This week in Learning:
FLA: we are beginnning Hockey Lecture, a reading comprehension program that involves competition as well as reading for comprehension. It has been very successful in the past as our st Luke students had the best French reading comprehension score in immersion for the PAT's last year. Yesterday we had a pretest and at the end of the round robin we will have a post-test to see if the students improved their reading strategies. (I am in the throws of correcting our novel study project and some students have yet to hand it in...Are you one of them?)
ELA: As soon as we finish telling our constellation stories, we will begin a unit in poetry. this is to help students with their descriptive writing skills and imaginative creativity.
MATH: we will continue to work on angles and then move onto the sum of angles in a triangle and polygone. Students should be quite familiar with using a protractor now, as I have sat down with each of them to ensure they get it.
SOCIAL: today we begin The Iroquois Confederacy and look at how their government influenced ours. At the end of this unit, I will book a Teacher's Pet in-school field trip and will need volunteers. Details to come.
RELIGION:
There will be a quiz on the 10 commandments, Moses' life story, Advent and the UN rights of the child next week. Date TBA once we finish the rights of the child portion.
ART: Spirit animals focusing on line or shape
SCIENCE: we are finishing our presentations on planets today. Next up is Air and Aerodynamics. These 2 units are taught in tandem and students could spend time reading up on these subjects on their own time for a more solid understanding. The concepts can be difficult for some so sometimes reading about them in English helps, and then focus on French vocab.
Coming soon:
A "Dragon's Den" day with parent council to secure money for the students' businesses. So far, I am quite impressed with the knowledge and progress made.
DATE: January 22 @9h30Next week: Money mentors Jan 16th talking about spending savvy
Jan 17th: pizza day and Ugly Sweater day
