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.

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.