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CONFERENCES

11/7/2018

Click above to watch. (REQUIRED FOR THE PAR)

I have been enjoying meeting with you and your parents this week. We started the conferences on Monday and we will finish them up tomorrow. It is a short week for all of you with two early dismissal days, and a pro-d day on Friday. Today, you completed your math test on divisibility rules, GCF, and LCM. Some of you will finish up the tests in class tomorrow. After you tests have been evaluated, you will complete your self-assessment according to the learning intentions and evidence of your learning. You will compare this with the one you completed at the beginning of the unit to see what you have learned!

1.) READING:

Read for 30 minutes.

2.) POST A RESPONSE:

We have been learning self-regulation strategies since the beginning of the school year.
Today, I want you to write a paragraph on strategies you can use to help you self-regulate your behaviours at school. You must watch this video first!

SUCCESS CRITERIA:
1.) Hook/introduction
2.) 3 personal strategies that you use or will use to help you stay on task when you are in class
3.) Examples to support your 3 strategies.
4.) Concluding sentence
5.) Complete a self-assessment to make sure you have included all the points mentioned above
and you have checked for the givens (spelling, capitals, punctuation, grammar, etc)
6.) Give one student a meaningful suggestion for improvement.
7.) Edit/revise based on your self/assessment

VIDEO LINKS:
Self-Regulation Skills

AMAL UNBOUND POSTCARDS

11/6/2018

Click above to learn about 'characters'

Today, students reviewed the concepts from the math unit. If you need further review, be sure to go back over the last few weeks and click on the links and videos that have been posted. These will help you review. In addition to this, you should review the vocabulary we discussed in class. If you review everything we listed on the board, you will surely be 'EXTENDING' on your unit test tomorrow!

1.) MATH:

Review all math from the last unit.
UNIT TEST tomorrow.
Post any questions you have here.

2.) POST A RESPONSE:

If you could be any character from Amal Unbound, who would it be and why?

SUCCESS CRITERIA
1. Be sure to include any connections and inferences you have made with these characters.
2. You must provide at least 2 supporting points/examples to back up why you would be this
character.
3. Ask one student a 'QUESTION' about their paragraph.
4. Give one student feedback on how to improve their paragraph based on the criteria above and
the givens (spelling, capitals, punctuation, grammar, etc)
5. Edit/revise

VIDEO LINK:
Story Elements: Characters

STUDENT CONFERENCES

11/5/2018

Connecting through the Global Read Aloud

Today, students did their final preparations for their conferences that will take place this week. We completed some self-assessments of core competencies, behaviour, and learning strengths and stretches. Students were very honest in their self-assessments. I was happy to see such integrity! Tomorrow, we will work on the Ecosystems photo essay. Please make sure you bring your photos to school tomorrow of have them accessible on your Google Drive or elsewhere. Your photo taking device is not required.

1.) MATH:

Complete review booklets. Below are some links that will help you if you are stuck on some of the questions.
Link to Factor Trees
Link to Factors and Multiples
Link to Prime Factorization
Link to the Cake Method.

2.) POST A RESPONSE:

Write a short post card for the Amal Unbound Global Read Aloud to be mailed to another school. We will give you an address of a school from a different country in class tomorrow to send it to.
Success Criteria for GRA Postcard:

1.) Your first name, grade, and where you're from.
2.) Your opinion of the book with supporting sentences
3.) Something interesting you have learned from the book.
4.) Some of your thinking around an even or an idea in the book.
5.) A question, wonder, prediction, or inference.
6.) A valediction (look it up) and your first name.

Check to see if another student has met the criteria above.
Give the same student feedback in regards to the success criteria above.
Edit/revise.

VIDEO LINKS:
The Global Village

STANLEY PARK FIELD TRIP

11/3/2018

A blue heron against the city landscape.

Division 1 and 2 went on a field trip to Stanley Park on Friday. Before leaving, the students co-created criteria with the teachers so we could set the behavioural expectations for students during our first field trip. They took photos for the ecosystem's photo essay of blue herons, geese, ducks, wood shavings left over from a beaver, different habitats and ecosystems, biotic and abiotic elements, individual organisms, populations, and communities among many other things. It was a great opportunity for students to connect their learning in school with nature.
1.) MATH:

Complete your divisibility rules booklet and mark at home with the answer key.
Click here to download divisibility rules workbook with the answer key.
Unit test on Tuesday. We will review on Monday and check for understanding.
Here is a link to the divisibility rule for the #11.

2.) POST A RESPONSE:

Watch this video on the Great Blue Heron.
Based on what you learned on Friday and this video, how do you think the Great Blue Heron has adapted to live with humans? (Give at least 2 examples in your paragraph of how they have learned to live with humans and development of their natural habitats.)
Use a standard paragraph format with a hook, body, and conclusion.
Pay attention to the givens (spelling, grammar, sentence structure, grammar, capitals, punctuation, etc)
Give one person 2 suggestions on their use of the givens.
Feel free to do some research and or discuss it with your parents or siblings.
Edit/revise your post based on feedback or a self-assessment.

VIDEO LINK:
The Great Blue Herons of Stanley Park

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING

11/1/2018

Coding with Mr. Shih

Today we were lucky to have David Shih, an engineer, come and teach our class the basics of coding. We spent the morning learning about algorithms and codes. We even got to use a coding website to program some games that we could play. Students then learned how to change the code to manipulate the rules of the game. It was a morning of great fun and learning. In the afternoon Mr. Collins read to us and then we watched some videos on ecosystems to build our background knowledge. We will experiencing what we learned today on the field trip tomorrow!

1.) CORE COMPETENCIES SELF-ASSESSMENT FORMS:

Based on the instructions given to you at the end of the day, complete your self-assessment form.
This must be handed in tomorrow morning before the field trip.
Take ownership of your learning and complete it for tomorrow.
Click here to sign up for a conference if you haven't yet done so

2.) FIELD TRIP:

Bring good walking shoes. Keep in mind it will likely rain. Wear boots if you feel it is necessary.
Rain jacket and warm clothes.
Umbrella.
Lunch
Bus fare of compass card.
Photo taking device.

3.) POST A RESPONSE:

Today's post a response will be slightly different. You must complete the following in this order:

1.) Complete your core-competency self-assessment and complete it. Be sure to indicate if each
point under each category is a strength or stretch for you. You must explain.
2.) Show one of your parents your sheet and review it with them. Go through every point and
explain why it is a strength/stretch for you.
3.) Take a picture of it and upload it to your FreshGrade account under the activity 'STUDENT
CONFERENCE'.
4.) Pack it in your planner and place it in your backpack. I will collect these before the field trip
tomorrow.

Post a message here explaining exactly what you did for the PAR tonight.
In your message, confirm you reviewed it with your parents and that have put this into your backpack.

VIDEO LINKS:
Push Yourself. Anybody Can Learn #TheLearningNEVERstops

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