Week of November 16 - 20, 2015

Friday HW
1.  Unit two quiz on Patterning for lessons 3 and 4 on Monday November 23.  This will mark the conclusion of Unit one.  We will start Unit three on Tuesday or Wednesday.  If students have a small geometry set at their disposal that would be a definite advantage.  I can provide 'school quality' protractors and large yellow rulers.  It's been my experience that students can handle shorter, clear plastic rulers with more control and accuracy.  These sets are often available in stores for as little as a toonie.
2.  Literature Circle presentations for week 3 take place next Friday.  Students were given page ranges to read and the tasks were reviewed with each group.
3.  A full period was allotted today to finish this Spelling text work:  page 32, # 3, 4 and 5; page 33, #7 and 'Focus On Language'.  This practice should be completed if it was not done in class today.
4.  Illness in the Human Body rough draft is due in class next Thursday.  We completed jot note organizers this afternoon with the use of iPads and laptops to supplement the paper research the students were meant to have with them.  I collected the organizers at the end of the day to assign a process grade.

Thursday HW
1.  Unit 2 quiz on Patterning for lessons 3 and 4 on Monday November 23.
2.  Spelling dictation tomorrow.
3.  Students need to have research material in class tomorrow so that they can conduct some information gathering for their Illness in the Human Body report.  Students will do some self-directed work using an organizer and the topic sheet while I moderate Literature Circle group meetings.
4.  Literature Circle presentations for week 2 take place tomorrow.  After the meetings students can make good copies on lined paper (which I will provide) to place in their orange duo-tangs.

Wednesday HW
1.  Human Illness research material should be in class for Friday class work period.
2.  Literature Circle reading and notes for presentation are due on Friday for the week two meetings.
3.  Unit 1 quiz on Math Patterning is tomorrow.
4.  Spelling Dictation on Friday, November 20.

NOTE:  I washed out the lunch bin for the second time in two weeks due to a spill of a drink that was not properly capped in a student's lunch bag.  In addition to the inconvenience for me, this is no fun for the rest of the students whose lunch bags get soaked to greater and lesser degrees.  I will continue to remind the students at the beginning of lunch to close their drink containers carefully and tightly.  Can you please reinforce this message with your child at home?  It was not previously an issue in our class in the first 2 months of school and we should be able to resolve this quickly.  Thank you!

Tuesday HW
1.  Human Illness research material should be in class for Friday class work period.  On Friday I will take a look at home much readiness is in evidence and then determine a due date for the rough draft.  I would like the students to write a significant amount of the draft at school, but continue to collect research work at home.
2.  Good copy of week one Literature Circle work is due tomorrow.  All the meetings went well.  we had some fruitful oral discussions  Week two reading and notes for presentations are due on Friday.
3.  Patterning Quiz 1.0 on Thursday.  The quiz is on Unit one, lessons one and two.  The "Quick Review" portions of the homework book are good resources for the style of response expected as well as vocabulary that would be presented in the instructions on the quiz.

Monday HW
1.  I was absent and did not record today.