Friday, October 30

'Happy Halloween! We had a wild assortment of devils, scarecrows, unicorns and other spooky creatures in our classroom today.

We had a great day of fun playing with our buddies, telling scary stories and doing some reading, writing, and art as well.  I hope everyone has a safe Halloween

Reminders: 

- read 30 minutes

- group 5 ( Kirth, Priya, Ezzy, Arshdeep, Sidratul, Manroop) writing conferences

- walking field trip notice for Monday ( we are putting out notices to collect food for the food bank) 

- book talk: Andrew and Melate

- make a sample of your product for entrepreneurship

Wednesday, October 29

Reminders:

- Halloween celebration on Friday afternoon: costumes are welcome (no masks or weapons), food and games in the afternoon, bring a scary story, a plate, a fork and a mug
- pumpkin carving contest: bring a carved pumpkin before school begins to the pod areas on Friday to be entered in a draw
- start brainstorming your business idea
- page 5 of your business booklet
- notices for PAC fundraising
- notices for permission for photos on our class blog
- writing conference group 3

Tuesday, October 27

Today we began our Science and Engineering challenge of building structures of paper.  We learned the power of a cylinder. 

We also created our team names and began planning what we would do.

Reminders:
- read 30 min
- grade 6 math workbook page 10-11
- grade 7 math page 36 #1, 2, 3, 4, 6
- group 2 writing conference
- le monstre is due tomorrow

Monday, October 26

Today, we had our Social Studies presentations.  We had some very good presentations on government.

Here is an example of one project:

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Here is a link to a project created as a website: Sidratul and Melate's Project

We are learning to create effective presentations so that:

- powerpoints use visuals and not just text
- speak in an engaging manner
- try to engage the audience with a question, prop or other hook

Reminders:
- last day for photo orders tomorrow
- Grade 7 math in workbook page 17-19
- Grade 6 math text #1-3
- bring gym strip
- work on French project - "le monstre"
- hot lunch on Friday

Tuesday, October 20

Today we had a good discussion about the characters in "Fish In a Tree," with Mrs. Jones' class in Iowa via Skype.  We will be presenting some skits to them next time we talk to them.

Remarkably, the results of the student vote were very similar to the actual federal election results.  Here are the results of the student vote:

http://studentvote.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8fa12a4221bd4b26e17c02aff&id=ae110683e2&e=baba730b9e

Reminders:
- tomorrow is early dismissal
- student photos went home today with order forms
- please return the signed interim report
- Grade 7 math workbook page 14 to 16
- Group 3 reading conference
- work on your social studies project at home, the due date is Monday

Fish In A Tree

Chapter 20 part 1
Chapter 20 part 2
Chapter 21

Monday, October 19

Reminders:

- bring your gym strip

- math grade 6 page 22/23 #3 and #4

- math grade 7 page 27/28 #1 and #2

- share your Interm Report with your family

- watch the election results!

- work on your Social Studies project

- Reading Conference group 2: Zaahid Suhail, Elizabeth, Sewak, Jowela