Parent Night and Tomorrow Special Visitors

Thank you to everyone who came to the parent night this evening. If you missed the presentation and need a copy of it, just have your child ask for one from me tomorrow.

Today we continued to work on the body systems project. This project is due on October 13th, Tuesday. If anyone has completed it tomorrow they can hand it in, but if they need more time, there will be some class time tomorrow and some on Tuesday. Just a reminder that students are to do the writing by themselves in class and not at home. The diagram can be done at home, though, to save on time.

We also continued our discussion about diseases. Students did a disease sorting activity, matching the name of a common disease with its symptoms. We created a T-chart on the board of SYMPTOM versus CONDITION/ILLNESS/DISEASE, to try and tell the difference between the terms. Students began to see that symptoms are the things a doctor or patient observes or feels, and they are the clues that lead to a diagnosis. The diagnosis leads to the doctor saying you have a particular condition or illness. We had some great discussion overall!

During math we continued working on problem solving related to median, mode, range and mean.

Ms. DeTerra handed back some work to students and we went over the check plus, check, and check minus marking system again. We also reviewed expectations in terms of communicating ideas well by finishing all questions assigned, providing enough detail to answer the questions, and being neat enough so all information can be read clearly. Students were able to say out loud themselves how this skill, of being a good communicator, can be important for the future (for example, scientists documenting their research.)

Finally, before we cleaned the classroom thoroughly in preparation for the presentation this evening, students checked their bacteria plates created last Monday. They documented what they could observe on Day 4 of the experiment by drawing pictures of the plate and writing details about what they saw (colour, shape, texture, etc.) We had some gross stuff growing in there already! Some had fuzzy white blobs (likely fungi), while others had some fuzzy green or black (molds). Some even had circular, flat white things beginning to grow, and these are likely bacteria. We will check them again on Wednesday morning.

Tomorrow we have some special visitors from the medical profession!

Have a great night!