Happy Monday!

Hello, learning friends!
Welcome to the last week of Term 2!

We are looking forward to a busy week of learning, and are looking forward to sharing some of what we've been up to at our Celebration of Learning evening on Wednesday.

Today in Math we: corrected our calcul mental homework, reviewed our "Nombre du jour" work and also reviewed the revisions we made to the problem-solving samples we looked at in class last week. We made Attempt #2 at our PEDMAS challenge and tackled a few new order of operations questions as a class.

In Français, after our daily reading time, we studied the verb tense used in our biography texts we are currently using in the writing of our own texts. We noticed that the verbs ended with "ait" or "aient" which indicated the "imparfait" verb tense. Imparfait is one of the verb tenses we use when writing about events that happened in the past. We will begin applying this verb tense to our writing as we move forward in our writing this week.

Finally, in Science, we are trying to grow Fungi! Today, using two types of bread sealed in plastic Ziploc bags and water, we began a week-long experiment that will have us making daily observations as to whether or not we can grow bread mould (mould is an example of a living thing in the Fungi Kingdom). We used water in two of the bread samples to create a humid environment which often encourages mould growth.
Stay tuned to see how our experiment progresses!  :)


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Agenda

1. Term 2 Problem-solving assessment activity - tomorrow (Tuesday).
* Students can't really study for this activity - they will be independently completing a problem-solving question which will ask them to choose a strategy and show all of their work in a clear, organized way. This will help us see where we are currently at and will help us create specific problem-solving goals for Term 3.
2. Evaluation Calcul - Soustraire les 8s et 9s - Wednesday
3. "Nombre du Jour" assessment - Wednesday
4. Celebration of Learning evening - Wednesday (4:45 - 7:00)
* No appointment needed! Stop by at anytime throughout the evening to celebrate your child's learning in all of his/her subject areas! *