Monday, December 11, 2023

Homework, News, and Announcements

  Updates from the current day are always in yellow highlights.


Language:

-Reading:

-Text to self connections. Complete a reading response journal entry. From notes taken in class. See Reading Google Classroom.
-Comparative paper of Number the Stars and a Holocaust Survivor's memoirs - Now due.
-Here is our class "Epic Reading" code: ubx3440.
-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!:
-Writing:
-Worked on writing narrative stories by coming up with ideas using "Turning points" (first times, last times, times I learned something important) as a way to generate ideas for stories. Research reports now due. 
-Cursive Letter "K".



-Media Literacy:
-Presentations ongoing.


Math:
 -Classifying Numbers Diagnostic. Classifying Numbers Lesson #1. Complete Action Task and Your Turn Questions. See Math Google Classroom.

-Here are some good math resources to explore: 

-Working on the Second Biodiversity unit assignment.


Social Studies:
-Residential Schools Task #5 due next Social Studies class.


Visual Arts:
-Worked on Indigenous line art with connections to nature and connections to our personal cultural celebrations.


Health:
-Now presenting skit scenarios in groups. Will assess their knowledge of factors that affect us to eat/drink and their knowledge of Hunger/Thirst cues. See Health Google Classroom.


Drama/Dance:
-Dance group presentations ongoing.


FRENCH
-Practicing pronunciations for the play. Presentations begin next week. All members must have cue cards, props, and costumes.