To do...April 30

1. Math - textbook p. 222 #1 a, b, d, 3, 4, 7, 10
2. Dance Projects - presented on Friday
3. Hoops for Heart $ by next Wed.
4. Science - "Planets, Asteroids, Comets..." due Friday

Persuasion Map

Persuasion Map

Art Research Project

 Learning Goal: Create a blog post about your artist and create a reproduction of one of their pieces


Success Criteria:

• who is the artist that you chose to research? 
• what type of work did they create? ( paintings, sculptures, both, etc) 
• what style of art? (abstract, realistic, etc.)
• three interesting facts about the artist
• quote from the artist OR about the artist 
• what you like or don’t like about the artist and their work (your opinion). Your opinion should be specific. 
• choose 3 pieces of art that the artist created and include them in your post

Sources:

Artist Research Websites

Art cyclopedia

Biographies of Famous Artists

Meet the Artist

Dance Rubric

To do..April 25

1. Math test - Monday (Tuesday for the basketball boys)
2. Science - Eclipses (checking on Monday)
3. Dance Project - performances next Friday

To do...April 23

1. Math textbook (from Monday): p. 425 #4; p. 424 #1 a-d; p. 418 #1-3, 5; p. 414 #1-6
2. Math test - Probability: Monday
3. Dance Presentations - next week
4. Science - write up about ECLIPSES (including diagrams)

Summary & Reflection Assessment

Choose one of the following articles and write a summary and reflection on Google Docs (remember to share with me). It is to be completed during class time.

Monopoly gets 5 new rules

or "Should Caroline be allowed to play football?" (printed version)

A good summary:  

• Your own language (no quoting or examples from text)
• Important character/people’s names
• Most Important Events/Details
• Most Important Words/Vocabulary
• Logically Organized
• You include an effective introductory and concluding sentence
• Conventions (Grammar, Spelling, Punctuation)

A good reflection:

• Shares opinion of text
• Always tries to uncover the Big Idea in a text
• Always tries to uncover the most important part of the text
• Challenge the text by asking questions
• Makes connections when talking about background knowledge
• What’s the author’s viewpoint?  Do they show a bias?

Our NHL Playoff Picks

The chances of picking both conference winners and the Stanley Cup winner is 1/128 or 0.8%. According to our two classes, we think Boston over Chicago in the finals. We will see how well we do (who picked Toronto?)

To do...April 17

1. Quotes Blogpost due Tuesday

Have a nice weekend!

Speech Selection

To do...April 15

1. ART - Mixed Media due tomorrow
2. Speech - everyone else tomorrow
3. Science - bring a flashlight if possible
4. MATH - make your playoff picks on the blog
5. Social Studies - reflection due tomorrow

Tomorrow you will have one more period to work on book trailers

To do...April 15

1. Speeches begin tomorrow
2. Science - Solar System research
3. Social Studies - reflection due Thursday
4. Gym - bring your music for dance

***Bring a flashlight for Science if you have one. Thank you.

Speech Rubric

Spelling Matters!

Lunar Eclipse

Rock, Paper, Scissors

Is there a winning strategy or is it a  fact that no matter what the strategy, each player has the same chance of winning when you play the game?

Human vs. Computer

To do...April 11

1. Math textbook - p. 411 #2, 3, 4
2. Science - research on our Solar System due Wed. April 16
3. Book Trailer - be prepared to work on it Monday and Tuesday
4. Speech - present April 16 and 17
5. ART - Mixed Media due next Thursday

To do...April 10

1. Literature Circle - due tomorrow
2. Speech - present April 16 & 17

Upcoming Due Dates

• Literature Circles - written due Friday
• Math test (fractions, percents, ratios, rates) Thursday (I'm available before school - 8 am on)
• Speeches - present April 16 and 17
• Blogpost - April 22

Dance Project

Book Trailer - Lit. Circles

Think of a book trailer as something like a movie trailer. It is a short preview designed to get people excited about your book.

Here are a couple of examples:

Amulet

Diary of a Wimpy Kid

39 Clues

Learning Goal:

•   create a book trailer to preview your book and persuade others to read it using iMovie

Success Criteria:

·                     create a storyboard plan

·                     persuasive phrases and words

·                     good images that represent the book

·                     1 - 1 1/2 minutes

·                     music fits the mood of the book

·                     use the main and most interesting parts

·                     engages the audience

To do...April 7

1. Literature Circles - final session tomorrow (hand-in written by Friday)
2. Speech - rough draft should be done; make changes from peer feedback
3. Math - make sure you're entered your data from class today

Badminton tournament will be completed on Wednesday during morning recess.

Math test (fractions, decimals, percents, ratios and rates) - Thursday

Art

Learning Goals - April 7

Our Solar System

Solar System Scope

The Solar System

NASA for Kids

QUOTES BLOGPOST

Learning Goal:

•  Create a visual representation of three quotes that are important to you

Success Criteria:

• three different quotes (should represent different ideas)
• images should support the messages of the quotes
• quotes and images are logically organized
• audience should be able to make inferences about you as a person

Due date:  Tuesday, April 22nd  

Finding Rates Activities

1. Go to the following link and find out how many words per minute you type?

http://typing-speed-test.aoeu.eu/

2. Go to the following link. Complete a test for both multiplication and addition. Record how many facts you can complete in one minute.    

       

http://www.webmathminute.com/online.asp

To do...April 3

1. Math - textbook p. 322 #1, 2, 4, 5, 8 and worksheet
2. Speech - rough copy by end of Friday
3. ART - Friday is the final class time

Living like it is 1986

We discussed this family's experiment in class today. Anyone want to give it a try?

To do...April 2

1. Math - worksheets "Estimating Percents"
2. Literature Circles - next session tomorrow
3. ART - Friday final in class period to work on project (plan accordingly)