Week of February 18 - 22, 2019

Friday HW
1.  Bring a pair of earbuds for use to view primary source archive videos on CBC in class next week.
2.  Test Pack signed and corrected for next Wednesday, February 27.
3.  Lots of students need to return their report card envelopes.  Please have your child bring it in ASAP.

Thursday HW
1. MMS pp. 56-57
2.  Test Pack signed and corrected for next Wednesday, February 27.
3.  Bring a colourful photograph of a natural scene (no people) from a magazine for a poetry activity.
Math: Today we worked on multiplying decimals by 10, 100, and 1000. I checked a small diagnostic to find that about a third of the class could not reliably calculate these products with a calculator and a place value chart. We will revisit it tomorrow.
4.  Lots of students need to return their report card envelopes.  Please have your child bring it in ASAP.
Language: We submitted the last diamante poems.
Social Studies:  We wrote a point of view response to a Rosa Parks photograph.  Students were reminded to write in a the third person voice and use connections (to self, to world, to other texts) as a way to add their own ideas to the response.

Wednesday HW
1.  MMS pp. 54-55
2.  Test Pack signed and corrected for next Wednesday, February 27.
3.  Bring a colourful photograph of a natural scene (no people) from a magazine for a poetry activity.
Math: Today we worked on adding and subtracting decimals while I conferenced with several students about Tuesday's math quiz.
Language: We also completed a 16 word Diamante poem which was not finished as homework today by more than 10 students.  A detailed outline of the style of the poem is in the Google Classroom.  We started another poetry activity on imagery.  I read our Last Days in Africville novel, which is a lead-in to term two Social Studies, with Language connections.

Tuesday HW:
We did not have the minutes to copy the agenda today.  Our day looked like this:
(Math) We wrote the quiz first thing.
(Language) We worked on a Poetry exercise focused on Imagery.  Students did the work in-class in their Writing notebooks: a chart of senses imagery, a short poem analysis, an independent selection of verses from books. This was an opportunity for some anecdotal logging of Independent Work skills for the term 2 report card.
We also completed Diamante poem composition using the laptops.  I printed 18 poems of 33 that were ready by the end of period three.  Completing that 16 word poem is the only homework tonight.