Humanities
- We are carrying on with The Wild Robot novel and are now writing stories as if we were a character interacting with ROZ the robot. Students have done another reading comprehension booklet that should have come home yesterday for review, corrections and parent signature. As we move further into the year I will continue my focus on careful work and attention to detail. If your student is asking you to sign “20 club” sheets please have them explain to you why they are doing that and how with more careful attention to their work, they will not have those in the future. If you have any questions please email me. Math - Place value equivalences were reviewed (e.g. 40 tens = 400 ones) as we introduce multiplication. - Feedback on Estimation assignment was returned and discussed with students. See FreshGrade. - Looking ahead: multiplication using the array (x and y axes; length and width models); students need to have their times table (basic facts) memorized. This is something they can do at home daily. They can use the Quizlet app (digital flashcard) to help. They know how to use this app. Science - Returned Analyzing Food Webs check-in with feedback; allowed corrections to be done as some predictions were not supported well. - STEM (Science, Tech, Engineering, Math) activity by building an adaptation that would help Roz (The Wild Robot) become a better parent. Students constructed adaptations and presented them to the class. EXPO Next EXPO week: Dec. 11-14 with trips to the Weaselhead (Mon), Glenbow Museum/Fort Calgary (Tue), and Masters Gallery (Wed for 5.1; Thu for 5.2) We are going to need a lot of volunteers for those trips. Please let us know if you're interested in any or all of them. We're taking names this early. Contact your child's homeroom teacher to volunteer. Food Bank Donations We are collecting donations for the Calgary Food Bank. Students will be bringing these donations to their Family Group teachers. Agenda Use Please remind your child to bring their agenda to school daily. Although we send weekly updates to you, there are important daily announcements that we need to relay to you, and the agenda is our primary way to do this. It also helps to teach organization skills and accountability. That said, there are students who consistently "forget" their agendas at home; and as a backup plan, they end up writing on pieces of paper that probably don't reach home. Can you please remind them to bring it to school daily? Your support is appreciated.
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Humanities
We continued reading “The Wild Robot” and are getting more into the names of the wonderful characters that ROZ the robot befriends. We will be doing a creative writing assignment next week that will have students creating their own animal character and unique name. This ties into looking at characters' development and will build on the 4 S’s of good writing that we have learned. The students will be bringing home a completed and marked reading comprehension sheet about the Franklin expedition. Please review this with your child and sign and return it to class. This is a format that the students will be using quite often this year, so I expect the answers to improve as they become more familiar with the format and my expectations of complete reading and correct and thorough answer format. Math - rounding rewrite for students who didn't meet expectations on the Rounding Rewrite last week. Results to be posted on FreshG. If your kid has an empty shell that says "Rounding Rewrite" that means they need to rewrite it or have rewritten it. Looking ahead: Multiplication Science - STEAM activity (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) related to the Wild Robot - designing and constructing the missing leg for Roz, the robot. Ask your child about the book. - Food web analysis check-in on Thursday this week. Results and feedback to be posted asap. Looking ahead: measuring weather phenomena EXPO - A huge thank you goes out to our parent volunteers, (Ms. Chris Lockhart, Ms. Tamiko Ohta, Mrs. Melissa Plouffe, Mrs. Stefanie Walker, Ms. Denise Megliola, Mr. Stuart Keen, Ms. Jimmi Duce Ross, and Mrs. Donna McLeod) who bravely joined us on Wednesday for a trip to the Inglewood Bird Sanctuary. It was a cold day but we all enjoyed the field trip, learned much from it, and we too hope that you enjoyed the experience. Looking ahead: Next EXPO week: Dec. 11-14 with trips to the Weaselhead (Mon), Glenbow Museum/Fort Calgary (Tue), and Masters Gallery (Wed for 5.1; Thu for 5.2) We are going to need a lot of volunteers for those trips. Please let us know if you're interested in any or all of them. We're taking names this early. Contact your child's homeroom teacher to volunteer. Prodigy Games on iPad - This game was introduced to kids late this week. Most are enamoured by the 'gamified' version of it. We are using this platform as a supplement to what we do in class and what I assign on Khan; hence, the hierarchy/priority of task being completed goes like this: classroom assignments, Khan assignments, and Prodigy games. They have accounts by logging into their Google accounts; no iPad needed to access - a computer/laptop with a web browser will do. |