For our morning work today, we continued our work with input/output tables.
We looked back at our first draft writing related to our Quiet Place. Our next step was to identify adjectives, strong verbs and figurative language in our writing. From there, we had time to revise our original draft and make our revisions on the computer.
Friday journals are coming home. Students had 30 minutes to write today.
We finished our day with Thank You Friday.
Reminders
- Book Fair next week
- Conferences are next week on Thursday evening and Friday. Booking opens today at 6 pm. Thursday is an early dismissal day (11:45). There is no school for students on Friday.
Friday, November 29, 2019
Thursday, November 28, 2019
Thursday, November 28
Our morning work task today was:
What are some inferences you can make from the following statement? Record as many inferences as you can.
The girl smiled as she walked into the room.
We read the story, A Quiet Place. We each thought about where our quiet place would be. It could be a place we had been to once, a place we know very well, or a place we had never been. We created a web of descriptive words and phrases about our quiet place and then recorded our ideas in a paragraph. We will be taking time to revise and edit our paragraphs to strengthen them. We decided together that our paragraphs should include:
- first sentence hooks the reader
- adjectives
- strong verbs
- figurative language (simile, personification, alliteration, power of 3, metaphor)
- descriptive vocabulary
We had leadership time in the gym with the grade 1's and helped teach them a new game.
We continued our work with input/output tables.
Our day finished looking at some art and critiquing what we saw.
Reminders:
- Book Fair next week
- Conferences are next week on Thursday evening and Friday. Booking opens Friday, November 29 at 6 pm.
What are some inferences you can make from the following statement? Record as many inferences as you can.
The girl smiled as she walked into the room.
We read the story, A Quiet Place. We each thought about where our quiet place would be. It could be a place we had been to once, a place we know very well, or a place we had never been. We created a web of descriptive words and phrases about our quiet place and then recorded our ideas in a paragraph. We will be taking time to revise and edit our paragraphs to strengthen them. We decided together that our paragraphs should include:
- first sentence hooks the reader
- adjectives
- strong verbs
- figurative language (simile, personification, alliteration, power of 3, metaphor)
- descriptive vocabulary
We had leadership time in the gym with the grade 1's and helped teach them a new game.
We continued our work with input/output tables.
Our day finished looking at some art and critiquing what we saw.
Reminders:
- Book Fair next week
- Conferences are next week on Thursday evening and Friday. Booking opens Friday, November 29 at 6 pm.
Wednesday, November 27, 2019
Wednesday, November 27
We had our operations with large number problem solving assessment this morning.
We worked on expanding an idea. We were trying to include adjectives, strong verbs and figurative language such as alliteration, personification and similes. The ideas we had to choose from were:
The cat was hunting. She saw a mouse and caught it.
The kitten played in the grass while the dog slept nearby.
The man was digging a hole in his yard.
The monkeys were swinging in the trees.
The girl made a wish in the wishing well.
The lost boy ran into the school.
Here are a few student examples from today.
The skampy, slick and smooth black cat glared at the tiny hole in the wall. Finally the teenie tiny brown mouse scampered across the slippery, cold kitchen floor. The cat dashed after the frightened mouse out the back door. The cats owner has not cut the grass for years it was like a jungle. The mouse hid under a truck tire that was covered in mud. The mouse prayed that the cat would go inside but this feline was determined to get the little rodent so the predator got low and quietly and slowly crept across the messy ground. The mouse scared half to death made a quick dash and snuck under the rickety blue fence. Into the alley the mouse hurried across the rocky, cold wet ground. The cat leaped over the fence, chased the mouse until they reached a dead end and it was all over and the mouse was done for. The cat pounced on the mouse and the mouse went to a better place.
The young 5 year old girl jolted through the forest until she came into the clearing of the rickety stone wishing well. The girl flicked a quarter into the well and made a wish. After she sat on the polished marble bench calming down as the golden sun started to set.
