Friday, October 9, 2015

It has been a fantastic week of learning... Have a wonderful THANKSGIVING weekend with family and friends.

 POETRY:   Voki: Record you descriptive words to describe a fruit, without identifying the fruit
Picture Poem: Ink & Tagul picture poem DUE Tuesday October 13th.
**This is a Poem That...
Visit the website Instant Poetry Forms and scroll down the menu on the left side of the screen.  Select "This is the Poem That ..." and fill in the boxes following the prompts based on the a topic of choice.  DUE Tuesday October 13th. 



MATH:  Looking at Subtracting Fractions (common denominator; lowest common multiple) using number lines and diagrams
Practice your multiplication tables for 7, 8:  Check out these sites for practice:  Math is Fun  or Table Trees

 DRAMA: Shadow Performances:  Create shadow images along the wall using your body (movement or tableau) to convey a message.

SCIENCE: students are looking at how tree classifications systems organize information; focussing on Diversity of Living Things over the next few weeks in class
* collect leaves within our school community: we will be creating a 'tree classification system' in class later this week

Global Read Aloud: We have completed our first week participating in the Global Read Aloud! We are reading Fish in a Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt, having read 8 chapters this week.  Today students were introduced to creating their own post in Kidblog, reflecting on the book thus far.