Thursday HW
1. MMS pp. 102-103
2. Cereal Box assignment due on Friday May 3. This includes the finished box, the Measurements, and the persuasive paragraph. A model of the paragraph was shared today in class.
3. Geometry Quiz on Friday, May 3: Transformations and Combined Transformations (Unit 7, Lessons 1 and 2). Ensure that your protractor and tracing paper are in class.
Wednesday HW
1. MMS pp. 100-101
2. Cereal Box assignment due on Friday May 3.
3. Geometry Quiz on Friday, May 3: Transformations and Combined Transformations (Unit 7, Lessons 1 and 2)
Tuesday HW
1. MMS pp. 98-99
2. Test pack is due on Wednesday, May 1, with corrections and a parent signature.
3. Cereal Box assignment due on Friday May 3.
4. Geometry Quiz on Friday, May 3: Transformations and Combined Transformations (Unit 7, Lessons 1 and 2)
5. Bring your protractor to class tomorrow.
Monday HW
1. MMS pp. 96-97
2. Test pack is due on Wednesday, May 1, with corrections and a parent signature.
3. Cereal Box assignment due on Friday May 3.
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Tuesday, April 30, 2019
Wednesday, April 24, 2019
Week of April 24 - 26, 2019
Thursday HW
1. Measurement quiz: Friday, April 26. Capacity, Volume, and Relating Units of Measure.
2. Test pack given out today. It should be corrected and signed by a parent before being returned on Wednesday, May 1.
3. Pourquoi Tale is due tomorrow. This is an assignment posted in the Google Classroom and for which we have used laptops computers in class several times.
Wednesday HW
1. MMS pp. 92-93
2. Measurement quiz: Friday, April 26. Capacity, Volume, and Relating Units of Measure.
3. Test pack given out today. It should be corrected and signed by a parent before being returned on Wednesday, May 1.
Tuesday HW
1. MMS pp. 90-91
2. Measurement quiz: Friday, April 26. Capacity, Volume, and Relating Units of Measure.
1. Measurement quiz: Friday, April 26. Capacity, Volume, and Relating Units of Measure.
2. Test pack given out today. It should be corrected and signed by a parent before being returned on Wednesday, May 1.
3. Pourquoi Tale is due tomorrow. This is an assignment posted in the Google Classroom and for which we have used laptops computers in class several times.
1. MMS pp. 92-93
2. Measurement quiz: Friday, April 26. Capacity, Volume, and Relating Units of Measure.
3. Test pack given out today. It should be corrected and signed by a parent before being returned on Wednesday, May 1.
Tuesday HW
1. MMS pp. 90-91
2. Measurement quiz: Friday, April 26. Capacity, Volume, and Relating Units of Measure.
Monday, April 15, 2019
Week of April 15 - 19, 2019
Wednesday HW
1. Volume quiz on Thursday, April 18. This quiz is just on rectangular prisms. Math Journals and homework materials would be good for study. A study sheet was ready for students today.
3. Cereal boxes were worked on today again. I ensured that each student could see the co-created success criteria. If there are any printed images that a student wants to add to the cereal box, they should be brought to class to store in the Green Handout folder until they are ready to be used. I cannot print these items for students.
Tuesday HW
1. MMS pages 144-45. Reassigned due to difficulty. We reviewed the concept again today in class.
2. Volume quiz on Thursday, April 18. This quiz is just on rectangular prisms. Math Journals and homework materials would be good for study. I will have a study sheet ready for students tomorrow.
3. Cereal boxes were worked on today. I ensured that each student could tell me the name of the character attribute they selected for their cereal. If there are any printed images that a student wants to add to the cereal box, they should be brought to class to store in the Green Handout folder until they are ready to be used. I cannot print these items for students.
Monday HW
1. MMS pages 144-45.
2. Volume quiz on Thursday, April 18. This quiz is just on rectangular prisms. Math Journals and homework materials would be good for study.
3. Cereal boxes were wrapped today in advance of our class work tomorrow. Three students did not have a box in class ready and will have to catch up on the wrapping on their own time. We shared the success criteria for a "Character Education Cereal" media literacy project that also has a measurement (volume, surface area, and perimeter) component.
