Did You Know…? The first thing ever seen on television was the head of a ventriloquist’s doll named Jim, on the 2nd of October 1925.

Good evening,

Today we began by allowing students to complete their Social Studies quiz from yesterday. Many students needed a few extra minutes in order to fully answer the questions. Thank you to everyone else in the class for being so quite and respectful for your classmates.

In Math today, students completed Day 2 of their Lesson #7 work. Students practiced yesterday being able to check their answers using estimation. This is a great way to quickly check is your answer is reasonable. If your answer is extremely different from the estimate, it is probably a good idea to go back and check your work. Today student’s began with their review lesson. We reviewed the estimation strategies that we have been using throughout this unit, and will continue to use throughout the year. In order to review these strategies we looked at the following examples and table created by some of our students in Math Club last night. Check them out below:

November 20 November 20-2 November 20-3 November 20-4 November 20-5

 

Students all received a copy of these strategies that they can keep at the front of their duotangs, so that they can consult them throughout the year. Students were then given time to continue to work on their practice problems. We will be having our Whole Numbers Unit Test next Wednesday. Students will be reviewing on Monday and Tuesday in class. Remember, students will need to have completed their Extra Workbook as part of their review. Students have been given time throughout this unit to work on the workbook, and it should be completed by next Thursday. Need another place to study? Try Mathletics! The link is on the right and student usernames and passwords are in their Agendas.

In Language Arts today, students continued to look at the subject and the predicate. They practiced changing incomplete phrases into completed sentences. Eg. “thrills and chills” was changed to “Roller coasters can give riders thrills and chills.” Remember, we now have a sentence test that all our sentences need to pass! Do they have: a subject, a predicate, a capital letter, and appropriate end punctuation (. ! ?)?

In Science today, our groups were able to complete their posters on clouds. Students have been working together to research cumulus, nimbus, stratus, and cirrus clouds. They needed to know a description of the clouds, the associated weather patterns, and where you could find these clouds in the atmosphere. We had some fun adding the clouds to our posters – shaving cream paint! Check out some of our finished posters below!

Agenda:

Read 20 minutes

Math:

  • pgs. 62-63 #1-7, 9-14
  • Extra Workbook Lessons #4-5 (Monday)
  • Unit Test – November 26th
  • Extra Workbook (all) – November 27th

Ski Forms – ASAP

SPCA Calendar – Email Picture/$5 donation

Family Movie Night (Mr. Peabody and Sherman) – Friday, 7:00 pm, drinks/popcorn can be purchased (Gr.6 Edmonton fundraiser)

Healthy Family Fun Night – November 25th, 5:00 – 6:30 pm

This group worked hard to really demonstrate what each of the clouds looked like.
This group worked hard to really demonstrate what each of the clouds looked like.
This group found a lot of information during our research classes.
This group found a lot of information during our research classes.