- field trip to Tectoria downtown. Permission letter sent home on Fri. Nov. 29
- Reminder: skate afternoon at Oak Bay Rec. tomorrow.
- F.A.M.E. field trip tomorrow afternoon
- Christmas Hamper donations!
Wow! how time is racing forward!
Homework: Spelling words this week are "Homonyms 1", sentences and test next Monday Paragraph Writers: "Aye Aye" paragraph due on Monday; your new dress-up is "Triples" (as well as previous dress-ups: because, dual strong adjectives, ly-adverb; used once in your paragraph); see handout. Awake and Dreaming: Connector role for Friday please. Science formal Lab report on Newtonian AirCars due Friday Nov. 29 please
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The cut-off for Term 1 work is this week and, in the background of each instructional day, I will also be compiling Report Cards.
Language Arts: Last Friday I asked for all students to hand in their Silent Reading Logs, based on the 20 to 35 min. blocks provided 2 or 3 times each week for students to read GRADE LEVEL novels or non-fiction and keep records in "My Reading Log" sheets. As instructed in September, a minimum of three (3) books are required to be recorded each term. Students are reminded that this is NOT free time. The quality of records and number of books completed are an important part of Language Arts assessment. The following students submitted NO records (by classroom #): 2, 6, 7, 9, 10, 12, 17, 23, 25, 28. The following students may be enthusiastic readers but have only submitted 1 complete or incomplete Reading Log, earning them a minimum mark in Reading: # 1, 11, 14, 16, 18, 19, 27. 'My Reading Logs' will continue to be used in Term 2 & 3. Good news: thanks to the 2 parent volunteers who volunteered to be adult supervisors on our Puppet Theatre field trip this Thursday Nov. 14! Our field trip is now possible. Bad news: we only have 6 out of 28 permission slips in; students may not attend unless written parent permission is provided. Urgent! Please send in permission slips for Puppet theatre field trip in 2 days time as soon as possible! Friday Nov. 8 Language Arts We presently have 2 parallel writing programs underway in our classroom, collectively called Writer's Clinic (students' yellow duotangs). The basic program is our spelling program from which 2 marks are gathered weekly. 20 words are assigned on Thursdays; students write 10 sentences due the following the Monday which I mark for sentence structure, word use, spelling and punctuation; there is also a 20 word dictation test on the Monday. Students with a combination of 3 10/10 sentences and/or 3 20/20 tests graduate' to the Powerful Paragraphs clinic. Students take notes (3 word outlines) on a paragraph of a certain topic (Stars, Snowboarding, Lichens, The Artic, etc.) and must rewrite the paragraph using 'dress-ups', or skillful use of adjectives (DSAs), adverbs, because clauses, etc. (a new dress-up added each week). Powerful paragraphs are also assigned on Thursdays and due the following Mondays. The following students (by classroom #) are missing work from 'Writer's Clinic': 1, 3, 12, 17, 2, 8. Students brainstormed a web of topics related to "wounded survivors" Div. 9's contribution to our Remembrance Day Assembly, 11:30 AM on Thursday November 7. As we lay our class' wreath, we will say 1-2 statements on our theme. I have asked students to voluntarily think about the subtopics, perhaps with some web research, to help us craft our statement tomorrow and Wednesday. Language Arts: Here are the Lit. Circle groups for our novel study on Awake and Dreaming by Kit Pearson. All students must come to Language Arts with the novel and a completed Lit. Circle role assignment. Each of the 6 roles is defined in the .pdf link below. All students should have completed Discussion Director for chapters I-IV [1-4], due last Friday. The following students (by classroom #) were not ready today: 10, All students must have the role Vocab. Enricher (5 words + definitions) due by Wed. Nov. 6. plus 1 Disc.Director question from Chapters VI and VII. Be ready; don't let your group down.
Our visit from puppeteer Tim Gosley was fun and interesting today. Students learned some ideas of how to sync mouth and words, make natural movements and discuss how to make puppets. Please look for a yellow permission letter sent home today, to be signed and returned a.s.a.p. See 'Letters to Families' tab, "dear parents: puppets" document for more details. The assignment is described below. Puppet dialogues due Mon Nov. 18, although we will film the dialogues at Merlin's Sun theatre on Thurs. Nov. 14.
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New Literature Circle NovelsBut in April and May students will be reading one of several novels about the treatment of Japanese-Canadians (Japanese-Americans) during the World War 2 era in North America. Archives
June 2014
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