Week Thirteen -

 November 27- December 1

December is almost here! 😅😉😇

Thanks for all those who came to parent-teacher interviews. 

Report Cards are out on Dec. 15. 

Second term starts on Dec. 8th! 

Math Multiplication Quiz on Wednesday
- basic facts
- single digit 
- double digit multiplication
- multiplying with decimals
Students will have worksheets  this week on word problems. 

English reports on Wonder due this Thursday 
(see previous post for descriptions)
Students may borrow  Wonder books, however I am reading the book aloud in class as well. Students have time during reading to work quietly on their projects. 

Next week another creative book project is due. 

Goal this week: Writing good sentences!

In Science we will begin a new unit on Solutions which will lead into some experiments... (and cooking!)

In Socials we will continue our work on Rights and Responsibliites. Students are working on a group poster and will be looking at the Canadian and Universal Charter of Rights and Freedoms. 

In PE we will continue with BASKETBALL. 
In PE we will also complete a food and activity weekly journal and set some goals for the month ahead. We will use this information in PE, Health, Science and French. 

Week Twelve - November 20-24

It's a short week with lots of tying up as report cards are being prepared.

It's great to see so many parents signing up for interviews! I look forward to chatting with you and showing some of your child's work. 


Socials

As an extension of our walk down the creek and observation of the salmon, the students have been preparing for a debate. Each student is working on communication skills and creative thinking.
In assigned groups the students prepare three "pros" (supporting the proposal) and three "cons" (against the proposal). 
The sceanio (fake news) is that a small fish farm is been proposed for the Sooke River.

The groups are Provincial Government, Federal Department of Fisheries,  First Nations, Local fishers, children, environmentalists and  the Project Developer.

Groups presented their ideas and answered questions on their views about the proposed fish farm.


Math

We have continued to work on double digit multiplication, including working with decimals. We will begin order of operations next week. 
Worksheet due Nov. 23

Wonder

We hope to finish reading Wonder by December so have begun to work on Projects as the novel is read daily. Students are welcome to bring the novel home to read and work on projects over the weekend. Projects are due November 30th. 

1)      Vocabulary List. Find definitions and write a sentence for words.

2)      Character Studies. Find 10 words to describe your character and use them to decorate face.

Add 2-3 quotes from Character and a paragraph about the character describing  personality, dreams, fears, comforts, friends and history.

3)      Comprehension Questions. Answer questions from each Part in complete sentences and with examples to support your opinions.

4)      Point of View. There are several different narrators in Wonder. Describe the mood or feeling created by each narrator and how they see Auggie’s life differently. Give 3 examples for each narrator.

6)  Letter writing. Write a series of letters (3 letters each) to one of the characters in the book about what happened and their thoughts and feelings about the events.

7)    Precepts Choose 5 slogans from the book and make a poster. Include quotes from  3 or more  characters and 4 or more scene descriptions of  examples where these precepts were demonstrated in the book. Use examples from your own life as well. 

Week Eleven - Nov 14- 17

Some tests, book project marks and interm reports went home on Friday. Check with your student!

Conference Manager for

November 23rd Parent-Teacher interviews

is open on Thursday. 

This week...
In English: 

We have finished 2 book reports and are working on a third (due Nov 30). 

We continue to listen to Wonder (a few students are reading along). This week we will begin working on vocabulary (and dictionary skills), examine point of view and continue with descriptive characterizations of the many narrators. 

In Writing we have been working from our Halloween stories to find and improve sentences. We will be building a writing profolio this week.

Google Read Write
From Chrome, using their sd62learns.org accounts, students have access to Google Education and its Apps. These include Read-Write, which Mrs. Syme introduced to us this week. Read-Write includes Predictive Text, Translator and, text to speech and Speech to Text. Students will have access to these tools as the work that they do in Google Docs ( and other programs!) for as long as they are enrolled in the Sooke School District. (Yes, until they are are in High school!) These tools help with research, writing, reading,  editing and collaborating with other students. Check out this video for an overview: 

In Math: 

Multiplication continues as we practice basic skills and try out various methods of double digit multiplication (traditional, lattice, box (grid/partial product) method)

Homework assignments will be sent home each day. 

