Important Dates / Information
December 13 = our XMAS Concert - our class is asked to wear things like... dark clothes with sunglasses, bandanas around the head or wrist, leather jacket, rips in jeans, big necklaces,...
~ more information to come regarding drop off times and pick up times from Mrs. Bain this week.
December 16 = UGLY SWEATER CHALLENGE!
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 and reading responses - novel study...
Working
at reading strategies, discussing main ideas versus details,
summarizing, character analyses, comprehension, and effective verbal
communication.
We will finish the novel this week!
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~Word Work - Unit 13 - 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 #13 study all list words and the challenge words; TEST on Friday.
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Math - multiplication by '8' this week. Practice here...
Deep Dive Multiplication
- Box Multiplication strategy - learning up to 5 digit x 1 digit
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Health ~ finished until term two!
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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- Finished all projects - great work!
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Socials
- Mapping Skills include: reading and interpreting maps, cardinal
directions, continents, oceans, Canadian geography, using grids,
latitude and longitude CONTINUED this week,... many other skills.
Cool
Country Report is almost finished! study one country to get a better
understanding of location, size, population, food, clothing, art,
traditions, animals, sports, monuments, important people,...
PRO / CON DEBATES! We will be practicing our debating skills by thinking of advantages and disadvantages to a variety of issues, questions, and scenarios!
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PE - Team games.
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French - the weather - vocab and conversational French.
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Art - Winter Wonderland MURALS
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From 1 PM to 2 PM
... ON DECEMBER 16, …WE ARE HAVING AN…
****UGLY SWEATER CHALLENGE****
All students are asked to bring in a
sweater/shirt/vest that
will be the base for the UGLY SWEATER DESIGNS.
(You can use an old
shirt or sweater or buy a plain one).
~ Mr. B. bought a long-sleeve red shirt at the Salvation
Army for $1.50. DOLLAR TREE HAS THESE
TOO! It will be the base.
~We will be hot gluing and attaching various items to our
sweater/shirt/vest. So, if you have any
extra Christmas items that are not being used, please bring
them to class this week in
preparation for Thursday afternoon. MR. BARTRAW HAS A LOT
OF ITEMS ALREADY, BUT
THE MORE OPTIONS, THE BETTER!
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Items could
include:
~ garland, ornaments, bells, craft foam, small tree
boughs, pine cones, cotton balls, tinsel,
old XMAS lights, ... and ANYTHING that might make
someone's sweater design UGLY!
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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... ELI for earning WORKER
OF THE WEEK last week...
and.. earning 10
house team points! Great efforts = great results!
