October 18 to 22

  Important Dates / Information  

October 18 - Fire Drill @ 11 am. PAC Meeting at 7pm on ZOOM.

October 21 = Earthquake Drill

October 22  - PRO-D Day

October 29 = Orange and Black Day / Hallowe'en Activities and costumes...

 

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Learning opportunities this week...
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Language Arts - we have FINISHED reading  book two in the series...

Post-Reading Challenge: Act out the three most important parts of the book at the beginning, the middle, and the ending.

Use the following characters in your DRAMA!

Evan – the plaintiff (the crime was against him)

Jessie – Evan’s lawyer

Scott – the defendant (the person accused of committing the crime)

Ryan, Kevin, Paul, Jack, Malik, Adam – Witnesses

Megan and 11 others – Jury

Anna and others - audience

David Kirkorian – Judge

Others… Scott’s mom = lawyer; his dad = financial advisor.

 Your drama scenes must have speaking parts and actions that reflect the actual events in the book.

Remember there are 3 sections! Try for about 2 minutes each.

A script can be helpful, but it is not needed if you know the story. WORK HARD!

Present on Wednesday.

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~Word Work - Unit 6 - 3 groups - handed out on Mondays

                        and then the rest needs to be worked on at home. Students are

                       responsible for bringing home their list words.

                      - work at the word and letter patterns...

                      - HAND IN FINISHED WORD WORK PAPER ON the last day of each week.
                      - Unit #6 study all list words and the challenge words; TEST on Thursday.


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

GRAMMAR TIME PRACTICE THIS WEEK...

Learning...	Day
Sentence fragments, use of CAPITALS.	Mon
Types of sentences.	Tues
Mechanics.	Wed
Proofreading.	Thurs
TEST	THURS

Correct spelling is an essential piece of this as well.

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Math - ADDING AND SUBTRACTING WITH DECIMALS

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

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Health ~ Social Emotional Learning lessons

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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 - The Scientific Method - Finished the unit

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Socials - Mapping Skills!

- pencil-to-paper booklets and...

online mapping...

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

2. Canadian Geography MAPS

3. Challenging World Geography

4. World-geography-games EXTRA CHALLENGING

 
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PE - inventive games / strategy games like Speedball
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French -  les corps in French

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Art - Name Tangles

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Drama - Lemonade Crime court re-enactment!

- The Case of the Missing Dentures = coming soon!
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Technology Skills - Mapping Skills

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

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