Au revoir, le mois de mai!

Our last morning of May was a busy one!
In Math, we worked in groups at the white board to review for our upcoming assessment on percents and fractions. Mme Careen created 13 questions strongly inspired by the assessment itself for us to work on. By collaborating with our classmates, we all had a chance to ask questions further solidify our understanding of mixed numbers, improper fractions, reducing fractions, percents, decimal numbers, etc. We finished the period feeling much more confident for Monday's assessment.

In Français, we continued our word work with our Reader's Theatre scripts. We will finish our mini "word walls" and continue practicing our texts in class next week. We will also take time to write summaries of our stories and answer a set of comprehension questions to demonstrate our understanding of the story. Things are coming along!

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Agenda Items:

1. Math assessment - percents and fractions - Monday
2. CFOO # 11 - Créativité - Monday

Reader's Theatre!

Today in Français, we continued working on our Reader's Theatre scripts. Today's goal was to create a glossary of words that we will teach to the rest of our classmates before presenting our plays. Working together to read through our entire script, we identified words that we (and likely our peers) would be unfamiliar with. From there, we grouped the words into categories (feminine and masculine nouns, verbs, adjectives, and expressions) and collaborated to write a short, clear definition and/or draw a picture to describe each word.

Our next step is to re-write our glossary on chart paper using our colour-coded system.
This word work will help us better understand the structure and grammar of our texts and will help our classmates expand their French vocabulary and better understand our
Reader's Theatre presentations, too!

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Agenda Items:
1. "Grand Image" for the 5 properties of fluids - OVERDUE

2. Math assessment - percents and fractions - Friday moved to Monday
3. CFOO # 11 - Créativité - Monday, June 3

Does air have a mass?

Happy Wednesday, learning friends!

After starting our day outside for our annual spring community clean-up, we got straight to work being super-scientists! Our goal today: to prove that air has a mass!

Working in teams of three, and using a 2L plastic bottle and a pressure pump, we pushed air into our bottles (in increments of 25 pumps) and then weighed our bottle using an electronic scale.

Slowly but surely, we saw the mass of the bottle increase! Wow!

After we completed the experiment, we worked in our groups to discuss and answer 4 observation questions to help solidify our understanding of the experiment's purpose.

Great experimenting this morning, team! :)

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Agenda Items:
*Pizza lunch tomorrow. Casse-croûte will be closed.*
1. "Grand Image" for the 5 properties of fluids - OVERDUE

2. Science assessment "Les fluides" - tomorrow (Thursday)
3. Math assessment - percents and fractions - Friday
4. CFOO # 11 - Créativité - Monday, June 3

Tuesday Agenda Items

We are on the hunt for 2L plastic pop bottles!
If you have any at home, please consider sending them to the school by tomorrow (Wednesday)
Thanks!

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Agenda Items:
1. Community Clean Up - tomorrow (Wednesday) morning

2. "Grand Image" for the 5 properties of fluids - OVERDUE
3. Science assessment "Les fluides" - Thursday
4. Math assessment - percents and fractions - Friday
5. CFOO # 11 - Créativité - Monday, June 3

Monday Agenda Items

We are on the hunt for 2L plastic pop bottles!
If you have any at home, please consider sending them to the school by Wednesday of this week.
Thanks!

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Agenda Items:

1. "Grand Image" for the 5 properties of fluids - OVERDUE
2. Science assessment "Les fluides" - Thursday
3. Math assessment - percents and fractions - Friday
4. CFOO # 11 - Créativité - Monday, June 3

Have a great week! :)

Happy Friday!

Happy Friday, learning friends!

Over the past week, in Math, we have been working on improper fractions and mixed numbers.

Today, we focused on how to convert one form to the other and looked at three different methods.

This Math Antics video, which we watched in class earlier this week, is a great review.

Please ask me about how to change an improper fraction to a mixed number, and vice versa!

Happy math-ing! :)

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Agenda Items:

1. Calcul mental assessment (Divise en multipliant) - Monday
2. "Grand Image" for the 5 properties of fluids - Monday
3. CFOO # 11 - Créativité - Monday, June 3

Have a great weekend! :)

Thursday Agenda Items

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Agenda Items:

1. Zamboni Book Critique - final revisions now overdue
2. Section B Calcul Mental - Thursday Friday
(Mme Careen was away today, so Section B will corrected in class tomorrow)

3. Scholastic Orders - tomorrow (Friday)