1. Volume quiz on Thursday, April 18. This quiz is just on rectangular prisms. Math Journals and homework materials would be good for study. A study sheet was ready for students today.
3. Cereal boxes were worked on today again. I ensured that each student could see the co-created success criteria. If there are any printed images that a student wants to add to the cereal box, they should be brought to class to store in the Green Handout folder until they are ready to be used. I cannot print these items for students.
Tuesday HW
1. MMS pages 144-45. Reassigned due to difficulty. We reviewed the concept again today in class.
2. Volume quiz on Thursday, April 18. This quiz is just on rectangular prisms. Math Journals and homework materials would be good for study. I will have a study sheet ready for students tomorrow.
3. Cereal boxes were worked on today. I ensured that each student could tell me the name of the character attribute they selected for their cereal. If there are any printed images that a student wants to add to the cereal box, they should be brought to class to store in the Green Handout folder until they are ready to be used. I cannot print these items for students.
Monday HW
1. MMS pages 144-45.
2. Volume quiz on Thursday, April 18. This quiz is just on rectangular prisms. Math Journals and homework materials would be good for study.
3. Cereal boxes were wrapped today in advance of our class work tomorrow. Three students did not have a box in class ready and will have to catch up on the wrapping on their own time. We shared the success criteria for a "Character Education Cereal" media literacy project that also has a measurement (volume, surface area, and perimeter) component.
Monday, April 8, 2019
Week of April 8 - 12, 2019
Thursday HW
1. Bring a cereal type box to class ASAP for a measurement/Media Literacy activity. Only eight students have brought one in so far.
2. Surface area quiz TOMORROW. Students should use the in-class activities on surface area of rectangular prisms and a wrapping paper challenge that was also done in class to study. These were corrected in class and feedback was provided. Expectations were made very clearly. The Math Journal and MMS homework are other resources to use for study.
Language: Shared the Pourquoi Tale writing assignment. Students received a paper copy and a Google Classroom version, which also has the due date. Several examples of Pourquoi Tales were read aloud and success criteria for the assignment reviewed.
Math: completed Triangular Prism Volume note. Practiced questions involving those polyhedrons in class and conferenced with students to check work and recording methods.
Social Studies: We finished the some guided viewing notes on page 16 of the booklet. These concerned the arrival of early European communities to North America, and the reasons for coming here. The Canada: A People's History" video is available on Vimeo and the Internet Archive -- it's episode one
Wednesday HW
** TDSB Internet was down all day today. Blog updated later.
1. Bring a cereal type box to class ASAP for a measurement/Media Literacy activity. Only eight students have brought one in so far.
2. Surface area quiz on Friday April 12. Students should use the in-class activities on surface area of rectangular prisms and a wrapping paper challenge that was also done in class to study. These were corrected in class and feedback was provided. Expectations were made very clearly. The Math Journal and MMS homework are other resources to use for study.
Math: Practiced more volume questions in class and conferenced with students to check work and ensure test preparation materials were corrected..
Social Studies: We finished the some guided viewing notes on page 15 of the booklet. These concerned the arrival of early European communities to North America, and the reasons for coming here. The Canada: A People's History" video is available on Vimeo and the Internet Archive -- it's episode one
Tuesday HW
1. Bring a cereal type box to class ASAP for a measurement/Media Literacy activity. Only eight students have brought one in so far.
2. MMS pages 88-89 on Volume of rectangular prisms.
3. Surface area quiz on Friday April 12. Students should use the in-class activities on surface area of rectangular prisms and a wrapping paper challenge that was also done in class to study. These were corrected in class and feedback was provided. Expectations were made very clearly. The Math Journal and MMS homework are other resources to use for study.
Math: completed Volume note. Practiced volume questions in class and conferenced with 20 students to check work and recording methods.
Social Studies: We finished the some guided viewing notes on page 14 of the booklet. These concerned the arrival of early European communities to North America, and the reasons for coming here. The Canada: A People's History" video is available on Vimeo and the Internet Archive -- it's episode one
Monday HW
1. Bring a cereal type box to class ASAP for a measurement/Media Literacy activity. Only eight students have brought one in so far.
Math: completed surface area exit card. Reviewed Area and Perimeter in the wake of a frankly disappointing effort on a recent quiz.
