What the heck ? There is something strange going on with my classroom computer- it is haunted!!! Last night it shut down the Blog before I edited it and opened 25 pages one on top of the other- I logged off and finished (edited properly) from home later on in the evening.
Tonight it has just deleted everything I had typed...so I'm trying again- any more problems and you might find half a Blog entry until I get home to finish it without any more weird stuff!!!
Homework
Only new assignment is the planning for the novel alternative ending- the students simply have to complete a pre-write (they have a graphic organizer) with ideas they have about their alternative ending- tomorrow we will be writing the 1st draft
Spelling Unit 8 (wordsearch too)- test Thursday
Math (most completed the point plotting and ordered pair identification in class but a few have that to finish too
Heads up- info. sent home
hot lunch forms due Friday Nov 19th
Christmas Bazzar Nov 24th details
General Day
started with an introduction to the alternate ending assignment for the novel- the details and criteria- we used our writing rubric to determine what a well developed and planned assignment would look like and sound like.
The rubric will be part of the term 1 assessment (will be in the upcoming report card) and will be giving your child a baseline assessment. The intention this term (2) is to determine what skills are needed for improvement for the next level of achievement and for each student to work toward improvement in content and written quality in successive assignments.
Music
Math- coordinate plane vocabulary, plotting ordered pairs to complete a 'connect the points' activity (apparently our dragon ate the whole castle for dinner!!) and recognizing and accurately writing ordered pairs. The riddles were a bit cheesy but they kept the students guessing (well most of them... what gets wetter as it dries? ans. a towel etc)
Lunch- girl's volleyball practice
DEAR reading - wow the energy of the students after lunch takes a while to manage- they do eventually calm down and reading is generally happening- I do feel that some students need to really understand the connection between reading and reading improvement- you cannot improve unless you actually do some reading - a number of grade seven students have difficulty focussing for ten minutes on a book before they start to engage or look for attention from one another. It is a curious thing to observe!
French- weather bingo- I thought a neat way to review weather vocabulary would be to use a blank bingo cards and have the students depict different weather scenes. I chose the phrases at random from an envelope and we played Les Temps Bingo. Still intend to move the timing of French as I am still having the same
challenges that I faced with this group last year. I'll see what they recall of the phrases tomorrow- maybe I'll try to fit it into the morning!! Shhh, don't say anything to them about that!! lol
Phys. Ed. We got lucky this afternoon that the class which was scheduled after us did not arrive for their session so we stole some time back!! Today we tried a game of European Handball- as a group game it was a good start but we have team work issues and some rules to reivse- this group has a lot to say about the way they think things 'should be called' and organized. It wastes a lot of time and energy...still working on basic movement and following whistle commands without being 'whiny' BUT it is improving from the beginning of the year when I couldn't even get ten minutes of fair play IF we managed to get to the gym. SO it is all good :)
As there was not enough time left to strat art (10 minutes) we took (as promised yesterday) more time to clean and pack up and go over the evening's (yesterday's) homework. It also takes time to distribute flyers and get everyone ready to vacate the classroom!!
Boys were vibrating with excitement about their volleyball game at the Highlands tonight- good luck to them :)
Have a good evening.
Mrs J.
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