Educating your Whole Body

Stress and Anxiety Strategies

As a special way to end the qtr, tomorrow afternoon we will have a professional yoga instruction coming to teach the class a variety of stress, anxiety and relaxation techniques. If you or your parents have a yoga mat,  feel free to bring it into school.

Fantasy Stories must be completely finished for tomorrow's class. You will have 30mins of class time to uploaded to ibook,  add images and titles, and download as a pdf to  your desktop. Once you have your story with images on your desk top you will upload to flipsnack.com and embed in your blog - Easy!

For students who will miss the last day before Spring Break, this assessed assignment on Push and Pull Factors needs embedding in your blogs by Wed. 3rd April.

Push and Pull Assignment

Push and Pull Grading Rubric



Remember to continue collecting pledges for the Jumpathon - This will take place on April 2nd

Announcements

Remember: We are giving the announcements the first week back Spring Break

Mon: Tasha and Ashlin
Tue: Casey and Kayzad
Wed: Janna and Ryan
Thur: Aiden and Miguel
Fri: Daniel and Patrick

Be ready! -How will you make yours special?

Social Studies: Site Research

Colonization
New England Colonies
Middle Colonies
Southern Colonies







This is your link to your site research resources for your next Social Studies Unit

https://sites.google.com/a/sas.edu.sg/5th-grade-war-and-conflict/historical-site-research/sites-to-research
Due Date for Presentations: April 30th 2013




First completed draft in hard copy of fantasy story needed for tomorrow - Have you integrated many of the writing skills we learned in this unit?
e.g. symbolism - left a line elaboration, describing a magical object - elevated language etc...

ibooks

Who would believe it? You are just 10 and 11 years old and you will soon be publishing your first fantasy novel! What will you do to make sure, your first ibook is truly a masterpiece?


Book Clubs
Tomorrow, you will meet to discuss and delegate responsibilities for your final book club presentations which will take place. Thur after Spring Break.

No Math H/W tonight

ibook

Fantasy Writing

In preparation for your ibook picture book fantasy story, you will need to collect a cover page and 5 images for your fantasy story. Save your images in a google presentation. You are welcome to draw, digitally create, or use images from the internet. The design of the images must be related in some way. The images you select should go with the  five scenes for your story that you wrote in your plot today. Spend no more than 30mins collecting your media!



Math Review
Spend 30mins working on Math IXL or the links I placed in yesterday's post