Fractions and reader's theatre!

Happy Thursday!
What a great morning we had together today!

In Math, we continue to explore improper fractions and mixed numbers. Today we used geometric shapes to help create different fractions and see the connection of both forms.

In Français, we were treated to our final Reader's Theatre presentation, Pourquoi les moustiques bourdonnent les oreilles. Bravo: Alycia, Van, Dawn, Ben, Alexis, Taylor, Savannah and Lucius!
(Mme forgot to take a group photo at the end of our presentation. Oops!
She will take one on Monday and post it then!)

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Agenda items:
1. Calcul mental assessment - Monday
*Please note : I will be away from school tomorrow and will not have access to my email while away.
If you need to contact the school, please contact the school office directly.
I look forward to being back in the classroom for more learning on Monday!

Have a great afternoon and a great weekend! :)

Wednesday Agenda Items

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Agenda items:

1. Fractions impropres et nombres fractionnaires Questions 3 and 4 : Tomorrow

2. Re-check for students who were not finished Calcul Mental Section B :  Tomorrow

3. Calcul mental assessment - Monday, June 4

Have a great afternoon!

A presentation from WPL

Happy Tuesday, friends of learning!
We had the opportunity to attend a presentation from the Winnipeg Public Library this morning to learn about the different reading programs and contests they offer over the summer.

We were also treated to a read-aloud from the book, Greeting from Witness Protection! by Jake Burt.

We left the presentation with a pamphlet about this year's MYRCA contenders (some GREAT reads in there!) as well some info about the library programs and how to register.

Thanks for organizing this for us, Ms. Hines!

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Agenda items:

1. CFOO #13 - Tomorrow

2. Calcul Mental Section B - Tomorrow

3. Grade 6 Vaccinations - Tomorrow

4. Expérience #2 - OVERDUE!

Percents, the Hindenburg and Reader's Theatre

Happy Monday, friends of learning!
We our week is already off to a great start!

In Math this morning, we worked at the whiteboards in randomized groups of 3 to draw different scenarios involving percents. Ex: Draw 8 animals. 50% can't fly and 25% have large ears.
What do you draw? How do you know?

In Science, we continued our discussion about 'lighter than air objects' and today we focused on zeppelins - most notably the Hindenburg. We learned how a zeppelin can fly and what changes were made to the construction of zeppelins after the Hindenburg explosion. We also watched a short Mythbusters clip (starting at 33:45) to learn a bit more about what led to the Hindenburg explosion itself.

We ended our morning with our third Reader's Theatre presentation, Comment la tortue a abîmé sa carapace. Bravo: Jaeda, Tayla, Fallon, Deneige, Declan and Rowen!

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Agenda items:
1. Section A Calcul Mental - for those who were not done today, Section A will be re-checked tomorrow.
2. Special presentation from the WPL - tomorrow
3. Section B Calcul Mental - Wednedsay, May 30
4. CFOO #13 - Wednesday, May 30
5. Grade 6 Immunizations - Wednesday, May 30
6. * Expérience #2 - L'air a une masse - OVERDUE.

Friday, Friday!

Happy Friday, everyone!

We were treated to another great Reader's Theatre presentation today, Le lion et le lapin.
Bravo to Cam, Taryn, Emily, Brady and Aiden!

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Agenda items:
1. Expérience #2 - L'air a une masse - reports are now OVERDUE! Any students who have not handed in their reports were given the weekend to complete. Students with reports that are still incomplete on Monday will be asked to stay in over the noon hour. (Contact home will also be made at this time).
2. Calcul Mental - Section A (Balance une soustraction) - Monday.
3. Reader's Theatre presentations continue in class Monday and Tuesday.
4. A special presentation from the Winnipeg Public Library - Tuesday, May 29.
5. Grade 6 Immunizations - Wednesday, May 30.
6. CFOO #13 - Presenter's Choice! - Wednesday, May 30.

Have a great weekend! :)

Thursday!

Happy Thursday, learning friends!
We had a great morning of learning today!

