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Get Ya Head In The Game!

Basketball Season is here!

Check out the list of games, where and when as well as congratulating the students who will be representing our school! 

CLICK HERE for a copy to download. 

                                  PRACTICES: 3 – 4:30pm                                                                                                                 Boys: Tuesday and Wednesday                                                                           Girls: Tuesday and Thursday 

Boys on Basketball Team

All boys who tried out are welcome to 

3rd – Daniel, Jaidon, Max 

4th – Nathan, Ashu, Gabriel, Theo, Nolan, Christopher

5th  – Daniel, Joshua, Luis

Girls Basketball Players:

3rd – Sienna

4th – Harshita, Arianna, Jaz, Gina, Renee, Saige

5th – Abriann, Abby, Chloe, possibly Summer

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Literacy – January 14-18, 2019

READING

Because of Winn-Dixie – A classic tale by Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo, America’s beloved storyteller. One summer’s day, ten-year-old India Opal Buloni goes down to the local supermarket for some groceries – and comes home with a dog. But Winn-Dixie is no ordinary dog. It’s because of Winn-Dixie that Opal begins to make friends. And it’s because of Winn-Dixie that she finally dares to ask her father about her mother, who left when Opal was three. In fact, as Opal admits, just about everything that happens that summer is because of Winn-Dixie. Featuring a new cover illustration by E. B. Lewis and an excerpt of Kate DiCamillo’s newest novel, Raymie Nightingale.

We’re staring a new class novel! YIPPEE! We’ll be covering about 5 chapters per week and then completing a quiz following.

Some of the objectives that we will be covering while reading are:

  • Offer observations, make connections, react, speculate, interpret, and raise questions in response to text
  • Identify and discuss book themes, characters, plots, and settings
  • Connect their experiences with those of the author and/or with characters from the books
  • Support predictions, interpretations, conclusions, etc. with examples from text
  • Practice key reading skills and strategies (cause-and-effect, problem/solution, compare-and-contrast, summarizing, etc.)
  • Monitor their own comprehension

GRAMMAR

  • Replace weak adjectives with exact adjectives.Use comparative and superlative forms of good and bad.
  • Proofread for forms of good and bad.
  • Replace weak adjectives with exact adjectives.
  • PLEASE NOTE: We will be having Grammar tests next week, focusing on our adjectives unit, as well as topics that we’ve covered during Term 1. The kids should have brought home their text books this week to already begin reviewing.

WRITING

Write and share opinions about a specific topic using facts and details.

Inform their readers of the source of their facts and details.

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Homework and Objectives Week 3: January 14-18th

NUMERACY                                                                                                        Students will be learning about equivalent fractions and finding equivalent fractions to then compare them. This will involve multiplication, division and creative thinking!                                                                                             One major way to help your child during this study is to practice those multiplication skills at home.

Please check out these links for free online games and sites for practice. 

CLICK HERE for Mathgames

CLICK HERE for Multiplication

CLICK HERE for Topmarks

CLICK HERE for abcya

CLICK HERE and of course Mathletics! 

SCIENCE                                                                                                            Students will be learning about ecosystems! This will include understanding food chains within specific ecosystems, how humans have an affect and what ecosystems need to grow. 

HOMEWORK

Literacy: Tuesday – Thursday                                                                     Workbook pages 69, 71

Study Winn Dixie Vocabulary 

Numeracy:    Tuesday – Thursday                                                                                                      Practice book pages 157 – 161

**Science: Students will be doing an in class description of their adaptation projects and if its not completed will take home, to be returned the next day.

Tests 

Vocabulary test (Winn Dixie)

Equivalent Fractions quiz 

Bible Verse 

Without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him. Hebrews 11:6 

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Objectives and Homework (7th – 11th January 2019)

GRAMMAR

– Add -er to adjectives to compare two persons, places, or things and add -est to adjectives to compare three of more persons, places, or things.

– Proofread for comparative and superlative forms

– Use more with long adjectives to compare two things, and use most with long adjectives to compare three or more things.

– Proofread sentences for comparisons with more and most.


READING
Because of Winn-Dixie – A classic tale by Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo, America’s beloved storyteller. One summer’s day, ten-year-old India Opal Buloni goes down to the local supermarket for some groceries – and comes home with a dog. But Winn-Dixie is no ordinary dog. It’s because of Winn-Dixie that Opal begins to make friends. And it’s because of Winn-Dixie that she finally dares to ask her father about her mother, who left when Opal was three. In fact, as Opal admits, just about everything that happens that summer is because of Winn-Dixie. Featuring a new cover illustration by E. B. Lewis and an excerpt of Kate DiCamillo’s newest novel, Raymie Nightingale.

