March 1st Update

Hello Everyone!

Class Meeting:

We had some great discussion today as a whole class about the following:

  • Safety and appropriate behaviour when using google hangouts (Ms. D does not monitor any of those conversations, as this is not something we use as a classroom tool; however, please do come to me if you have any concerns.)
  • Zones of Regulation — Learning how to monitor our emotions as they change from Red, Yellow, Blue, and Green, and adding words to our vocabulary to describe our emotions to others
  • Field Trips — Please get parents to respond to the field trip survey
  • Easter Plans — Everyone is interested in doing some egg dying, crafts, and a pizza day for the class

Language Arts:

We finished Lemoncello!! There is a book two called Mr. Lemoncello’s Library Olympics, and we voted to check this one out from the library and do a read aloud during term three. Our new books to read for Literature Circles have been passed out, groups have been formed, and assignments have been given for our first Lit Circle Meeting on Thursday, March 3rd. Please take good care of your books, as you are responsible for replacement, just as with any library book.

Unit Work:

We continued our work on making a personal narrative related to immigration and/or explorers. Today, students brainstormed details for their story under Character and Setting. They had to answer these questions:

  • Who is your character based on? (historical fiction)
  • What is his/her name (if renamed)? (remember YOU are the character)
  • Where did he/she live?
  • Where did they go or where will they go?
  • What are the push/pull factors involved?
  • What is their description? (appearance, age, occupation, likes/dislikes, personality, etc.)
  • What was their homeland like? (Biome? City/Village? City vs rural? Water nearby? Farms?)
  • What is it about their homeland they will miss (on their journey or by leaving)?
  • What is it about their homeland they want to leave?
  • What is the place like where they will go?
  • What is their home (living place — house, town home, shack, etc.) like?
  • What is their transportation to the new place like? (airport, ship, train, etc.)
  • What is the first place they go when they arrive in the new place? (airport, Pier 21, a new city, border checkpoint, etc.)

Math:

Everyone received their white scroll paper to begin working on the floorplan/rendering of the building they have designed. Each group needs to use one side of the paper and fit both a footprint and a rendering on that one side. The footprint is the outline of the base of the building, and it marks entryways, elevator shafts, stairs, outside outline, etc. The rendering is a picture of the actual building in colour. The drawings need to be to scale. Typically, imperial is used, but you can also use metric if it is easier to do the conversions. Start with the size of the building in real life and then look for how you will represent that distance with a smaller measurement amount on the paper, just like we did for the classroom. For example, how much distance will 1cm equal on paper? There are example boards to view in class and articles about scale models under Math in Articles of Interest.

Have a good evening!!!