Sunday, March 18, 2012

Weekly Times, March 17, 2012

Making our two-layer walls with partners - it was challenging!
Our walls.


Headlines

Units of Inquiry-
Sharing the Planet - Home Sweet Home
Tuning in- testing and discussing the effects of weather (wind and water) on our shelters
Prior knowledge - collecting vocabulary
Questions we have
Lesson with Mr. Ronen - building an insulated, two layer wall with the bricks
ICT - Google maps- looking at different houses around the world
A walk around the school to look at the materials used in the building

Language Arts
Writing - paragraph about the weekend, desert island stories
Spelling - the suffix -ful meaning "ful of"
Grammar - review of adjectives and adverbs
Reading - sort stories involving attics
adding things to our portfolios

Read aloud: "Frindle" by Andrew Clements

Maths
Assessment
Base 5 system to help better understand place value, with units, cups and stacks... only the digits 0,1,2,3,4 - games




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