Tuesday, 25 September

Today we began with a writing activity designed to re-enforce the concepts we've be developing about the parts of a sentence.  Students built sentences given details in a table, and then extended their thinking buy adding further examples to the table.  They concluded by building sentences for the details they added.


After recess we did a math assessment so I could get a better idea of where students are in terms of their mastery of last year's curriculum.  This exercise is diagnostic and does not count towards their term math grade.  There was no time limit and some students will finish tomorrow.

After lunch I introduced the class to the idea of using special tables (called rubrics) for the assessment of their work.  Together, we built a rubric that could be used to judge the construction of paper airplanes.  First, we decided what categories we should use to judge our planes and then we filled in the criteria for the different performance levels of each category. Tomorrow, we will build the planes and use the rubric to assess them.  It should be fun.

We closed the day with an hour of work to prepare for Thursday's Terry Fox Run.  Students are being asked to donate a "toonie for Terry," if possible.  There will also be hot dogs/veggie dogs on sale after the run.  They will be $1.50.  The prices of drinks, et cetra will be announced tomorrow.  All students should bring runners tomorrow and Thursday.

The only homework is to ensure everyone has read the novel Crash up to page 48.  

Please remember tomorrow's meeting at 6 p.m.