Tuesday Oct 10: TV debate and leaf art

Leaf art design project at the end of the day

Notices:

Picture day Thursday bring in forms

Spelling: Each week the students have a spelling pretest on Monday. There is a double sided page of spelling activities using the spelling words to be completed each week. Some time is given at school to work on this sheet, however, it may also be done at home to give practice with the spelling words. The spelling is in a dark blue or black duo-tang. On Friday there is the real spelling test which is marked, recorded and sent home.

The two debate groups
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We started the day with 15 min to work on the Spelling activity sheet. Our Tuesday debate, thinking, oral language topic today is... Should students be allowed to have a TV and game system in their rooms? The students worked on their own for five minutes to come up with ideas for and against having a TV in their room. They then broke into 2 teams one team that supported the idea and one opposed. The students will be given time to write out their ideas and we may have the debate on Friday.

Computer lab doing Power-point

After recess we had a work period in the library. Those students finished all their Socials were given time on a computer doing power-point on a topic of their choice, the others worked at the tables in the library to finish their missing Socials. At the end of the period all students were given ten min of computer time.

After computers we broke into two math groups to continue working on addition with regrouping and strategies for addition.





After lunch we had a rip roaring game of Slimers Island with Mr. Edwards grade 4/5 class. This was followed by a reading or work on your mini-book period. We ended the day working on a fall art project using fine pen markers. The students drew a leaf then filled it in with patterns. We will cut the leaves out and put them on our bulletin board.



All in all a hard work, creative day.