In Math, we are reviewing what we already know about fractions (see picture below) and have taken some extra time to discuss and review equivalent and reduced fractions. When finding equivalent and reduced fractions, we must remember to treat the numerator and denominator the same
(i.e multiplying or dividing them both by the same number).
We are finding that relating fractions to examples using food (such as pizza and cake) gives us a good visual to go on. (It has also made us realize that not many of us like having mushrooms on our pizza...!)

In Français, we were treated to our first of four Reader's Theatre presentations!
Bravo to Sierra, Ellowyn, Tommy, Jan, Aidan and Peggy-Lee who presented two short plays:
L'herbe est toujours plus verte et Ne reveille pas le chien qui dort.
Félicitations, les élèves!

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Agenda items:
1. Reader's Theatre presentations continue in class tomorrow.
2. Expérience #2 - L'air a une masse - reports due tomorrow, Friday, May 25
3. CFOO #13 - Presenter's Choice! - Wednesday, May 30.

Wednesday Agenda Items

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Agenda items:
1. Community High 5 Run - register online by TODAY! (Wednesday, May 23.) https://highfiverun.wordpress.com Information letters available in the gym or on school website.
Waiver form and 5$ payment due to me by Friday of this week.
2. Reader's Theatre presentations start in class tomorrow (Thursday)!
3. Expérience #2 - L'air a une masse - reports due Friday, May 25
4. CFOO #13 - Presenter's Choice! - Wednesday, May 30.

Tuesday Agenda Items!

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Agenda items:
1. Community High 5 Run - register online by Wednesday, May 23. https://highfiverun.wordpress.com (Information letters available in the gym or on school website).
2. Expérience #2 - L'air a une masse - reports due Friday, May 25
3. CFOO #13 - Presenter's Choice! - Wednesday, May 30.

Looking forward to a great week! :)

Friday!

Happy Friday!
We had a great morning of learning together today.

We started our day in Math by solving algebra picture puzzles and then worked in groups to answer a word-problem about Kate planning her bowling-birthday party.

In Français, after practicing our Reader's Theatre plays, we continued with our novel study Zamboni. We re-read Chapter 10 together as a class before discussing and answering comprehension questions in our Français journals. We are 2 chapters away from the end of the book and are beginning to find out so much more about the characters and their plans!

We finished our morning with Science and worked on our experiment reports. Today's goal was to complete our data tables, answer the discussion questions and start our conclusions. We will review the criteria for our reports again on Tuesday before handing them in to Mme Careen to be marked.

Have a safe, restful and happy long weekend! :)

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Agenda items:
1. Calcul mental assessment - Tuesday
2. Community High 5 Run - register online by Wednesday, May 23. https://highfiverun.wordpress.com
(Information letters available in the gym).

Does air have a mass?

Happy Thursday, everyone!
Today in Science, we worked together in groups to determine whether air has a mass.
Using 2L pop bottles, air pumps, and an electronic scale we measured the mass of the pop bottle before and then again (and again) in 25-air-pump increments until we reached a total of 225 pumps of air.

In comparing the mass at 0 pumps of air and then again at 225 pumps of air we can determine whether or not air has a mass. We will continue investigating this topic as we continue our Air and Flight unit of study.

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Agenda items:
*Good luck and congratulations to all musicians (band and choral) playing in the Spring Concert this evening!*
1. Calcul mental Section B - Friday (because Mme just realized she forgot to correct with us today).
2. Fun Lunch (for those who have pre-ordered) - Friday
3. May Scholastic book orders - Friday
4. Community High 5 Run - register online by Wednesday, May 23. https://highfiverun.wordpress.com

Bravo! Way to go, team!

Happy Wednesday, friends of learning!
Today was a special day in Room 208. We were teachers for teachers!
This morning, during period 2, we welcomed a team of 5 teachers from different schools across the division to our classroom and we showed them that Ness Knights are Writers!

After starting our day in groups at the white boards (tasked with writing algebraic equations for our Math Mobile questions as seen above), we came together as a class with the objective of writing out a set of steps to explain the process of solving a mobile. Our overall goal is to connect our algebra-Math-thinking with our French writing.

During the shared-write process, we, as a group, share our ideas and collaborate to write the best text we can. Mme Careen is the one holding the pen, so she is the one guiding us to ensure our writing is focused and on track to meeting our objective.

We are collaborating as a class to write down Step #2 in our mobile problem-solving process.

