Happy Monday!

After three days of rest, we were ready to get learning this morning at school!

Here's what kept us bust this morning in 208!

In Mathé, we tackled our first 'real' word problem of the year. Working in randomized groups of 2 or 3, we each got our own small white board and pen to do our "first Math thinking" with our teams. Referring to the question Mme Careen projected on the board, we discussed what words were important and what types of strategies we could use to find the answer. There were many key vocabulary words that we needed to understand in order to get started on the question.
After a slow start, many of us were able to come up with more than one answer to the question, finding quick tricks and hints to help us along the way.
Now that we've had collaboration time, we will take our best thinking and transfer our work/answers to paper in class tomorrow.

Also in Math, we began looking at factor trees. Many of us found them a little bit magical! We can take any non-prime number (nombre composé) and break it down into prime factors. The magic? For any given number, it doesn't matter what factors we start with; the end list of prime factors will always be the same! See the picture below (noting the examples 20 and 50) to see what we mean!

In Science, we started learning about MONÈRE (Monera) - one of the five kingdoms of all living things. We learned that Monère are microscopic, single-celled organisms that do not have a nucleus. Bacteria are the main examples of the Monera kingdom and we learned that bacteria have three main shapes: spheres (Streptococcus), spirals (Helicobacter) and rods (E.coli).

In Français, we got straight to work on our goal writing. Many of us spent the class peer-editing with a partner and some of us even started (and finished!) our final copies! Once we have finished our final copies, we will start the next component of our project: the visual inspiration board! We will review the criteria for the inspiration boards on Wednesday, with the goal of having both parts of the project completed by the end of the week. We are excited to share our goals and inspiration boards with you at our conferences coming up next week!

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Agenda:
1. Rough copy of goals - Overdue! Please finish ASAP!
2. Mental Math assessment - tomorrow (Tuesday).
3. Mme Champagne was looking for many of us to visit her over noon hour today.... Hopefully you made it there!
4. November Scholastics - due Friday, November, 17.