Day 1- Whisper Wednesday

Announcements

- Sign and Return Math Test tomorrow

- Christmas Spirit Day tomorrow

- Library Books need to be returned before the Holidays

Check out of Christmas Spirit Door!!

Music: 

French: Take a look at Mme. Stella's blog https://stjudesfrench-stella.blogspot.com

Inquiry into Language:
After French we completed our Lesson 15 spelling test. When we finished our spelling test I challenged to students to see if they could silently arrange themselves into a straight line from shortest to tallest. They used an effective strategy to do so by allowing one student to take charge in arranging the rest of their peers.

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Inquiry into Math:
We had our first lesson on Fractions this afternoon. We went over what some of the key terms are from this unit. Today's lesson focused on identifying what what the numerator and denominator of a fraction is, along with using a fraction to shade in that representation. During our lesson we discussed the difference between proper and improper fractions and briefly went over some examples.

Proper fractions: represents less than a whole-- the numerator is always smaller or equal to the denominator (ex. 5/7 = five sevenths)

Improper fractions: represents more than a whole-- the numerator is larger than the denominator (ex. 8/ 5 = eight fifths)

We also discussed how fractions have to be equal parts. When drawing a shape to represent a fraction we need to insure the parts are equal (or close to it).

Unit of Inquiry/ Door Decorating:
This afternoon we listened to the read aloud of Goldilocks And The Three Bears. We discussed which genre this book was and what makes it fall under that category. To reflect on the features of fairytales, we individually completed a graphic organizer reflecting on the: setting, characters, magic characteristics, problem and solution of this story.

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Inquiry into Language:
At the end of the day we completed our second OWA.

AGENDA:
- Read for 25 minutes
- Math fractions worksheet
- Unit of Inquiry Fairytale worksheet
- Sign and Return Math Test

Day 6- Teamwork Tuesday

Daily Announcements

- Bake sale Wednesday and Thursday
- Lunch Orders due by 3:00 tomorrow
- Christmas Spirit Dress Day Thursday

This morning we had our final Christmas Rehearsal. After this we worked on our Christmas Math review package.

Look at this great bunch of students all ready for their Christmas performance!! I am so proud of how hard they have worked on this performance 💜💚👏💙💛

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In the afternoon we had our first Christmas Concert performance. I was so proud of our class for how well they did! Take a look at their afternoon performance below. When our performance was finished we continued to work on our Christmas Language package. 

Silly Faces

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After snack, we continued to work on our door decorations for the context on Thursday. We are very close to being finished and hope we win the class Pizza Party!!

Thank you to all parents who stayed for the duration of the whole Christmas Concert. The students had a lot of fun when they came back to the school dance party!

Day 5: Music Monday

Daily Announcements

- Tomorrow is our Christmas Concert!!! Come to school dressed in your outfits for the afternoon and evening performance
- Lunch orders due December 19th

- Bake sale Wednesday and Thursday 
- Casual Day Wednesday
- Christmas Colour Spirit Day Thursday

Please ensure students arrive at school tomorrow by 8:45 as we begin bussing at 9:00. As for the evening performances, students are to arrive between 5:45 and 6:00 and are to remain at the school for the duration of the concert.

A message from our Librarian:

Check out this opportunity to train with some Real Madrid Foundation coaches in July

Today was our first Christmas Concert rehearsal at The Dome. Ms. Chiappetta's class joined us for the day as Ms. Chiappetta was at The Dome assisting with the show!

Inquiry into Language:

This morning we worked on our Lesson 15 spelling unit. Our test this week will be on Wednesday as we have fun activities planned for Thursday. I cannot wait for the surprise!

Look how cute we looked at our Christmas Concert Rehearsal

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Inquiry into Math:

Today and tomorrow we will be completing a review package of the addition, subtraction, multiplication and division operations we learned this year. 

Christmas Concert Rehearsal

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Inquiry into Language Continued:

In class we reviewed what nouns, adjectives and verbs are and came up with some examples as a class. Today and tomorrow we will be completing a language package involving Mad Libs around the Holidays. Students are getting creative with this when it comes to selecting adjectives, nouns and verbs to fill the blanks. 

AGENDA:

- Spelling: Lesson 15 + Sentences due Wednesday

- Spelling Test Wednesday

- Read for 25 minutes

Day 4- Fun Friday

Daily Announcements

- Monday is Christmas Concert Dress Rehearsal
- Lunch orders due December 19th

- Bake sale Wednesday and Thursday 
- Casual Day Wednesday
- Christmas Colour Spirit Day Thursday

Inquiry into Math:
This morning we continued to work with our partner on the introduction activity to our new math unit. I'm happy to see that we remember how to determine the numerator and denominator of our fractions, and what these numbers represent. I'm excited to get started on our Fraction and Decimal Unit!

French: Take a look at Mme. Stella's blog https://stjudesfrench-stella.blogspot.com

Inquiry into Language: 
After french completed our Lesson 14 spelling test. Then we took up our metaphor homework. We are working on seeing beyond the literal meaning of words used in a metaphor to understand the true meaning of a phrase.

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Unit of Inquiry:
Today we focused on Fiction books-- both fantasy and realistic fiction books. We reviewed the features of each of these subgenres to help us later identify whether the story read was fantasy fiction or realistic fiction. We listened to two read alouds: a fantasy and realistic fiction one. As a class we discussed whether the story was fantasy or realistic fiction and justified our answers using our knowledge of each subgenre. The fantasy story we read was "Not Your Typical Dragon". The realistic fiction book was "Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day!"As we continue to read books at home and at school, I encourage the students to reflect on the genre of their book and provide reasoning for why they think it is that genre.

Art/ Christmas Door Decorating
Today was Fun Friday! We have a Door Decorating Contest happening where the best classroom door that represents Christmas Spirit wins a Pizza Party. This afternoon we worked very hard on putting our ideas into action and began to assemble the components for our door. I cannot wait to see what the final product will look like as the students worked very hard on putting everything together. I was very happy to have witnessed some terrific communication and teamwork amongst all classmates today!

AGENDA
- Fiction and Non-fiction Cut-and-Paste
- Read for 25 minutes