Moustaches and more!

Happy Mo-vembre learning friends!

We were wearing all sorts of moustaches today to celebrate the first day of November!

In Math, we completed our 3rd mental math assessment using "Doubles" as the strategy. We then learned about prime and composite numbers (les nombres premiers et composés) and completed a special 100-chart to help us identify the prime numbers from 1 -100.

We will keep this chart in our binders and can refer to it whenever we are working with factors and multiples 

(and more!).

In Science, we continued our discussion about "les êtres vivants" and have identified 7 main characteristics that all living things have in common. We will continue working with this concept for the rest of the week.

In Français, we finished reading the article, "Suresh, le garçon qui venait de loin" and identified and defined all of the tricky words in the text. We will come back to this article over the coming days to talk about it's meaning and to learn how to write a resumé.

Also, in français, we continued working on our goal writing. We started together as a group to brainstorm good transition words we could use at the beginning of each new paragraph to help our text flow and not be repetitive. We also came up with words we can use to let our readers know that we are concluding our text without having to say "in conclusion." Armed with all of these great words, we set off to write independently for 12 minutes. Writing independently without interruption (pen to paper the entire time) allows our ideas to flow and increases our writing stamina.

At the end of our writing time, many of us finished our rough drafts and have already started to revise our work both independently and with a classmate. We are hoping to have the editing and final copies started by the end of the week, with the goal of publishing our work by the end of next week! Stay tuned!

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Agenda items

1. CFOO presentations tomorrow! (Thursday).

2. Twin Day - tomorrow

3. Meme Day - Friday

4. Holiday card making forms - due back as soon as possible

5. Knights Clothing on sale! See previous blog post for more info!

Have a great afternoon! :)