Wednesday & Thursday, March 7&8, 2018

Hi, Folks!  I am combining yesterday's with today's; the wifi went down yesterday so I wasn't able to send photos to my computer.  Then, by night fall, I had forgotten to do the blog.  Anyway, here are our last two days:

Today, the new Canadian $10 bill was unveiled And guess whose portrait is on it? We just read the story below about Viola Desmond, a woman who stood up for her rights at the time of segregation.  Check out the link below; it explains each of the features on the new bank note.
https://www.bankofcanada.ca/banknotes/vertical10/

Yesterday, we reviewed the Appalachian Region by reading all of the highlighted bits in preparation for today's quiz.  This also served to demonstrate the purpose of effective highlighting.

Students also wrote about their own dreams, prompted by Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech which we had studied earlier. 

Written Progress Profiles will be going home next week.  In advance, I went over the focus of mine with the students.  We discussed the terms Literacy and Numeracy, and how Literacy especially is all encompassing.  It is not just Language Arts, but social studies, science, career education and more. 

In math, we did a time multiplication / division drill and marked some of the Decimal Place Value package from Monday.  Many students had not completed their homework, so today, we continued the marking.

In Music, Mr. Redding is preparing the kids for a concert on Wednesday!!  [see notice below]

Students presented their French Olympic Rings assignment about what winter games they liked and didn't like. 

Before lunch, students were read a story about Benjamin Franklin and how he saved his money, came up with various inventions and ideas to help his family and many others.  Ask your child what they learned about this amazing man.

Finally, this afternoon, we had Readers' Theatre with Idiom Plays! The kids love drama and did a great job focusing on their scripts.  I realize that most students are not familiar with idioms, however.  Hopefully, they will know lots by the time we're done.