Important Dates and Information:
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Nov 18th, 25th, and Dec 9 = Skating at Kinsmen Arena.
- bus leaves HES around 8:45am; returns around 10:25am.
~Remember that helmets are required!
~If you do not own skates, the Kinsmen Arena has many pairs of used skates your child may use, but no helmets.
Any parents who are available and willing to help tie skates, on any of the skating days... that would be appreciated! Thanks in advance! Parents can join us as well (no siblings of students please - they have their own skating days).
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Tuesday, November 10th - REMEMBRANCE DAY CEREMONY in the gym at 11am. __Aubree__ and ___AJ__ are the wreath carriers for our class.
*All students are asked to dress in black, white, and/or red if possible.
Wednesday, November 11 =Stat. Holiday
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November 20 = Pro-D & no school for students
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November 25 - Evacuation practice @ 2pm.
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November 30 - ART Fundraiser purchased will be delivered this week.
- Food Bank Donations welcomed!
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December 2 = Children's Christmas Choir - 7 to 8pm.
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December 4 - House Team Activity @ 1:30 to 2:30.
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December 8 = Create a Diorama
This part of the biomes project will be completed at school.
IN ADVANCE, AT HOME... begin to collect A SHOE BOX / SMALL BOX AND ... any small items that will make a diorama look realistic to the chosen biome and ecosystem. Some ideas are small pebbles, pieces of pine trees, small plastic animals or palm trees, cotton balls for clouds or snow, small shrubs or bushes, plastic plants, shells, sand or anything else.
These items should be brought to school on December 8th (not before this date) for the dioramas.
All other materials such as paint, plasticine, pipe cleaners, paper, glue will be provided by the school.
Tropical Rainforest sample.
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Arctic Tundra
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Hot Desert
December 10 and 11 = PRESENT YOUR BIOME RESEARCH AND DIORAMA!
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December 11 - LEARNING UPDATE #1 (report cards) goes home with students.
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December 15 - Concert rehearsal in the afternoon; PERFORMANCE AT 6:30pm.
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December 17 - School-wide turkey dinner starts at 11:00am to 12:30pm.
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December 18 - last day of school before 2 week break.
- PJ Day, pancake breakfast, BINGO.
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January 4, 2027 = first day of school in the new year!
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Learning opportunities this week...
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Language Arts - Reading / learning about biomes (science related).
~ Writing = 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 5 powerful, image-creating paragraphs by looking at the picture of your chosen BIOME and adding sensory details to tell your own adventure story. Create additional details to construct new experiences of sights, sounds, smells, tastes, and feelings in your story within the following guidelines...
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Mission Possible!
Your mission, which you have already chosen to accept, is this…
~Your writing begins with you… exploring your biome (scene) that you selected. You will describe many parts, with ample detail, as taught in class, and 'go hiking' in your biome. Near the end, you realize that you are lost!
~Make the reader feel part of your writing!
~All writing is in first-person format.
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You can do this!
First draft is due Thursday, November 19.
Final published draft on laptops is due date: Friday, November 27th.
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~ Writing sentences - we are working at increasing our accuracy when we communicate in writing.
DAILY WRITING PRACTICE...
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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~Word Work - Unit 9 - since students are starting from different levels of spelling, there will be different groups, according to where they are at, as observed in class. Students may increase or decrease in levels, depending on their written outputs.
- All NEW units are handed out on Mondays and last week's unit is graded and returned with suggestions for improvements.
- We work on them for 30 minutes, and then the rest needs to be worked on at home, if incomplete.
- Students who work at the word and letter patterns, connect the sounds letters make, understand what the words mean, know how to use them in sentences,... leads to spelling and vocabulary comprehension improvements!
*Students are
responsible for bringing home their "working with words" handout at the beginning of each week. There are activities on the
pages; practicing word patterns, meanings of words, etc,.. Students must return the page for grading on the
last day of the week.
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Math - Patterns in math: increasing, decreasing, repeating. Leads to t-tables, algebra skills, and more!
Click to practice...
Try some games to practice your skills!
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Health ~ C.O.R.E with Mrs. E (Social Emotional Learning)
This month is Integrity!
and...
~ Healthy eating from the Canada Food Guide
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Career Education - goal setting and how to achieve a long term goal
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Science - will continue after our mapping unit.
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Socials - Mapping skills: using online and real maps to learn about continents, oceans, Canadian provinces and territories, and their respective capital cities. Also, how to read maps, using a scale, legend, directional indicators, and more.
Click below, in order, to practice...
1. Continents & oceans tutorial.
3. Continents-and-oceans-globe spinning game
4. Canada - practice your P & T names!
5. Canadian Provinces / Territories
6. Find the Canadian capital cities!
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PE - basketball skills and drills
- working on ball control, dribbling, passing, shooting,...
offense and defense positioning and skills
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Art - 2-Faced PICASSO Monster ART!
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Drama - novel tableaux in groups.
- The Case of the Missing Dentures!
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Technology Skills - learning how to use MS WORD effectively
WANT EXTRA Practice? Improve your typing skills at home!... by clicking below...
Dance-mat-typing - Home row!
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House Teams - Wear your colour and/or HUSKIES GEAR on the last day of the week!
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CONGRATS to LIAM for earning WORKER OF THE WEEK last week and.... earning 25 house team points! Great efforts = great results!
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