Day 4!

Announcements

- Gym is tomorrow
- Math test Monday
- Casual Day Friday

Fall Fundraiser 
Today a bunch of students all got to do Mr. Oliver's makeup since they all brought in the most amount of money for the Fall Fundraiser for the day! In addition to this, it was Ice Cream Sandwich Day!

TOMORROW IS... 
Thursday: WACKY THURSDAY

The rest of the week is as follows... 
Friday: ELECTRONICS PARTY & CASUAL DAY
Don't forget to bring your own electronic!

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! 

 

Unit of Inquiry

Students continued to watch a couple videos that taught them about the Early Settlers schoolhouse, classroom, teachers, trading and chores. The first video we watched was about Wolly's gift. In this video, students learned about the chores a young girl had to do during the Pioneer times, and they had to compare this to the chores of a young boy. In addition to this, they were exposed to the process of making wool in order to make items such as dresses, shirts, etc. Once the video was done, we completed a procedural writing activity around the steps to follow in order to make wool. Students copied this onto their worksheet. Notice the use of transition words in this paragraph.

Wolly's Gift: http://youtu.be/jaDnSzlbdL0

The second video exposed the students to what the children's "schoolhouse" looked like, and how they celebrated once the schoolhouse was built. We got to discuss why the schoolhouse was important, and how it was different from the schools we have today.

New Schoolhouse: http://youtu.be/BGSlypZznQg

In the final video, students got to see how old a teacher could have been at a Pioneer school, what her responsibilities were, how she disciplined the children and the activities that happened during a typical school day. We discussed this material after the video, then the students worked with their peers to complete their worksheets. 

New School Teacher: è http://youtu.be/q2iGYqSWHuo

Novel Study

In class we read Chapters 5 & 6 of our novel study. In Chapter 5, we learned about what Laura's family did on Sundays, and what happened when they didn't do as they were supposed to. Pa shared a great story to teach Laura and Mary what happens when they don't follow the rules on Sundays. In Chapter 6, we heard about Ma and Laura's encounter with a bear, and Pa's interaction with what he thought was a "bear". Students are to complete Chapter 5 & 6 questions and summary by Friday.

Inquiry into Math

Students received their math review today, and got a chance to start working on this in class. The reviews did not go home as we will be working on them tomorrow in class. Our math test is on Monday. We will be taking the review up on Friday.

Today we learned how to approach a multi-step word problem. These questions contain a lot of information, and sometimes it can be challenging to figure out what has to been done if we do not break it up. So... students learned a problem-solving strategy to help them solve what they need to do in order to solve a multi-step word problem (this goes for typical word problems too).

1. Ask yourself: What is the question really asking me to solve? -- Write this down so you know

2. Write down all the information you know

3. Write out the steps you need to complete in order to arrive at your answer

Take a look at the example below to see how we approached this word problem.

At the end of our math class, students completed a math assessment that is similar to a question on their test. Students had to solve one addition question, and one subtraction question in two different ways. Students were provided with the possible ways to use. They had to remember when each strategy could be used, and how to use each strategy. 

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

- UOI: Wolly's Gift & The New School Teacher worksheets

- Novel study: Chapters 5 & 6 Questions due Friday

- Spelling Lesson 3