Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Wednesday, May 23

Welcome back after a long weekend!  I hope everyone had a restful, enjoyable break.

Notes/Reminders for Today
  • Please bring $5.00 to cover the cost of the tri-fold board that will be used in our social Cultural Fair
Period One - ELA

Students listened to the centre explanation for our next round of centres that will begin tomorrow. Fountas and Pinnell testing will be completed during centre time this week.  Students listened to Chapter 12 of The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe.

Period Two -CWE

Students continued their career exploration looking at the theme, "Who Am I?"  Students read the case study, "Jake's Story" and completed four discussion questions as a group.  We spent the rest of the class completing an interest inventory.  Students determined whether they were a  "Hands-On" person, "People" person or an "Information" person.  We have many "hands on" students in our class!


Period Three -Writing  6B

Students completed two tasks today.  The first was to complete the Chapter 11 and 12 questions for the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe.  These questions are due tomorrow!! 

The second was to complete the friendly letter writing assignment.  In this task, students are to take on the point of view of Susan, Edmund, Lucy or Peter and write a letter describing their journey so far.  They were reminded to use the proper voice, make good word choice, use transition words and follow the proper format for a friendly letter.  There will be more time to work on this.


Period Four - Math 6B


The assignment on comparing mixed numbers and improper fractions was due today.  We corrected this as a class.  Students were then given a hand-in assignment.  There will be some time to work on this tomorrow!


Period Five - Social 6A

Students worked on completing their research today. All research is due this week. Several students began planning their display board that will be designed for our heritage fair. Thanks to the students that have brought $5 for the tri-fold board. Please get this in as soon as possible - display board will not be given to students until their payment is made!!!!!  REMEMBER TO HAVE YOUR 10 LANGUAGE WORDS AND THEIR TRANSLATION READY THE SOCIAL CENTRE THIS WEEK!!