What is bullying?

We began our day with language. Students were inquirers as they were challenged to discover what it means to diagram a sentence and how to diagram a sentence. Students shared their ideas with each other. Two brave volunteers came to the board and taught the class how to do this.

 

 

Parents, please ask your child to explain how to diagram a sentence to you. Also, ask them why we learn to do this. We will not do a spelling list this week due to time we will spend on anti-bullying activities.

Students met up in their literature circle groups for their third group meeting. After discussions, students used class time to read chapter 4. Students also received new role assignments for today. It is important that The Secret Garden books and reading duo-tangs be brought to school daily as we will be having daily group meetings as well as time allocated in class for reading.

We began our last inquiry unit today. We are beginning it a bit early to have it coincide with SJA's Anti-Bullying Week. This unit falls under the transdisciplinary theme Who We Are and has the central idea: Our well being is influenced by our attitudes, actions and words.

We will explore this unit through 3 lines of inquiry:

·         How words and actions can be interpreted

·         Keeping safe

·         Manners and etiquette of our school family

We started off the unit with two questions. "What is bullying?" and "What kinds of bullying are there?" Students generated great definitions of bullying. We will continue this conversation tomorrow.

 

We continued with our MMS probability unit today. Today we finished up practice problems on Friday's lesson about making predictions after an experiment. We conducted experiments with spinners, coins, and number cubes after we made predictions and then compared them to the actual results.

 

We then started today's lesson on predictions and actual results. We did not have time to get to the practice questions. We will complete the problems tomorrow. Students may attempt to complete today's MMS homework if they would like, or they can try tomorrow after we finish the practice questions.

In arithmetic, students wrote a test.

For science fair remember to take pictures and record data as you go. Make time in the next week or so to purchase a tri-fold display board for the science fair.

Homework & Reminders

• MMS p. 186 & 187 - if you want to try the problems
• MMS test on Thursday
• Plants & Soils test on Friday
• Science Fair: Begin testing, record data & observations in qualitative and quantitative data collection tables, take photos as you go. Make time to buy a tri-fold display board in the next week or so.
• Novel Study - complete chapter 4 reading and response
• French test on Friday
• After-school programs letter coming home today