October 15-18

Room 18/19 Weekly Blog

Homework: This is only work that was not completed in class. Please ask your child if they have completed their work. 

1. Literacy:
- Weekend Journal
- Word Work focusing on the Long E sound (spelling list: students choose if they want to work on List 1 or List 2)

2. Mrs. Lytviak's math group to represent a number in 5 ways
3. Social: No homework
4. Science: Waste in our World posters to be completed
5. French: Thanksgiving meal or just any meal (pictures/labels)

Literacy:
We started our “Daily 5” rotations this week. Students have 30 minutes at each center.

1. Read to Self

2. Read to Others- Guided Reading with teacher as well as Partner Reading

3. Work on Writing- Students have begun an Author Study on an Author of their choice

4. Wordwork- See the picture in homework section for the words. Students will be tested on Monday to “show what they know”

5. Technology- Working to improve their typing skills using Typing.com and Typing Club

    

QUESTION: Ask your child if one of these was their book from guided reading and can they recall an interesting fact? If they had a different book, what was it about? Did they learn something new?

     

   

Math:

How far is 10 000?

QUESTION: Check out this website? How far is 10 000km from Ranchlands School? Where can you go?  Check out the website: https://onthegomap.com/#/create

Representing Numbers to 10 000 in different ways

QUESTION: What are the 5 ways we can represent numbers? Show your parents how to represent a number higher than 1000 and less than 10 000 in 5 different ways?

Science:

Students finished their posters to represent their knowledge of "Waste in our World" topics. The topics of choice included:

1. Landfills
2. Recycling
3. Climate Change
4. Global Warming
5. Natural Resources
6. Renewable Resources
7. Non-Renewable Resources

They will be sharing their posters with peers next week.

 

We had a speaker, Mrs. Lytviak's husband, Robert come in to speak about energy and cars. He's an electrical engineer and passionate environmentalist.

     

 

     

QUESTIONS: How can electric cars help reduce waste and improve the air quality?

How does an electric car get energy? Are there some advantages and disadvantages to using an electric car?

QUESTION: What did you write or draw about the presentation (Pictures and Words)?

French:

J'ai mange... (I ate...)

Questions: Qu'est-ce que tu mange pour Action de Grace/  Qu'est-ce que tu mange pour ton repas (What did you eat for Thanksgiving or for your meal)?

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Question: What does a turkey say in French? Why do we sing French songs? What new words did you learn from this song?