Great fun and work today...starting with our Christmas ornament, working on our coordinate plotting for math, drafting our 'Dear Santa' letters with our writing goals in mind, and Christmas assembly, Tonight's Homework and Reminders: • bring a container to take your ornament home • bring all games, food, etc. for your party tomorrow • wear red, white and green and any clothing that ressembles your character in tomorrow's game. • publish your Dear Santa letter on google docs and share it with me • continue reading your 2nd persecution novel (see homework over break below) POST your favourite activity today. Be sure to explain why. Homework over the break for those not finished class work:
Perspective art - complete your colouring and choose your theme for January Reading - finish reading your 2nd persecution novel Reminders: LAST DAY OF SCHOOL tomorrow before winter break!! Skating January 16, '17 (ask parents if they can drive...a newsletter will go home after the break for permission.
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This is our start to our Rudolf art. Tomorrow we will finish. POST the game that you are bringing or intending on playing during Friday's party. Criteria - it needs to be a social game others can play. Reminders:
December 15th - Christmas assembly December 16 - Class party and last day before Winter Break, Dress in your colours of Christmas or your name for the game. How fun ...Secret Santa gift exchange and our end of the term auction!! But Pikachu your Canadian Division 2 family will miss you!! Please keep in touch and let us know what you are doing. POST: What is your inspiring message to Pikachu? (last words of advice? well wishes? funny or special memory?) Homework:
Math: The rest of the page on your 4 quadrants, Christmas grid. Writing: we ordered our paragraph Science: Forces and Motion test tomorrow. 1) Read over study cards and review the questions you think will be on the test. The test is on the whole unit including: forces, mass, weight, and all of the concepts and examples that we have learned. Upcoming Events: Tomorrow - Thursday - one hour of code (Bring own headphones or earbuds December 15th - Christmas assembly December 16 - Class party and last day before Winter Break Great spirit!! POST: What would you rather do - swim or play in the snow? Explain why. It's a bird...it's a plane...it's...SPLASH! Great time swimming today and thanks to all parents who braved the snow day to drive us! So your writing goal is this week only. Tomorrow we will check to review what you said you were going to do...the hard part is to follow through.
Homework: Math: The first 3 shapes on your 4 quadrants Science: Forces and Motion test Wednesday. 1) Read over study cards and review the questions you think will be on the test. Be prepared to quiz your partners tomorrow. Upcoming Events: Tomorrow - Secret Santa and class auction: Goodbye to Pikachu December 15th - Christmas assembly December 16 - Class party and last day before Winter Break Well - that wasn't the snow we wanted!! We wanted more!! While it was fun to see in the morning, it turned pretty wet for us. We also had fun with our buddy presentations like this one! We will finish these next Friday. Homework and Reminders:
1. Shhhhhhhhh.....Our secret Santa is on Tuesday...don't tell anyone the name you picked. Please bring your gift on Monday so we know everyone is remembered. 2. Please review your class site and email Ms Wilson your assessment of participation with your daily posts. 3. Math - plot and swat plotting page and last page of coordinate practice 4. Any final donations for our Christmas family or food donations. 5. Science: Writing questions (front) and answers (back) on cue cards to study for science test. 6. Writing: complete your revision for the 'portrait'. 7. Bring reports. 8. Swimming on Monday - Bring suits, towels, lunch. (We will eat early and leave for swimming at 11:30 and return to Hillcrest at 1:30) *December 15th - Christmas assembly *December 16 - Last day before Winter Break Today we continued with our art colouring. See the video below to review shading and a shadow. This is done with pencils but similar skills are involved with pencil crayons. The clip after that is on pencil crayon blending. POST one important fact when shading or drawing a shadow. Tomorrow might be snowy...so wouldn't it be great to dress up in our warm snow pants, boots, coat, mitts, gloves and scarves and play outside?? If you want to do that, you must dress for the weather. Please bring any auction items (eg. games you no longer play with, books you are finished reading, jewelry or items you no longer wear, but you think someone in the class would like) Homework:
Math 2 worksheets (both sides on 1st, up to question 12 on second sheet) Science quiz on Wednesday - review by listing the questions you think will be on the test. Reminders: Bring in recycled auction items for Dec. 12th Bring headphones or your ear buds for Friday Swimming field trip Dec. 12th Thank you for Family C donations and Food donations Bring your supplies to school: ruler, scissors, pens, pencils Important Dates: December 12th-Family C donations end December 9 Last day for Book Fair December 15th - Christmas assembly December 16 - Last day before Winter Break We have assessed our first steps in our Perspective art and are now making changes to improve. When satisfied, upload a 2nd photo onto Fresh Grade to show your progress. Tomorrow we will continue step 3 - colouring skills. *Gr. 6/7 challenge! Bring at least one food item for each: the Food Hamper donation and our Christmas family donation. We only have until this Friday! POST: 1) Have you ever done coding before? Explain. 2) What game did you play yesterday? 3) Did you enjoy it? Would you recommend it to your friends? Give details. 4) What game have you chosen for Friday? Homework: None today but start reviewing for a science quiz next week (Wednesday)...all concepts, 3 laws and vocabulary learned so far in this unit. Writing goals begin Monday for next week - be sure to have your specific steps. For those needing punctuation help, see this video below. POST: What is coding? Give an example of how it is used in real life. (Do not repeat examples) Before Friday, explore the hour of code choices found on this link and choose one of the tutorial choices, so you are ready to play your one hour on Friday in class. Hour of Code link Today there were some original demonstrations of Newton's laws. Here is a link to the action - reaction demonstration
Homework: Choose your hour of code tutorial for Friday Reminders: Bring in recycled auction items for Dec. 12th Bring headphones or your ear buds for Friday Bring in swimming field trip notice **we still need drivers Thank you for Family C donations and Food donations Bring your supplies to school: ruler, scissors, pens, pencils Important Dates: December 9-Family C donations end December 5-9 Report #1 Week (Book Fair) December 7 - Early Dismissal 1:38 December 12 - Swimming Field trip (instead of skating) leave at 11:30 (we need drivers in order to attend) December 15th - Christmas assembly December 16 - Last day before Winter Break POST: What do you think this poster means? Explain. Reminders and Homework:
I forgot to collect your ticket in today...hand them to me tomorrow. Most of our Newton's Laws demonstrations were done today...just a few more to finish tomorrow. Your only homework is French due tomorrow and to show parents your Fresh Grade, binder and report. Please return the forms with your parent's signature. If parents wish a copy, I can print another for them. Bring in swimming forms as soon as possible. Please ask your parents if they can drive as we do not have enough drivers to go at this point. Important Dates: Christmas family C donations and food hamper donations are appreciated- last day Dec. 9th December 5-9 Report #1 Week (Book Fair) December 7 - Early Dismissal 1:38 December 12 - Swimming Field trip (instead of skating) leave at 11:30 (we need drivers in order to attend) December 15th - Christmas assembly December 16 - Last day before Winter Break Scroll down to today's site...something weird happened so it is below yesterday's post.
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