

4/5 Science Body Systems

Here is a link to a body systems activity - Build Arnold's body back together, one system at a time, by placing the correct organs onto his body outline.
http://sciencenetlinks.com/interactives/systems.html

 

Homemade Ice-Cream!

As promised, I will post the recipe for homemade ice-cream that 4/5 Science and 7/8 ELA made today:

In a small Ziploc bag, combine 1 cup milk, 2 tablespoons sugar and 1 teaspoon of vanilla. Squeeze out the air when you close it and put this bag into another small Ziploc bag and seal it.  (Just in case the first bag tears or opens).

Fill a large Ziploc bag with snow (or ice) and add 6 tablespoons of salt to it. Put the small bag into the large bag with snow and seal the large bag. Now....SHAKE SHAKE SHAKE for 15 minutes!
Voila! Soft serve, homemade, better than store-bought ice-cream!

Thanks for a super fun day!

Upcoming Week

This week should be a busy one!

• On Monday, the grade 7/8s are going to MES at 9:15 to attend a presentation called Dying to be Thin, dealing with adolescent eating disorders.
• Safety Services Manitoba will be doing an ATV & Snowmobile Presentation  for Grades 4-8 from 11:15-12:55 on Tuesday.
• Tuesday is also Subway lunch!
• Dress pretty on Thursday, because the entire school will be treated to a Christmas Lunch!

4/5/ Science - Need Pop Bottles

The grade 4/5 class has started their unit on Maintaining A Healthy Body. We have already studied the digestive system, creating a scale model of it to find out just how long our "small intestines" really are and today we will be doing activities to see the job each organ performs.

On Tuesday, we are going to start learning about the respiratory system. In order to build a model of our lungs and show how our diaphragm works, I'm asking students to each bring in a small plastic pop bottle. Thanks!

Report Cards

Quick reminder to parents that report cards are coming home tonight!

4/5 Quizzes

Don't forget to sign & return the grade 4/5 class weather quizzes! Thanks so much!
(Love seeing the encouraging and happy comments from parents to students on them!)

4/5 Science Quizzes

The grade 4/5 class will be getting back their science quizzes from our weather unit. I was really impressed with their marks, some students studied really hard and should be super proud of themselves! The quizzes need to be signed and returned to school as soon as possible!
Thanks!

Remembrance Day Poster Contest Permission Form

Good morning!
All students in grades 4/5, 6/7 and 7/8 will be bringing home permission forms to enter the Legion Remembrance Day poster contest. Parental permission with a signature on the form is required for us to enter each poster. Please sign and return the form by tomorrow (Thursday, Nov.14th) so we can get these sent away!
The posters are absolutely amazing! We cannot get over how good the kids did on them and we think we definitely have some winners!
Thanks!

4/5 Science Weather Instruments

On Monday, the grade 4/5 class made weather instruments. It was lots of fun and they did a fantastic job! The thermometers worked a little too good and overflowed a bit when they went from really cold to really warm!

Today we will be reviewing for our science quiz on Friday. A study guide is coming home, along with their science duotangs. Please help your child study for the quiz!

4/5 Science Next Week

Thought I would give you a look at the plan for science next week, as we are coming to the end of our unit. On Monday, we will be building our weather instruments! Please make sure that the supplies needed are sent to school, along with the direction sheet they brought home. On Wednesday, we are going to review the important concepts and vocabulary with a Jeopardy game and they will hopefully have some time to study after. I will give them a review sheet that tells exactly what they need to know for their quiz, which will then be on Friday. The quiz will not have any surprises and if they missed something, the review sheet will have it on there.

4/5 Science Weather Instruments

The grade 4/5s should be bringing home a note today, along with a booklet of various weather instruments. They have each chosen one instrument to make at school (on November 4th), but need help getting a few supplies from home. Please help your child find the supplies they need to bring (they are starred (*)on the booklet) and send the direction booklet back to school with the supplies. If you wish to send more of the other supplies that are not starred, please do so, however, it is not required as I will gather those for them as well.
Thank-you!

4/5 Science

The Grade 4/5 class has been busily learning about weather in science. They have all been working on a project on some type of severe weather and began creating powerpoints out of all their information. They are powerpoint experts and found some really interesting information! Like did you know that there is a hurricane on Jupiter that has been going for more than 400 years!?