Good afternoon!

What a great day. Thank you to all the students for all of their hard work! Today in Language Arts, we started to focus on the plot of our stories. Students are recognizing the different events, and are challenged to correctly order the events from stories. We also worked with commas and quotation marks today. Students practiced where to place this punctuation.

Eg. “He’s going to catch the bird!” John yelled.

       “If you hold him down, I’ll try to rescue the bird,” Breanna told John.

Students did a great job, and it was nice to see so many people working together, and helping one another with our editing today.

In Social Studies, we continue to examine the Rocky Mountain region. We finished discussing climate and vegetation today, and then we began our project for this chapter. Students are constructing a mountain range using modelling clay. They are turning out beautifully, and we will continue to work on them tomorrow.

We also had literacy centers today. As promised, I will be adding details about our centers as we continue to work through them. Our first center is called “Independent Reading”. Students (in groups of 3-5) receive a copy of the same book. This month we are reading Avalance! by Pascal Haegell. Students then receive a flip book of possible response questions. They can choose a question that focuses on: content, author, or illustrator. Some example questions are:

• What topics does this book or chapter describe?
• What kind of research did the author have to do to write this book?
• Did the illustrations help you understand the information better? Why or why not?

Students pick a card, and record their answer in a literacy center notebook, which will be collected after each round of centers.

We also finished our door today! Students each made a Who, and put their own faces on them. Our Whos are singing around the Christmas Tree, just like in the story. I think the door looks amazing, and the students have worked so hard on all the snowflakes, trees, decorations, houses, and Whos! Great job 4/5 N!

Homework: Multiplication quiz – 3s and 10s (Friday)

                         Read – 20 minutes

                         Reading Journal (Friday)

                         Spelling Test (Friday)

                         Langauge Arts: Quiz! (Topic Sentences, nouns, verbs, and end punctuation) – Monday

                         Science: Climate Project – Due January 10th

                         Health: Home Activity #3 (relax for 10 minutes :))

                         Winter Concert – Div. 2 (January 18) @ 7:00 pm