An important part of the shared-write process is stopping frequently to re-read what we have written. We re-read our texts aloud, together as a class. Reading our writing let's us review what we have written so far and allows us to hear what our text will sound like to our reader. This also lets us catch any mistakes (such as missing or repeated words) and helps us ensure our message is clear. (Does our thinking follow a logical order? Did we choose the best words? Did we include appropriate/required vocabulary?)

We are reading our shared write aloud as a group.

We get stronger as writers each time we come together and collaborate as a class to create a model text which will then guide us in our own writing later on.
Not bad for a period 2's work! :)

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Agenda items:
1. Félicitations les élèves!
Vous avez bien travaillé ce matin et avez bien montré à nos invités que nous sommes des écrivains
(et des mathématiciens) formidable! Bravo! :)
2. Calcul mental Section B - tomorrow (Thursday)
3. Hypothesis for Experiment # 2 - tomorrow
4. Our class has the chance to eat our lunches outside! - tomorrow
5. Fun Lunch (for those who have pre-ordered) - Friday
6. May Scholastic book orders - Friday
7. Community High 5 Run - register online by Wednesday, May 23. https://highfiverun.wordpress.com

Tuesday!

We had a great morning of learning today!
In Math, after correcting our mental math homework, we sat together to read the book
Mystery Math A First Book of Algebra.

Reading this book introduced us to some basic algebra concepts as well as key vocabulary that we'll be applying to our work with Math Mobiles.

We have already worked through a variety of mobiles to solve for different shapes, and we'll now be taking our learning one step further by writing the equations for each step as well as explains our though process in words.

We will begin Math Mobile + algebra equation-writing process in class tomorrow.
Wish us luck! :)

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Agenda items:
1. Guest teachers visiting our classroom (to watch our Math writing lesson) - tomororw
2. Calcul Mental Section B - Thursday
3. May Scholastic orders - Friday

Gotta do the (word) work!

Happy Monday, learning team!
The weather is sunny, the Jets are winning and the verbs, nouns and adjectives are calling! :)

Today in Français, we worked in our Reader's Theatre groups to create a glossary of words that we will teach to the rest of our classmates before presenting our plays. Working together to read through our entire script, we identified words that we (and likely our peers) would be unfamiliar with. From there, we grouped the words into categories (feminine and masculine nouns, verbs, adjectives, and expressions) and collaborated to write a short, clear definition and/or draw a picture to describe each word.
We are writing our glossary on chart paper using our colour-coded system.
This word work will help us better understand the structure and grammar of our texts and will help our classmates expand their French vocabulary and better understand our Reader's Theatre presentations, too!
Great work today, everyone!

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Agenda items:
1. Section A Calcul Mental - tomorrow
2. Teachers visiting our classroom to watch us write! - Wednesday
3. May Scholastic Book Orders - due Friday.

Friday!

We were happy to welcome Mme Galka to our classroom this morning!

She did a listening and viewing activity with us using this funny video: SNACK ATTACK.
Throughout the video we made predictions about what we thought might happen next and had to "prove" our opinion using evidence from the video and/or making personal connections with experiences in our own lives.
(Ex: We know the lady in the video is older because she has grey hair and large glasses. We know the boy in the video is older than 8 years old because: 1) he is at the train station by himself and 2) Mme Careen's son is 8 and she says he (her son) looks much younger than the boy in the video).
Please ask me what I thought about the video. Maybe we can even watch it together?

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Agenda items:
1. May Scholastic orders due Friday, May 18.

Have a great weekend!
Go Jets Go!

Thursday Agenda Items

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Agenda items:
1. CFOO #12 Créativité - tomorrow (Friday)
2. Submissions of ideas for our mascot/logo update - tomorrow (Friday)
3. May Scholastic Orders - Friday, May 18.

GO JETS GO!

Wednesday!

Hello, everyone!

We had a great morning together!

After starting our day outside for our Community Clean-Up,
we spent the rest of the morning working in Math and Français.

In Math, we worked in groups at the whiteboards to solve different Math mobiles. In addition to finding the value of each shape, we also had to explain our steps/thought process of how we arrived at our solution.

