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Literacy, Bible, and Social Studies Objectives: October 26 – 30, 2020

EXPOSITORY WRITING

Learning Objectives:

  • Students will be able to write an expository writing piece “Quick Write” on an animal of their choosing

READING – INDIAN NO MORE AND ROOM ON A BROOM

Learning objectives:

  • Identify how the attributes of one character are similar to or different from those of another character;
  • Compare two characters within a selection or between/among two or more selections;
  • Compare and contrast settings, characters, and events;

GRAMMAR

Learning objectives:

  • Identify nouns in sentences
  • Write sentences and identify the nouns in them
  • Identify common and proper nouns
  • Capitalize proper nouns correctly

https://youtu.be/Zb7R_qHWHI0

SPELLING

Spelling Mania is this Friday. Please continue earning sponsors for your spelling words.

Group 1 – Prefix pre-, mis-, in-

1. Input
2. Preset
3. Misuse
4. Inside
5. Preview
6. Incorrect
7. Pretest
8. Mislead
9. Preheat
10. Indoors
11. Misplace
12. Preschool
13. Misread
14. Mismatch
15. Misspell
16. Intake
17. Premix
18. Pretend
19. Present
20. Mistake
21. Income
22. Mistook
23. Precook
24. Preload
25. Prewrite

Group 2 – Words with Prefix + Base + Suffix

1. impatiently
2. disappearance
3. unhappily
4. Unnaturally
5. Refreshment
6. Mistakenly
7. Nonrefundable
8. Remarkable
9. Unlikely
10. Unpleasantly
11. Disagreement
12. Inaccurately
13. Incorrectly
14. Irreversible
15. Repayment
16. Uneasily
17. Unhealthy
18. Unusually
19. Misguidance
20. Refillable
21. Reenlistment
22. Reassurance
23. Ineptness
24. Unseasonably
25. Unsuccessful

 

SOCIAL STUDIES

  • Continue researching 1 Caribbean country and create an informative, tourist brochure on it (to be worked on in class)

BIBLE

  • Contrast the results of obeying God’s Word.
  • Identify examples of adding and taking away from God’s word.

SPECIAL REMINDERS

October 30, 2020 – SPELLING MANIA – Each student who participates in raising money will each a refreshing popsicle. The student with the most money raised in each grade will receive an additional prize.

Library Books – Any books borrowed from the George Town Public Library during our field trip should have been returned on October 16.

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HOMEWORK (All Subjects): October 26 – 30, 2020

MONDAY

GENERAL:

  • Open house tonight (5:30pm to 7:00pm)
  • Return all signed and corrected assessments (Due Friday)

LITERACY:

  • Grammar – GoFormative: What is a Noun?
  • Review Unit 1 – The Sentence for Assessment on Wednesday
  • Study Spelling Mania words
  • Read for at least 30 minutes

BIBLE:

  • Learn memory verse for Friday
  • Colossians 1:17 – He is before all things, and in Him, all things hold together.

TUESDAY

LITERACY:

  • Grammar – GoFormative: Common and Proper Nouns
  • Review Unit 1 – The Sentence for Assessment on Wednesday
  • Study Spelling Mania words
  • Read for at least 30 minutes

NUMERACY:

  • Complete Mathletics task: Numbers from Words to Digits 1

SCIENCE:

  • Review for test: Complete Quizziz – Plants Review

WEDNESDAY

LITERACY:

  • Study Spelling Mania words
  • Read for at least 30 minutes

NUMERACY:

  • Complete Mathletics task: Greater Than or Less Than?

THURSDAY

LITERACY:

  • Study Spelling Mania words for test on Friday
  • Read for at least 30 minutes

SCIENCE:

  • Test: Plants [Parts of the plant / anatomy of a flower / photosynthesis]

FRIDAY

  • Memory verse test (Please note that Bible verses will now be written at the end of all spelling tests)

UPCOMING DATES

  • Oct. 30 – Stood Up Dress Down – Wear Purple (Anti-Bully Awareness)
  • Oct. 30 – 1st Quarter Ends
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Numeracy and Science Objectives (10/26 – 10/30)

NUMERACY

Learning Objectives:

  • Compare and order whole numbers expressed through millions;
  • Round whole numbers expressed through millions to the nearest thousand, ten thousand, and hundred thousand.

Focus in class:

  • Comparing numbers according to their place value
  • Ordering numbers: least to greatest (ascending order), greatest to least (descending order)

  • Rounding off whole numbers to the nearest thousand, ten thousand, and hundred thousand.

 

SCIENCE

Learning Objectives:

  • The survival of plants and animals depends on photosynthesis;
  • Plants and animals have different structures and processes for obtaining energy; and
  • Plants and animals have different structures and processes for creating offspring.

