Cereal Project: creating a "website"

Students have finished the concept and cereal box design stages of this media project. Almost all of them have started putting their words and illustrations together on empty cereal boxes to create their own product. The next step will be to create a mock up of the landing page of a website.
We've talked about the "big four" cereal companies and here are links to their websites that you can take a look at to help you generate some ideas for your own cereal.

Kellogg's                                                     Quaker

Post                                                            General Mills

Ma Collection

 

Bonjour!

We have begun another exciting unit of our French program, Act-vie! It involves the study of collections and will culminate with your child displaying or presenting a collection to the class. In this unit, we will be identifying popular collections in French and reading about young collectors from across Canada. In an innovative game, we will estimate the size of some unusual collections.

Through discussion of museum collections, we will focus our own Canadian heritage. We will also examine places to store a collection and will identify some interesting collection items. Since we will be studying collections for several weeks, your child will have the opportunity to create a collection if he or she doesn’t currently have one.

Often the most interesting presentations are unique “found” objects, such as rocks, stickers, hockey cards and bottle caps. Other common collections include t-shirts, books, photographs and mugs. Any grouping of three or more items could constitute a collection.

 If your child’s collection is valuable or fragile, perhaps he or she could bring in only one object, or photos of the collection. Please advise me if special arrangements are needed and rest assured that every effort will be made to ensure the security of these collections.

 We will keep you informed as to when our presentation will occur.

To practice the new vocabulary students can go on Internet, search for Quizlet, and then type “Voici ma collection”. The site has the words and vocabulary necessary for this new French unit.

http://quizlet.com/28937941/voici-ma-collection-flash-cards/

Thank you in advance for your cooperation and assistance.
A bientôt! Mme. Dorobantu

King George T-Shirt Design Contest! 

To celebrate this year’s Pirates musical, King George is holding a t-shirt design contest for students. The winning design will be printed on t-shirts that will be available for purchase by students, family and friends.

Entries must comply with the following guidelines:

1. Include the following WORDS somewhere in the design:

King George / Pirates! / 2013-14 

2. A simple design: one colour line drawing, no shading (dark marker drawing preferred)

3. No larger than 20cm tall X 18cm wide

4. Due: Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Submit your design to the office. Good Luck!

Unexplained Mysteries - clarification

In a previous blog post,  the Unexplained Mysteries assignment instructions say:

After your presentation, which should last about 5 minutes, there will be 5 minutes allowed for questions and answers.The written report should not only include what you discovered about the unsolved mystery selected, but also your opinion of whether this mystery is real or myth with your justification for that belief.

The written portion of your assignment is either the Power Point, Poster or Bulletin that you have written about your topic. It is not a separate writing piece.

Mrs LT and Mme Dorobantu

Cereal Project: Cereal Concept Planning

Today we examined various cereal boxes, looking at the ingredients lists, nutrition facts, special features and package design. In small groups, we brainstormed possible markets, flavours, shapes and "special features".

We decided that the weight of cereal per box should be between 325 g and 1.45 kg ( or 1450g); there should be between 100 and 260 calories per serving; between 1 and 10 g of protein per serving and that some type(s) of grain (wheat, rice, corn, oats) should be the top ingredient.  

Below is a sample of the Cereal Concept Planning Sheet.

Name: ____Mrs. LT___     Date: _____Mon 24 Feb___

Cereal Media Project (model)

Cereal Concept

   
1.  Market
2.  Shape and flavor
3.  Name of cereal; name of company
4.  Ingredients list
5.  Nutrition Facts
6.  Special features

1.	- Women over the age of 40  -  Who are concerned about nutrition and want to eat a healthy breakfast that is high in "super foods", fibre and protein but low in sugar and fat
2.	- multi-grain cereal in  flakes - dried blueberries - coconut flakes
3.	Cereal: Blueberry- Coconut Delight  Company: ALT Better Health
4.	1. quinoa 2. steel cut oats 3. rice 4. dried wild blueberries 5. coconut flakes
5.	90 calories per serving 9 grams of protein 10 grams of fibre Iron,  Magnesium, Vitamin D, Vitamin E
6.	- Recipe for Blueberry Coconut Delight Muffins  - Coupon for $1.00 off your next purchase of any  ALT Better Health Cereals  - Contest: win an all expenses paid spa weekend for two

Spelling List 19

Grade 6 

1.      recipe 2.      contest 3.      raspberry 4.      exotic 5.      raisin 6.      marshmallow 7.      cupcake 8.      ingredient 

9.      fibre 10.  protein 11.  nutmeg 12.  seniors 13.  athletes 14.  coupons 15.  special 16.  teenagers

Grade 5

1.  cereal 2.  package  3. vanilla  4. grain  5. flavour  6. weight  7. calories  8. cinnamon  9. celebrity

10. coupon  11. contest  12. sphere  13. serving 14. protein 

Art Journals: What do you love?

February is the month we celebrate Valentine's Day and so our theme this session was what we love. We used corrugated cardboard to scrape and stamp paint creating a background for cut out images. Using the layering technique, we built up our pages with superb results.

Dates to Remember

Unexplained Mysteries Presentations - Fri 28 Feb
Dental Screening - Thurs 27 Feb and Fri 28 Feb
Pizza Lunch - Fri 28 Feb
Cereal Project Due - Thurs 6 Mar
PA Day - Fri 7 Mar
March Break Starts - Mon 10 Mar
Back to School - Mon 17 Mar (St Patrick's Day)



* Our pen pal letters to Albania were posted this morning.

