Thursday, November 26, 2015

Unfortunately, I am not well and will not be in tomorrow.  Coding Club, let's reschedule for next week.  The second group of students for coding club, I will create a new timetable for your lunch sessions.

MATH: Students participated in a Performance Task in Measurement.
Measurement: looking at time & timezones over the next few days; as well as introduction to perimeter & area of parallelograms & triangles over the next few weeks.
Visit the Measurement Blog and begin to share strategies on how to solve the math challenge.

LANGUAGE: students have received oral peer feedback on their Canadian War Hero timetoast project. Be sure to make changes based on the feedback, them copy/paste link & embed code into your google docDUE Friday November 27th

LANGUAGE: in-class ONLY, students are working collaboratively in groups to read a text, complete a graphic organizer and co-write a summary paragraph

Action Plan (PSA): Students received oral peer feedback on their group PSA first cut projects. Students will be designing a poster to accompany their PSA footage. Video editing and poster design will be our in-class focus for the next few weeks.

Global Read Aloud: we will be focussing on developing character traits on the main characters from the book in preparation for a Book Trailer / Poster project coming soon.
Don't forget to include your final reflections on the book in FIAT Kidblog.

The "ONE": make a recommendation for a role model that we would honour as a class by creating a collage in padlet

Brainstorm ideas for the Winter Concert (December 10th): bucket percussion, broom percussion, stepping, other?