Focus in class:

  • Animal Project

– All work will be completed in class this week

– Students will use their research information from their Literacy writing assessment

– Students will use a template to create an information booklet on their chosen animal

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Literacy and Social Studies Objectives: October 12 – 16, 2020

EXPOSITORY WRITING

Learning Objectives:

  • Students will be able to add a quotation into their paper.
  • Students will be able to edit and revise their project.
  • Students will be able to publish their final project.
  • Students will be able to complete a cold write on a given subject.

READING – INDIAN NO MORE

The student will demonstrate the ability to make, confirm, or revise a prediction by:

  • Make connections between their own personal experiences and what is happening in the text;
  • Ask questions to predict what will happen next

The student will demonstrate the ability to compare and contrast settings, characters, and events by:

  • Identify the time and place of a story,
  • Using supporting details from the text;
  • Identify the details that make two settings similar or different;
  • Identify how the attributes of one character are similar to or different from those of another character;
  • Compare two characters within a selection or between/among two or more selections;
  • Compare and contrast settings, characters, and events;
  • Write and/or tell about the likenesses and differences of settings, characters, and events;

GRAMMAR

Learning objectives:

  • Tell whether a noun names a person, a place, a thing, or an idea
  • Identify nouns in sentences and in paragraphs

 

SPELLING

Group 1

Base Words + Endings -ed, -ing

1. saved 2. moved 3. riding 4. waking 5. pulled 6. taking 7. hopped 8. baking 9. picked  10. having 11. letting  12. running 13. drawing 14. folded 15. shopped

Group 2

Lesson 4 – Words with Inflections -ed and -ing

1. counting 2. craned 3. seemed 4. burned 5. chopped 6. cracked 7. begged 8. moving 9. slipped  10. sailing 11. trimmed 12. shopping 13. returned 14. watching 15. pushed 16. visited 17. cringed 18. screamed 19. scratching  20. flapping

SOCIAL STUDIES

  • Our Caribbean Neighbours – Unit 1 Assessment
  • Research 1 Caribbean country and create an informative, tourist brochure on it (to be worked on in class)

SPECIAL REMINDERS

October 30, 2020 – SPELLING MANIA – Be on the look out for Spelling Mania spelling words and sponsorship forms this week. More information to follow this week.

Library Books – Any books borrowed from the George Town Public Library during our field trip will need to be returned by October 16.

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HOMEWORK (All Subjects): October 12 – 16, 2020

MONDAY

LITERACY:

  • Read for at least 30 minutes
  • Study spelling words for test on Friday
  • Return all signed and corrected assessments (Grammar and Spelling)

NUMERACY:

  • Complete all assigned Mathletics tasks (Due Friday)
  • Students should aim for at least 70% for a task, otherwise they should redo it. If they need help, they can click the “I” button on the top right of the screen.
  • Please encourage them to talk to me if they are struggling with a certain task

BIBLE:

  • Learn memory verse
  • Genesis 1:3 – God said, “Let there be light, and there was light”.

SCIENCE:

  • Colour-in all diagrams

TUESDAY

LITERACY:

  • Read for at least 30 minutes
  • Study spelling words for test on Friday

SCIENCE:

  • Review for test in book and GoFormative- Parts of a plant and their functions / Anatomy of a Flower
  • Quizizz: 1. Parts of a plant (Homework)  / 2. Anatomy of a Flower (Homework) (Complete before Thursday)
  • If students struggle with the quiz – they can review the questions using the flashcards function.

WEDNESDAY

LITERACY:

  • Grammar: GoFormative: What is a Noun?
  • Read for at least 30 minutes
  • Study spelling words for test on Friday

SCIENCE:

  • Review for test

THURSDAY

LITERACY:

  • Read for at least 30 minutes
  • Study spelling words for test on Friday

SCIENCE:

  • Test

FRIDAY

  • School closes for midterm break at 2:45pm

UPCOMING DATES

  • Friday Oct. 16 – Dress Down Day – Wear Pink, Red, or Purple if you can ($1 – proceeds to local breast cancer organization)
  • Mid-Term Break – October 19 – 23
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Numeracy and Science Objectives (10/12 – 10/16)

TERRA NOVA

  • Testing takes place every morning from 8:30am to 11am
  • Testing ends on Tuesday
  • Testing will impact instructional time

NUMERACY

Learning objectives:
  • Read, write, and identify the place and value of each digit in a nine-digit whole number;
  • Compare and order whole numbers expressed through millions;
Focus in class:
  • Comparing numbers according to their place value
  • Ordering numbers: least to greatest(ascending order), greatest to least (descending order)

SCIENCE

Learning Objectives for the next few weeks:
  • Plants and animals have different structures and processes for creating offspring.
Focus in class:
  • Abiotic and Biotic factors
   
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Literacy and Social Studies Objectives: October 7 – 9, 2020

TERRA NOVA ASSESSMENTS

After an interesting and unexpected long and windy weekend, we are beginning our Terra Nova assessments today. These assessments will run for the next 5 week day mornings. Due to these assessments, we will not be having any written literacy homework this week. However, please ensure that your child is reading for at least 30 minutes each night.

