Learning is working as a team! Have a great long weekend! Homework: Be sure to start finding information for your socials poverty issue. Begin by answering the questions on your google doc. POST any difficulties you are having. This is a checking in. What are you confused about? What do you need help with? Your Fresh Grade account - Share this site with your parents. Show them your uploaded tests and comments and tell them they will be receiving an email from me this weekend with more information. BOOK OF THE WEEK Here is our first sharing by H.A. Genre: Realistic Fiction Title:Maybe One Day Author: M.Kantor Why you should read my book: It keeps me wanting to read it. A main character has cancer and we don’t know if she will live or die. What an awesome dance performance today!! Way to get up and participate Napoleon Cat. Important Dates
May 1 ProD May 5 Parent Meeting 5-6pm at Hillcrest May 7 Grade 6 Immunizations May 11 Hot Lunch May 15 Western Day (PAC pancake breakfast) May 18 Victoria Day - no school May 22 Hillcrest Speech competition May 25 ProD May 27 Parent Tea May 28 Grouse Grind May 29 Hot Lunch June 3 Track meet June 8 Hot lunch June 9 Talent Show June12 Sports Day June 17 Sunnyside June 18 Grade 7s to Clayton/Tweedsmuir for scavenger hunt June 19 Fun Night June 22 Playland June 23 Pancake breakfast for Grade 7s June 24 Grade 7 final assembly June 25 Last day of school (noon), Reports
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POST: Explain one thing that impacted or intrigued you today and one thing that you are having difficulties with. Socials: You can watch this video again. Start reading and taking notes for your poverty issue. Speeches: Today you gave some helpful feedback to your peers regarding their speech. Next steps are to revise and continue to edit. Below is the youtube video we saw today to help us write conclusions. BOOK OF THE WEEK Here is our first sharing by H.A. Genre: Realistic Fiction Title:Maybe One Day Author: M.Kantor Why you should read my book: It keeps me wanting to read it. A main character has cancer and we don’t know if she will live or die. Important Dates: April 30 Assembly (youth company) May 1 ProD May 7 Grade 6 Immunizations May 11 Hot Lunch May 15 Western Day (PAC pancake breakfast) May 18 Victoria Day - no school May 22 Hillcrest Speech competition May 25 ProD May 27 Parent Tea May 28 Grouse Grind May 29 Hot Lunch June 3 Track meet June 8 Hot lunch June 9 Talent Show June12 Sports Day June 17 Sunnyside June 18 Grade 7s to Clayton/Tweedsmuir for scavenger hunt June 19 Fun Night June 22 Playland June 23 Pancake breakfast for Grade 7s June 24 Grade 7 final assembly June 25 Last day of school (noon), Reports YUMMY... THINK WE bake sale tomorrow! Bring a loonie or toonie. Social: Let's talk about our action plans. What is being done to fight poverty? How can you make a difference? What are some of your ideas? POST your thoughts. Writing: If you have not finished self-editing your speech, you should put some time into that tonight. The goal is to complete revising and editing by the end of the weekend. BOOK OF THE WEEK Here is our first sharing by H.A. Genre: Realistic Fiction Title:Maybe One Day Author: M.Kantor Why you should read my book: It keeps me wanting to read it. A main character has cancer and we don’t know if she will live or die. Important Dates:
April 29 Think We cupcake sale April 30 Assembly (youth company) May 1 ProD May 7 Grade 6 Immunizations May 11 Hot Lunch May 15 Western Day (PAC pancake breakfast) May 18 Victoria Day - no school May 22 Hillcrest Speech competition May 25 ProD May 27 Parent Tea May 28 Grouse Grind May 29 Hot Lunch June 3 Track meet June 8 Hot lunch June 9 Talent Show June12 Sports Day June 17 Sunnyside June 18 Grade 7s to Clayton/Tweedsmuir for scavenger hunt June 19 Fun Night June 22 Playland June 23 Pancake breakfast for Grade 7s June 24 Grade 7 final assembly June 25 Last day of school (noon), Reports What a great day...who doesn't love Mondays! Go Playground leaders who have volunteered to be trained by Action Schools! Remember to bring your sunglasses tomorrow! Homework: Your first draft of your speech should be typed on google doc and shared with me by tonight. POST your specific socials issue on 'Poverty'. Try to narrow your topic eg. specific country, specific cause within one place, specific gender, age group or culture, etc. Two students, Beyonce and H.A. have begun a new initiative: Book of the Week! Each Monday they will interview a class member and ask the following questions: What are you reading? (title, author) What genre? Give one specific reason why we should read your book (eg. details, suspense, surprised, impacted) Here is our first sharing by H.A. (Let's take a photo of you tomorrow) Genre: Realistic Fiction Title:Maybe One Day Author: M.Kantor Why you should read my book: It keeps me wanting to read it. A main character has cancer and we don’t know if she will live or die. For those who are interested, there is a discus practice at 8 tomorrow morning.
