Here is our week at a glance:
LANGUAGE
Guided Reading
Reading the story - Students will do their "first read" independently. There are boxes inserted strategically into the story that I call "THINK MARKS" - a place for the students to stop, think, answer a content / connection / inference question to direct their thinking and increase comprehension of the story.
"Second Read" - as a Guided Reading Group - students will have the opportunity to read aloud and take turns to share their "THINK MARKS". I collect their work and will "mark them" - the students are expected to use the question in their written answer AND use what they read in the text to support what they say to justify their answers. (These are skills we have been working on in Media Literacy and in Social Studies / History.)
Writing
Monday - On the Weekend... OR finish the starter: Imagine that you have eyes on the bottom of your feet. Write about what you see and experience...
Wednesday - Writing a letter to our Athletes in Sochi
Friday - Imagine that you have a bottle hidden inside your bedroom closet. Inside the bottle live several tiny people. Write about your adventures with the little people.
Media
The students are using newspapers to search for articles, advertising and any other Olympic "news" they can find! We are creating an Olympic Bulletin Board in our classroom!
AT HOME WORK: Please continue to Journal writing
MATH
Students are defining and demonstrating their understanding of Symmetry in class. They completed a pre-assessment task for me on Tuesday, February 11, 2014 to help me gauge what they know, what they need to learn and plan future learning. This pre-assessment does not count towards marks, but acts as a baseline assessment.
AT HOME WORK:
Here is an interactive practice activity for placing lines of symmetry correctly on shapes
SOCIAL STUDIES / HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY
The students are using newspapers to search for articles, advertising and any other Olympic "news" they can find! We are creating an Olympic Bulletin Board in our classroom! We are discussing the information in relation to our Gr. 6 Social Studies and Gr. 7 Geography curriculum. On Tuesday, we reviewed HOW to read and find information in the newspaper. Students are learning about the different sections and what the small print: "rest of story S1" actually means.
AT HOME WORK:
Please continue to visit online websites (i.e. cbc.ca) and discuss newspaper articles, etc. as a family to keep up to date with this world event
