Dear Parents,

Last week students made beautiful art using an optical allusion to draw the viewer's eye towards the center of their picture.
Here is a link to the video student's used to created their art work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DW4wg2DdwU

Today grade 4 students continued to learn about lights and shadows.  Today we discussed changes in the size and location of Sun shadows during the day—early morning, to midday, to late afternoon.  We also investigated how opaque materials cast shadows, and predict changes in the size and location of shadows resulting from the movement of a light source or from the movement of a shade-casting object.  Finally we classified materials as transparent, partly transparent (translucent) or opaque.

In Grade 5 students reviewed the construction of their Barometers and we looked at the changes that may occur during a high pressure (sunny day) and a low pressure (cloudy day) day.
We also watched this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pL6BthjvTZ4


Grade 5 students continued learning about the weather system and completed a worksheet that explained the different types of precipitation and how they form.  Students will have more time to finish this worksheet in class before we correct it.


Grade 5 and grade 4 students continued learning about poetry today.  Students looked a few different pieces of poetry and learned about rhyming schemes.  Students created their own poems using the following rhyming schemes: aabbcc and ababcc.