Friday, October 21, 2016

Pumpkin decorating

We got in the spirit of Halloween this week and decorated 
some mini pumpkins. Here are a few of the finished products! 




Thursday, October 20, 2016

Bridge to Terabithia

We have begun Bridge to Terabithia. There will be times when students will need to access the story from home to work on questions, etc. They can do this by going to the following link: Bridge to Terabithia full text pdf

Sunday, October 16, 2016

October update

Math - Numeration unit tests were handed back last week as well as Patterning quizzes. The patterning test review will be taken up tomorrow and the unit test is on Tuesday, October 18th. The next unit will be Data Management.

Language - Final drafts of autobiographies are now due. Thanksgiving recounts are also to be finished and handed in as soon as possible. We will begin a new novel study this week on Bridge to Terabithia. Our next writing unit will be on friendly letters, which we'll begin towards the end of October. 

Religion - We will begin our digital citizenship unit soon. Click on the following link to learn more: Digital citizenship

Hope everyone's having a great weekend and enjoying the nice weather!

Tuesday, October 4, 2016

Autobiography

We are in the self and peer editing phases of the autobiography. Students should be following the COPS strategy that they learned in class. Rough drafts are due Wednesday, October 5th.

Here is a link to the planning sheet that students used to brainstorm and then create their 6-7 paragraphs of the rough draft.

Planning sheet

And, here is the link to the marking criteria sheet.

Marking criteria