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Friday, December 16, 2011

Friday, December 16th

Art
Worked on etching project.  Only one more class to complete the project.

French
Made a holiday card.

Science
Presented projects.  The remainder of the projects will be presented on Tuesday

IT
One more class left to finish eBook on Relationships with our Community.

Pool
Practiced buoyancy.

Math
Quiz on properties of quadrilaterals.

Language
Submit creative writing journal entries about a fictitious bullying incident on Monday.

Thursday, December 15, 2011

Thursday, Dec 15th

Science
Projects due on Friday.  Presentations on Friday and Monday.

Math
Discussed properties of a trapezoid, parallelogram, and rhombus.  Quiz on Friday.

Language
Write a journal entry about a bullying incident from the point of view of a bully, victim, or bystander.  Due Monday.

Guidance
Ms. Miller-Caise did a presentation about Self-Regulation.

Posted student marks on our bulletin board.  Marks have been listed under student id number, and indicate marks achieved to date.  There are still more evaluations before the report card.

Tomorrow is the last day for our Food Drive.

We picked names for Secret Santa.

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Wednesday, December 14th

Math
We talked about the properties of rectangles and completed a worksheet about the properties of squares.  This sheet was collected and marked.

Literacy
Finished looking at "Who Contributed" in the story "All Summer in a Day".  We talked about bullying, read a book called "Not My Fault", and watched clips from a CNN special about bullying.  We participated in a class circle and talked about why people bully, and why people get bullied.

Music
Learned semitones and tones and how to count them.

French
Did a worksheet about animals.

BRING FOOD FOR THE FOOD DRIVE.  LAST DAY IS FRIDAY !!!