Students continue to work on their Dear Canada novel studies. Students should have their second letter completed and signed by their parents by tomorrow. They should be also prepared for their third literature circle with ideas to share about what they are noticing as they read. Students have been given an individual creative writing assignment based on the theme of their novel. Their plans for this creative writing assignment are due by Wed February 27/08. In addition, students are further researching their themes for the making of their board games which is being completed as a group.
In Science, students are asked to examine electrical appliances in their own homes and to look at what energy transformations occur and how many Watts are being used. I am also asking if students have any batteries at home, ex. 9v or 2 c or 2D batteries to bring them in for a project and examples of insulators and conductors. If you are thinking of replacing your old Xmas lights for energy efficient ones please donate them to our classroom as we will put them to innovative use.
Monday, February 25, 2008
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
January 22, 2008
Students are gearing up for their upcoming presentation of their Early Canadian Wax Museum that will be presented to parents next week. Students were to research an individual that was considered to have impacted the development of early Canada in a significant way. The targets were a continuation of first term research targets, such as summarizing and in using a bibliography. Students held conferences on the writing of their monologues and were given a lot of formative feedback on the delivery and/ or presentation . They were also asked to make a poster to highlight who they were and what they accomplished.
Six Swintak class have been learning how to write and to interpret songs and poetry in ELA. They have also started their "Dear Canada" novel studies/ literature circles. Part of the literature circle is to share and discuss what they noticed of importance in the novel and to later write about it in their Reading Response journal.
In math we have been learning about statistics and probability and about number concepts.
We will be testing students on some of these concepts next week. This will be a snapshot of what they know and will help them to set goals or a plan of action as to what they need to learn. Many of the concepts can be practiced on math frog.com. Please ask your son or daughter to show you some of the activities online. We hope to see you next week at our Wax Museum open house.
Six Swintak class have been learning how to write and to interpret songs and poetry in ELA. They have also started their "Dear Canada" novel studies/ literature circles. Part of the literature circle is to share and discuss what they noticed of importance in the novel and to later write about it in their Reading Response journal.
In math we have been learning about statistics and probability and about number concepts.
We will be testing students on some of these concepts next week. This will be a snapshot of what they know and will help them to set goals or a plan of action as to what they need to learn. Many of the concepts can be practiced on math frog.com. Please ask your son or daughter to show you some of the activities online. We hope to see you next week at our Wax Museum open house.
Thursday, January 10, 2008
January 10th, 2008
Today we worked on our math sheets which are titled "Number Sense and Numeration: Comparing and Ordering Decimals" and "Number Sense and Numeration: Adding and Subtracting Decimals" These sheets are currently due for Friday, Jan. 11th. We also were assigned to write more poems using the Cinquain and Diamonte forms. These are due Monday. Preparation for Literature circles by completing assigned reading and sticki-noting points of interest and importance, as well as a title page, will be due Monday.
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