31 March 2009

Tuesday

Office- Some of the the students have had trouble working on Language Arts Assignments at home because they do not have the Microsoft Office on their home computer. A simple economic solution is to use the free Open Office program. I have included a link on the right which will allow you to save the program to your computer and should work fine.

27 March 2009

Friday

Language Arts - Students have a Mystery story to complete for April 9th. Use Edmodo to edit and comment on your work.

Reminder Arrow Orders should be in Next week so maybe we can get the books before Easter.



25 March 2009

wednesday

Language Arts - students are to complete their to responses to chapters 6,7 and 8 on the Graffiti Ghoul for tomorrow. Log in to edmodo and post your reply.

Our Friends from St. Martha will join us on edmodo and we will have a chance to get to know some students form another school.

We presented our Jonas and the whale skits to the grade 5s at St. Martha's today.

Math March 25

Finish math venn diagrams.
Test on Friday

18 March 2009

Wednesday

Language arts - Well we're moving on to the next in the Marty Chan series "Mystery of the Graffiti Ghoul. Students should have the first three chapters and have responded to them on the Edmodo blog. See the link on the right.

Tomorrow is the Feast of St. Joseph so we will be at mass tomorrow AM and enjoy our Loonie Toonie lunch at noon.

Friday morning the students will be receiving a presentation on the safe use of All Terrain Vehicles from Mr. Don Peters.



09 March 2009

Monday

Language Arts - Students have completed "The Mystery of the Frozen Brains" and the film editors will be working hard this week to get the films looking the way they want. In the meantime we are going to start another novel by Marty Chan " "The Mystery of the Graffiti Ghoul.

I have set up a secure collaboration site for students to safely post their work. They can access assignments turn them in and share ideas and thoughts. Please have them show you.

The site is: http:// edmodo.com

05 March 2009

Thursday

Language Arts - Well I haven't posted here in awhile as students have been avery busy working on creating new endings for the story. Now they are experiencing first hand the challenges and joys of movie making.

Health - Our Power For Bones project is under way. Students are encouraged to go online and take the web challenges each week. Today they will be coming home with skipping ropes to help them strengthen their bones.
For next week's class on Tuesday please complete the second worksheet.

04 March 2009

Math March 4

math test on decimals

03 March 2009

math March 3

Work on REview of decimals. Test Thurs.

02 March 2009

Math March 2

Assignment on division.