Planners- Library tomorrow

Elections Questions-both sides due thurs day

Practise Stowaway- know it by Thursday

French pre-test thurs, test on Friday.

Elections MLA finder:HERE
candidates for bc election 2013  HERE
PDF of Candidates  HERE

Homework- finish onomatopoeia (word sounds) poem.

example:

Camping

Crack! Crack!

Sizzle! Sizzle!

Crunch! Crunch!

Click! Clack! Click! Clack!

Rustle! Rustle!

Chirp! Chirp!

“good-night”.

Planners- WRITING: Animal Cinquain poem

EXAMPLE: ANIMAL CINQUAIN

ANIMAL:                   AARDVARK

2 ADJECTIVES:         LONG  STRANGE

3 VERBS                    TROTTING  GOBBLING   SNIFFING

HYPERBOLE              AS SLOW AS MOLASSES

SYNONYM                EARTHPIG

LA- Hyperbole Sheet

Science- Extreme Environment Questions:

1)- I know that:_______________.

2) I would like to go ______________ because...

3) People have gone to __________ and they discovered…

4) Humans use ___________ to survive in …..

Planners- Practise Pirates song- know it by Thursday without paper
Words and Music HERE

Nonfiction Reading Questions- due tomorrow

1- Who would create the information for this book?

2 a)-How does a nonfiction text look different from fiction?

   b)How are graphic aids used? (charts, graphs, pictures…)

3) How is the vocabulary different?

Zoe and Molly online HERE- do 10 questions in secton III- full sentence answers. :
ie- 1) The conversation became strage when norulz_11 asked Molly for a picture.
 NOT  1) When he asked for a picture.
Due Friday.

We are entered in this competition, so...BRING IN BATTERIES!!!:

 

LET’S CELEBRATE EARTH DAY

Free Battery Pickup from Schools by Lafarge - Texada Quarrying

for a chance to win a FREE Pizza Party for your Class!  WOW!

 

What to do:    Classes collect batteries until FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 2013

(Earth Day is April 22^nd)

 

What next:      Winning class at each school wins a FREE Pizza Party

& helps our earth!

 

Planners-Math- page gr 5 page 230-questions 1-4/grade 6 page 240-questions 1-3 

Reports- due thurs - 90 mins of class time to finish- good copy written by hand (writing or printing)

Environments-

What is an Extreme Environment HERE

 Extreme Environment Types HERE

Earth Observatory -Mission Biomes HERE

Planners- Reports-Collect 2 more facts for each subtopic from other sources- internet, books, videos- record source for bibliography 

Practise Lines for Pirates! Play

Planners- Math-Data sheets- Time for a tour-2 worksheets- pages 30,31- all students should be bringing these home.

Reports- 3 connected sentences- use these transitional phrases to link 2 facts for each subtopic of your report:

identically

 uniquely

like

as

 too

 moreover

 as well as

 together with

 of course

 likewise

 comparatively

 correspondingly

similarly

 furthermore

 additionally

Planners- Art- Finish 2 point perspective

Bring Bikes and helmets tomorrow- we will be practising riding skills.

Planners- Reports Facts- Write or type  at least 3 facts for your  3 subtopics

Planners- bring Bikes by thursday for PE- We will be practising basic riding skills and trying out bike polo.

 

Melodicas for music.

Read Pirates Scritpt- know your part to read- not memorized (yet) 

Planners- French Cooking- arrange cooking time/get ingredients.

Read Report Information

Math- National Parks Graphing sheet- p#12 (optional)

Planners- Math Graphing WorkSheets pages 10,11

Planners- Fix up bike for next week.

Watch Video- Jules Verne on Explorations, then write in your science book:

How are the places people went in his stories Extreme Environments?

French cooking- set up time/get ingredients

Math interview- bring media / do interview.

Science- Exploring Extreme Environments:
Jules Verne:HERE