Thursday!

Happy Thursday, everyone!

Here's a quick look at our morning.

In Mathé, we corrected Section B of our Mental Math strategy, multiplication de la gauche. Now that we have worked through 4 different strategies, our next step in class will be to start applying different strategies to solve the same question. This is also a great time to remind ourselves that working through the mental math questions assigned to us every week is important; the more we practice a strategy, the more we become familiar with it and are able to internalize the steps. Having a range of mental math strategies to recall and apply will help with all the Math concepts we will be learning this year.

Our Science class was very short this morning due to us being called down for our Remembrance Day assembly (please see this separate post). In the time we did have, we did learn that all living things are divided into 5 groups, called Kingdoms (les 5 règnes): Monère, Protiste, Mycète, Plante, Animal. We will start looking at the specific characteristics of each of these groups in class next week.

In Français, we started the class with a short listening activity (this one was pretty silly, all about the names of pets) and ended with writing time for our goals for our "Tableaux d'inspirations." We reviewed the criteria for our writing before getting starting, to make sure we were all on the right track. Each goal should be clearly stated (Mon premier but cette année est...) and then followed with an action plan of how we will achieve that goal 

(Je vais accomplir ce but par...). We will start editing and publishing our good copies in class on Monday.

The criteria for our goals

Our first goal, written together as a class. Notice that our rough copy is marked up and messy. That's how our work can (and should) look too! As writers, it's very rare for us to get something 'perfect' the first time. We first work on getting out our ideas (our "first thinking") and then come back to rework our ideas and check the mechanics of our text.

We, as a class, agreed that using different transition words in our text is a way to keep our reader engaged. Here are some of the transition words we came up with together. We also noted that "deuxième" can be traded out for "troisième," "quartrième" and so on.

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Agenda items:

1. Ness Knights Clothing Store - closes tomorrow (Friday, November 10). Please see previous posts for info.

2. Rough copies of our goals for Français - due in class on Monday.

3. Mental Math Assessment - Tuesday.

4. November Scholastics - orders due Friday, November 17.

Have a great weekend! :)