Tuesday, December 20, 2016

Week of December 19 - 23, 2016

Wednesday HW
1.  Secret Santa on Thursday
2.  Snacks (fruit, veggies, cookies, brownies -- no chips, popcorn, Doritos) and drinks for Thursday PM.  I suggest bringing your own plastic cup to reduce our waste footprint.
3.  Extended French forms sent home today.
4.  Math Quiz on Mean. Median and Mode on Thursday AM.

** The painted pages are done for the Dear World Letter.  Students had a period today to work on a formal letter to the Minister of the Environment and Climate Change after receiving some direct teaching about the structure and content of the letter and the addresses for the school and the Minister.  We should be nearly done tomorrow or at the latest on Friday.


Tuesday HW
1.  Secret Santa on Thursday
2.  Snacks (fruit, veggies, cookies, brownies -- no chips, popcorn, Doritos) and drinks for Thursday PM.  I suggest bringing your own plastic cup to reduce oor waste footprint.
3.  Classification chart due tomorrow in rough form.  We worked on it today for 40 minutes.
4.  Math Quiz on Mean. Median and Mode on Thursday AM.

** The Endangered Animal project was meant to be due tomorrow.  We are close, but not quite there, so the due date is shifted to Friday.  We will spend a day tomorrow wrapping up the narrative, the Dear World letter and the Classification tree.  We will introduce the formal letter tomorrow as well.   Students should make sure they have their bristle board or display board (I have no preference) in class tomorrow or Thursday for mounting.

Monday, December 12, 2016

Week of December 12 - 16, 2016

Tuesday HW
I assigned no homework again tonight in view of the Inquiry due date coming up on Thursday this week.  Students should be prepared to hand in their presentation in class on that day.  Most will submit their work in the Google classroom unless the presentation is a paper-media or otherwise not able to be uploaded there.  Presentations will begin shortly afterwards.

1.  Food and Toy Drive items.  We have had a steady flow of donations.
2.  Secret Santa choices.  $10 maximum.

Monday HW
I assigned no homework tonight in view of the Inquiry due date coming up on Thursday this week.  Students should be prepared to hand in their presentation in class on that day.  Presentations will begin shortly afterwards.

1.  Food and Toy Drive items.  We have had a steady flow of donations.
2.  Secret Santa choices.  $10 maximum.

Tuesday, December 6, 2016

Week of December 5 - 9, 2016

Thursday HW
1.  I will be collecting three inquiry organizer sheets tomorrow by the end of the end.
2.  Inquiry due December 15.
3.  Endangered Animal work due December 21.
4.  Food and Toy drive items.
5.  Secret Santa has been proposed by the students.  They suggested a $10 limit.  I reminded them that they need to run it by parents and that hard feelings have to be set aside. Please let me know via the agenda if there are any concerns you might have, or if you wish to withdraw your child from participating.  As of you nothing is finalized and no partners have been assigned.

Tuesday HW
1.  Book report due Thursday December 8.
2.  Inquiry due December 15.
3.  Endangered Animal work due December 21.
4.  Food and Toy drive items.
5.  MMS pages 70-71

Monday HW
1.  Book report due Thursday December 8.
2.  Inquiry due December 15.
3.  Endangered Animal work due December 21.
4.  Food and Toy drive items.