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 This Week:

- in language arts we worked on homophones for our word work time. We also started a new novel study- Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing. We are going to explain some connections and author's intent through our reading

- in math we started looking at decimals and also multi-digit multiplication

- in social studies we did a recap of the formation of Canada so far up to the great migrations of the 1800s

- in science we continued working on animal and plant structures and their functions. We planted marigolds to observe and made some flowers out of clay with our buddies today. 

Next Week:

- library on Tuesday

- no school on Friday May 15 and Monday May 18


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