November 2 to 6

 

Important Dates and information:

November 2 and 3 - PARENT/TEACHER CONVERSATIONS AND EARLY DISMISSAL 

Time	Mon. Nov 2	Tues. Nov 3
1:00 – 1:15	Charlie	Avery
1:15 – 1:30	Zoe	Eli
1:30 – 1:45	Lucas	Caylee TEAMS
1:45 – 2:00	Kaden	Munroe
2:00 – 2:15	Tavis	Kayeith TEAMS
2:15 – 2:30	Charlotte	Logan
2:30 – 2:45	Taylor	Isla TEAMS
2:45 – 3:00	Caydence TEAMS
3:00 – 3:15	Luna	Airianna
3:15 – 3:30	Garrettt	Zach TEAMS
Other date / times?…

 

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Virtual Book Fair! 

Save the Date Dear families, 

Mark your calendars! The fun and excitement of a Scholastic Book Fair is coming to our school! To adapt to our changing needs, Scholastic has developed a Virtual Book Fair to provide an opportunity for our students and families to experience the joy of reading together. So save the date! Our Scholastic Virtual Book Fair will take place on OCT 22nd - NOV 5th. 

When it’s time to shop, visit our school’s Virtual Book Fair site using this link: 

https://virtualbookfairs.scholastic.ca/pages/5149803

Before our Fair begins, click the link to: • SAVE it to your browser • WATCH videos of popular new titles • PREVIEW our Featured Books Watch for news leading up to our Scholastic Virtual Book Fair!

from Mrs. Merkel...

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November 11 - Remembrance Day - prerecorded by Mrs. Bain - whole school will view it on classroom Smart-boards.

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Learning opportunities this week...
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Language Arts - we started LITERATURE CIRCLES... working at - a novel of their choice. We will complete chunk #2 and #3 readings and conferences this week.
                   

           This will be in small groups, choosing a book from my list, at their reading level.

Our main reading goal in this book is to do book discussions and writing about each 'chunk' we read.

Novel Study - November 2020

  ~Name: ___________________

Novel	Chunk # 1	Chunk # 2	Chunk # 3	Chunk # 4	Chunk # 5
Island of the Blue Dolphins	Pages... 1 – 35	36 – 70	71 - 105	106 - 140	141 – 174
The Metro Dogs of Moscow	1 – 39	40 - 78	79 - 117	118 - 156	157 – 196
Feather Brain	1 - 25	26 - 50	51 - 75	76 - 100	101 – 123
Hatchet	1 – 39	40 - 73	74 - 112	113 - 149	150 – 181
Stone Fox	1 – 16	17 - 33	34 - 51	52 - 67	68 – 83
The Meanest Hound Around	1 - 30	31 - 60	61 - 90	91 - 119	120 – 150

 

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The Lemonade Crime - comic summaries will be shared this week.

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~Word Work - Unit 8 will be practiced this week. Complete all your work.

                        - list words will always be in the agendas.
                      - Unit #8 study all list words and the challenge words; TEST on Friday.
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Math - ... We will revisit multiplication skills as daily warm-ups.

~ Our new math unit of study is patterns in numbers, t-tables, perimeter patterns, increasing and decreasing patterns,... AND BEING ABLE TO STATE THE PATTERN RULE FOR EACH PATTERN WE FIND.

~ This is a pre-algebra unit of math.  

PRACTICE YOUR MULTIPLICATION... Multiplication Deep Dive

and ADDITION... Deep Dive Addition   AND Deep Dive Subtraction

We now all have access to MATHLETICS to work at school or at home. Students will have a chance to work on the current math curricular areas in class and at home. Usernames and passwords will be sent home soon. 

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Health ~  "Keep Moving" unit... study the benefits of being physically active
            ~ Social Emotional Learning lessons

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Career Education - goal setting and how to achieve short-term goals 

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Science -will resume after the socials mapping unit.

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Socials - mapping skills have begun!

- pencil-to-paper booklets and...

online mapping...

PRACTICE THESE SITES at school and HOME!

1. Continents puzzle

2. Continents and oceans game

3. Canadian Geography MAPS

4. Challenging World Geography

5. World-geography-games EXTRA CHALLENGING

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PE - new unit on strategy games
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ART - REMEMBRANCE DAY ART

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Technology Skills - learning how to use POWERPOINT effectively
                              - on laptops - creative writing integration.
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CONGRATS to  GARRETT for earning WORKER OF THE WEEK last week and 

.... earned 10 house team points! Great efforts = great results! 
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