Paragraph Writing

The tantalizing Hamburger Graphic Organizer has helped us learn to write delicious paragraphs. Starting with a strong introduction sentence whets the reader's appetite. Including personal experiences and descriptive language adds flavour to the information shared. Students brainstormed a list of tasty topics. The results are well organized paragraphs that get the writer's message across and leave the reader satisfied.

 

Line Art

Pen Pal Letters Arrive today from Durrës, Albania

Gentian,

My students were very excited to receive and read your students' letters today. We very much enjoyed the creative touches that they added. We welcome the newcomers and are happy that they have written to us too. 

Please tell your students not to share or ask of my students - last names, phone numbers, photos, email addresses, Skype, Facebook or other social networking accounts. My students are not allowed to share this kind of information. I'm sure that you will understand the reasons behind this school board policy.

As we work on our replies, we will look forward to getting the second envelope with the remaining letters. 

We will include some surprises for you and your class with our replies

Regards,

Annette

Here is a copy of the email I sent their teacher:

Spelling List 17

Grade 5 1. force 2. gravity 3. compression 4. tension 5. structure 6. rigid 7. flexible 8. resist 9. predict 10. observation 11. external 12. internal 13. reduce 14. increase Grade 6 1. flight 2. aerodynamics 3. fuselage 4. gravity 5. hovercraft 6. elevator 7. propeller 8. pressure 9. pitch 10. yaw 11. aileron 12. helicopter 13. rudder 14. thrust 15. payload 16. parachute

Unexplained Mysteries

·                      The Loch Ness Monster               -  H. S., T.R-P., S. B. (Power Point)

·                      Crop Circles                                        -  O. M.   (Power Point)

·                      Money Pit of Oak Island                 - R. M. and M. N.   ( Bulletin)

·                      The Mary Celeste                            - M.M. and K. dV. (Power Point)

·                      Kraken                                                     - N.W. and E.P. (Bulletin)

·                      The Bermuda Triangle                    - M. S. and T. G. (Power Point)

·                      U.F.O.s                                                  - L. W. and N. F.  (Power Point)

·                      Dragons                                                   - S. S.  and W. J.  (Poster)

·                      Moai of Eastern Island                     - C. B.  and K. N.  (Power Point)

·                      Big Foot                                                  - L. H.  and T. H.  (Power Point)

Assignment

You are asked to research, write and present your findings on one unsolved mystery of your choice. Presentations can take the form of but are not limited to:

·         PowerPoint

·         Posters

·         Diorama

·         Video

·         News report

·         Skit

·         Bulletin

     
      After your presentation, which should last about 5 minutes, there will be 5 minutes allowed for questions and answers.The written report should not only include what you discovered about the unsolved mystery selected, but also your opinion of whether this mystery is real or myth with your justification for that belief.

Success Criteria

·         Research -          

• How thoroughly did you research the topic?
• Do the resources fall within the guidelines given?
• Do the resources relate well to the topic chosen?
• Was class/library time used wisely?

·         Research Paper -

• Did you stay on topic?
• Did you proofread and edit for spelling and grammar errors?
• Were quotes used appropriately?
• Did you list your resources properly?
• Did you justify your opinion of the subject researched?

·         Presentation –

• Was the presentation engaging?
• Did you show creativity?
• Were you able to answer questions about your work? 
• Did you speak clearly and did you have good eye contact with the audience?

French Project

Grade 5/6 French Project

Title: Ma communauté

Design a pamphlet, a poster or a 3D plan or a PowerPoint presentation to create your real or imaginary community.

Include the following information:

1. Size and title of your community

2. What services are provided in your community?

3. Who are the community helpers and what is their role (Grade 5 – mention 1; Grade 6 – 3 community helpers)

4. Shopping facilities

5. Community –based activities and special events (Grade 5 – one of each; Grade 6 – 2 of each)

6. Include one direction activity

Success Criteria

In order to be successful with this project you will:

- demonstrate a good knowledge of the local community that you will describe by providing information on services and personnel, stores, activities, expressions for giving directions

- organize and express ideas using clear expression and appropriate vocabulary

-your project is neat, easy to read, clear information included

- use interesting pictures and suitable with the topic

- project is well organized, colourful and attractive  

Completed project due: Monday 10 Februay

Presentations: Monday 10 February and Tuesday 11 February 

Dates to Remember

Mon 3 Feb  - Parent/Teacher Conference request forms go home today
Tues 11 Feb - Report cards go home; times for individual Parent/Teacher Conferences will be confirmed today
Thurs 13 Feb  - Parent/Teacher Conferences 4:30 to 7:30 pm
Fri 14 Feb      - Valentine's Day - Red & White Spirit Day
- IS NOT A PA DAY: it is a regular school day
Mon 17 Feb - Family Day Holiday
                   

Spelling List 16

Grade 5

1. angrily 2. strength 3. convince 4. impossible 5. assigned 6. wondered 7. remained
8. desperately 9. everyone 10. himself   11. direction 12. straight

Grade 6

1. probably 2. eventually 3. already 4. realize 5. required 6. survive 7. disconnect
8. occurred 9. circled 10. ignition 11. quickly 12. pickup 13. desperately