The young small homeless lost five-year-old boy was wandering around so he can leave the cold weather. The boy was losing faith until he saw a giant warm cozy school. The young small homeless boy bolted to the school so he can sleep and also he could be warm.
The smooth and silky black and white tabby cat was resting in the tall bright green freshly mowed grass under the warm sun hunting for a small furry treat. Then the little white mouse with big bright hazel eyes popped his head out of the freshly painted fence. She spotted the mouse and pounced. The little mouse skittered across the old sidewalk and made a sharp turn around to the deep dark alleyway with the cat close on its tail. When the cat leapt up and caught it for a nice new snack.
The old man was watching Avengers Infinity War his reclining chair alone because his wife was at friends house. When Thanos got all six infinity stones the man got a hammer. When Thanos snapped his fingers he destroyed his TV. Then he went to the middle of his yard and started to dig a hole in his yard to bury his broken TV because he did not want find out and when his wife asked he said that it disappeared.
We had a look at our science assessments and had an opportunity to go back and redo the ones we got wrong.
We are almost finished our Mug Shot Composite sketches and completed a suspect profile to go along with our art.
We worked on expanding an idea. We were trying to include adjectives, strong verbs and figurative language such as alliteration, personification and similes. The ideas we had to choose from were:
The cat was hunting. She saw a mouse and caught it.
The kitten played in the grass while the dog slept nearby.
The man was digging a hole in his yard.
The monkeys were swinging in the trees.
The girl made a wish in the wishing well.
The lost boy ran into the school.
Here are a few student examples from today.
The skampy, slick and smooth black cat glared at the tiny hole in the wall. Finally the teenie tiny brown mouse scampered across the slippery, cold kitchen floor. The cat dashed after the frightened mouse out the back door. The cats owner has not cut the grass for years it was like a jungle. The mouse hid under a truck tire that was covered in mud. The mouse prayed that the cat would go inside but this feline was determined to get the little rodent so the predator got low and quietly and slowly crept across the messy ground. The mouse scared half to death made a quick dash and snuck under the rickety blue fence. Into the alley the mouse hurried across the rocky, cold wet ground. The cat leaped over the fence, chased the mouse until they reached a dead end and it was all over and the mouse was done for. The cat pounced on the mouse and the mouse went to a better place.
The young 5 year old girl jolted through the forest until she came into the clearing of the rickety stone wishing well. The girl flicked a quarter into the well and made a wish. After she sat on the polished marble bench calming down as the golden sun started to set.
The young small homeless lost five-year-old boy was wandering around so he can leave the cold weather. The boy was losing faith until he saw a giant warm cozy school. The young small homeless boy bolted to the school so he can sleep and also he could be warm.
The smooth and silky black and white tabby cat was resting in the tall bright green freshly mowed grass under the warm sun hunting for a small furry treat. Then the little white mouse with big bright hazel eyes popped his head out of the freshly painted fence. She spotted the mouse and pounced. The little mouse skittered across the old sidewalk and made a sharp turn around to the deep dark alleyway with the cat close on its tail. When the cat leapt up and caught it for a nice new snack.
The old man was watching Avengers Infinity War his reclining chair alone because his wife was at friends house. When Thanos got all six infinity stones the man got a hammer. When Thanos snapped his fingers he destroyed his TV. Then he went to the middle of his yard and started to dig a hole in his yard to bury his broken TV because he did not want find out and when his wife asked he said that it disappeared.
We had a look at our science assessments and had an opportunity to go back and redo the ones we got wrong.
We are almost finished our Mug Shot Composite sketches and completed a suspect profile to go along with our art.
Tuesday, November 26, 2019
Tuesday, November 26
Our morning work task today was:
Solve one of the following using any strategy you like.
A block factory makes coloured blocks that are sold in stores.
Each box contains 6 blocks.
If 1 458 blocks are made in one day, how many boxes would that be?
How many boxes are made in 5 days?
A candy factory is able to make 9 984 jelly beans in one hour.
The jelly beans are packaged in boxes.
