Friday, March 24, 2017

Spring Break!!!

Wishing everyone a wonder spring break!

All the kiddos are coming home with a teeny, tiny bit of homework:)

In sciences humaines, students have been asked to present their Memorable Manitoban speech to someone at home.  It's OK if you don't understand a word they say because the purpose is for them to seek feedback about their effectiveness as presenters.
Are they expressive?  Do they use eye contact?  Are they loud enough to be heard?  Are they engaging?
Please give their presentation a listen and give them some constructive feedback about how to be a more effective and engaging speaker.

Thursday, March 23, 2017

Slime is taking over Room 205!

On Tuesday, we put our slime making skills to the test by following a well-researched recipe of basic slime.  We had a lot of fun, and learned a few things about what makes great slime AND about our classmates.

Here's what we learned:
1. We had to follow the directions pretty precisely in order for slime to form.  Some of us added too much water and not enough glue and ended up with clumpy sparkle soup.
2. The recipe we followed created slime that was just "ok".  Even when it did turn out, it was a bit too tough for our liking.
3. We have a lot slime experts in our class!  Our experts tested out some modifications to the recipe we followed.  Their results were better than those who followed the directions precisely.

On Wednesday, we discussed the criteria we believe good slime must have.  We voted for the criteria based on our observations, and by testing out a few different batches of slime that were made by experts and beginners from room 205. With this information, we were ready to begin our writing task: A shared procedural writing piece on how to make slime.



The beginning of our writing journey...

Yesterday, we discussed the criteria of good procedural writing based on what we noticed from a few examples, including the one we used to make our first batches of slime.  Today, we began writing our list of materials based on that criteria. Students will now decide on what they would like to write about, and should come to school tomorrow with some knowledge about the materials they will require for their procedural writing.

Wednesday, March 15, 2017

Tuesday, March 14, 2017

Some more work coming home tonight...

FLA: Summaries of Zamboni are due tomorrow.  Please remember to revise and edit your work.  If you do not have a person to conference with, you should use Bon Patron to help you with grammatical errors if you have access to a device that connects to the internet.

Monday, March 13, 2017

Homework Alert

With report cards quickly approaching, some of the kiddos may be coming home with some homework this week.  Any students who need a bit of extra time to finish their  LES PEES WEES responses, have been asked to work on them at home and turn them in tomorrow.
For any students who still require time to finish their POETIC DEVICES IN MUSIC, LIMERICK, or MEMORABLE MANITOBAN projects, they can come in over lunch any day this week to use the computer lab to catch up.

Thursday, March 9, 2017

Thank you!

Thanks SO much to all the families who came to room 205 to celebrate their little's learning.  It was such a pleasure to meet everyone and to see some familiar faces again.  
A big shout out the families who published a limerick on our bulletin board.  The students were so excited to share their poems with the class the next day.