Reminders: We are back to school on Tuesday, April 3rd!
Badminton Tryouts: Tuesday, April 3, 3:15-4:15 Grades 6 & 7 Thursday, April 5, 3:15-4:15 Grades 8 & 9 Track and Field Tryouts: Wednesday, April 4, 7:30-8:20 Grades 8 & 9 Friday, April 6, 12:15-1:15 Grades 6 & 7 Homework: Students are to work on their stories on Google Docs. They should aim to have their introduction complete, and good progress on their middle section. I will be editing the stories during the break using Google Docs to give feedback. I can see who has worked on their stories using the program, and can give new suggestions as the students update their stories. Here are some items to work on: - Applying peer-feedback - Editing dialogue to follow dialogue rules: 2 x 2 rule, starting a new line and indenting it each time someone speaks, putting punctuation in the quotations, capitalizing the first word that the person says - Making sure that all the steps of the Hero's Journey are included -Including heroic traits for your main character (brave, courageous, lucky, have mentors/help, conquer evil) - Checking for proper punctation and spelling - Organizing your writing into paragraphs - Using descriptive language and replacing common words with more precise words. This week we worked on our stories and gave each other feedback. We also worked on the elements of a story using the Story Switch game. We finished up some sky science topics and worked on reviewing fractions and tackling some more challenging problems. They cooked and made their own videos for PAL. Today we had a nice break and treat, and watched one of the most "scientifically inaccurate animated movies ever made". Using Ice Age Five we thought critically about some of the scenes and topics related to sky science, and had a great discussion afterwards! I am going to keep this short and sweet! I hope you all have a wonderful, restful and safe break! Be ready to get down to work when you come back. We will be switching gears and learning about the Iroquois Confederacy, Air and Flight, wrapping up our stories, and switching to newspaper article writing (FAKE NEWS!?). As one of the students put it in their TWAS, we had another stupendous week!
Reminder: Bring in your old or broken cell phones to support the Grade 4 Class. Gorilla habitat is being threatened by the mining of Coltan used in phones. They are collecting phones to be recycled, to reduce the amount of Coltan that is being mined. This week students:
Reminder: Colonization Presentations will start on Monday. Students are expected to be prepared to present.
Order forms for DGS swag went home today.
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