If there are 48 jelly beans per box, how many boxes are made per hour?
How many boxes would be made in an 8 hour day?
Students continued with their Mug Shot art. We are looking forward to sharing the final results with you next week at Parent Teacher conferences.
We continued with our Legends work which relates to the reading comprehension strategies.
In math, we began to learn about input/output tables.
Reminders:
- Students will have a large number mixed operation problem solving assessment tomorrow.
Solve one of the following using any strategy you like.
A block factory makes coloured blocks that are sold in stores.
Each box contains 6 blocks.
If 1 458 blocks are made in one day, how many boxes would that be?
How many boxes are made in 5 days?
A candy factory is able to make 9 984 jelly beans in one hour.
The jelly beans are packaged in boxes.
If there are 48 jelly beans per box, how many boxes are made per hour?
How many boxes would be made in an 8 hour day?
Students continued with their Mug Shot art. We are looking forward to sharing the final results with you next week at Parent Teacher conferences.
We continued with our Legends work which relates to the reading comprehension strategies.
In math, we began to learn about input/output tables.
Reminders:
- Students will have a large number mixed operation problem solving assessment tomorrow.
Thursday, November 21, 2019
Thursday, November 21
Our day started reviewing what we learned at YouthLink yesterday in our Safe for Life sessions (online safety, drugs) and the Smart Choices Check-List. Students then summarized their day and what they learned in their creative journals. We also completed the YouthLink online post survey of our visit.
We had gym this morning with our buddy class. We played a variety of tag games and Squirrels and Acorns.
We began our Mug Shot art project which involves math (coordinate grid) and art (sketching).
We did not do Friday journals today and our day finished with Thank You Thursday.
Reminders:
- PD Day tomorrow- No school for students
We had gym this morning with our buddy class. We played a variety of tag games and Squirrels and Acorns.
We began our Mug Shot art project which involves math (coordinate grid) and art (sketching).
We did not do Friday journals today and our day finished with Thank You Thursday.
Reminders:
- PD Day tomorrow- No school for students
Tuesday, November 19, 2019
Tuesday, November 19
Our day started with continuing the coordinate grid pictures we started yesterday.
In literacy, we read the story, Leaf. The story contained many examples of personification and alliteration. We also found a simile and a metaphor. All of these literary techniques allowed us to easily visualize the story.
We spent some time looking at a thesaurus. We talked about the different meanings words can have and the importance of making sure the word you choose to replace another word makes sense for the context. Ask me to explain about the word wave that we discussed today.
Reminders:
- YouthLink field trip tomorrow. Please don't be late!
You need to bring a lunch (including any cutlery you may need) and a water bottle.
We still have some students who have not paid the $6 for the trip. Please pay through My CBE Account or bring in $6 tomorrow.
- PD Day- Friday, Nov. 22- No school for students
In literacy, we read the story, Leaf. The story contained many examples of personification and alliteration. We also found a simile and a metaphor. All of these literary techniques allowed us to easily visualize the story.
We spent some time looking at a thesaurus. We talked about the different meanings words can have and the importance of making sure the word you choose to replace another word makes sense for the context. Ask me to explain about the word wave that we discussed today.
We reviewed adjectives (describe a noun) and strong verbs (interesting action words). We chose a skeleton sentence which contains little information for the reader. We then expanded the sentence in 3 different ways. These ways allowed our reader to better visualize what was happening. Our final task was to rearrange one of the sentences we had written. Our class example is below.
Ms. Steeves had each of us write a sentence on a sticky “A big, wild fox jumped over a stack of hay!” We wrote the sentence, “Look at those kittens in the box!” on a second sticky. We were then given someone else's sticky and needed to find the other sticky that was written by the same person. This was our most difficult matching challenge yet.
Reminders:
- YouthLink field trip tomorrow. Please don't be late!
You need to bring a lunch (including any cutlery you may need) and a water bottle.
We still have some students who have not paid the $6 for the trip. Please pay through My CBE Account or bring in $6 tomorrow.
