January 30 to February 3

Special Notes / Events: 

MOST students are in need of much more practice on division facts.
Here are many games to help... Division Games

Try your best!

Welcome to Mr. Brousseau, a practicum student in our class!

Swim Days - Feb 15, March 15 - more details to come.

Thursday at 9:40... Technology - "Coding" with guest Mr. McKenzie. Bonus lesson.  Test to follow...


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L. ARTS...

1.  Reading Comprehension tests.

2.  NEW Novel Study...

Started January 26, 2017     *** NEW NOVEL STUDY combined with Drama

 “Be” the main character and act like and/or discuss him / her / it in detail.

 

Criteria:

 MAIN CHARACTER:

• Character’s appearance clearly shown in what you wear and how you move, talk, and act.
• Character’s personality traits are acted out/discussed as you present in class.
• Act out what he/she does and/or says that makes him/her important in your novel (can include friends, relatives, enemies, and any relationships the character has with others in the book).

PROBLEM: Talk about the problem in the story.

RESOLUTION: Act out and explain how the character solves/does not solve the problem in the story.

MORAL: Show, by acting, how the character learns something (a lesson, moral, a theme) and describe what he/she learned.

RECOMMENDATIONS: Talk about whether you would recommend the novel for others to read.

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*Must talk about the title of book, author’s name, your name (your character’s name), and today’s date.

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Presentations start on Monday, February 6, 2017.

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Word Power:
We are going to focus on writing more complex sentences and structures... as shown last two blog entries.

Word Work #19 - Words and 5 Vocabulary sentences to be handed in each week
                            - TEST on Friday - 20 words.       
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Weekly Journal Entries continue.
             -integrated into our Language Arts NOVEL STUDY.
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Math -Division! Study what it means and practice your facts.

Division Flashcards        Visual Division  - click '99' and then "Are remainders welcome?" then the arrow.
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Please continue to practice your multiplication facts as well. It will help you as division is the inverse operation of multiplication!

Deep Dive Multiplication 
      
Sketch World Multiplication

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Career Project - see previous entries for details! Due dates are closer than they appear!!!
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Socials - life aboard the open seas + info graphic
             - explorers
             - reasons for exploring
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Science - Genius Hour... taking SHAPE!!! What's your passion? You need to start showing progress in your findings and know your subject deeper.

 What is GENIUS HOUR? 

What else is GH?     
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PE - Basketball - last week.
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Technology - "Coding" with guest Mr. McKenzie.   Practice CODING!
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ART - Graffiti ART due Monday, January 30.
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Congrats to KENDELL for being the latest Worker of the Week!