What a winter it has been! It was so nice to see everyone back at school late last week, and I’m hopeful that we’ll get even more time together this week before the long weekend 🙂
Let’s take a look at what is happening inside our classroom this week. Due to our extended absence because of the weather, it will be a lot similar to the last one 🙂
Dictée-For this week’s dictée, we will continue to explore the passé compose verb tense. As per usual, student should spend some time studying these verbs each evening.
Reading- This week we will continue with our literacy centers and guided reading groups, that will help us to work on our individual reading goals, expand our vocabulary, and continue to make good inferences and connections to the texts we read.
Writing- In writing’s workshop this week, we hope to finish up our revisions of our fictional stories and will start our good copies.
Math-In math class, we will continue with our next objective on analyzing patterns. We will also continue to review our foundational math concepts in preparation for our second “flashback” quiz that will take place in the next few weeks. Before the break, individualized practice packages were sent home with each student. They should spend a few minutes each evening trying to solve a few problems.
Social Studies-This week we will finish up our final project for our unit on communities, and students will continue with their new unit called “Les grands personnages” on explorers and Canadian heroes. This unit will be taught by Mr. Brad Deighan, a practice teacher here at Gulf Shore who is working with Mme Isabelle.
Science-With our Science Fair project now completed, we will start our next unit on Space.
Grade 7 Science
This week we will continue our unit on Heat. We will spend sometime exploring how different types of thermometers, and other devices that tell temperature, work.
Grade 8 Science
As we continue our unit on Cells, this week we will examine cells under the microscope, as we identify and discover different cells and their parts.
Have a fantastic week and a safe and happy Easter weekend!
Madame Walker