Language: completed "Nothing at All" responses to the story in class. A reminder: these booklets do NOT go home. Sufficient time is available in class to complete the work with an ordinary effort. Absent student can come during extra help times to catch up.
Social Studies: We finished the last of the first guided viewing on Indigenous communities in Canada.
1. Bring a cereal type box to class ASAP for a measurement/Media Literacy activity. Only eight students have brought one in so far.
2. Surface area quiz TOMORROW. Students should use the in-class activities on surface area of rectangular prisms and a wrapping paper challenge that was also done in class to study. These were corrected in class and feedback was provided. Expectations were made very clearly. The Math Journal and MMS homework are other resources to use for study.
Language: Shared the Pourquoi Tale writing assignment. Students received a paper copy and a Google Classroom version, which also has the due date. Several examples of Pourquoi Tales were read aloud and success criteria for the assignment reviewed.
Math: completed Triangular Prism Volume note. Practiced questions involving those polyhedrons in class and conferenced with students to check work and recording methods.
Social Studies: We finished the some guided viewing notes on page 16 of the booklet. These concerned the arrival of early European communities to North America, and the reasons for coming here. The Canada: A People's History" video is available on Vimeo and the Internet Archive -- it's episode one
** TDSB Internet was down all day today. Blog updated later.
1. Bring a cereal type box to class ASAP for a measurement/Media Literacy activity. Only eight students have brought one in so far.
2. Surface area quiz on Friday April 12. Students should use the in-class activities on surface area of rectangular prisms and a wrapping paper challenge that was also done in class to study. These were corrected in class and feedback was provided. Expectations were made very clearly. The Math Journal and MMS homework are other resources to use for study.
Math: Practiced more volume questions in class and conferenced with students to check work and ensure test preparation materials were corrected..
Social Studies: We finished the some guided viewing notes on page 15 of the booklet. These concerned the arrival of early European communities to North America, and the reasons for coming here. The Canada: A People's History" video is available on Vimeo and the Internet Archive -- it's episode one
Tuesday HW
1. Bring a cereal type box to class ASAP for a measurement/Media Literacy activity. Only eight students have brought one in so far.
2. MMS pages 88-89 on Volume of rectangular prisms.
3. Surface area quiz on Friday April 12. Students should use the in-class activities on surface area of rectangular prisms and a wrapping paper challenge that was also done in class to study. These were corrected in class and feedback was provided. Expectations were made very clearly. The Math Journal and MMS homework are other resources to use for study.
Math: completed Volume note. Practiced volume questions in class and conferenced with 20 students to check work and recording methods.
Social Studies: We finished the some guided viewing notes on page 14 of the booklet. These concerned the arrival of early European communities to North America, and the reasons for coming here. The Canada: A People's History" video is available on Vimeo and the Internet Archive -- it's episode one
Monday HW
1. Bring a cereal type box to class ASAP for a measurement/Media Literacy activity. Only eight students have brought one in so far.
Math: completed surface area exit card. Reviewed Area and Perimeter in the wake of a frankly disappointing effort on a recent quiz.
Language: completed "Nothing at All" responses to the story in class. A reminder: these booklets do NOT go home. Sufficient time is available in class to complete the work with an ordinary effort. Absent student can come during extra help times to catch up.
Social Studies: We finished the last of the first guided viewing on Indigenous communities in Canada.
Monday, April 1, 2019
Week of April 1 - 5, 2019
Thursday HW
1. Collect a cereal box for a Measurement/Media Literacy activity
2. Area and Perimeter quiz on Friday, April 5. A study sheet with a practice question was handed out Tuesday.
Today's Math: We worked on a surface area word problem involving wrapping paper for a box that is 54 by 20 by 4 cm. More conferencing with individual students took place.
Today's Language: Read aloud of "Nothing at All" story. Shorter period as we extended Math time
Today's Social Studies: Our period was affected by the student protest. I checked with each student to ascertain that they could articulate their reasoning, and whether or not it was discussed and supported by parents. Students that did not leave were supervised by another staff member while I monitored the group outside.
