vendredi 20 mars 2015

Week 28 : March 16th - 20th

Dear parents and students,
 
Here are the learning we've worked on this week:




French :
Spelling : We have been working on the sound "è" and did the spelling tests on Wednesday and Friday.
Grammar : We have been working on adjectives G12
Conjugation : We are learning the verbs "venir/to come" and "aller/to go" in present tense. C6
Writing/Poetry : We invented a poem about "the revolution". Our revolution is that children do not have the same rights everywhere in the world.

This period we will talk about the children rights.
Reading : We are starting a new story talking about a little boy named "Rajeev". He comes from India and needs to work to stay alive.
We also started to work on our play we will show in May : The Little Red Riding Hood.






Math :
Measurement : Measuring using a centimeter ruler Mes2
Mental Arithmetic : time table x6 and we also started to work on the distributive property of multiplication.
example : 16 x 5 = 10 x 5 + 6 x 5 = 50 + 30 = 80
Problem solving : we were working on our 16th collaborative math problems.
USMATH : telling Time using the American vocabulary

 
Discovering the world :
SCIENCE : AIR Contest : we are several classes in the United States to participate to the contest "Prenons l'air". In 1st and 2nd grade, the student has to built an object that can move with the air.
The first steps were to talk about what "air" is ?
And what kind of object can move because of the air ?


ART : We are  finished with the ART project for the soiree.