Important Dates / Information
December 1 = Share your Science projects
December 13 = our XMAS Concert
December 17 = Last day of school before the Christmas Break.
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Learning opportunities this week...
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Language Arts...
Reading - novel study...
Working at reading strategies, discussing main ideas versus details, summarizing, character analyses, comprehension, and effective verbal communication.
Chapter 10 - this week
~Word Work - Unit 12 - 3 groups - AT THEIR SPELLING LEVELS.
- handed out on Mondays and then the rest needs
to be completed 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 #12 study all list words and the challenge words; TEST on Friday.
~Sensory Imagery Writing
~ SHARING THESE THIS WEEK.
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Math - multiplication by '7' this week. Practice here...
- SIMPLE input / output machines
- Box Multiplication strategy
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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 - BIOMES - SEE PREVIOUS BLOG POST FOR DETAILS
Body systems research project... STUDYING
- muscular-skeletal system
- respiratory system
- circulatory system
- digestive system.
- studying the names of various organs and how they function within each body system.
- create a model of your chosen body system.
DUE WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1ST. SHARE YOUR PROJECT!
Here are the topics they chose...
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Biomes 5 groups |
Respiratory 1 group |
Digestive 3 groups |
Muscular 1 group |
Circulatory 2 groups |
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Audrey and Camryn = Coral Reef
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Kenley, Faith, Elliot |
Lucas, Asher, Josh |
Kayeith, Tye, Eli |
Alexa and Aspen |
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Taylor = Arctic Tundra
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Tehlia and Holland |
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Holly and Deklin |
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Micky = Boreal Forest
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Lukas, Aiden |
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Calen and Chance = Coral Reef
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Cooper = Tropical Rainforest
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Socials
- Mapping Skills include: reading and interpreting maps, cardinal
directions, continents, oceans, Canadian geography, using grids,
latitude and longitude this week,... many other skills.
Cool Country Report starts this week: study one country to get a better understanding of location, size, population, food, clothing, art, traditions, animals, sports, monuments, important people,...
online mapping...
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 - Floor hockey skills.
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French - the weather - vocab and conversational French!
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Art - TBA
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Drama
- linked to our novel... it's a secret! SHHHH!
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Technology Skills - Mapping Skills
-researching for science / socials
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CONGRATS to... CALEN for earning WORKER
OF THE WEEK last week...
