November 1 to 5

 Important Dates / Information   

MASKS: A reminder to parents to please pack masks for your student. We have a limited supply in the office, so we would really appreciate your help with this matter!

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Wednesday, November 3rd  - MRS. BAIN IS RECORDING THE WREATH LAYERS... GRADE 4-6 is at 10:55-11:10. This is for Elliot and Joshua. Wreath layers wear red, white, or black for the recording. There will also be a recording of the audio and video for our class song/poems on NOV 3rd and...ALL students please wear red, white, or black on this day. Mrs. Bain has poppies that will be pinned for the recordings and will pass them back to teachers for students to wear on the 10th.

Wednesday, November 10 = VIRTUAL REMEMBRANCE DAY CEREMONY

Thursday, November 11 = REMEMBRANCE DAY = NO SCHOOL

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Learning opportunities this week...
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Language Arts - New novel study!

~ Students choose from 10 novels and read 30minutes each day.

~ Next, they complete a "CHUNKING SHEET." 

This means reading responses from our novel study...

chunking sheets describing likes, dislikes, questions, and patterns with plenty of detail.

Chunking Sheet Guidelines

 

What I liked…  Use complete sentences to explain any event(s) in the ‘chunk’ you enjoyed. It could be when a character said or did something that was interesting to you. Explain your likes with evidence from what you read or reasons!  ~ Minimum 3 sentences.

 

What I disliked…  Use complete sentences to explain any event(s) in the ‘chunk’ you disliked. It could be when a character said or did something that you simply did not like.  Explain your dislikes with evidence from what you read or reasons!  ~ Minimum 3 sentences.

 

Puzzles or Questions…  Use complete sentences (and a question mark at the end) to write 3 powerful questions. These questions are things that puzzled you. Remember that powerful questions usually begin with HOW or WHY. Powerful questions do not have a one word answer. ~ Minimum 2 questions.

Patterns… Use complete sentences to explain any patterns you found in this ‘chunk.’ Patterns might include story events, words / phrases a character repeats, or how the author writes. Explain your patterns with evidence or reasons!  ~ Minimum 2 sentences.

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~Word Work - Unit 8 - 3 groups - AT THEIR SPELLING LEVELS.

                        - handed out on Mondays and then the rest needs

                           to be completes at home. Students are

                       responsible for bringing home their list words.

                      - work at the word, sound, and letter patterns...

                      - HAND IN FINISHED WORD WORK PAPER ON the last day of each week.
                      - Unit #8 study all list words and the challenge words; TEST on Friday.


~ Writing sentences - we are working at increasing our accuracy when we communicate in writing                   

WRITING / GRAMMAR TIME PRACTICE THIS WEEK...

1. Reading responses from our novel study... chunking sheets describing likes, dislikes, questions, and patterns with plenty of detail.

2. Edit your writing. 

3. Use proper sentence structures.

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Math - multiplication of 0, 1, 2, 3 this week.

 Deep Dive Multiplication

ADDING AND SUBTRACTING WITH DECIMALS

Lots of 'MENU MATH' where we use real menus from local restaurants and order meals, make change,... FINANCIAL LITERACY.

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Health ~ Keep Moving unit 

            ~ promoting the importance of strength, endurance, and flexibility activities and the major benefits of regular vigorous activity each week! 

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Career Education - goal setting and how to achieve a long term goal 

                               - weekly planning in our agendas

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Science -Skeletal system coming soon

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Socials - Mapping Skills include: reading and interpreting maps, cardinal directions, continents, oceans, Canadian geography, using grids, latitude and longitude,... many other skills.

- pencil-to-paper booklets and...

online mapping...

PRACTICE THESE SITES at school and HOME!
 
1. Continents and oceans game

2a). Canada: locate the province / territory

2b) Canada: identify the capital city

 
3. Challenging World Geography

4. World-geography-games EXTRA CHALLENGING

 5. Mapping Game Directions
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PE - volleyball skills: volleying, setting, under-hand volleys, reverse volleys and bumps, serving, and rules and positional play.
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French - 

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Art - Remembrance Day ART project.

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Drama -  The Case of the Missing Dentures = know your lines without looking at the paper... Performance day is Thursday, Nov 4! Please dress up for your part if you can.
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Technology Skills - Mapping Skills

                              - using BOOK CREATOR

                              - MATHLETICS. TEAMS.
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CONGRATS to... ELLIOT for earning WORKER OF THE WEEK last week...

and.. earning 10 house team points! Great efforts = great results!