November 22 to 26

  Important Dates / Information   

November 24 = Crazy hair day!

November 25 = Bring in all materials for your BIOME DIORAMA.

                       = Due date for Sensory Imagery FINAL DRAFT IN PEN!

November 26 = No school. 

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Learning opportunities this week...
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Language Arts... 

Reading - NEW novel study...

 

Working at reading strategies, discussing main ideas versus details, summarizing, character analyses, comprehension, and effective verbal communication. 

Chapter 1... leads to successive chapters

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~Word Work - Unit 11 - 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 #11 study all list words and the challenge words; TEST on Thursday.
 

~Sensory Imagery Writing

Sensory details allow the reader to put themselves into your writing mentally by forming a picture in his/her mind. Without sensory details, the reader becomes bored and cannot emotionally connect to the story.

Sensory details include words that describe sights, sounds, textures, smells, and sometimes tastes of the setting, characters, and interactions.

Directions: Write powerful, image-creating sentences by looking at the image of your BIOME and adding sensory details. Make up additional details to construct new sentences.

 

            "After three hours of hiking in the desert biome in Arizona, I paused to admire my surroundings..."

Students will write specific details of what the observe in their chosen photo, then sounds, smells, tastes, and feelings / emotions,... culminating with them pretending they are lost in the biome! Character self-talk is needed in each paragraph.  

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Mission Possible!

Your mission, which you must choose to accept, is this…

~Your writing begins with you exploring your biome (scene) that you selected. You will describe many parts with plenty of detail and near the end you realize that you are lost!

~Make the reader feel part of your writing!

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I know you can do this!          

FINAL Draft Due date: November 25 using a pen.

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Math - multiplication by '6' this week. Practice here...

 Deep Dive Multiplication

 

 - SIMPLE EXPRESSIONS AND EQUATIONS

Examples: If m=6, the find the value of (4 x m + 8)

Solve:    8 x t = 32

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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

CLICK HERE! 

Body systems research project... STUDYING 

1. muscular-skeletal system
2. respiratory system
3. circulatory system
4. digestive system.
   

- studying the names of various organs and how they function within each body system.

- create a model of your chosen body system.

Here are the topics they chose...

Biomes 5 groups	Respiratory 1 group	Digestive 3 groups	Muscular 1 group	Circulatory 2 groups
Audrey and Camryn = Coral Reef	Kenley, Faith, Elliot	Lucas, Asher, Josh	Kayeith, Tye, Eli	Alexa and Aspen
Taylor = Arctic Tundra		Tehlia and Holland		Holly and Deklin
Micky = Boreal Forest		Lukas, Aiden
Calen and Chance = Coral Reef
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,... many other skills.

- pencil-to-paper booklets and...

online mapping...

TEST ON CANADA PROVINCES / TERRITORIES AND THEIR CAPITAL CITIES THIS WEEK!
 
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 - Fantasy map continued.

FANTASY MAP - PART 1

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Drama -  3-part summary for our novels
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Technology Skills - Mapping Skills

                              -researching for science

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CONGRATS to... TAYLOR for earning WORKER OF THE WEEK last week...

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