Here is a short video of students being very quiet and focused during a math gallery walk. The purpose was to look at everyone's solutions for a math problem and to try and understand the different ways that others did the work. Afterwards, we rated the solutions for efficiency.
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The Haunted House was a grand success. I was so happy to see the students collaborating with room 209 and to fully share the experience. We all worked together and did a great job at focusing.
We have also welcomed Emma Brooks for the University of Ottawa who will be our student teacher for most of November. She has already proven to be a confident and comfortable addition to our team.
We continue our look at Forces Acting on Structures and Flight in Science. The grade 5s spent some time with Shauna looking at some different types of forces and how they effect certain structures. The grade 6s stayed with me and took a look at some of the properties of air.
We are also continuing our look at Social Studies of Early Civilizations and First Nation Peoples and European Explorers. Emma will be combining this unit with some drama in the upcoming days.
In math, we recently took a look at mean, median, and mode. We have completed a Reflective Math Journal entry and will be using our Halloween Candy Data assignment to have some more practice.
Next up, we will be doing a unit on Patterning.
We recently Skyped with Ms. Rodriguez's class in the States to discuss our Global Read Aloud. I was away but I heard the students did a fantastic job. The story was being covered by a local newspaper on their end!
In Language, we are going to continue ECLIPSE but we are going to start getting more structured with our writing. So far, students have been allowed to have free choice during writing. I am now going to be giving them more structure with a writing purpose to focus on. Their writing has been very creative and descriptive. We will now focus on capitals, punctuation, editing, and planning our writing more completely before beginning a first draft.
I hope you are enjoying the Home Missions calendar that was sent home last week. I would love feedback as to how they are going. As always, please let me know if you would like to come in and volunteer or if you have any questions or comments.
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