This week in Language we started digging deeper into making connections. After the students completed their "7 page book report," we began sharing and making connections to the books being discussed. This will keep us busy until October 2nd when we being The Global Read Aloud. I'm currently assessing and giving descriptive feedback on connections, predictions and questions as well as listening skills and oral communication. They were also taught to make jot notes onto stickies while they read or listen.
In Math, we continue to work on input/output machines. Since quizzes are formative assessments, I return them to the students with feedback and I show them how to show their thinking at the next level. The patterning unit will probably only last until the end of the week. We have gone over the four part problem solving model and students are expected to use it and apply it. We will probably have another quiz on Thursday and possibly an Art activity for those early finishers.
In Science the Grade 7s began their poster project. Posters are due on Wednesday September 23rd. The Grade 6s had some discussions around what to consider for the tomatosphere experiment. The Grade 8s blew me away with their fluids investigations. They should perform their experiments Thursday as we will be ready to move on whether they do or not. You can see what we did in Science on our Twitter feed this week.
In Health we continue to discuss digital citizenship. The Grade 6s will begin Bravo next week and the Grade 7s will begin writing/planning/preparing their Health PSA around internet safety. Every class period the group is expected to hand something in and show what was accomplished.
No comments:
Post a Comment