Mr. Comeau - Archive - 09/2010 Notes

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Posted: February 21, 2010

Monday Message - February 22nd-26th

This week is "Student Appreciation Week".  I regret to inform you that there will be no homework for the entire week.  This is also Survivor Week and "yours truly" will be on the teacher team, good luck to all participants.  In Math this week we will have an "open book" test on division.  We will be completing our Sneaker story in class this week and presenting them to our reading buddies.  Science class will see us working as a team on a "special project", it should be fun!  For those of you on the team who are leaving us a little early for trips down south, have a good trip!  In Social Studies we will be continuing with our reading in the Dear Diary series.  I am happy to see that many of you are enjoying these readings.  Lastly, this week will be our last week of February and then it is March Break, yeah!

Posted: February 20, 2010

Friday Showcase

Lexy and Jordyn lead the class through their Friday Showcase presentation on dance.  They both demonstrated some of their dance moves.  Lexy went onto explain some of the dedication needed to become a proficient dancer.  A SMART lesson was created along with videos and dance routines that helped us all understand and appreciate a little more about dancing.  Thanks again girls!

Posted: February 20, 2010

Skiing is Fun!!!

The Comeau Team had a great time on Friday cross country skiing at the Miramichi Cross Country Ski Club.  Here is a close up of Bailey doing the "Bailey".  Check out the photo gallery for more photos!

Posted: February 19, 2010

Congratulations GG Times - A.J, Bailey and Zach!

I would like to congratulate all of the members on our team who make up the GG Times Crew on your big win last night!  You should all be very proud of this accomplishment.  On behalf of the entire team I would also like to congratulate Bailey and Zach on a phenomenal job hosting our 2010 CUTE Awards.  A.J. did a repeat performance of his role as "roving reporter" and yes, once again, he did an awesome job.  You represented the school and team exceptionally well!!!  We are so proud of you!

Posted: February 17, 2010

Homework- February 17th

THE CUTE AWARDS HAVE BEEN RESCHEDULED TO TOMORROW NIGHT ... SAME TIME SAME PLACE.  THE LOBBY SHOWCASE WILL BEGIN AT 6:30 pm AND THE MAIN CEREMONY WILL START AT 7:00 pm. Please return your permission slips for the field trips tomorrow as well as your $5.00 for the DQ meal, thanks! Read - 15 minutes.  This week’s entry will deal with our story read aloud in class, The Door In The Wall.  You are asked to respond to the following question, How is your life different from the character, Robin?  Please support your response with examples from the novel.  Math: - Pg. 102 (1,2 &4) In Math we will be beginning a unit on Division.  There will be no assigned Math homework until Wednesday.  I want to make sure you have all mastered partial quotient division before you do it on your own for homework.   Math:  Practise your times table at home as well as our mental Math strategies.  Mental Math Strategies can be found under the Documents tab on this class page. 

Posted: February 15, 2010

Homework - February 15, 2010

  REMINDER:  The top portion of today's interim report (oral, reading, writing) refers to the Intensive French program and NOT English Language Arts.  Please return your permission slips for the field trips tomorrow as well as your $5.00 for the DQ meal, thanks! Read - 15 minutes.  This week’s entry will deal with our story read aloud in class, The Door In The Wall.  You are asked to respond to the following question, How is your life different from the character, Robin?  Please support your response with examples from the novel.  English: Second draft of the "sneaker" story is due on Wednesday. Math: - No assigned homework for tomorrow. In Math we will be beginning a unit on Division.  There will be no assigned Math homework until Wednesday.  I want to make sure you have all mastered partial quotient division before you do it on your own for homework.   Math:  Practise your times table at home as well as our mental Math strategies.  Mental Math Strategies can be found under the Documents tab on this class page.   

Posted: February 13, 2010

Monday Message - Februrary 15-19th

This week should prove to be another memorable week!  We have two field trips ready to go.  On Tuesday we are off to the Miramichi Police station and on Friday we will be Cross Country skiing.  I would like to remind all of you to bring in $5.00 to help cover the costs for our meal at DQ on Friday.  I would also like to remind you all to bring in your permission slips for these trips. We will not be skating on Tuesday, for obvious reasons.  We also have our District 16 CUTE Award cermemony on Wednesday evening at 6:30 pm.  Good luck to A.J., Bailey and Zachary who are participating in the ceremony.  Thanks again to all those who submitted votes on my behalf. Justin K. will be doing our Math podcast of the week, good luck Justin!  We will also be selecting new team captains for our four teams.  Thank you to those students who emailed me their pen pal letters over the weekend.  I can now send them off to our pen pals, yeah! In Language Arts Ms Henessy will be joining us for some work on spelling strategies as well as writing. Our second draft of our sneaker story will be due on Wednesday. This week's personal journal entry will deal with the point of view of one of the characters from our novel, Door in the Wall. I will explain this in class.   In Math we will be beginning a unit on Division.  You will be happy to know that there will be no assigned Math homework until Wednesday.  I want to make sure you have all mastered partial quotient division before you do it on your own for homework.   In Science this week we will continue with our unit on Weather and explore some of the factors that contribute to weather storms.  We will also be doing two activities for our Science Olympics.   In Social Studies we will examine some of the customs of communities in Medieval Times.