Wednesday HW
1. Collect a cereal box for a Measurement/Media Literacy activity
2. Book Report due Tomorrow
3. Area and Perimeter quiz on Friday, April 5. A study sheet with a practice question was handed out Tuesday.
Today's Math: Corrected MMS, did some practice review of Area formulas, then continued surface area problem solving. More conferencing with individual students took place.
Today's Language: Last period of Beasts of Never short story, Read aloud of "Nothing at All" story.
Today's Social Studies: We watched 23 minutes of a video entitle Canada: A People's History, episode 1", which is available online (Vimeo). We took some notes on it in our booklet.
Tuesday HW
1. Collect a cereal box for a Measurement/Media Literacy activity
2. Book Report due Thursday
3. Area and Perimeter quiz on Friday, April 5. A study sheet with a practice question was handed out today.
Today we looked at the surface area of rectangular prisms after we corrected yesterday's MMS homework. We took a note on surface area and worked in small groups to calculate the surface area of typical product boxes (cereal, facial tissue, mac and cheese) while developing a framework for benchmark estimations of these boxes. I spent some time checking in with students who have been scoring below expectations in homework, in some cases making calls home for homework that is not being done. We handed in the Space Free verse poems. We worked on the "Beasts of Never" narrative story. The Math lesson was quite long and we did only two subjects in three periods.
Monday HW
1. MMS pages 140-41
2. Book Report due Thursday
3. Space Free Verse poem due in good copy form tomorrow.
Today we introduced another way of looking at the relationship between the area of triangles and parallelograms. We handed in the Creation myth cartoons. We worked on the "Beasts of Never" poem set and looked at turning the characters introduced in them into characters that meet in a new narrative story. We also spent time in Social Studies on the Vinland Sagas, the Columbus diary, and the Encounter story. We looked at the idea of contact and point of view in these accounts.
1. Collect a cereal box for a Measurement/Media Literacy activity
2. Area and Perimeter quiz on Friday, April 5. A study sheet with a practice question was handed out Tuesday.
Today's Math: We worked on a surface area word problem involving wrapping paper for a box that is 54 by 20 by 4 cm. More conferencing with individual students took place.
Today's Language: Read aloud of "Nothing at All" story. Shorter period as we extended Math time
Today's Social Studies: Our period was affected by the student protest. I checked with each student to ascertain that they could articulate their reasoning, and whether or not it was discussed and supported by parents. Students that did not leave were supervised by another staff member while I monitored the group outside.
Wednesday HW
1. Collect a cereal box for a Measurement/Media Literacy activity
2. Book Report due Tomorrow
3. Area and Perimeter quiz on Friday, April 5. A study sheet with a practice question was handed out Tuesday.
Today's Math: Corrected MMS, did some practice review of Area formulas, then continued surface area problem solving. More conferencing with individual students took place.
Today's Language: Last period of Beasts of Never short story, Read aloud of "Nothing at All" story.
Today's Social Studies: We watched 23 minutes of a video entitle Canada: A People's History, episode 1", which is available online (Vimeo). We took some notes on it in our booklet.
Tuesday HW
1. Collect a cereal box for a Measurement/Media Literacy activity
2. Book Report due Thursday
3. Area and Perimeter quiz on Friday, April 5. A study sheet with a practice question was handed out today.
Today we looked at the surface area of rectangular prisms after we corrected yesterday's MMS homework. We took a note on surface area and worked in small groups to calculate the surface area of typical product boxes (cereal, facial tissue, mac and cheese) while developing a framework for benchmark estimations of these boxes. I spent some time checking in with students who have been scoring below expectations in homework, in some cases making calls home for homework that is not being done. We handed in the Space Free verse poems. We worked on the "Beasts of Never" narrative story. The Math lesson was quite long and we did only two subjects in three periods.
Monday HW
1. MMS pages 140-41
2. Book Report due Thursday
3. Space Free Verse poem due in good copy form tomorrow.
Today we introduced another way of looking at the relationship between the area of triangles and parallelograms. We handed in the Creation myth cartoons. We worked on the "Beasts of Never" poem set and looked at turning the characters introduced in them into characters that meet in a new narrative story. We also spent time in Social Studies on the Vinland Sagas, the Columbus diary, and the Encounter story. We looked at the idea of contact and point of view in these accounts.