There was not a Math Quiz on Friday. Students are working either from the textbook (challenge) or from worksheets (some review). 

We will complete applied problems this week with word problems. 

In Socials...

Following our Headlines Report (which students handed in last week) and adding to our trip to view Salmon Spawning in Demaniel Creek (below the school), we will be researching and role playing some of the viewpoints and government actors involved in the Fish Farm Debate up Island. 

In Science we wrap up our study of the Nervous System with a couple of experiments and review the scientific method in the process!

In PE we begin basketball...

Here's the lattice method of multiplication which we are learning in class. The students are loving it!

Week Ten: November 6-10

Our howling was fun and the snow has come,  

the week ahead is for getting things done!

Math
Students have completed the times table and we have shared some tricks to help them remember. We move into double digit calculations this week and some word problems. Quiz on Friday.

Here are some videos on double digit multiplication for review.



There are A LOT of fun videos and games online to review times tables! A few minutes a day playing with Multiplication is AWESOME. (We can post them in our Google classroom!)

Become a Multiplication Master!!

English

• The students have begun some pretty fabulous, very imaginative stories about Halloween!
•  We are continuing to read Wonder (which will be in the theatres this month!) and 
• students are finishing up their second (very brief) independent reading report. The report is due on Monday. We will have a bit of class time tomorrow and reports can be submitted on Tuesday. A worksheet was given out last week. 

The report is out of 12 and focusses on story elements. 

• 1. Identify and describe main characters (3)
•  2. Title and Author (1) 
• 3. 4 star rating (1)   
•  4. Favourite Quote (1) 
• 5. Main plot problem and why it's a problem (2) 
• 6.Main plot solution and how it worked (2)  
• 7. A review: reader's rave about the book with descriptive reasons.(2) 

Writing - has become a regular event in the classroom. First drafts have been read. We will use the writing process to polish our work to publication. The goal is to have at least one piece at a publication stage by December. 

As we begin some editing this week, students will continue to write new work and select prize sentences which they like best and troubled sentences which need some care and revision. We will revise just a few sentences as we focus on the mechanics of sentences and punctuation. 






Socials
4 Headlines Summaries due this week!

Since September students have been asked to find headlines from the news, touching on all the continents. 


We are building global awareness and an awareness of global issues as well as learning about the media. This week students need to complete a W5 on 4 articles

• Who is the article about?
• When did it happen?
• Where did this happen?
• What happened? 
• Why is this event important to the world and to me in Sooke?

Upcoming... Rights and Responsiblities

Page one from the Journey Code of Conduct. Poster and Video Challenge Ahead. 

Science

We are wrapping up our study of the Nervous System and will be reviewing this week with a Quiz. Some experiments will continue next week .  A study sheet will be compiled in class before the quiz. 

Here's a link to the Bill Nye video we watched last week. 

In French we continued with les coleurs et les numéros. Our emphasis is on conversation with students beginning a labelled poster in the next week and a quick quiz.

If students are interested in practicing more French in a fun format I encourage you to download the Duolingo app for free. Students will need parental permission and an identity so that they can practice and gradually build their skills. WARNING: it's so fun, it's addictive! https://www.duolingo.com/

Upcoming Salmon Project
We will kick off more of our exploration of SALMON as a Natural Resource (Socials) and a series of  Biological Systems (Science) this week through some PLACE-BASED learning with our Aboriginal Teacher, Eva Marten during a walk to Sooke River on Tuesday afternoon. We will be incubating roe in our classroom in the new year. 





And Last, but most importantly, here's some inspiration for creating a fun, positive, supportive, bully-free, accepting classroom. This video has some good thoughts and surprising strategies for dealing with bullies or any negative interactions. Stay strong! 


https://www.facebook.com/JungleVT/videos/1707031749438660/

Also see the resourses at ERASE bullying: 
http://www.erasebullying.ca/index.php