 

EXPOSITORY WRITING

Learning Objectives:

–  Students will be able to use transitions in their writing

–  Students will be able to locate and incorporate domain specific vocabulary in their research

 

READING

This week, we are beginning our new class novel for Global Read Aloud – Indian No More.

Dear Families,

In the coming weeks we will begin a new novel called​ Indian No More​ by Charlene Willing Mcmains. This fictional book sheds light on some of the struggles Native Americans have faced. The book description states:

Regina Petit’s family has always been Umpqua, and living on the Grand Ronde reservation is all ten-year-old Regina has ever known. Her biggest worry is that Sasquatch may actually exist out in the forest. But when the federal government signs a bill into law that says Regina’s tribe no longer exists, Regina becomes “Indian no more” overnight–even though she was given a number by the Bureau of Indian Affairs that counted her as Indian, even though she lives with her tribe and practices tribal customs, and even though her ancestors were Indian for countless generations.

With no good jobs available in Oregon, Regina’s father signs the family up for the Indian Relocation program and moves them to Los Angeles. Regina finds a whole new world in her neighborhood on 58th Place. She’s never met kids of other races, and they’ve never met a real Indian. For the first time in her life, Regina comes face to face with the viciousness of racism, personally and toward her new friends.

Meanwhile, her father believes that if he works hard, their family will be treated just like white Americans. But it’s not that easy. It’s 1957 during the Civil Rights Era. The family struggles without their tribal community and land. At least Regina has her grandmother, Chich, and her stories. At least they are all together.

As we read over the next few weeks we ask that you talk to your child about the book, the topics covered, and their feelings towards it. Asking them about Native American culture, life changes, racism, differences, civil rights, laws, prejudice, cultures, traditions, and questions they have would generate rich discussions at home as we will also be having them in class.

We thank you for your support.

 

Learning Objectives:

–  Students will explore prior knowledge that is relevant to the text

–  Preview to get a sense of the structure and content

 

SOCIAL STUDIES

Learning Objectives:

– Identify the Bahamas on a map.

– Identify 4 of its islands

NOTE: STUDY FOR UNIT 1 ASSESSMENT ON MONDAY – OUR CARIBBEAN NEIGHBOURS

 

SPECIAL REMINDER

Any books borrowed from the George Town Public Library during our field trip will need to be returned by October 16.

 

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HOMEWORK (All Subjects): October 7 – 9, 2020

WEDNESDAY

LITERACY:

  • Read for at least 30 minutes

NUMERACY:

  • Practice 9 times tables
  • Complete Quizizz – 9 times tables (Due Friday)
  • Sign assessment (Return Friday)

BIBLE

  • Learn memory verse for Friday
  • Psalm 139: 23 – Search me O God and know my heart, test me and know my anxious thoughts.

THURSDAY

LITERACY:

  • Read for at least 30 minutes

SCIENCE:

  • GoFormative: 4.Photosynthesis (Due Monday)

FRIDAY

BIBLE:

  • Memory verse test

NUMERACY:

  • Times Tables Test (0 – 8)

UPCOMING DATES

  • Monday Oct.12 – School Open Day
  • Thursday Oct.15 – Science Test (Parts of a plant and anatomy of a flower)
  • Friday Oct.16 – Midterm Break
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Numeracy and Science Objectives (10/07 – 10/10)

TERRA NOVA

  • Testing takes place every morning from 8:30am to 11am
  • Wednesday through to next week Tuesday
  • Testing will impact instructional time

NUMERACY

Learning objectives:
      1. Read, write, and identify the place and value of each digit in a nine-digit whole number;
      2. Compare and order whole numbers expressed through millions;
Focus in class:
  • Comparing numbers according to their place value
  • Ordering numbers: least to greatest(ascending order), greatest to least (descending order)
Games: http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/mathgames/placevalue/BPOrder1000.htm http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/mathgames/placevalue/FSCompareNumbers.htm

SCIENCE

Learning Objectives for the next few weeks:
  • Plants and animals have different structures and processes for creating offspring.
Focus in class:
  • Compare and contrast plant characteristics used for attracting pollinators
  • Abiotic and Biotic factors
  • Photosynthesis