- PD Day- Friday, Nov. 22- No school for students
Monday, November 18, 2019
Monday, November 18
We had some time first thing this morning to review for our trees and forests assessment with a partner before gym and music.
In math, we learned about the first quadrant of the Cartesian Plane. The coordinates for A below are (5,3). The x-axis (horizontal) coordinate is always listed first followed by the y-axis (vertical) coordinate.
In science, we learned about the striations that are made on bullets when they are fired. We drew our own striations on a bullet and then cut it apart. We then shuffled them up and needed to use our observation skills to find the match for the portion of a bullet we had.
Our trees and forest assessment was this afternoon.We reviewed strategies for answering multiple choice questions prior to the start of the test.
Reminders:
- YouthLink field trip on Wednesday. Please don't be late!
The preferred method of payment for the $6 is through your child's My CBE Account if you haven't already paid.
- PD Day- Friday, Nov. 22- No school for students
In math, we learned about the first quadrant of the Cartesian Plane. The coordinates for A below are (5,3). The x-axis (horizontal) coordinate is always listed first followed by the y-axis (vertical) coordinate.
Students then plotted and joined a series of coordinates to create a picture.
Our trees and forest assessment was this afternoon.We reviewed strategies for answering multiple choice questions prior to the start of the test.
Reminders:
- YouthLink field trip on Wednesday. Please don't be late!
The preferred method of payment for the $6 is through your child's My CBE Account if you haven't already paid.
- PD Day- Friday, Nov. 22- No school for students
Thursday, November 14, 2019
Thursday, November 14
Our morning work task:
Choose one of the following two problems to complete.
A. A bakery sells apple, cherry and pumpkin pies. Yesterday this bakery sold 9 apple pies for $6.20 each, 7 cherry pies for $10.15 each and 10 pumpkin pies for $5.78 each. How much money did the bakery earn yesterday?
B. A bakery sells loaves of white bread for $2.75 each and loaves of brown bread for $3.25 each. If the bakery sells 8 loaves of white bread and 9 loaves of brown bread each day, how much money can the bakery earn each day?
We talked about adjectives and strong verbs and how they can make our writing stronger and more descriptive.
adjectives- describe/modify a noun (person, place or thing)
ex. rotten egg, cloudy day, lovely lady, silvery moon
strong verbs (action words)
ex. stomp, race, devour, chomp, glare
We looked at expanding skeleton sentences.
Example- The cat jumped.
The fluffy young cat pounced eagerly on the scampering mouse as lightning flashed in the dark sky above.
Students then took skeleton sentences and expanded them to create more descriptive, interesting sentences.
The girl cried.
The boy played.
The dog ran.
The teacher screamed.
The fireman yelled.
The principal laughed.
The skater slipped.
Some student examples from our work today.
We then looked at DNA and how investigators can use it to solve a crime.
Reminders:
- Return Friday Journal
- YouthLink field trip next Wednesday. The preferred method of payment for the $6 is through your child's My CBE Account if you haven't already paid.
- Trees and forests assessment on Monday
- PD Day- Friday, Nov. 22- No school for students
Choose one of the following two problems to complete.
A. A bakery sells apple, cherry and pumpkin pies. Yesterday this bakery sold 9 apple pies for $6.20 each, 7 cherry pies for $10.15 each and 10 pumpkin pies for $5.78 each. How much money did the bakery earn yesterday?
B. A bakery sells loaves of white bread for $2.75 each and loaves of brown bread for $3.25 each. If the bakery sells 8 loaves of white bread and 9 loaves of brown bread each day, how much money can the bakery earn each day?
We talked about adjectives and strong verbs and how they can make our writing stronger and more descriptive.
adjectives- describe/modify a noun (person, place or thing)
ex. rotten egg, cloudy day, lovely lady, silvery moon
strong verbs (action words)
ex. stomp, race, devour, chomp, glare
We looked at expanding skeleton sentences.
Example- The cat jumped.
