Hello Everyone,
As mentioned before we put the month of October on hold for our Genre reading.
Well believe it or not here comes November !!!
Below please see the renewed Schedule and the rubric for this months assignment: Historical Fiction. If anyone has difficulty finding a novel just let me know and we will take a look in the Learning Commons to ensure we find something that your child will enjoy!
****** Due to the power outage Progress Reports will not be going home on Monday, Oct 30th as scheduled. Thank you for your understanding. Math:
Last week we inquired around equivalent fractions and discovered that what you do to the numerator you must do to the denominator to make the value the same ( multiply or divide).
We played math games that had us place fractions on the number line, using fraction circles/fractions strips to support us.
You can play at home: grab a pair of dice and play with your child (1 roll is numerator, 1 roll is denominator). Ask them :
• “What fraction did you create using the numbers on the number cubes?”
• “Where would this fraction be located on the number line?”
• “How do you know that this is the location of this fraction?”
• “How do you know that this fraction is greater than 1?”
Another card game was to find equivalency between a visual representation, a fraction, decimals, and word:
We developed our Success criteria for reading responses by analyzing past EQAO samples and determining how we can bump up our work. We continued on with our read aloud Iqbal and have been responding both orally and in writing about our predictions and feelings of the book and it's characters thus far.
Students participated in a CASI reading which is a form of assessment we can use to help determine where we are in our reading and steps we can make to progress along in our reading skills.
Upcoming this week:
- Wear Orange and Black for Halloween
- 67s game on Nov1st: for those who have indicated they are volunteering please ensure you are at the school for 9:20am and we kindly ask that you wait outside the office until we join you
- This Friday is our first gr 6 Movie Knight: 6:30pm at St. Philip's Parish Hall
Hello Everyone,
Another busy week under our belts, and busier ones up ahead.
This past week: Math:
We have gone to the other side of the decimal and began comparing and ordering decimals to 100ths. We'll take that onto fractions looking at proper, improper fractions. mixed numbers and percents in relationship to decimals.
ThisWord Bank was shared with students to encourage their use of mathematical terms and make them aware of the language that they will see on our EQAO assessment towards the end of the year.
Other resources shared were around problem-solving and self-reflection of their Math learning; TIPS/Math Rubric. We used TIPS to help add to our already co-created strategies for solving problems. The rubric, which is broken down by the Achievement Chart categories of the curriculum, will be an ongoing tool used to encourage reflection and self-assessment around the understanding of a math concept.
Mathletics username and passwords were given to students this past week (you will find them glued on the inside cover of Agendas). Students can access it from the Student Portal and all assignments in Mathletics are related to ongoing learning in the class. More formal Math homework will soon be coming home- please keep an eye out for it :)
Literacy
We visited Mrs. Doro and the Learning Commons and have established our times to visit the LC on a regular basis. It will be every 2nd Thursday, our next visit will Oct 30. Please see the link to our schedule on the top left of the Blog.
We discussed the importance of happiness and how being happy puts us in a better place to learn. Students wrote a paragraph on what makes them happy and then made a visual representation; their "Happy Card". We will post these in our learning space to be a reminder to us of those things that bring us happiness. :)
As a class we have defined the term inferring and determined how it can be beneficial in reading- we have learned we can make inferences about characters, the setting, how characters feel, what actions the characters might take and why, as well as the author's purpose.
We launched our new read-aloud Iqbal with the below questions. Students had to go to the corner of the room that helped qualify their response to the questions,. Each corner was labeled with either Agree, Disagree, Strongly agree, Strongly disagree. Each question was asked and then discussed before moving to the next; here is the order they were provided:
Should children have jobs/responsibilities in their home?
Should children be able to work before the age of 14?
Should industries be allowed to profit from the use of child labour?
We are utilizing the toolAlpha Boxto record new vocabulary we don't know the meaning of and we feel is important to our text.
Please ask your child to share with you about our present read-aloud Iqbal.
For now, the Book Reports for October are placed on hold. We will pick up again in November with the original schedule shared and will circle back to the one missed at a later date.
Upcoming:
BYODplease take a moment to read the link around Bring your own Device
We are still in need of Halloween Volunteers. Students are allowed to sign up for more than 1 thing, so please take a look at what spots are still in need of a volunteer. SIGN UP
Our 1st official Spirit Day is Wednesday, Oct 25th and its Crazy Hair/Hat day. It is also the day for our school wide Rapunzel presentation.
I will be out of the school on Oct 25,26,27th participating in a mandatory school learning activity. I will be leaving lesson plans that allow for a progression of learning to ensure our classroom learning continues to move forward. I also have arranged for a consistent supply teacher during my absences.
Progress reports are coming home on Oct 30th. My parent-teacher interviews will fall on a separate night than the school's scheduled Nov 2nd. If you wish to meet with me please sign up at the below link for times on Tuesday, Nov 7th or Wed Nov 8th. If the time slot that best suits you is no longer available please just drop me an email/telephone call with the day and time that works best for you and I will do my best to accommodate.
We came together as a new class and developed our criteria for what a good classmate Says/Does/Is and created a pledge/promise that we agreed would create an environment where we all will feel happy, safe and able to learn.
Math
We started with the idea of mistakes grow our brains and that productive struggle is a good thing because that is when learning happens. We watched this incredible video from Jo Boaler, a professor of Mathematics Learning from Stanford University.
Have a look at her key messages to us.....
We accessed our prior knowledge about place value and then looked at one of the Big Ideas, our present Math learning goal, in the Ontario curriculum for Number Sense- by the end of gr 6 students will be able to read, represent, compare and order whole numbers to 1,000,000. We will be moving towards decimal numbers to thousandths.
Here is a great video we have been enjoying moving and grooving to as well as a fun Math Talk we did with the belowWould You Rather Prompt- ask your child which they chose and why.
In Literacy, we watched the below video and students wrote me Dear Teacher letters to let me know what they need this year in order to learn:
We shared some of the Book Sells students had been working on in their initial classes. We also were asked to share our understanding of the word Inferencing....
They were then asked to watch a video and asked was there a change in their thinking.
We will be delving more into inferencing and its importance for readers as we begin a class read aloud of the story Iqbal.
Please see the link below for students/parents to volunteer for the upcoming Halloween dance. Volunteer Link
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Have a great weekend!
Mrs. B
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