We’re staring a new class novel! YIPPEE! We’ll be covering about 5 chapters per week and then completing a quiz following.

Some of the objectives that we will be covering while reading are:

  • Offer observations, make connections, react, speculate, interpret, and raise questions in response to text
  • Identify and discuss book themes, characters, plots, and settings
  • Connect their experiences with those of the author and/or with characters from the books
  • Support predictions, interpretations, conclusions, etc. with examples from text
  • Practice key reading skills and strategies (cause-and-effect, problem/solution, compare-and-contrast, summarizing, etc.)
  • Monitor their own comprehension

WRITING
Share why it is important to have your own opinion.
Review our work using a rubric
Share our opinion of a simple topic
Write their opinion of a simple topic
Write and share their opinions about a specific topic


VOCABULARY
Study VOCABULARY words for test on Friday. (See attached CLICK HERE) 

NUMERACY                                                                                 Students will be learning to recognize fractions. They will know how to read a division questions and represent fraction through pictures and written fractions.  

SCIENCE                                                                                       Students will finish their in class project on adaptation.  This involves them researching an environment and creating a fictional animal that can adapt and survive in that chosen environment. DUE: THURSDAY (4b) FRIDAY (4a) 

HOMEWORK 

Tuesday 

GRAMMAR: Workbook Plus page 65

NUMERACY: Mathletics Multiplication (groupings) review

Wednesday

GRAMMAR: Workbook Plus page 67

NUMERACY: Mathletics Multiplication (groupings) review

Thursday

NUMERACY: Mathletics Multiplication (groupings) review 

Bible Verse! 

So do not hear, for I am with you; Do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand. ISAIAH 41:10 

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Objectives for January 3-4, 2019

Happy New Year and welcome back!

READING

Because of Winn-Dixie – A classic tale by Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo, America’s beloved storyteller. One summer’s day, ten-year-old India Opal Buloni goes down to the local supermarket for some groceries – and comes home with a dog. But Winn-Dixie is no ordinary dog. It’s because of Winn-Dixie that Opal begins to make friends. And it’s because of Winn-Dixie that she finally dares to ask her father about her mother, who left when Opal was three. In fact, as Opal admits, just about everything that happens that summer is because of Winn-Dixie. Featuring a new cover illustration by E. B. Lewis and an excerpt of Kate DiCamillo’s newest novel, Raymie Nightingale.

We’re staring a new class novel! YIPPEE! We’ll be covering about 5 chapters per week and then completing a quiz following.

Some of the objectives that we will be covering while reading are:

  • Offer observations, make connections, react, speculate, interpret, and raise questions in response to text
  • Identify and discuss book themes, characters, plots, and settings
  • Connect their experiences with those of the author and/or with characters from the books
  • Support predictions, interpretations, conclusions, etc. with examples from text
  • Practice key reading skills and strategies (cause-and-effect, problem/solution, compare-and-contrast, summarizing, etc.)
  • Monitor their own comprehension

WRITING

We’ll be starting to learn about Opinion Writing  this term. We’ll begin with a pre-assessment based on their favourite holiday.

SOCIAL STUDIES

  • Discover the different cultures that help to influence us in the Caribbean.

NUMERACY

The first couple of days back we will be reviewing number sense and computation (multiplication and division) 

The following week will be beginning fractions! We will learn how to recognize fraction problems and equivalent fractions. 

SCIENCE

We will finish working on our in-class project of adaptations and behavior for a fictional animal. This is due Thursday 10th! Then understanding parts of an ecosystem and what we have here in Cayman.

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Objectives and Homework – November 26 – 30

ENGLISH

  • Replace weak verbs with exact verbs
  • Use a thesaurus
  • UNIT 3 Test on Tuesday
  • Identify adjectives that tell what kind and how many
  • Identify nouns that adjectives describe

READING

We’ve finished A Boy Called Bat, and we’ve been busy delving deeper in concepts surrounding the book. You should have seen your student working on an Autism poster. This was due today, so please have a chat to ensure that your child handed his/hers in.

Also, we started our final, in-class project last week, and are finalizing it this week. Here are the instructions that they received.

Design challenge time! You and your group have 3 days, 30 minutes per day, to design and build a project related to the book, ​A Boy Called Bat​. It can be anything at all, so long as you can build it with materials available to you in class and it shows a clear connection to the story. Once completed, your masterpiece will go into the Design Museum. What? Your school doesn’t have a Design Museum? Well, you’ll just have to create on then, won’t you? All of your other projects can go into the museum as well. Then invite other classes to take a field trip to your museum.

I’ve been so impressed with every concept and their work ethic. I can’t wait to share the final details with you!