In Français, Mme Galka was here and did a mini-lesson on punctuation and how reading punctuation can change the entire sense of what we are saying.

We started by comparing these two sentences:

"Let's eat Grandma!" and "Let's eat, Grandma!"

What a difference a comma can make!

We took this lesson with us to our Reader's Theatre groups and applied it as we practiced reading our roles.
Thanks for a fun lesson, Mme Galka!

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Agenda items:
1. Calcul mental assessment: les compatibles - Thursday
2. CFOO #12 Créativité - Friday
3. Submissions of ideas for our mascot/logo update - Friday
4. May Scholastic Orders - Friday, May 18.

Nana's chocolate milk

Happy Tuesday, friends of learning!

This morning in Math we worked through another 3-step problem, this time trying to solve the problem of Nana's chocolate milk. We were mixing a glass of milk with chocolate powder, but accidentally added one scoop too many! Nana will NOT be happy about that! 

How can we 'fix' the chocolate milk without causing the cup to overflow 

(and without pouring it out and starting again)?

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Agenda items:
1. Community Clean-up - tomorrow (Wednesday) during Knight Time.
2. Calcul mental assessment: les compatibles - Thursday
3. CFOO #12 Créativité - Friday
4. Submissions of ideas for our mascot/logo update - Friday
5. May Scholastic Orders - Friday, May 18.

Exciting School News!

Exciting news from the school office:

In the 2018/2019 school year, we will become Les chevaliers de l'école Ness! 

To celebrate this change and to embrace our new French Immersion identity, we will reexamine our current school logo and mascot. Students are invited to list their ideas about what our new mascot - un chevalier - should look like. 
Please return this form to the office by May 11, 2018 for your idea to be considered. 

Vive l'école Ness!

Monday, Monday!

Hello! Happy Monday!
It's great to have the whole team back together again!

We kicked off the week with Math puzzles, Bus Ridership and practicing our Reader's Theatre plays (outside!).

It's going to be a great week! :)

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1. Calcul Mental Section B - tomorrow (Tuesday)
2. Library - tomorrow
3. Community Clean-Up - Wednesday morning (during Knight Time)
4. CFOO #12 - Friday
5. Submissions of ideas for our mascot/logo update - Friday
6. May Scholastic Orders - Friday, May 18.

Bravo!

A big FÉLICITATIONS to Van who represented École Ness at the Provincial Concours d'Art Oratoire, held at l'Université de St.Boniface, this past weekend.
Van spoke about her topic, Burj Khalifa, with great confidence and expression.

Bravo, Van! Nous sommes très fiers de toi! :)

Friday Agenda Items

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1. Calcul Mental Section B - Tuesday, May 8
2. CFOO #12 - Friday, May 11

Have a great weekend! :)

Thursday Agenda Items

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1. Section A Calcul Mental - tomorrow (Friday)
2. CFOO #12 - Friday, May 11

Have a great day, everyone! :)

Tuesday!

Happy Tuesday, learning friends!
We had a great morning of learning together!

In Mathé, we worked at the whiteboard in groups to represent different sets of ratios involving shoes, animals,
cats and dogs. Many of us were able to work through all of the questions and then had a chance to create our own ratio drawing for Mme Careen, Mme McKenzie and Mme Page to figure out!
We were very creative (and tricky!) with our ratio drawings!

In Français, we continue to read our mini-roman Zamboni and, in today's chapters, learned quite a bit about the narrator and his father. We also did some word work, studying the expressions: "avoir la tête dans les nuages"
and "avoir l'air de."

We finished the morning with Science and reviewed the main content for our Science assessment about the properties of fluids. Mme Careen asked us different questions that just may be on the assessment tomorrow and we were able to answer them all! We have worked hard learning all about fluids in class and we are confident that we will all do well on our assessment tomorrow! :)

* Please note: I will be away at a Professional Development session for the remainder of the week (Wed-Fri).
I am confident that all students will be respectful and helpful to their guest teacher and will continue to work hard to be on task and accomplish the tasks that have been planned for them.
I will still be checking my email and will update our blog with any new agenda items at the end of the week.
Merci! Je vous souhaite une très bonne semaine, les élèves!  :)

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Agenda items:
1. Science assessment - tomorrow (Wednesday).