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! *

We Read Canadian Authors!

"I Love to Read" month may be over, but, at École Ness, our LOVE of reading never stops!
The Ness staff are SO excited to share their favourite Canadian authors with you!
Please be sure to visit our bulletin board during our Celebration of Learning evening next week.
You might just find a few new titles for your Spring Break reading list! :)

Friday!

Put your thinking caps on and solve these expressions:

1.   2 + 5 x 3

2.   10 - 3 x 3

3.   3 x 8 - 7 x 2

4.   9 + 9 ➗ 3

Did you get the following answers?

1. 17   2. 1   3. 10   4. 12

These same questions sure had us thinking first thing this morning! 

To help us all arrive at the same answer, we've added a new skill to our Math arsenal: 

"la priorité des opérations" (aka PEDMAS!)

The acronym PEDMAS helps us remember the order of operations 

when we are evaluating a Math expression or equation.

After exploring a few questions together as a class, we worked with a partner to solve a few additional equations. 

We will continue exploring the order of operations through a variety of activities next week. 

We're hoping we'll be ready to challenge you to a few tasks at our upcoming Celebration of Learning evening Wednesday of next week! Stay tuned! :)

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Agenda

1. Section B Calcul Mental - Monday

2. Recherche concours - ongoing

*A few students have decided to bring their Biography article, graphic organizer and Français journal home this weekend to put in some additional research/writing time. We will continue to work on our writing next week in class, but some students felt they needed additional time to complete their first two paragraphs. Once we've had a bit more work time, a more definite timeline will be set.

Please check in with your child to see how their writing is coming along. Thank you. :)

Have a nice weekend! :)

Thursday Agenda Items

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Agenda

1. Section B Calcul Mental - Monday

2. Recherche concours - ongoing

Wednesday Agenda Items

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Agenda

1. Section B Calcul Mental - tomorrow (Thursday)

2. Recherche concours - ongoing

Hello, Tuesday!

We had another busy morning of learning in Room 208 today!

In Math, after reviewing the assessment outline for our upcoming "les nombres entiers" assessment, we learned a new mental math strategy, which, in fact, is quite similar to the last one we practiced. We are still noticing 8s and 9s, but this time with subtraction. This strategy is especially handy when dealing with money, since many prices often end in 0,98$ or 0,99$. Please ask me about this strategy!

In Français today, after we finished our shared write about Shamsia Hassani, we had our very first writing block to get started on our own biography writing. Many of us dove right in and were able to accomplish quite a bit! Over the next few days, we will continue sharing our time between shared writes (where Mme holds the pen and models how to write a paragraph with our guidance) and our independent writing. Our goal by the end of the week is to have our three body paragraphs written so that next week we can focus on the intro and conclusion, as well as the editing process.

Stay tuned for more exciting updates as the week progresses!

We finished our morning with Science and, after we had a chance to celebrate three more Science projects, we learned a bit more about le règne Monère. Next up will be Protiste and Mycète (Fungi). Please ask me what makes the Monera kingdom unique from the others.

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Agenda

1. Math assessment "les nombres entiers" - tomorrow (Wednesday)

2. Section A Calcul Mental - Thursday

3. Recherche concours - ongoing

Happy Monday!

Hello, learning friends!

We jumped right in to learning this morning! We have a lot on our to-do list from now until the end of Term 2 (which is only 9 days away! Yikes!)

In Math, we took time to mark our "Nombres entiers" work that we completed last week, and also worked at the white board to solve a new word problem. Our focus with this word problem will be HOW we organize our work; what steps we followed and how our work is presented.

Next up in Science, we started the next part of our "Diversity of Living Things" unit. Over the next week, we will be looking at the 5 Kingdoms of Living Things and discussing the unique characteristics associated with each Kingdom. Today we started with Kingdom Monera.

Finally, in Français, after our daily reading time, we started the shared write for our biography concours/speech. Mme modeled the writing of her first paragraph using the research she completed on Afghanistan graffiti artist Shamsia Hassani. Using the information from her graphic organizer, she was able to quickly pull the information she had already written and put it into paragraph form using our ideas to guide the process. We will begin writing our first paragraphs in class tomorrow. We can't wait to get started! :)

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Agenda

1. Recherche - concours.
2. Math assessment on "les nombres entiers" - Wednesday.