The fluffy young cat pounced eagerly on the scampering mouse as lightning flashed in the dark sky above.
Students then took skeleton sentences and expanded them to create more descriptive, interesting sentences.
The girl cried.
The boy played.
The dog ran.
The teacher screamed.
The fireman yelled.
The principal laughed.
The skater slipped.
Some student examples from our work today.
- The tall, thin brown haired teacher screamed at the misbehaving students in Room 11.
- The six year old boy played with his new fluffy puppy in his new backyard as the last rays of sunlight were fading away.
- The golden brown dog sprinted across the freshly mowed lawn chasing after his florescent green yellow ball on a bright and sunny Sunday.
- The beautiful black lab bolted across the grassy green lawn after his bright blue ball as the sun slowly set across the horizon.
- One sunny day the young boy played with his friends at a sandy sand box at the park beside his house before dinner.
- The adorable, chubby pug bolted around the backyard chasing its shadow thinking it was another dog.
- The fireproof fireman yelled as he broke down the door to a flaming house in the middle of the night.
- The teen girl sobbed as a million tears rushed down her soft face as they stung like a million little knives piercing into her lush face while sitting in her dark room as the sky was crying too.
We then looked at DNA and how investigators can use it to solve a crime.
Reminders:
- Return Friday Journal
- YouthLink field trip next Wednesday. The preferred method of payment for the $6 is through your child's My CBE Account if you haven't already paid.
- Trees and forests assessment on Monday
- PD Day- Friday, Nov. 22- No school for students
Wednesday, November 13, 2019
Wednesday, November 13
In math, we had some more time to work on our Special Allowance problem and then discussed it as a large group.
In literacy, we were reading legends individually and writing summaries, asking questions and some visualizing.
In science, we learned about how hair and fibres can help investigators solve crimes.
We did some reviewing for a trees and forests test that will happen early next week. We also looked at some tips for writing multiple choice tests and did a few examples together.
Reminders:
- Return Friday Journal
- YouthLink field trip next Wednesday. The preferred method of payment for the $6 is through your child's My CBE Account if you haven't already paid.
- PD Day- Friday, Nov. 22- No school for students
In literacy, we were reading legends individually and writing summaries, asking questions and some visualizing.
In science, we learned about how hair and fibres can help investigators solve crimes.
We did some reviewing for a trees and forests test that will happen early next week. We also looked at some tips for writing multiple choice tests and did a few examples together.
Reminders:
- Return Friday Journal
- YouthLink field trip next Wednesday. The preferred method of payment for the $6 is through your child's My CBE Account if you haven't already paid.
- PD Day- Friday, Nov. 22- No school for students
Tuesday, November 12, 2019
Tuesday, November 12
Our morning work today was:
Estimate each product. Show the numbers you used in your estimate.
a) 5.23 x 7 __________________ b) 25.783 x 4 __________________
c) 9.96 x 4 __________________ d) 6.7 x 7 __________________
e) 48.3 x 6 __________________ f) 69.2 x 3 __________________
Choose 2 questions from above and calculate the actual product.
In math, students had a choice between two similar problems.
Your parents give you a choice on how to receive your allowance for the next 30 days. You can choose either:
A) $100 a day
or
b) $0.01 a day that is doubled each day. Example- Day 1- $0.01, Day 2- $0.02, Day 3- $0.04, Day 4- $0.08. The pattern of doubling continues each day.
How much money will you receive with choice A? How much for choice B? Which way will you choose and why?
Your parents give you a choice on how to receive your allowance for the next 15 days. You can choose either:
A) $10 a day
or
B) $0.01 a day that is doubled each day. Example- Day 1- $0.01, Day 2- $0.02, Day 3- $0.04, Day 4- $0.08. The pattern of doubling continues each day.
How much money will you receive with choice A? How much for choice B? Which way will you choose and why?
We will continue our work on this tomorrow.
