Wow- eight students away today meaning one third of my students in Gr 6/7 are missing classes.The ski program accounts for only two of those eight so it is the height of flu season- what a great time to do annual governement FSA assessments! Wonder who didn't think that one through?
Snarky comment to open the post!
Today we put a new seating plan (another one) into effect and with the students away it made an amazing difference. Some are not 100% confortable with their new partners but there is enough moving around in the day to compensate for social needs.
Homework
Socials projects are now overdue from 8 students (Eduardo, Rowan, Aidan, Dawson, Ray, Malaya, Koghan and Casper
Spelling A Unit 4 redo tomorrow (handful of studens to redo: Dawson, Aidan, Derek, Malaya and Eduardo
Spelling Unit 5 b/c words Thursday test (please complete the vocabulary activity)
Reminders
FSA assessments to catch up on Reading Comprehension section: Hunter, Alyssa, Teaghan and Eduardo- on the literary pragraph write: Hunter and Alyssa
Tomorrow Short 3 paragraph write session
Wed/Thurs longer 5 paragraph write (and catch up)
Camp permission slips
hoodie orders- meeting to determine final colour combo Wednesday this week at Lunch
popcorn day tomorrow
Pro-D day Friday no school
Family Day Monday Feb 11th - no school
Happy long weekend :) hope everyone can take the time to get well and get back to achool
Our day...
new seating
daily French
spelling Unit 4 redo and new Unit 5 vocabulary and writing activities connected to the 24 words selected for the test
I quietly played Pachelbel with ocean sounds in the background and it seemed to help with the qiuient seat work.
Math 7
8 grade sevens away- 4 in Mr Parker's class and another 4 from mine!
Glad I didn't schedule any FSA assessment sessions for today!
Math problem solving recognizing the skills and steps needed to solve the arithmetic problems. For example in one problem the students had to recall the following skills to find an answer to this doozy
If a 45c popsicle was reduced by one third , how many could you buy with $4?
1. determine the amount saved on a popsicle that retailed at 0.45 if it was reduced in cost by one third (need to know the procedure for converting fraction into decimal 0.33 and multiply to find the saving of 0.15 per popsicle)
2. now subtract 0.33 from 0.45 to find a new cost of 0.30 cents per popsicle
3. next divide $4 by 0.33 to find that you can by approx 13 popsicles for your $4
multiple steps - lots to remember. We managed five examples like this today- some had forgotten the procedure for probability which was needed in another sample- that's why we are practicing problems like these! Generally, a good session- new seating has helped with the on-going issues with a few characters!
Silent reading excellent today :)
Impressed with the concentrated reading (only one with non-fiction)
I also made a real effort NOT to interrupt my students while they were reading
Personal Planning Choices and Consequences
discussion and activity
think-write- share
Science Mystery Materials demonstration- using sesnses to infer the materials inside a number of small containers based on sound, weight and commom sense experience.
I will be able to conduct some more science labs with the help of an SFU volunteer in my class Kim Benson who will be working with us on Monday afternoons. She spent the afternoon with us today.
Read aloud for the last ten minutes before homework and reminders (of which there are lots!!!)
Chapter 1 of Dear George Clooney, Please Marry my Mother by Susin Neilson who also wrote Word Nerd
After the end of day procedures
Dismissal
Seems to have stopped raining...yay...short week this week...expecting it to be as productive as today :)
Mrs. J.
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