Wednesday, January 27th Update
Hello Everyone,
Classroom Visitors: If anyone has a parent or someone in their family who has an interesting immigration story to share, please let me know as soon as possible.
Unit Migration Work: Today, we continued our discussion around human migration by looking at the point system Canada uses for deciding who can immigrate into the country. Yesterday, students had read the profiles of applicants and prioritized the top five people they would let into Canada. Today, they used Canada’s immigration point system to see if their choices would have been allowed into Canada. What kinds of criteria do countries look at when allowing people to immigrate and why? Homework is to finish the Canadian Point System sheet if you were unable to complete it today.
Words Contest: Any student wishing to submit a poem or piece of prose for the District’s annual writing contest can do so before February 1st. Ms. D gave some class time today to think of ideas and write, and more time will be given tomorrow.
- There are four categories for each age level including English poetry, French poetry, English prose, and French prose.
- Prose pieces should not be more than 500 words.
- Entries should be suitable for all audiences.
- Submissions should be original works and not be from previous years.
- Entries should be typed to be easily read by judges
- Entries need a submission sheet (please see Ms. D for one)
- If you want Ms. D to edit it, then I am happy to help, but please have it already typed on on a USB for review on Monday, Feb. 1st.
LA: Today we continued our read aloud and Reading Power work around making connections. We finished through Chapter 9 today and everyone is enjoying the novel immensely! Please make sure your connection sheets from the packet are complete, as I will collect them and check them after we complete tomorrow’s read aloud period.
Math: We looked at a unique way of remembering the metric stair conversion chart, drawing it in a different way from last time. Students practiced conversions and timed themselves doing quick metric thinking. If not done, please finish pages 1 and 2 only of those practice problems.
Science: As part of human migration, we are investigating genetics, so today we looked at common human traits and surveyed who had these characteristics within our class community. Homework tonight involves asking your parents about these traits and completing a quick t-chart about where your own traits came from, mom or dad.
Have a great night!