In science, we learned about class and accidental characteristics and how they help investigators solve crimes. We were each given a photograph of the bottom of a shoe. We needed to find the person that had the same show print with us. Many of us used characteristics such as tread design and brand to find our shoe match. These are class characteristics. We then realized that there were shoes that there were 4 of each shoe that looked very similar. We then had to use characteristics such as worn patches, trapped rocks and dirt (accidental characteristics), cuts to find our identical shoe match.
Class characteristics- features that are common to all objects of the same variety and would not be able to highlight one particular shoe
For shoes- size, tread, brand, the colour, the material used to make the shoe...
Accidental characteristics- unique characteristics
For shoes- worn patches, holes, scuff marks, trapped dirt or rocks ...
We noticed that the images also had words and some of them had numbers. We decided that there was a secret message and worked together to figure it out. The message was, "Class and accidental characteristics can help us see just how unique each footwear impression can be and how and be and how a footwear impression at a crime scene can be as important as a fingerprint." Can you see any accidental characteristics in the picture of our shoes below?
Our day finished with us working on our guiding teaching page in our creative journals.
Reminders:
- Return Friday Journal (We had most returned today which is great!)
Estimate each product. Show the numbers you used in your estimate.
a) 5.23 x 7 __________________ b) 25.783 x 4 __________________
c) 9.96 x 4 __________________ d) 6.7 x 7 __________________
e) 48.3 x 6 __________________ f) 69.2 x 3 __________________
Choose 2 questions from above and calculate the actual product.
In math, students had a choice between two similar problems.
Your parents give you a choice on how to receive your allowance for the next 30 days. You can choose either:
A) $100 a day
or
b) $0.01 a day that is doubled each day. Example- Day 1- $0.01, Day 2- $0.02, Day 3- $0.04, Day 4- $0.08. The pattern of doubling continues each day.
How much money will you receive with choice A? How much for choice B? Which way will you choose and why?
Your parents give you a choice on how to receive your allowance for the next 15 days. You can choose either:
A) $10 a day
or
B) $0.01 a day that is doubled each day. Example- Day 1- $0.01, Day 2- $0.02, Day 3- $0.04, Day 4- $0.08. The pattern of doubling continues each day.
How much money will you receive with choice A? How much for choice B? Which way will you choose and why?
We will continue our work on this tomorrow.
In science, we learned about class and accidental characteristics and how they help investigators solve crimes. We were each given a photograph of the bottom of a shoe. We needed to find the person that had the same show print with us. Many of us used characteristics such as tread design and brand to find our shoe match. These are class characteristics. We then realized that there were shoes that there were 4 of each shoe that looked very similar. We then had to use characteristics such as worn patches, trapped rocks and dirt (accidental characteristics), cuts to find our identical shoe match.
Class characteristics- features that are common to all objects of the same variety and would not be able to highlight one particular shoe
For shoes- size, tread, brand, the colour, the material used to make the shoe...
Accidental characteristics- unique characteristics
For shoes- worn patches, holes, scuff marks, trapped dirt or rocks ...
We noticed that the images also had words and some of them had numbers. We decided that there was a secret message and worked together to figure it out. The message was, "Class and accidental characteristics can help us see just how unique each footwear impression can be and how and be and how a footwear impression at a crime scene can be as important as a fingerprint." Can you see any accidental characteristics in the picture of our shoes below?
Our day finished with us working on our guiding teaching page in our creative journals.
Reminders:
- Return Friday Journal (We had most returned today which is great!)
Friday, November 8, 2019
Friday, November 8
Our morning work task today was:
Tom and Sam are selling tea at a market. On the first day, they sold 6 cups of tea. On the second day, they sold 12. On the third day, they were able to sell 18 cups. The fourth day was their busiest yet as they sold 24 cups of tea.
If the pattern continues, how many cups of tea will they sell on day 8? How many will they sell on day 14? How many will they sell on day 48?
Students had 30 minutes to write in their Friday Journals today and then had some catch up time.
Thank you to all those involved with our Remembrance Day Assembly. Thank you to the students who showed such respect this morning.
