Ask Me About...- We worked on our insect/bird/bat research - to find out how they fly. This is due the Thursday after our break. - We started soccer in gym. - We finished The Girl Who Owned A City ... In the end, Lisa got her city back, Craig and Erica stayed on the farm and Lisa let Tom Logan go. - We continued to learn about ways to divide. Some of us are still working on subtraction with regrouping. - We went back to our Air - Initial Thinking and added what we know now. - We interviewed our buddies about their tipi projects. - We tried to make a decision by consensus. It was super hard, chaotic and even a disaster according to some. We learned that it is hard to think of group needs over our own. - In literacy we are working on the Main Event of our story. - we figured out which multiplication facts we know. Upcoming ....- Bird project - due Thurs. April 5
- we need to learn 5 multiplication facts that we don't already know. Those Ask Me About...
Upcoming...- Parent Teacher Conferences are on Thursday afternoon/evening and Friday morning. Please book through your My CBE Account. Students are encouraged to attend. There is no school Thursday afternoon or Friday.
- Bird research projects are due Thursday. Criteria (Bird Research Success Criteria) and a partial sample (How Do Peregrine Falcon's Fly?) are in our Shared Room 7 folder. Ask Me About...- We wrote a science quiz about the control surfaces... some of us know them, some of us still need more practice. - We started to think about division ... we are using mental math strategies to make connections to multiplication and different division strategies in our number talks. - Most of us are finished our opinion paragraphs about whether Athens was fair. This will need to be finished Monday during Work on Work time if it isn't already complete. - We started an art project where we are drawing 4 different animal views. - We filmed the "pay it forward" kindness video that we are producing as a result of our conversations on Pink Shirt Day. We will start editing next week. - In The Girl Who Owned a City, Lisa's house burned down and she was devastated. She moped around for a bit until she noticed that the kids at Jill's house needed something different. She thought that they need to fix the problems they have right now and not dream of things that they won't be able to achieve, yet! - We are starting to learn about the Iroquois Confederacy as another historical model of democracy. We are reading the book, Hiawatha and the Peacemaker, the story of how 6 different First Nations joined in peace to form the Iroquois Confederacy. - We read the picture book, Nerdy Birdy Tweets, to help us think about cyberbullying and why posting pictures of others without their permission, is not good Internet citizenship. The story also has a sub-theme of 'sorry doesn't fix everything.' - In literacy, we have been adding suspense to our story beginnings using the "magic of three" technique. We use 'red flag words' to introduce a hint that something will happen. In the first hint, the main character reacts, but dismisses what they sensed, the second hint is of a greater intensity or involves a different sense. The character demonstrates a deeper reaction. On the third hint, which is also of greater intensity, something is discovered or revealed. - We watched Hannaraptor, an opera by the Calgary Opera. It was a story about family, a rare fossil find, and making choices. Although the Hannaraptor was not a real dinosaur and the story was fiction, it was based upon a real fossil find. We learned about different opera voices and although we weren't sure we would, most of us liked it. Upcoming...- We will be having another Work On Work/Board Games time on Monday.
- Please remember to change your clocks ahead this weekend. - March 22 and 23 are Parent Teacher Conferences. Please watch for more information about booking next week. Ask Me About...- We wore Pink Shirts on Wednesday to support anti-bullying. We decorated our classroom and thought about what #niceneedsnofilter meant. This brought us to a conversation around cyberbullying, our online presence, and privacy...specifically about sharing photos of ourselves and personal information online. - after watching a video about Act of Kindness we decided to make our own video for Belfast and are in the process of planning it. - We built airplanes, and tested them. We experimented with the control surfaces to learn how each surface would affect the movement of the plane. We postponed our quiz until Tuesday since we spent so much time improving our planes. - We are learning decimal multiplication, subtraction with regrouping in math. We are also learning to organize our mathematical thinking and developing strategies to clearly prove our process. - in The Girl Who Owned A City, our read aloud novel, a gang wanted Lisa to give them her food in exchange for protection. She refused because she knew about a warehouse that would provide them with food for at least a year and the children of her street are creating their own militia to protect themselves. Some of us think that the image on the front cover is the warehouse burning. - We completed the edits of our Panda Passage news article using the Word Referent and Just the Facts techniques that we learned last week. - We read the first few pages of a wordless book called Quest. We learned that WOW story beginnings include a sound effect, action, description, or character's thought or description. They should start right at the problem and in the first paragraph the reader should know the characters, the setting, and the problem. After rehearsing our ideas, through telling them to others, we wrote our own beginnings to the story and are having our peers check that we have included all of the success criteria. - We wrote a Ancient Athens quiz. Everyone knew the class structure and most students were able to identify components of the Ancient Athenian government. As I met individually with students about their results, they many were able to prove they actually understood questions they had answered incorrectly. This was a perfect opportunity to focused on strategies for reading and answering multiple choice questions! Upcoming...- Tuesday - Flight Quiz
- We will continue to develop strategies for writing an opinion piece about whether or not Ancient Athenian democracy was fair. - We will focus on developing the middle of our story as we learn to balance thoughts, actions, dialogue, and characters' thoughts and descriptions. |
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