Did You Know…? An engastrimyth is another word for ventriloquist, meaning the same in Greek as ‘ventriloquist’ in Latin: ‘belly-speaker’.

Good evening,

Today students finished their discussion on the Habitants and the settlement of New France. We looked closely at the Seigneurial System and how it affected the Habitants way of life. Everyone in our class drew a lot number and a Seigneury number, and was assigned a piece of land to live on. We were all playing the roles of farmers today. We discussed who received the better piece of land, and decided that it would be best to live closest to the St. Lawrence River (or another river) on a Seigneury near the front, not the back. This way we would be close to supplies, resources, transportation, and water! We discussed what we would have to do for our Seigneur to help develop our farms, like clear the land, build roads, ditches, barns, etc. Even though the life of a Habitant is hard, we also discussed how much better it was for many of us than our opportunities back home in France. That is why so many of us came: land, resources, and opportunities. While we were all farmers today, we also discussed who else we would want the Seigneur to recruit to live in our settlement, like carpenters, bakers, roofers, as well as musicians and artists.

In Math, we looked at equivalent decimals. Students folded a piece of paper first into fourths, then eighths, and the sixteenths. What we discovered was that 1/4 = 2/8 = 4/16. These fractions can be said to be equivalent, because they represent the same value. Students will continue to look at equivalent fractions tomorrow during our Day 2 lesson.

Agenda:

Read 20 minutes

Language Arts:

• Paragraph Book – Topic/Concluding Sentences (tomorrow)

Math:

• Math Help – Wednesdays from 3:00 – 4:00 pm
• Mathletics Meeting – TBD

Google Classroom Form – ASAP

Canstruction donations – ASAP (We need 398 mL cans)

Jump Rope for Heart Jump Day – April 24th

Picture Day – tomorrow

Grade 5/6 Floor Hockey – Monday (3:00-4:00 pm)

Multicultural Potluck – Tonight

Multicultural Taste-Test – Tomorrow ($0.25)

Multicultural Poetry Cafe – Thursday at lunch

Henna Tattoos – Thursday ($2, permission form)

Yearbook Orders – May 29th ( ybpay.lifetouch.com and enter Yearbook ID code: 10359315)