Reminders:
- Return Friday Journal
- We are still waiting for a few field trip forms to be returned. The preferred method of payment for the $6 is through your child's My CBE Account.
- No School Monday, November 11 for Remembrance Day
Tom and Sam are selling tea at a market. On the first day, they sold 6 cups of tea. On the second day, they sold 12. On the third day, they were able to sell 18 cups. The fourth day was their busiest yet as they sold 24 cups of tea.
If the pattern continues, how many cups of tea will they sell on day 8? How many will they sell on day 14? How many will they sell on day 48?
Students had 30 minutes to write in their Friday Journals today and then had some catch up time.
Thank you to all those involved with our Remembrance Day Assembly. Thank you to the students who showed such respect this morning.
Reminders:
- Return Friday Journal
- We are still waiting for a few field trip forms to be returned. The preferred method of payment for the $6 is through your child's My CBE Account.
- No School Monday, November 11 for Remembrance Day
Thursday, November 7, 2019
Thursday, November 7
Our morning task today was:
Write at least 5 things you have learned about fingerprints.
In table groups, we looked at our fingerprint data from yesterday and found the total of each type of fingerprint in our class. Students had different ways of grouping the numbers to find their totals.
Our next step was to learn about different types of data- discrete and continuous.
Our final step was to create our own graphs of the fingerprints. We determined that a series of points in the type of graph needed as counting our fingerprint types is discrete data.
We took our learning outside this afternoon. We were investigating footprints in the snow. We were looking at direction, the order prints were left when there were more than one set and they overlapped in places and how the person who left the prints might have been moving (walking, running). Students then partnered up and created their own footprint "crime scene" where they each made some prints in a small area and then another partner group tried to determine who had left the prints, what direction they were going and whose prints were left first.
Reminders:
- Return Friday Journal
- Return field trip forms ASAP. The preferred method of payment for the $6 is through your child's My CBE Account.
- Remembrance Day Assembly tomorrow at 10:45. Parents are welcome to join us. Please arrive by 10:40 so that there are no interruptions during the assembly.
- No School Monday, November 11 for Remembrance Day
Write at least 5 things you have learned about fingerprints.
In table groups, we looked at our fingerprint data from yesterday and found the total of each type of fingerprint in our class. Students had different ways of grouping the numbers to find their totals.
Our next step was to learn about different types of data- discrete and continuous.
Our final step was to create our own graphs of the fingerprints. We determined that a series of points in the type of graph needed as counting our fingerprint types is discrete data.
We took our learning outside this afternoon. We were investigating footprints in the snow. We were looking at direction, the order prints were left when there were more than one set and they overlapped in places and how the person who left the prints might have been moving (walking, running). Students then partnered up and created their own footprint "crime scene" where they each made some prints in a small area and then another partner group tried to determine who had left the prints, what direction they were going and whose prints were left first.
Reminders:
- Return Friday Journal
- Return field trip forms ASAP. The preferred method of payment for the $6 is through your child's My CBE Account.
- Remembrance Day Assembly tomorrow at 10:45. Parents are welcome to join us. Please arrive by 10:40 so that there are no interruptions during the assembly.
- No School Monday, November 11 for Remembrance Day
Wednesday, November 6, 2019
Wednesday, November 6
Our morning work today today was:
1. Multiply 327 x 28.
2. Add 54 396
3. Divide by 3
4. Subtract 12 243
In literacy, Ms. Steeves read us the story, "Gleam and Glow". As she was reading, we recorded our thinking (connections, inferences, questions, visualizations) on sticky notes like Ms. Steeves did last week when we read "Duncan's Way". When we were finished the story, we chose some of our stickies and wrote about them in more detail.
In science, we learned about fingerprints. We learned that:
- our fingerprints are formed when we are in the womb
- sweat and oil on our fingertips leaves a fingerprint on surfaces we touch
- all fingerprints are unique
- fingerprints help us grip and hold onto things
- fingerprints can help identify a suspect in a crime
- there are four main types: arch, tented arch, loop and whorl
With a partner, we lifted our fingerprints.