Important Dates: April 29 Think We cupcake sale April 30 Assembly (youth company) May 1 ProD May 7 Grade 6 Immunizations May 11 Hot Lunch May 15 Western Day (PAC pancake breakfast) May 18 Victoria Day - no school May 22 Hillcrest Speech competition May 25 ProD May 27 Parent Tea May 28 Grouse Grind May 29 Hot Lunch June 3 Track meet June 8 Hot lunch June 9 Talent Show June12 Sports Day June 17 Sunnyside June 18 Grade 7s to Clayton/Tweedsmuir for scavenger hunt June 19 Fun Night June 22 Playland June 23 Pancake breakfast for Grade 7s June 24 Grade 7 final assembly June 25 Last day of school (noon), Reports Way to Burp it On!! Thanks Black Bear for the techie skills. Writing: We have written our speech drafts now. Be sure to read through and time your speech. It should be between 2-3 minutes. POST: Ask any 3 classmates questions about their speech. Let's see what variety of questions we can get. Answer any questions that are directed to you. (View previous posts to remind yourself of fictitious names) Socials: Be sure to narrow your socials issue to a manageable topic you are interested in and view the gdoc for any articles that apply to your topic.
Today we have completed note taking on two of the three mandatory articles. We will finish our third tomorrow and share our findings. Then you will choose the issue that interests you and begin your investigations. POST some of the questions that you have been asking when note taking. Tomorrow you will also get a class period to work on your speech writing. By the end of this weekend you should have your draft completed. Next week we will spend on revising and editing.
POST one challenge you encountered today and how you overcame it or what you could have done to overcome it. Well we burped it on!! Here is the response from Ontario. Thanks Hillcrest! Loved the video! Thanks for your support... Jason Lloyd and Deseronto 5/6s Here are two different learning styles during a group task. Tomorrow is band and French. Hand in applications for talent show by Friday. Important dates until end of year: Apr. 23 Internet meeting at Clayton 7-9 Apr 24 Gr. 7 yearbook paragraphs due Apr27 Hot lunch April 29 Think We cupcake sale, Interims April 30 Assembly (youth company) May 1 ProD May 7 Grade 6 Immunizations May 11 Hot Lunch May 15 Western Day (PAC pancake breakfast) May 18 Victoria Day - no school May 22 Hillcrest Speech competition May 25 ProD May 27 Parent Tea May 28 Grouse Grind May 29 Hot Lunch June 3 Track meet June 8 Hot lunch June 9 Talent Show June12 Sports Day June 17 Sunnyside June 18 Grade 7s to Clayton/Tweedsmuir for scavenger hunt June 19 Fun Night June 22 Playland June 23 Pancake breakfast for Grade 7s June 24 Grade 7 final assembly June 25 Last day of school (noon), Reports We watched the rest of the documentary today on Living on One Dollar If you were away or wish to view it again, click on the link. As you know, we are going to continue increasing our background knowledge of the issues relating to poverty. You are going to be choosing one area of focus and demonstrating your knowledge in some way. POST the way you think best suits you for demonstrating your learning and explain why. Important dates until end of year:
