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...