Mar. 17, 2016

Happy St. Patrick's Day!! Wearing green is a tradition for this Irish holiday. If you don't wear green, you can get pinched.


This morning we began with the Social Studies ITBS test, followed by a review lesson in Math on telling time. After recess the students completed the Science portion of the ITBS testing.

For the last period, the students finished the shorter Math ITBS test, and then celebrated a very special day - Yoko's birthday. She generously shared some cupcakes with everybody. Thanks a lot Yoko!



We are currently sitting at 94% positive Dojo points!!  That's awesome, but we have one more day to see if we can get it to our goal of 95% to earn our top prize of having recess instead of class for one period in Q4.

HOMEWORK:
1) Math worksheet - Problem Solving with time
2) Reading Logs
3) Science Fair hypothesis (if you haven't already handed it in)

NOTICES:
- Summer Camp is still accepting registration until March 30th. It will run from June 1-30, with another session potentially in July.
- ITBS testing will be completed tomorrow (but if your child was absent this week, he/she will finish after Spring Break)

Science Fair Update:
It is good to see and hear that things are going well with your projects. Just an update on our proposed timeline for preparing our projects. Conducting the experiment, and recording data is your next goal, as you can see by the underlined sentence below.
I have sent home more helpful worksheets and information for this next step. You should use it as a guide and record the data on these sheets.
As for the size of the display, I will provide more information tomorrow.

Timeline for G3 Science Fair:

• Students find a partner and decide on experiment (March 1) DONE
• Form a question they want to find an answer to. (March 4) DONE
• Research the problem and form a hypothesis. (March 7-18) Most DONE
• Conduct the experiment to find out if you were right. Do your experiment at least twice and compile proof by recording data. (March 20-April 1)
• Form a conclusion, checking your hypothesis. (March 29-April 1)
• Communicate your results, writing about how what you learned applies to the real world. (April 4-8)
• Create science fair board. (April 11-22)
• Practice presenting in front of your family and classmates before the science fair. (April 25-27)

 Have a nice evening!

Mr. Yaremchuk