Posted: February 12, 2010

6 + 1 WRITING TRAITS SONG

 Check out our latest video clip with Mme. Gallant's grade five class.  The song is based on one of the 6 + 1 Writing Traits, organization.  Enjoy!

Posted: February 11, 2010

Homework - February 11th

  Read - 15 minutes.  This week’s entry will be connections. Please remember to log all entries in your Personal Journals, due on Friday.  This will be our last week on connections. Don't forget to submit an answer for Rachel's Math podcast of the week. English: Pen pal letters are due tomorrow. Math: - Pgs. 216  (Questions 1 to 6)           - Mental Math Quiz tomorrow.   Math:  Practise your times table at home as well as our mental Math strategies. Our quizzes   Don't forget to check out Rachel's Math podcast problem of the week.

Posted: February 10, 2010

Science Olympics

The team kicked off their first activity in our Science Olympics challenge in Science class today.  The students worked exceptionally well at designing and creating their own straw towers.  This allowed them to "do science" using an inquiry based approach to learning.  It was a huge success and the kids cannot wait for their next challenge!  Check out our image gallery for a closer look.

Posted: February 10, 2010

Homework- February 10th

Math: Due to today's Math test there will be no assigned homework for tonight.  We are starting a new unit on Division tomorrow. Don't forget to share our latest "Math Trick" with your mom, dad or any other family member ... ewww, ahhhh!   Language Arts: Pen Pal letters are due on Friday.                        Personal Journals are due on Friday - Connections.                                                   15 minutes reading.

Posted: February 9, 2010

Rachel's Math Podcast of the week.

Well done on this week's podcast Rachel.  All done in one take, bravo! Congratulations to last week's winner, Dylan.  His response was 6 pieces.

Posted: February 9, 2010

Homework - February 9th.

Read - 15 minutes.  This week’s entry will be connections. Please remember to log all entries in your Personal Journals, due on Friday.  This will be our last week on connections. Congratulations to Dylan who won this week's Math podcast! The answer was six pieces.   English: Please start working on our pen pal letters. They are due on Friday. Math: - Pgs. 208-209  (Questions 1,2,3,5,6,11,12)           - Quiz on TOMORROW on addition and subtraction of decimals. Math:  Practise your times table at home as well as our mental Math strategies. Our quizzes   Don't forget to check out Rachel's Math podcast problem of the week.

Posted: February 8, 2010

Homework - February 8th.

  Read - 15 minutes.  This week’s entry will be connections. Please remember to log all entries in your Personal Journals, due on Friday.  This will be our last week on connections. Congratulations to Dylan who won this week's Math podcast! The answer was six pieces.   English: Please start working on our pen pal letters. They are due on Friday. Math: - Pgs. 202-203  (Questions 1 to 9)           - Quiz on Wednesday, February 10th on addition and subtraction of decimals. Math:  Practise your times table at home as well as our mental Math strategies. Our quizzes will now focus on the mental Math strategies studied during the week and we are now going with 3 minutes from now until the end of the year!

Posted: February 7, 2010

Monday Message - February 8th-12th.

First of all I just want to let you all know that I finished correcting our Math unit test on Fractions and Decimals and the team did great!  Bravo, we really made a strong effort in applying all the strategies learned in class.    There will be a Math quiz on Wednesday dealing with the addition and subtraction of decimals.  Our following unit will be dealing with division.  Stay tuned for Rachel's Math podcast problem of the week.  Look forward to a possible visit by Mrs. Buggie for a workshop on division, yeah! Science should prove to be interesting this week as we start our first activities for the Science Olympics on Wednesday ... are you ready? Final copies for our Language Arts stories will be due on Thursday ... just in time to share with our reading buddies.   Ms. Hennessy will be joining us again this week for literacy workshops.  So remember, let's work hard, try our best and have fun!   

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