Apr. 23 Internet meeting at Clayton 7-9 Apr 24 Gr. 7 yearbook paragraphs due Apr27 Hot lunch April 29 Think We cupcake sale, Interims April 30 Assembly (youth company) May 1 ProD May 7 Grade 6 Immunizations May 11 Hot Lunch May 15 Western Day (PAC pancake breakfast) May 18 Victoria Day - no school May 22 Hillcrest Speech competition May 25 ProD May 27 Parent Tea May 28 Grouse Grind May 29 Hot Lunch June 3 Track meet June 8 Hot lunch June 9 Talent Show June12 Sports Day June 17 Sunnyside June 18 Grade 7s to Clayton/Tweedsmuir for scavenger hunt June 19 Fun Night June 22 Playland June 23 Pancake breakfast for Grade 7s June 24 Grade 7 final assembly June 25 Last day of school (noon), Reports Hey div. 2...see the photo below...look at how cool this looks! That was awesome playing soccer outside today. Homework: Be sure to have your information at school so you can work on your speech writing. Think about one key issue linked to poverty that you would want to do your next project on. We will first watch the rest of One Dollar a Day tomorrow, then you will be viewing additional resources to gain more background information. French entrevue continues tomorrow Grade 7 math test tomorrow (one day extra to review) See the work you have already done on interchanging fractions, decimals and percent. Some more dancing when we were groovin. Please inform your parents of this meeting at Clayton Heights this Thursday. playspent.org. Play this game again.Then POST your answers: Their motto is, "It's just stuff, until you don't have it." What did you have to give up to make it through the month? Would you still be able to enjoy the things you enjoy now? Is this game realistic? Explain. How does this game apply to our unit on Poverty? Important dates until end of year:
Apr. 23 Internet meeting at Clayton 7-9 Apr 24 Gr. 7 yearbook paragraphs due Apr27 Hot lunch April 29 Think We cupcake sale, Interims April 30 Assembly (youth company) May 1 ProD May 7 Grade 6 Immunizations May 11 Hot Lunch May 15 Western Day (PAC pancake breakfast) May 18 Victoria Day - no school May 22 Hillcrest Speech competition May 25 ProD May 27 Parent Tea May 28 Grouse Grind May 29 Hot Lunch June 3 Track meet June 8 Hot lunch June 9 Talent Show June12 Sports Day June 17 Sunnyside June 18 Grade 7s to Clayton/Tweedsmuir for scavenger hunt June 19 Fun Night June 22 Playland June 23 Pancake breakfast for Grade 7s June 24 Grade 7 final assembly June 25 Last day of school (noon), Reports Today we saw the first part of a documentary called: Living on One Dollar. What was it that impacted you about this video so far? Start thinking about which area pertaining to poverty you would like to focus on. I can apply critical thinking skills when examining the issue of poverty POST your ideas for our class photos. Math test on Monday Grade 7s (relationship between fractions, decimals and percent). See the video below to review decimals and percent in particular. In class we used the fraction form first to help us. Grade 6- see Thursday Writing: You should have a clear idea of your subtopics to support your thesis. Be sure to gather the details, examples and facts that you will need under each subtopic. Draft your 2nd idea paragraph for Monday. Today you were having a blast with GROOVIN and getting fit at the same time PAC Fundraiser went home today
French - presentations ongoing Reading - Gifts of words ongoing, reading responses will be assessed this weekend Important dates until end of year: Apr 24 Gr. 7 yearbook paragraphs due Apr27 Hot lunch April 29 Think We cupcake sale, Interims April 30 Assembly (youth company) May 1 ProD May 7 Grade 6 Immunizations May 11 Hot Lunch May 15 Western Day (PAC pancake breakfast) May 18 Victoria Day - no school May 22 Hillcrest Speech competition May 25 ProD May 27 Parent Tea May 28 Grouse Grind May 29 Hot Lunch June 3 Track meet June 8 Hot lunch June 9 Talent Show June12 Sports Day June 17 Sunnyside June 18 Grade 7s to Clayton/Tweedsmuir for scavenger hunt June 19 Fun Night June 22 Playland June 23 Pancake breakfast for Grade 7s June 24 Grade 7 final assembly June 25 Last day of school (noon), Reports |
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