We each looked at our fingerprints and determined which of the 4 types they were. We collected all of this data in a graph and drew some conclusions.
- No one has all four fingerprint types
- Loop is the most common fingerprint type
- Everyone has at least one loop
- Tented arch is the least common fingerprint type
- Not many people have an arch
We will be using this data tomorrow with some graphing.
Reminders:
- Return Friday Journal
- Return field trip forms ASAP. The preferred method of payment for the $6 is through your child's My CBE Account.
- "Ugly" creative journal page due tomorrow
- Remembrance Day Assembly Friday, November 8 at 10:45. Parents are welcome to join us.
1. Multiply 327 x 28.
2. Add 54 396
3. Divide by 3
4. Subtract 12 243
In literacy, Ms. Steeves read us the story, "Gleam and Glow". As she was reading, we recorded our thinking (connections, inferences, questions, visualizations) on sticky notes like Ms. Steeves did last week when we read "Duncan's Way". When we were finished the story, we chose some of our stickies and wrote about them in more detail.
In science, we learned about fingerprints. We learned that:
- our fingerprints are formed when we are in the womb
- sweat and oil on our fingertips leaves a fingerprint on surfaces we touch
- all fingerprints are unique
- fingerprints help us grip and hold onto things
- fingerprints can help identify a suspect in a crime
- there are four main types: arch, tented arch, loop and whorl
With a partner, we lifted our fingerprints.
- No one has all four fingerprint types
- Loop is the most common fingerprint type
- Everyone has at least one loop
- Tented arch is the least common fingerprint type
- Not many people have an arch
We will be using this data tomorrow with some graphing.
Reminders:
- Return Friday Journal
- Return field trip forms ASAP. The preferred method of payment for the $6 is through your child's My CBE Account.
- "Ugly" creative journal page due tomorrow
- Remembrance Day Assembly Friday, November 8 at 10:45. Parents are welcome to join us.
Tuesday, November 5, 2019
Tuesday, November 5
Our day started with the second step in our poppy art project. For this step, we drew out our poppies and then painted the negative space black. We had to be very careful when we were painting.
We continued our look at rights that we have in Canada. Today we were looking at the collective rights we have as well as our democratic rights. We read with a partner and then watched the video below.
We learned about the 8 steps investigators follow when solving a crime. We were given slips of paper with each of the steps written on them. We then needed to work with our table group to determine the correct order of steps. The correct order of steps involved is:
1. Secure the scene
2. Prevent contamination
3. Gather and document evidence
4. Process the evidence
5. Gather suspects
6. Link evidence to suspects
7. Conclusions- who committed the crime
8. Prove in court
Our day finished with a math game with all 3 grade 6 classes.
Reminders:
- Return Friday Journal
- Return field trip forms ASAP. The preferred method of payment for the $6 is through your child's My CBE Account.
- "Ugly" creative journal page due Thursday
- Remembrance Day Assembly Friday, November 8 at 10:45. Parents are welcome to join us.
We continued our look at rights that we have in Canada. Today we were looking at the collective rights we have as well as our democratic rights. We read with a partner and then watched the video below.
We learned about the 8 steps investigators follow when solving a crime. We were given slips of paper with each of the steps written on them. We then needed to work with our table group to determine the correct order of steps. The correct order of steps involved is:
1. Secure the scene
2. Prevent contamination
3. Gather and document evidence
4. Process the evidence
5. Gather suspects
6. Link evidence to suspects
7. Conclusions- who committed the crime
8. Prove in court
Our day finished with a math game with all 3 grade 6 classes.
Reminders:
- Return Friday Journal
- Return field trip forms ASAP. The preferred method of payment for the $6 is through your child's My CBE Account.
- "Ugly" creative journal page due Thursday
- Remembrance Day Assembly Friday, November 8 at 10:45. Parents are welcome to join us.
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