Monthly Update - November

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Hi everyone,

Please refer to the November update below.  Please engage in conversation with your child regarding the items that read, “ask me about…”

MATH
Covered:
-        Prime factorization
-        LCM
-        GCF
o   Ask me about which method/strategy I prefer to use to find the LCM and GCF
-        Problem solving

Projects and activities:
-        Number talks (Next steps)
-        Working documents (located in math binder)

Next steps:
-        Adding and subtracting integers
-        Relationship between fractions, decimals, and percentages
-        Comparing and ordering fractions, decimals, and integers
-        Addition and subtraction of fractions, decimals, and percentages

SCIENCE
Covered:
-        Mountain formation
-        Continental drift vs plate tectonics
-        Rock cycle
-        Rocks and minerals
-        Weathering and erosion
-        Geological timescale
-        Gradual and sudden change

Projects and activities:
-        Plate tectonics map assignment focusing on hypothesizing what the Earth will look like 100 million   
         years into the future backed on the rate and direction that the plates are currently moving
-        Rock cycle comprehension art (read the cycle and draw it out)
-        Weathering and erosion game
o   Ask me about the difference between erosion and weathering
-        Geological time scale presentation focusing on an era of choice
-        Natural disaster presentation 
o   Ask to watch my natural disaster presentation

Next steps:
-        Fossil formation
-        Review of Planet Earth content
o   Unit assessment
-        Next unit: Structures and Forces

SOCIAL
Covered:
-        Structure of aboriginal societies
-        Decision making within aboriginal societies
-        European imperialism
-        French and British explorers of North America
o   Ask me who my favourite explorer is

Projects and activities:
-        Explorer Presentation (Who am I?)
-        Class discussion 

Next steps:
-        Social and political structure of New France, Rupert’s Land, and the 13 Colonies
-        European influence on North America
-        Fur Trade

LANGUAGE ARTS
Covered:
-        2nd novel: The Other Place (in progress)
o   Ask me about my responses for “The Other Place”
-        paragraph writing
-        sentence types (in progress)
o   Ask me about the different types of sentences
-        parts of speech (in progress)
-        quick and deep questions
-        setting, theme and characters (in progress)

Projects and activities:
-        4 paragraph opinion essay writing (students compared the movie with the book “The Giver”)
-        reading response entries (occurs after most readings)
-        exit slips of sentence types

Next steps:
-        Business letter writing
-        Comma rules
-        Editing
-       Parts of speech

FINE ARTS / BAND
Update will vary depending on the class students are enrolled in.

Other updates:

Nov 28 - Calgary Tower field study
Dec 7- Non-instructional day
Dec 14 - Zoo
Dec 20 - Last day of classes
Jan 7- First day back from Winter break 


-Mrs. Thomas

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