Author: Michael

November 2012

Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri
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5	6	7	8 / Parent Teacher Interviews	9 / PD DAY
12 / Remember Day Assembly / Assemmbly	13	14	15	16
19	20	21	22	23
26 / Crawford Lake Field Trip	27	28	29	30

Announcements:
We will be going to Crawford Lake Conservation Area in Milton on November 26th. This will give students a chance to experience what a First Nations Longhouse looks like, as well as, an opportunity to try their hands at archaeology. It will be a full day trip.

The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you. B.B. King

Language:
In reading we will be working on the strategy of “Identifying Important Details”. This is an involves precisely what it suggest; gathering the details within the text that can help the reader understand the main idea of a text and its supporting details. This is a skill that students will surely need when it comes to answering EQAO reading comprehension questions. They will be required to extract information from the text to support their answer, and create meaning around those details with their own thoughts.
In addition to this reading strategy, students will work on developing “better answers” to reading comprehension questions that involve using evidence from the text and their own ideas. We will focus on developing deeper responses to support a “gist answer”. The structure we will use will be similar to a paragraph, but with some minor differences.
Please encourage your student to use the Q Chart (Under the Literacy Tab) to continue with deeper questioning regarding the texts they read, as this will be continual focus for the duration of the year.
Math: In math we are moving onto a unit in Geometry. The focus of the unit will be on sorting and classifying quadrilaterals by geometric properties related to symmetry, angles, and sides. Which will also involve the measurement and construction of angles up to 180° using a protractor, and the classification of them as acute, right, obtuse, or straight angles. Students will need a protractor.
Religion/Family Life:
In Religion and Family Life, we will be focusing on the theme of peace making as this is a month of Remembrance. This ties nicely into conflict resolution. We will be considering effective ways to confront and deal with conflicts that arise.
Science: We continue to focus on Biodiversity.
Social Studies: Our focus is on First Nations groups. Students will be presenting their project work in our “First Nations Museum Exhibit” later this month. We will then move to European explorers and their interactions with the First Nations.