March 12-16 - Last week before Spring Break!

It's hard to believe the time has gone this fast! 
Last week we were busy with our trip to the Legislature, selfies with the Premier :), feeding newly emerged  salmon fry, passing rules in our classroom Parliament, watching and discussing Wadjda -the first film produced in Saudi Arabia, Capturing the Flag on the back field, and mastering triangles and protractors. 

This week....

Science
We will release our energetic salmon fry into Demamiel Creek below the school. Students will be reading and illustrating this stage of life, the changes and physiology of the fish and the enviroment to which the salmon are adapting. We hope to have a brief introduction to the planets.  Five planets have  have been spectacular this week and over Spring Break(planet parade) in the night and early morning sky. In April we will be beginning work in Biology on the endocrine system. 

Socials
We will continue our Parliament debates (debate)and finalize our classroom review of procedures (expectations). The goal is to experience the process we witnessed in the Legislature and, of course, to review classroom expectations. We will be revisiting our country studies to share and compare size, social progress, population, density and GDP (income/capita) wealth(country comparison Google sheet)

English We have been watching a few international films in the last month and are looking at the characters, themes, cultures and comparasions. The focus is on paragraph writing. We will continue with this during the week. Here are some trailers from the films we've seen. 

French

We are working on the calendar and using some of the basic vocabulary we used in our writing. Here is a song for "Les jours de la semaine". 
Il y a sept jours dans la semaine. 

There are seven days in the week.