This WEEK - April 4th - 8th

This week we are working on:
1.  LITERACY - completing our connections to the children's story we will be reading (orally) to another primary class on Friday.  The Text to world, media, self, or another text bigger assignment should be completed this week and handed in on Friday.  This might involve making a movie, slide show, plasticine scene, etc.  Some of this work should be done at home this week.
2.  MATH - we are working on area of triangles and trapezoids this week.  Check out these videos to help with any homework.  Test next WEEK on APRIL 14th!  The test will cover AREA of triangles, rectangles, parallelograms, trapezoids and composite (irregular) figures.
HOMEWORK this week includes page 21, 22, 37 and 38 (area of Triangles and Parallelograms) and 34 (Area of Trapezoids) and page 141.
We will have Friday and Monday as in class study sessions and practice.
Area of Triangles
Area of a Trapezoid
3. ROTARY - We have moved on to Ms. Woodley's classroom for geography for the next few weeks.
4.  ART - some students still need to complete their Dream Sequence with Chagall and Koru Spirals.
5.  PHED - We are working on volleyball skills and game play.  I am assessing the student's ability to use the skills taught (volley, bump and underhand serve) to play a recreational level game of volleyball.

As always students should be reading nightly for a minimum of 20 minutes.