Tuesday, November 15

I hope everyone had a nice long weekend. We are on the homeward stretch to Christmas (only 27 school days!!!)

I am looking forward to meeting with parents during interviews this week. Please let me know by phone (745-2239) or by email (helmeczi@sasktel.net) if you need a change of day or time!

Here's how our day went:

Period One - ELA

Students received their centre activities from cycle 7. A few students have outstanding assignments. Please get these completed as soon as possible!!!!!

We continued our "Personal and Philosophical" unit. First of all, students finished the questions on "The Drum". We then started a series of articles called, "Hopes, Dreams and Challenges". We talked abou the think aloud strategy, which ensures we are engaged readers, THINKING about what we are reading! For homework, students must complete the reading on Anh and write down three of the think alouds they used while reading. We will continue this tomorrow.

NOTE: Students will complete an interview sheet to share with parents. Please be thinking about about you're doing well, what you can improve on, how you might improve and your 2 stars and a wish!!!

Period Two - Math 6B

We worked on multiples today. We corrected text assignment page 57-59 (#1-7). Students were then assigned the rest of the textbook work. QUESTIONS #8-15 ARE DUE FOR HOMEWORK!!!!!!!

Period Three - Writing 6A (6B had Phys. Ed)

Students were introduced to their personal narrative assignment that we will be working on during the next few ELA classes. We are concentraing on organization and sentence fluency.

Period Four - Social 6A (6B had Science - see Ms. Smart's blog for details)

Map Skills - Geography ABC's was due today. We corrected this together.

Current Events - students had 20 minutes to work on their current events package independently. Remember that this is due on December 1!

We started our next unit: Celebrating People and Places. We talked about our essential question, "How does our natural environment influence our lives" and looked at our goals for the unit.