Happy Monday Jan 14!
Reminders:
Please return RC envelopes asap
Please sign and return hangar flight museum field trip form
Election Campaign Posters due Wed Jan 16
Hangar flight museum field trip Jan 23
Spelling Sentences due Friday
Spelling Test Friday
Basic Facts Quiz Thursday

This week is a very busy week with projects and stories being completed at the same time.
Be on top of your work and push yourself to complete tasks on time:)

This week in Room 14

Math: Finishing Ratios, Quiz, Starting Patterns!
Social: Working on campaign posters and doing presentations.
Science: Testing different flight principles through experiments.
LA: Editing, revising and finishing narrative stories.
Phys Ed.: Gymnastics

Today students began their by working on some basic facts problems to prep for our basic facts quiz on Thursday. Next students were given time on computers to work through some mathletics assignments around Ratios. The trick to ratios is knowing your fact families for multiplication and division. For example: 20:25 can be simplified to 4:5. We know this because both 20 and 25 are divisible by 5!

After math students printed the first draft of their stories and began to peer edit using a peer editing checklist. The detailed checklist below helps students and peers to improve their stories for the next draft.



After LA Students were given one full hour to work on their Social Campaign posters:

Students must show the party leader, party name, slogan, and think about what their party is going to do for Alberta (Policies).

After lunch, Students were given time for their new spelling words.
See below:
Aerodynamics Spelling Words

1. airplane
2. flight
3. gravity
4. drag
5. lift
6. thrust
7. air pressure
8. engine
9. airfoil
10. feathers
11. adaptations *
12. air resistance*
13. aerodynamics*
14. streamlining*
15. atmosphere*

1) Copy the list down
2) Write 1 sentence about each word describing its meaning or using it in the correct context.

Example:

Adaptation:
Def: An adaptation is a change that benefits an animal or object to adapt to its environment.

Birds have wings instead of arms as an adaptation for flight.

The last chunk of the day was spent with Mr Mueller in Science. Students were testing bottle rockets and principle of thrust!



Have a wonderful evening!
Mr Lancee