April 14, 2011
FRCH - Reading every night for 30 minutes. We will be evaluating reading again at the end of this month. All students should be at level 22, if not at level 24!
Next month - texts, grammar and journal writing will be reviewed in a more traditional way. From here until the end of the year, we will be working on improving writing.
MAT - All our students know their multiplication tables but now we need to focus on speed and accuracy.
We are currently finalizing Chapter 2 which we should finish tomorrow. Tonight, students must complete their revision of Chapter 2. All lessons in that chapter are completed! Tomorrow we do the test!
We have already started a review of lessons 1,2,3 of Chapter 3. Please check the Agenda for more information! Students will need to complete Chapter 3 this weekend.
Students need to be familiar with vocab and concepts as next week we will be reviewing problem solving for those first three chapters. Then, we will start on Chapters 4, 5 and 6 which we should complete by the end of the month. Next month, hopefully we can cover the remaining six chapters. In June, we will do a complete review of the year and help those who are still having difficulty...
The clicker is here and we have begun using it to review EQAO questions and problems and assess level of competence in Math. No more tutoring after school for reading! Starting next week, tutoring will be strictly for the review of Mathematics! Please sign up if you need the help! It is free!
SOC - Students were asked to complete the quiz for Chapter 4 and 5 of "Communaute Urbaine et Rurale" as it will be checked tomorrow morning.
Next week, we will read through those five chapters, review and test. Students will also finish the work exercises for those five chapters. In the next few weeks, we should complete the last remaining five chapters of this book!
During the month of May, the grades 4 will work individually on "Medieval Times" and then, in June, they will complete the last strand, namely "Le Canada".
SCI - We are still waiting for the confirmation of our last grade 4 scientist-in-the-school to cover the last curriculum expectation - "Pulleys and Gears".
With regards to our Grades 3... On Monday, we will return to "Soil and Plants". We will have two more strands to cover once this is completed and then we are done!
On the 27th of April, we are going to the Ontario Science Centre. Since there has been a modification in price, we will need to re-submit the forms for this event. The cost is now $15.00 per student + return TTC bus fare rather than the original $20.00. We should have forms and money returned by no later than Friday, April 22, 2011. This activity has been planned specifically for all the French Immersion students at the junior levels at Clairlea. it is a first!
HLTH - We have completed all the expectations of the curriculum! Our student nurse has left as she has completed her work term.
Roots of Empathy - Next week is the last time the students will see "Baby Madeleine". There may be one or two more classes and then we are done! It is purely academic from here on...
Mr. Landry
