WRITING/READING:
*poetry writing: acrostic and concrete poetry
**paragraph structures and descriptive paragraph writing
MATH: Patterning
4: learning to connect a term within a pattern to its term number and using a table of values to organize the information
5: learning to use a table of values as a tool to help develop a pattern rule
HEALTH: Digital citizenship online course via EVERFI
** beginning anti-bullying discussions and how understanding bias, discrimination, prejudice and stereotypes help us reflect on our actions towards ourselves and others
SOCIAL STUDIES: Ongoing discussions, reflections and building understanding:
How might differing perspectives and relationships with the environment impact relationships with groups over time?
SCIENCE:
4: Rocks & Minerals focus on how rock and mineral extraction impact the local communities and the environment
5: Energy focus on alternate forms of producing energy like using Wind Turbines (kinetic to electrical)
Launching our Energy unit w/ read aloud of The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind. ?ing before our build challenge. What assumptions are made by the reader, obstacles overcome by William & inspiration to protect his community? What connections can be made to having an innovators mindset? pic.twitter.com/e6ClGODTnu— MsTavares (@McM_MsT) November 8, 2019
'Miss, can't we just copy & paste?'— MsTavares (@McM_MsT) November 8, 2019
Launching into our Rocks&Minerals unit with some inquiry questions & research skills (collect & interpret information). Discussing importance of citing sources and looking at usage rights of images @tdsb https://t.co/R7kJ2o02F9 pic.twitter.com/urdMcZQrz4