TAKING
ACTION
Our
new school focus is “Taking Action”. We started our class discussion this week
by focusing on Earth Hour and what we can do to help improve our planet. Both
the Grade 4 and 5 classes came up with goals for the remainder of the year to
show that we can take action to help the planet in our classroom, school,
community, and at home.
Grade 5 Goals: Let’s Take
ACTION!!!!
What can we do to make a
difference?
As a Class
* Bring in reusable water bottles to class
* Turn off the lights and open the blinds
* Place the garbage in the correct bins
* Only use the paper we need, and use both
sides
* Use containers in your lunch rather than
ziplock bags or wrappers that get thrown out
* Use the G.O.O.S bin paper
In our School
* Properly sort our recyclable items and
compost
* Crush your water bottles so they take up
less space in your recycling bins
* Picking up garbage around the school
At Home
* Unplug electrical devices when they are not
being used
* Cooling off by having a cold drink, or
using a fan rather than turning on your air conditioning
* Make sure all your lights are turned off
before you leave your home
* Exercise instead of using electronics
* Walking, or using your bike rather than
driving to school
* Don’t leave the fridge open for long
periods of time
* Water your plants with your left over water
from your water bottle or fish tank
* Take shorter showers
* Clean with more eco-friendly products
Globally
* Electric cars
* Creating your own compost
* Not buying products that harm the
environment
* Plant more trees
Grade 4 Goals: Let’s Take ACTION!!!!
What can we do to make a
difference?
Class
* Only use the
lights when we have to
* Create posters for
visuals so every student knows what is suppose to go in the green bins, blue
bins, and the garbage
* Use reusable water
bottles instead of plastic water bottles
* Eco teams checking
the bins in the class at second break
* Use G.O.O.S paper
instead of using new paper when brainstorming or sketching
* Always try to use
both sides of paper when we can
* Use containers in
our lunch rather than wrappers that just get thrown out
School
* Use containers in
our lunch rather than wrappers that just get thrown out
Home
* Compost, and recycle at home as well
* Use G.O.O.S paper at home
* Short showers
Community/Global
* Pick up garbage in
your neighbourhood
LANGUAGE
READING
As
we are finishing up our last letters (Grade 5 last week was March 24th,
and Grade 4 is March 31st) students will soon be placed in groups
for literature circles where they will be able to demonstrate their learning.
Using the comprehension strategies (e.g. questioning, making connections,
predicting, and inferencing) we have practiced, fully explaining their ideas
with examples and details students will be able to communicate their knowledge,
questions, and inquiries around their given literature circle books.
WRITING
Both the Grade 4’s and
5’s are working on descriptive writing. We started our conversations and
learning focus around what senses we can use to help us describe everyday
objects. Students rotated around the room writing out juicy/salsa words to
describe a variety of objects. Later in the week students drew out monsters and
focused on using descriptive detail to describe their monster to a partner and
have them draw out what they visualized the monster looked like from only their
partners oral description.
MATH
We have finished up
our 3D Geometry unit and are moving onto Fractions this week.
A reminder, Math Help
is every Wednesday and Friday and is open to all students in my Grade 4 and
Grade 5 class. As well after any quiz if a student would like a re-quiz they
should be coming to math help and asking for help in order to do the re-quiz.
Independent Projects
Both
the Grade 4’s and 5’s independent projects were fantastic and their peers
really enjoyed being able to see all their hard work as well as learn something
from their classmates. We will be doing a final round of independent projects
in June closer to the end of the year.
