Team Challenge!

 Today's team challenge was to arrange playing cards in a 3 x 3 square so that the sum of each row, column and diagonal gave the same number. It was a true challenge!

P.O.O.F!

  It's Friday, so students had the chance to reflect on the past week by completing a P.O.O.F (Positive Observations on Friday) page.

We shared our observations in class, and now students have been asked to share their page with someone at home.

Happy weekend!

Haiku!

 This week in English Language Arts, students were challenged to write Haiku poems around the theme of fall. 

Poetry Power!

Read Aloud!

 In English Language Arts, 

we are exploring together the novel Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes.

This week in Room 209

 Here's what we'll be working on this week:

Mathématiques: working with factors, discussing mental math strategies to double a number.

Francais: daily reading, working with verbs & sounds, journal writing.

English Language Arts: daily reading, read aloud, Speechtastic presentations, writing Haiku poems.

Sciences de la nature: working on Design Process projects, discussing living things and how to classify them.

Sciences Humaines: discussing Canadian identity.

Science Project!

 It's time for our first Science Design Process!

Here's a quick rundown of what students have to do:
-Invent a planet with at least 16 aliens
-Design a dichotomous key to classify all of the aliens
-Name and describe each final category on the dichotomous key, giving examples.

**The representation of the planet and aliens can take any number of forms: a poster, a drawing, a collage, a diorama, etc.
**The final project must also include the dichotomous key and the category descriptions, written, of course, in beautiful French.

Students will have class time to work. The balance of the project will be completed at home.

Students have a rough copy (please see below), including all of the details of the project and a rubric showing how the final project will be marked. This rough copy must be handed in along with the final project.

The final project will be due October 20th.

Knights of Ness!

 Since school began, we have been discussing the four values of Knights: respect, responsibility, integrity and excellence. We combined our ideas together into a handy-dandy poster, which we have all signed and pledged to follow throughout the year. It will hang on our wall as a constant reminder of how to be a classroom community.