The Final Qtr!

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Remember - Announcements this week! 

EVERYBODY - Please bring an additional printed copy of your fantasy writing so I can grade it. The other copies I received via email were sent to  be made into ibooks.



The Secret to Success - Happiness

During this quarter, I am going to give you an amazing gift - The gift of happiness! Go to this site and set up an account. The rest is self explanatory. You will use this site x5 weekly. 

http://happyrambles.com  


What is the message of this video?


Enjoy a look at your  yoga class stress and anxiety reduction session

Class Dojo

This week's Student of the Week was based on Class Dojo Scores. This system will go public the first week after school and your reports will be emailed to your parents weekly from now on.  Tell your parents to expect an email with their log on information in two weeks.




Student of the Week Beatrice +12 Dojo

After the break:

• Writing Dialogue Assessment
• M.A.P. Testing Exam Technique Practice
• Book Club Presentations
• Verbs Unit Assessments

Don't forget to be prepared for your Announcements Day

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...