It was wonderful seeing all my students dressed up in their spooky and creative Halloween costumes last week 🙂

As November is now upon us, we will be taking time this week to remember those who fought for our freedom. Here at Gulf Shore we will mark the start of Remembrance Week with our Remembrance Day observance on Wednesday, November 6^th.  We will be working in art class to prepare a wreath to lay during this ceremony in honour of those who died for us.

This week, we will also be having be our first set of Parent-Teacher Interviews. I have sent home time sheets and if you haven’t already done so, if you could get those back to me as soon as possible it would be very much appreciated. I look forward to speaking with you all on Thursday and Friday 🙂  I am excited to share with you your child’s successes to date and their goals for the future. The students are a very important part of this process and thus, we will spend some time this week preparing our learning portfolios which will contain several self assessments, goals and samples of our work, which I will share during your interviews. As interviews will be taking place all day, there will be no classes for students on Friday, November 8^th.

On Thursday and Friday, during interviews, our book fair will be open. Feel free to stop by and take a look at the wonderful titles available for purchase.

Here’s a look at what else is happening inside our classroom this week:

Grade 5

French- For our dictée this week we will be looking at adjectives, as we work towards preparing a descriptive text. Each evening students will be asked to complete a section of their review sheet.

We have put our poetry unit on hold for the moment as we continue on in our reader’s workshop. This week we will be looking at stories of remembrance and will continue to respond to those stories in our “Carnet de lecture”. We will also be working on what happens in our head; before we read, as we read and after we have finished reading.

In writing, we will start working on our study of the descriptive text. This will help us as we prepare our brochures for Social Studies that will describe our fictitious communities and in Science, as we describe sounds that we like and don’t like. We will also continue to review the writing traits and the elements that make up a piece of writing.

Math- This week, we will continue to use our estimation strategies to check our answers and will continue to look at how to multiply and divide numbers mentally. Students are reminded to continue to review those facts that may be causing them difficulty.

Science-This week, in our unit on sound, we will continue experimenting with sound and how it travels and will look at different creating different tones.

Social Studies-The final project of creating their own fictitious communities is well under way and next we will start work making a brochure that will promote visitors to our community.

Grade 7 and 8 Science

I was very pleased with the results of the last test. You should be very proud of yourselves 🙂 This week, as we move on to the final portion of our study on the Earth’s Crust, we will be studying volcanoes, plate tectonics and earthquakes. 

Have a wonderful week!

Madame April Walker