Good afternoon families of room 18!
This morning we had quite a heavy Social Studies morning with the beginning of research for our cross-curricular project. Students are being asked to research one of the following topics: World War I, The Great Depression, or the post World War II economic boom. They will be looking for evidence to support the argument that their event had the greatest impact on shaping Canadian identity as it exists today. Students are being supported by outlining a research process, discussing the difference between nice to know and need to know information, analyzing a resource for credibility, and a graphic organizer to help file the information they find in useful way. Students will have 4 research periods this week and will begin to formulate the writing piece to accompany their project beginning next week. Students will be asked to create a 5 paragraph persuasive essay for assessment of their research and their ability to use persuasion with their audience.
In Language Arts, students were given time to work on completing a practice persuasive writing paragraph in which they were asked to convince Ms. Ryan and I to either see, or not see, a movie of their choice. We discussed options of how to engage the reader, much like we do with our Book Reviews, by relating the movie to experiences or interests of the reader. These will be used as formative assessment to inform us of how to support students this week prior to writing our persuasive essays.
Math. It was a period of the dreaded WORD PROBLEMS! But, as usual, students worked through them admirably. In an attempt to extend our thinking, students took a break from our decimals and fraction centers and used what they know about these topics to try their hand at solving word problems. We used annotation to analyze the wording of the problems in order to fully understand what the problem was saying and discussed the variety of strategies used for these challenging problems. It was neat to see! We will continue with these tomorrow.
Gym - Students have begun our Jump Rope for Heart week!
Reminders:
-Jump Rope has begun in Phys. Ed. this week! Students are asked to remember to fundraise safely from those that they know, and NOT to go door to door in the community to stay safe!
-Field Trip this Wednesday to the Safety Expo: Bus departs Beddington at 9:00am
-Upcoming Pillars of Care Assembly, March 16th, winners will be announced next week!
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