Thursday 4 December 2014

Dec. 5-12


This week in math the students continued to work on geometry skills.  Students wrote a quiz that went home to be signed. They also worked on comparing triangles based on side length and angles, as well as finding and labelling parallel lines in polygons. The grade 6s began to learn how to use a compass to create triangles with specific side lengths. There will be a second geometry quiz next Friday that covers the same material as the first quiz, plus comparing triangles, identifying parallel lines, finding lines of symmetry and rotational symmetry. 

This week the students finished two culminating tasks to wrap up our unit on overcoming challenges and learning from failure. Students finished both their paragraph and art piece on overcoming challenges. This work is now on display in the hall. Students continued their work in literature circles. I'm happy to see everyone engaged in their book and doing great accountable talk around their novel. 


Important upcoming dates:
Friday, Dec. 5th: PA day
Tuesday Dec. 9th:  4th literature circle meeting, Scholastic book fair browsing
Wed, Dec. 10th: Holiday concert (band, strings and choir for rm. 21 students)
Thursday, Dec. 11th: Scholastic book fair shopping 
Friday, Dec. 12th: math quiz , Holiday Sale, 2:10-2:40


Homework for this week:

1) Read for at least 20 minutes each night. This can be a book of your choice or your literature circle book. 
2) Complete your role sheets for Tuesday and Friday's meetings. 
3) Continue to record important sentences from your novel on your "literary luminary" sheet, in preparation for your literature circle assignment, which will be completed in class. 



Best,
Bronwyn Davidson

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