Homework, News, and Announcements

Tuesday we are back in the classroom! It will be Day 1 on our daily cycle and we will be following our regular schedule as we always would, so we will be doing Literacy, Math, Science or Social Studies, and French. 

I hope everyone has a great family day weekend!

Language:

-Reading:

-Complete the Reading Response Journal Entry about using the prompts to make your theories more original, deeper, and more complex. - Now due! 

-STUDENTS SHOULD ALWAYS BE READING AT LEAST 30 MINUTES EVERY DAY ON A REGULAR BASIS!

-ALWAYS have a "Just Right"  (grade level, appropriate, etc.) book ready for every reading class. 

-The following website you can now sign out books in the York Region District School Board DIGITAL LIBRARY!:

https://yorkregionca.libraryreserve.com/10/45/en/SignIn.htm?url=Default.htm

-Writing:

-We are doing final revisions using exemplars and mentor texts and our writing checklists to self-assess our research reports to prepare for handing in. Due Friday February 19th.

-Media Literacy:

-N/A.

Math:

-Grade 5: Working on the "Evaluating Variable Expressions" slideshow activities.

-Grade 6: Working on the "Evaluating Variable Expressions" slideshow activities.

-Here is a good site for Math support for the Nelson Math program: 

http://www.math6.nelson.com/studentcentre/studentcentre.html

-And here are more websites to practice with:

http://www.math5.nelson.com/studentcentre/studentcentre.html

http://www.math6.nelson.com/studentcentre/studentcentre.html
https://www.knowledgehook.com/

https://ca.ixl.com/math/grade-5

https://ca.ixl.com/math/grade-6

https://www.khanacademy.org/math/cc-fifth-grade-math

https://www.khanacademy.org/math/cc-sixth-grade-math

https://illuminations.nctm.org/Search.aspx?view=search&type=ac

www.mangahigh.com
http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/topic_t_1.html
https://www.explorelearning.com/

http://oame.on.ca/CLIPS/index.html

Science:

-Grade 5: COMPLETE the Chemical Changes and Chemical Properties information package and worksheets that go with it by Tuesday February 16th.. Quiz coming up sometime next week.

Grade 6: Space Task #3 work now due.

Social Studies:
-Grade 5: Complete the Rights and Responsibilities 3.3. worksheet. NOW DUE.

-Grade 6: Currently on our Science unit.

Health:

-Grade 5's: Complete the rest of the "Student Resource 1: Persuasive Techniques" task which is posted to the Google Classroom by responding to three more food/drink commercials. This is due by next health lesson which is Wednesday February 17th. 

-Grade 6's: Two guiding questions and choice board presentation task Due Feb. 24th.

Visual Arts:

-Perspective drawing - Practice the skills of using vanishing points in Perspectives Drawings and try out some rough drafts using this technique.

Drama/Dance:

-2nd round of our cultural theater around-the-world analysis. Pick another example of a theater video to analyse.

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