Tuesday, October 23rd

Reminders:
Auditions for Annie run this week
No school Friday (PD Day)
Retakes Monday, Oct. 29th
October 31st - You are welcome to wear costumes to school as long as they are appropriate (no weapons please).  There is a dance during Period 5 & 6 and there will be alternate activities available.

Homework:
MATH
Review Order of Operations for our MIA on Thursday
-Solving an equation
-Turning a word problem into an equation and explaining your thinking

Updates:
MATH - we are wrapping up our work with order of operations and are moving into our next area of focus, "Numbers Smaller than a Whole".  This study will include representing numbers as fractions, decimals, and percents; relating forms of representation; adding numbers together in these different forms; adding/subtracting fractions with different denominators.  
*If this was an area that was tricky last year, try some of the pages in the grade 6 workbook (under Math-Resources) to review these concepts.
SCIENCE - students have been working in groups to explore Tectonic Plates and their Boundaries (see "Pop-Up Pangaea" - a video link under the Science tab).  They are now starting an assignment explaining/representing Volcanoes and Earthquakes.  This is a part of our Planet Earth study looking at the sudden changes that natural disasters cause to the landscape.  From here, students will do a larger project that will incorporate all of the learning so far.  A task sheet will be posted when it is ready to go.
*The Coulee exploration tasks are almost finished being assessed.  As soon as they are the assessment will go up on PowerSchool and the rubrics will be sent home. Look for a notice on the blog soon.