Day 2!

Announcements

- Gym is tomorrow
- Math test Monday
- Lunch orders due Wednesday, September 25th

Fall Fundraiser 
TOMORROW IS... 
Tuesday: POPCORN DAY

The rest of the week is as follows... 
Wednesday: ICE CREAM SANDWICH DAY
Thursday: WACKY THURSDAY
Friday: ELECTRONICS PARTY

The Grades 3- 6 students will attend Glow Zone if they bring in a minimum of $40 in donations. Permission forms and pledge forms went home last week. All money and pledge forms are due by next Friday.
What's better than a pizza party... pizza and a movie!The top fundraising class wins a movie and pizza party! Let's go Ms. Foti's class! 

 

Inquiry into Language

Students worked on Lesson 3 in their spelling workbooks. Once they finished, they silent read.

 

Unit of Inquiry

We had a very busy day in UOI today. First, we watched a video explaining a little bit about why we celebrate Orange Shirt Day. Students created a badge to support Orange Shirt Day, which will be voted on by Ms. Hayward to make in to an actual badge for everyone to wear on Orange Shirt day. 

 

Then I read the story "Honouring the Buffalo." While I was reading this, we stopped to discuss the importance of the Buffalo to the Indigenous Peoples, and how certain parts of the buffalo were used to create items for the Indigenous. The students came to realize that the buffalo was so sacred to the Indigenous Peoples because it sacrificed itself for their survival, along with how the Indigenous People were able to use every part of the buffalo to make items they required in their daily life. They should be able to identify the items that were made from the buffalo, and which part of the buffalo these items were made from. 

At the end of the day, we read through an article about the Metis people, who are individuals that have both Indigenous and European backgrounds. As a class, we read through this article, and the students highlighted important information that related to the questions they would later have to answer. Students went off to work with peers to complete the comprehension questions. 

Inquiry into Math

In math, we finally made it to adding using place value-- which is the method we are all used to! Yaaay!! Students also learned the strategy of how to add using expanded form. We walked through the steps together, then students came up to the board to help complete an example together. Students went off to complete their homework, then played an addition game with a peer. 

 

Afterwards, we went through their homework worksheet together and worked through the steps of how to interpret and solve a word problem. Before beginning, we went through a list of words that can be used in word problems that will help us determine whether we have to add or subtract.  At first, a bunch of the students were saying "this question doesn't make sense". Once we "dissected" the word problem, interpreting each piece of information, and what the question was asking us to solve, the problem made a lot more sense and we were able to solve what we had to do.

Part of our lesson addressed how we know our answer is reasonable. In order to know this, students have to round each number to find an estimate of what their sum could be. If their estimate and actual answer are close, then their answer is reasonable.

French

Check out what your child did during French today by visiting Mme. Rawan's blog: https://mmerawansja.blogspot.com

Agenda

- Read for 25 minutes

- Math pg. 24 & worksheet

- UOI: Metis questions #1-3

- Spelling Lesson 3