PowerPoint slide show from our pen pals in Missaglia, Italy

Missaglia, Italy from Annette Lloyd Thomas

Dates to Remember

Mon 31 March - Brain Day presentation in Rm 13
Fri 4 Apr - Graduation Photos
Fri 4 Apr - Author Kyo Maclear presentation, Gr 4-6 10:30-11:30
Wed 9 Apr - Day of Pink
Thurs 10 Apr - Humbercrest information night (grade 6 parents)

Group Novel Study: Cell Phones

Pastel Sgraffito: Indian Corn

Pajama Day on Friday 28th March

• Wear your pajama top or a robe over your regular clothes
• Bring slippers, a small pillow or stuffy to school 
• Put on something that looks like PJs for example a tracks suit; tights or yoga pants with a long shirt

Group Novel Study: Wanted Posters

Social Studies Research: The Iroquois

Current Events Success Criteria

Choose an article that is:

Recent (less than 3 days old)
Interesting
Safe
Enough information included

• read the article
• print or cut it out of the newspaper
• fill in the organizer sheet
• present to the class on your assigned day
• hand in the sheet and the article 

Name: ________________________              Date: __________________________

Current Events

Title of Article: _________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________

Source of Article: _______________________________________________________

Date of Article: _________________________________________________________

Who or what is it about? (at least 4 details_________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________

Where? ______________________________________________________________

When?_______________________________________________________________

Why is this article important? __________________________________________

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Group Novel Study: Week Two

1. Read the assigned pages of your novel.
2. Do 40 points of "Spelling Counts" activities in your spelling notebook.
3. Summarize the main events of the section you have read in your language notebook.
4. Answer the assigned questions in your language notebook.
5. Complete both sides of the Verbs worksheet.
6. Complete the Character Cell Phone - Text It! activity. Do the rough copy in your in your language notebook and the final copy on the sheet provided. 

Have everything ready for Friday morning when you will meet with your group members to discuss this week's work. 

        

WANTED: Student written paragraphs for school newsletter

Due to Mrs LT by Tues, 25th March

Written by hand or electronically

Possible topics - small group novel study; Iroquois Six Nations fish bone activity; cereal project; violin and recorder; French units (ma communauté,ma collection). 

Cereal Project web site designs

Fruity Cubes Cereal

Berry Princess Alphabet Cereal

Darksyde Kryptonite Doom Cereal

Tiger Rising Novel Study

Group Novel Study March/ April 2014

Tiger Rising by Kate DiCamillo

A. Read the following pages each week. Please resist the temptation to read ahead. We will be doing some predicting and inferring during our class discussions.  Questions should be answered based only on what has been read up to that point in time.

Novel	Week One Mar 17 –21		Week Two Mar 24 –28	Week Three Mar 31 – Apr 4	Week Four Apr 7 - 11
The Jacket		Pg 1-25	Pg 25 - 43-	Pg 44 - 70	Pg 71-89
Tiger Rising		Pg 1-25	Pg 26 – 55	Pg 56 – 86	Pg 87 - 116
The White Giraffe		Pg 1 - 45	Pg 46 – 86	Pg 87 – 134	Pg 135 -181
No Such Thing as Dragons		Pg 1 – 46	Pg 47 – 96	Pg 97 – 153	Pg 154 - 208
The Witches		Pg 1 – 49	Pg 50 – 93	Pg 94 – 146	Pg 147 - 186

Spelling list words

Week One – List 20 nouns	Week Two –  List 21 verbs	Week Three – List 22 adjectives	Week Four- List 23 adverbs
1.       building	1.       catch	1.  beautiful	1.  quickly
2.       discovery	2.  pretend	2.  bony	2.  carefully
3.       suitcase	3.  carving	3.  skinny	3.  finally
4.       breath	4  drumming	4.  impossible	4.  purposefully
5.       scalp	5.  whistle	5.  lacy	5.  loudly
6.       chapel	6.  swooping	6.   fierce	6.  unfairly
7.       tongue	7.  coughed	7.  endangered	7.  suddenly
8.       knuckles	8.  sculpted	8.  purple	8.  lightly
9.       tissue	9.  buried	9.  rotten	9.  miraculously
10.   forehead	10.  worried	10. perfect	10. normally
11.   frescoes	11.  shrugged	11.  heavy	11.  smoothly
12.   silence	12. ignored	12. gentle	12.  bravely

B. Spelling Counts – earn forty points per week by doing the spelling activities

C. Summarize each week’s reading in your own words.  Include all important events. Leave out minor details.

D. In your language notebook, answer the questions in the back of your novel.  Include the page number when giving evidence from the text.  

Week One Mar 17 –21

Week Two Mar 24 –28

Week Three Mar 31 – Apr 4

Week Four Apr 7 - 11

Questions (page 91 -92)

1, 2, 3, Wanted Poster

5, 6, 7

8, 9,

4, 10, 11, Portrait

* Create a “Wanted Poster” for the tiger.

* Draw and colour a portrait of either Sistine or Rob. Label your portrait with evidence from the text.  

The Jacket Novel Study

Group Novel Study March/ April 2014

The Jacket by Andrew Clements

A. Read the following pages each week. Please resist the temptation to read ahead. We will be doing some predicting and inferring during our class discussions.  Questions should be answered based only on what has been read up to that point in time.

Novel	Week One Mar 17 –21		Week Two Mar 24 –28	Week Three Mar 31 – Apr 4	Week Four Apr 7 - 11
The Jacket		Pg 1-25	Pg 25 - 43-	Pg 44 - 70	Pg 71-89
Tiger Rising		Pg 1-25	Pg 26 – 55	Pg 56 – 86	Pg 87 - 116
The White Giraffe		Pg 1 - 45	Pg 46 – 86	Pg 87 – 134	Pg 135 -181
The Witches		Pg 1 – 46	Pg 47 – 96	Pg 97 – 153	Pg 154 - 208
No Such Thing as Dragons		Pg 1 – 49	Pg 50 – 93	Pg 94 – 146	Pg 147 - 186

Spelling list words

Week One – List 20 nouns	Week Two –  List 21 verbs	Week Three – List 22 adjectives	Week Four- List 23 adverbs
1.       period	1.       loading	1.  pretty	1.  probably
2.       kitchen	2.  smiled	2.  boring	2.  twice
3.       imagination	3.  felt	3.  short	3.  later
4.       hallway	4  offered	4.  terrible	4.  squarely
5.       secretary	5.  zipped	5.  quiet	5.  exactly
6.       phone	6.  trying	6.   quick	6.  practically
7.       grandma	7.  pouring	7.  fresh	7.  actually
8.       fireworks	8.  remember	8.  detailed	8.  sideways
9.       bandanna	9.  melted	9.  dirty	9.  angrily
10.   earrings	10.  carrying	10. wrong	10. early
11.   bucket	11.  browsing	11. prejudiced	11.  instinctively
12.   baseball	12.  choosing	12. hooded	12.  especially

B. Spelling Counts – earn forty points per week by doing the spelling activities

C. Summarize each week’s reading in your own words.  Include all important events. Leave out minor details.

D. In your language notebook, answer the questions in the back of your novel.  Include the page number when giving evidence from the text.  

Week One Mar 17 –21

Week Two Mar 24 –28

Week Three Mar 31 – Apr 4

Week Four Apr 7 - 11

Questions (page 91 -92)

1, 2, 3, Wanted Poster

4, 5, 6,

7, 8, 9

12, 13, 14, Portrait

* Create a “Wanted Poster” for the missing jacket.

* Draw and colour a portrait of either Phil or Daniel. Label your portrait with evidence from the text.