November

November

Sun	Mon	Tues	Wed	Thurs	Fri	Sat
			1 Pizza Day	2	3 Sub Day	4
5	6	7	8 Pizza Day	9	10 Remembrance Day Assembly Sub Day	11
12	13	14	15 Data Management Quiz Pizza Day Interviews	16 Interviews	17 PD Day Interviews	18
19	20	21 Wonder Field Trip	22 Pizza Day	23	24 Sub Day	25
26	27	28	29 Pizza Day	30

Curriculum Foci:

Reading: -Read Aloud -Wonder - Consolidating the Novel

-Book and Movie Compare and Contrast

-Connections (F and N/F)

-Implicit and Explicit Questions

-use of visuals

Writing: : -Persuasive Writing

-suffixes

-compound words

-parts of speech

Media: - topic/purpose/audience

-creating media texts (persuasive ad)

Math: Data Management

-stem and leaf plots

-scatterplots

Patterning

• describe and represent relationships in growing and shrinking patterns (where the terms are whole numbers)

Social Studies:

-explain the importance of international cooperation in addressing global issues, and evaluate the effectiveness of selected actions by Canada and Canadian citizens in the international arena

-use the social studies inquiry process to investigate some global issues of political, social, economic, and/or environmental importance, their impact on the global community, and responses to the issues

-describe significant aspects of the involvement of Canada and Canadians in some regions around the world, including the impact of this involvement

October

October

Sun	Mon	Tues	Wed	Thurs	Fri	Sat
1	2	3 Picture Day	4	5	6	7
8	9 Thanksgiving No School	10 Decimals Quiz	11	12 XC Colts Game	13 Sub Day	14
15	16 Author Visit $2	17	18 Pizza Day	19	20 PD Day	21
22	23	24	25 Pizza Day Nov. Pizza/Subs Due	26 Character Assembly	27 Sub Day	28
29	30 Picture Retakes	31 Spirit Day -Costumes/ Orange and Black Halloween Dance Milk Orders Due Data Management Quiz	1	2	3 Space Test

Curriculum Foci:

Reading: -Read Aloud -Wonder

-Text Features in Fiction and Non-Fiction

-Better Answers

Writing: : Narrative Writing

-comparative adjectives

-synonyms

-homophones

Math: Data Management

• collect and organize discrete or continuous

primary data and secondary data and display the data using charts and graphs, including continuous line graphs;
• read, describe, and interpret data, and explain relationships between sets of data

Patterning

• describe and represent relationships in growing and shrinking patterns (where the terms are whole numbers)

Science: Space

• assess the impact of space exploration on society and the environment

• investigate characteristics of the systems of which the earth is a part and the relationship between the earth, the sun, and the moon

• demonstrate an understanding of components of the systems of which the earth is a part, and explain the phenomena that result from the movement of different bodies in space.

Phys. Ed.: Volleyball Skills

Google Classroom

This year we will be doing a variety of assignments online on Google Classroom.  I love this site as I can assign a project online, the students work on it online and then I even mark it online - no paper is used or wasted at all!

STUDENTS
To prepare for this, please go to Google Classroom and put in our class code, njkcm5c, to join.

Remind App

Want reminders on what is happening in our class? Then join our class using the remind app.

Click on the link below and follow the instructions!

www.remind.com/join/896b4e

WELCOME!!!

I am so excited for this year!!!!  Please see the calendar below.  I will be adding stuff as we go....

September

Sun	Mon	Tues	Wed	Thurs	Fri	Sat
		5	6	7	8 Welcome Back Assembly	9
10	11	12	13	14	15	16
17	18	19	20	21	22 Math Quiz Pre-Order Pizza Due for Meet the Staff Night Spirit Day - Orange Day	23
24	25	26	27 Meet the Staff Night	28	29 Terry Fox Run	30

Upcoming Dates:
Oct 3rd - Picture Day
Oct 9th - Thanksgiving - No School
Oct 12th - Colts Night
Oct 12th - Cross-Country Meet
Oct 20th - PA Day

Curriculum Foci:

Reading: Reading is Thinking

Writing: : Recount Writing

Math: Number Sense and Numeration - reading, writing, comparing and ordering whole numbers to one million

Science: Space -components of our solar system

Phys. Ed.: Cooperative Games