Wednesday, June 16, 2010.

HANDWRITING
The students copied the following riddle, answered it, and wrote the date once.
"Why didn't the dog want to play football?"

MATH
The students did pages 214 & 215 on sorting polygons by the number of sides on each polygon.

LANGUAGE ARTS
As Mrs. Soloski was away on the grade 6 field trip Miss Riddell taught Language Arts. The students practiced their Spelling words using the SmartBoard. They then did a listening activity which involved hearing a backwards word and then reversing it and matching it to a picture. For example: nip N-I-P becomes pin when turned around.

The students then read Chapter 6 of "Sarah Plain and Tall." In the chapter Sarah tells the children about the sea and Anna and Caleb tell her about winter. The students did questions on the chapter. Many students also had time to think of things from nature that would remind them of Unity and that they would take with them if they moved. Some examples were leaves, acorns, and special rocks.

SCIENCE
The students corrected a letter about the bedrock layer of the soil. This layer is the bottom layer of rock beneath the soil, which may eventually be turned into soil through erosion. We also read about the Canadian Shield and learned that the soil there is very shallow, eventually too shallow for trees to survive.

MATH
The class watched a BrainPop on polygons. We learned a 7 sided polygon is called a heptagon and a 10 sided polygon is called a decagon. Polygons with lots and lots of sides are called by the number of sides and gon. So, a 25 sided polygon would be called a 25-gon.

* Remember your Spelling and French study sheets for extra stickers tomorrow.
* Remember your bathing suit and towel, and any parents coming to the pool will want to bring bugspray.
* The answer to today's riddle is: "It was a boxer."