SPELLING

Please encourage your child to study his/her spelling words and work on their spelling contract. They should aim to get 20 points on their contract by Friday.

Length
Loneliness
Necessary
Permanent
Persevere
Pleasant
Prefer
Quit
Quite
Quiet
Rhythm
Scissors
Separate
Sincerely
Soldier
Surely
Twelfth
Village
Weird
Whether

WRITING

We weren’t quite able to publish our first batch or personal narratives, so we’ll be busy with that this week. Following this, students will be asked to create another personal narrative (hopefully Christmas themed), entirely on their own. Please be sure to check in with your child, to ensure that they are busy working on their narratives.

MATH

Investigative problems for measurement 

SOCIAL STUDIES

Prepping final drafts and getting ready for presentations 

TESTS

English – Unit 3: Tuesday

Bible: Test on Thursday

Science – Chapter 2 test 
4A: Friday 
4B: Wednesday 

Math:
4A: Wednesday
4B: Wednesday 

HOMEWORK

Monday:
– Review Unit 3 for English
– Read for at least 30 minutes and update Padlet with a little bit of detail on what you’ve read.

Tuesday:
– Study guide for math and science
– Work on Spelling Contract

Wednesday:
– NO Math Homework
– Workbook Plus – page 59

Thursday:
– Mathletics: perimeter and area 
– Study spelling words and complete Spelling Contract

NOTE: Social Studies: If students are not done with their drafts in class, they will take home to complete.


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Homework and Objectives Week 12: 19th – 23rd Nov.

ENGLISH:

– Write past tense forms of irregular verbs

– Proofread for forms of irregular verbs

– Recognize the different forms of the verb be

– Proofread for forms of be

–  Form contractions using verbs and the word not

– Determine which words make up a contraction

– Proofread for contractions

READING
We’ve finished A Boy Called Bat, and are continuing to work on in-class projects and tests. I’ll be updating with photos soon, so stay tuned.

SPELLING
Study commonly misspelled words for test on Friday.

WRITING
– Revise our draft for sentence fluency (flow of the writing and variety in sentence beginnings, length, and structure).
– Use a revision checklist to make final changes to drafts before editing.
– Edit our personal narrative drafts once revision is completed.
– Publish our work.

MATH

  • Finding equivalents in the metric and customary system
  • how to use measurements in every day life 
  • conversions, using a decimal in length 

SOCIAL STUDIES 

  • If students do not finish their family tree in class, they will need to take home for homework. They need to be completed this week!
  • Students will be given a rubric this week of how they will present their family map and tree to present to the class. This will be the final part of their project. The presentation will be a way of summarizing what they have learned about their family tree, heritage and what they have found interesting or surprising.

SCIENCE

  • As we finish our life cycle of plants, we will move on to life cycle of animals

HOMEWORK 

English 

Monday –  Workbook Plus page 52
Tuesday – Workbook Plus page 54
Wednesday – Workbook Plus page 56

Math

Tuesday – p. 3 metric packet                                                                         Wednesday – p. 5                                                                                                 Thursday – p. 6

Bible Verse

Jesus said, “Go home to your own people and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and how he has had mercy on you.” Mark 5:19 

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Objectives and Homework – November 13-16

READING

We’re finishing off A Boy Called Bat this week! Now, we’ll be sharing, reflecting and getting creative on what we’ve read.

GRAMMAR

  • Form the past tense of verbs, including those ending with e, those ending with a single vowel and a consonant, and those ending with a consonant and y.
  • Proofread for spelling of past tense verbs.
  • Identify and write past tense verbs with the helping verbs has, have, or had, with singular or plural subjects.
  • Proofread a poem for helping verbs with past tense verbs.

WRITING

We are continuing our work on Personal Narratives. Personal narratives have:

  • Strong leads or beginnings
  • Characters (with lots of description)
  • Descriptive setting
  • Dialogue
  • Details to build your narrative up
  • Closing

SPELLING

Everyone should be busy studying for Spelling Mania this Friday. Please help your child get sponsors for this. The money raised will go back into our literacy programmes at school.

MATH

Metric system learning to estimate and convert measurements. 

SOCIAL STUDIES

We’ll be taking a break from our family tree/mapping to learn about the Cayman Coat of Arms to celebrate the 60th anniversary of it’s history and symbolism.

SCIENCE

Finishing our study on the life cycle of plants. 

HOMEWORK

Tuesday

Math – Mathletics
English – Workbook Plus page 48

Wednesday

Math – Mathletics (there are different options for the Metric system to choose from)
English – Workbook Plus page 50

Thursday

Math – Metric Conversions
Spelling – FINAL STUDY for Spelling Mania