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Hello families of Division 2, Our much-loved class pet Gillbird, a betta fish, needs a home for the winter break. His tank is 3 gallons, and the pump requires a regular electrical outlet so that he has fresh oxygen in the water. He needs 2 to 3 feedings per day of his food. The tank […]
Can you believe we are already through the first week of December? This week, we continued building vocabulary to describe our families in French. In Math, we practiced addition and subtraction of numbers in the ten thousands, and were challenged to show multiple ways of finding the answers to subtraction problems. Open-ended questions help students […]
The final week of November flew by! We are coming to the end of Term 1, and are working on finishing up many of the projects we have started. In French, we began a new unit on family vocabulary, practicing using inferencing skills and searching for vocabulary words to help us understand family relationships of […]
This week, we practiced many skills: In French, we practiced pronouncing French letters and letter sounds, spelling out our vocabulary words to one another. In Math, we tried out an Esti-Mystery challenge, to review skip counting/multiples, and our estimation skills. We practiced rounding numbers to the nearest tens, hundreds, thousands, and ten thousands, and made […]
Though short, this was a busy week! In Math, we worked on understanding and manipulating large numbers based on data from the FIFA Women’s World Cup. We worked in teams again, writing on vertical non-permanent surfaces of windows and white boards, with the goal of communicating our math thinking more clearly. We had team speakers, […]
Hello families! This week we continued work on our lived-experience stories, and learned about the value of using descriptive language to create imagery. We practiced by describing a plain old soda cracker with as many adjectives and comparisons (similes and metaphors) as we could. The list that we created together was so impressive that I […]
We kicked off this week with some story work. Drop Everything And Read was on Monday morning, (http://www.dropeverythingandread.com/nationaldearday.html) and our House Teams read up a storm. We began a story workshop based off lived-experience stories we shared orally last week. We will be work-shopping these stories over the next week or so. In French, we […]
What a week! Even though it was short due to the Pro-D day tomorrow, it was packed full. We practiced French vocabulary for colours, body parts, and clothing. We began a storytelling workshop, learned about some of the differences between oral and written stories, and mapped out stories of self. It was fun to hear […]
This week included many engaging activities, including… a delightfully disgusting science experiment to study digestion. We broke, crushed, mushed, and strained graham crackers to simulate the digestion process. Using a bit of water to represent saliva, vinegar to imitate stomach acids, and nylon hose to replicate the effects of the small and large intestines, we […]
This week we began working on place value in Math, and started studying the digestive system in Science. In French, we learned body part nouns and adjectives, and created an imaginary creature to describe them with. We will be using these imaginary animals/creatures as models for a project in Science that will compliment our learning […]