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.