Interesting

I was listening to a CBC program today and wanted to share.  The program was discussing personal branding in a technological age.  Under The Influence broadcast

Also of interest please take a moment to watch this news story about a potentially dangerous social media app.  CBC News Story

Week of April 25th

MATH - Patterning quiz Tuesday (today) was very well done and will go home on Friday to be signed.  Here is a video to help with the nth term Nth Term Video
- We will be working with the nth term (finding unknown terms in a sequence) and solving for the unknown
LITERACY - We have moved on to poetry.  We are writing an All About Me Poem where we choose a par of us that we like the most and write a poem that follows a pattern.  We then have to take a photo that expresses our creativity and use of interesting angles.  This dues Monday and will be homework if not completed during class time.
ROTARY - We are starting rotary SCIENCE with Ms. Lehr today and will continue science for 3 weeks.  This your last rotation for the entire year!

Week of April 18th

This week our MATH focus is changing to Patterning and Algebra.  We will be reviewing variables and graphing a linear equation, as well as determining the nth term and solving for an unknown in the next few days.
Here is a good video to help students understand finding the Nth Term
LITERACY this week is focused on our reading strategy of synthesis and our writing process of PLAN, DRAFT, REVISE and EDIt using Google Docs and a graphic organizer.

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Reading Assignments

We have been finishing up our conferences about our children's narrative story and the reading strategies assignments.  Last Friday we read our books to Grade 1 & 2 students in Mrs. Marley's class.  We had to act like the teacher and ask questions about the text, sing our reading strategies of predicting, inferring, analysis, synthesizing and making connections.

Logan took a book nook break in Mrs. Marley's class.

TEST Tomorrow

Just a reminder that we have a MATH test Thursday, April 14th.  We are being tested on area of trapezoids, parallelograms, triangles, rectangles and composite (irregular) shapes.  All formulas will be provided.

This WEEK - April 4th - 8th

This week we are working on:
1.  LITERACY - completing our connections to the children's story we will be reading (orally) to another primary class on Friday.  The Text to world, media, self, or another text bigger assignment should be completed this week and handed in on Friday.  This might involve making a movie, slide show, plasticine scene, etc.  Some of this work should be done at home this week.
2.  MATH - we are working on area of triangles and trapezoids this week.  Check out these videos to help with any homework.  Test next WEEK on APRIL 14th!  The test will cover AREA of triangles, rectangles, parallelograms, trapezoids and composite (irregular) figures.
HOMEWORK this week includes page 21, 22, 37 and 38 (area of Triangles and Parallelograms) and 34 (Area of Trapezoids) and page 141.
We will have Friday and Monday as in class study sessions and practice.
Area of Triangles
Area of a Trapezoid
3. ROTARY - We have moved on to Ms. Woodley's classroom for geography for the next few weeks.
4.  ART - some students still need to complete their Dream Sequence with Chagall and Koru Spirals.
5.  PHED - We are working on volleyball skills and game play.  I am assessing the student's ability to use the skills taught (volley, bump and underhand serve) to play a recreational level game of volleyball.

As always students should be reading nightly for a minimum of 20 minutes.