I was really impressed with how seriously the class took play one another’s ancient civilization games.  Everyone put a great deal of time and effort into creating them and it was fun to finally see them played.  We’ll invite Mr. Baird’s class over tomorrow to play them one last time before they go home.

If we wrote in our agendas, which we didn’t, we would have written:

• report cards go home tomorrow
• Friday, June 25 is the last day of school (in case no one told you that!)

In your agenda:

• We are testing our ancient civilization games tomorrow.  Should be fun!
• Optional: visit PatrickCarman.com to learn more about the author of Trackers and Skeleton Creek.  You can even leave him a message.

We didn’t write in our agendas today but if we did we would have written:

• a variety of notebooks and work was sent home today.
• indoor phys. ed. on Friday.  Remember a change of clothes.
• we will get to play each others’ ancient civilization board games on Tuesday.  This is largely an at school project. Students are welcome to bring materials from home to add to their board game if they wish but it is not a requirement!

Mr. Baird took this picture at Upper Canada Village last week.

I hope everyone enjoyed visiting the Medieval/Pioneer Life Fair today.  Mrs. Booth’s and Mrs. Faulkner’s classes sure put a lot of time and effort into their projects. Congratulations!

In your agenda:

• Outdoor phys. ed. is tomorrow.  Dress accordingly!
• Remember: ancient civilization board games will be tested next Tuesday. 

The latest password for Trackers is BELLEBOYD99

Congratulations to Talia and Katherine who did a fine job representing our class today in the Junior Public Speaking Contest. 

Not much to write in agendas these days but:

• Outdoor phys. ed. is on Wednesday
• Optional: bring in materials for your ancient civilizations game board.

Here’s the website we visited today to get warmed up for algebra:

Variable Stopwatch

The latest password for Trackers is WOZ14.

Thanks, Talia, for bringing in this picture.  It’s a rubbing of one of the symbols found on an Mayan temple.

In your agenda:

• Remember a change of clothes for indoor phys. ed. on Monday.
• Practice, if a computer is available to you this weekend, algebra using the following sites:
• Find the Missing Number
• Fling the Teacher
• En Garde
• Algebra Meltdown

We’re in the middle of watching “The Second Voyage of the Mimi”.  Who’s the character in this picture?

In your agenda:

• optional: bring in materials for your ancient civilizations board game
• bring a change of clothes for indoor gym tomorrow

Here’s another site we used to learn about algebra.  We found the 3 X 3 grid pretty easy to do once we found the first “key” to unlock.  We found 3 X 4 grids much hard.  Leave a comment if you figure out a way to solve those!

Algebra Puzzle

In your agenda:

• some students have library books that need to be returned
• some students might decide to bring in pictures and research for their board game

We have just started a unit on algebra and used the following sites to get started:

Teddy Bear Balance 

Help Postman Phil Deliver the Mail

My class completed the first to levels of Postman Phil.  I challenge you to finish level three.  Remember you have to calculations in the following order: Brackets, Multiply, Divide, Add, Subtract (your parents might vaguely remember something called BODMAS!)

In your agenda today:

• those of you who in track and field remember to be at school for 7:50 am.   so the buses can leave at 8:00 am.  Remember, we won’t return to ALC until 4:30 – 5:00 pm.  Please make arrangements to get home!
• a letter about our unit on human growth and development was sent home today.  We will be starting Wednesday, June 9.

Wow! The year sure has flown by.  It’s hard to believe we made this art way back in 2009!

In your agenda:

• Remember a change of clothes and indoor shoes for indoor phys. ed. on Monday

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Monday Speeches

• Devin
• Sydney
• Greg
• Calysta
• Ryan

Tuesday Speeches

• Caitlin
• Dylan
• Keegan
• Evan
• Nicole