What We Learned Today...January 21st

Nice picture from Monday!

I apologize for the lack of posts over the past two days! I got a little overloaded with coaching basketball and was unable to post updates. However, no basketball today, which means a full blog post!

ELA: After the usual AR period, we continued to work our way through our Mystery Unit by exploring important mystery words that we will be using over the next month. Once we finished reviewing our list, students then were tasked with solving mini-mysteries and applying the words they learned.

Phys. Ed:  The students headed to the gym with Mr. Fuchs and continued to work on basketball skills.  They also had the opportunity to play a really interesting game called "Basketball Golf"!

Homework Period/Genius Hour:  Students were given the shortened period to complete their ELA assignments from last class or work on their Genius Hour final presentations.

ELA: Today we had an extra ELA period because we will be having an extended Religion period when Mr. Meyers visits tomorrow.  During this period, we quickly reviewed our mystery words from this morning before reading a short story about the "Mystery of Oak Island".  We will continue exploring this mystery on Friday!

Star Testing:  During the last hour of the day students logged onto their AR accounts and participated in a STAR test that will assess their current reading level.  I will be going through the results individually with the students tomorrow so they can see their growth from the beginning of the year.

Upcoming Due Dates & Homework

ELA:
Killers Tall Tale Questions are overdue

The Hermits Secret questions are due on Friday, January 23rd

The Hermits Secret questions are due on Friday, January 23rd

Math:

5.3 is due tomorrow.

Surface Area quiz is on Monday, January 26th

Science:

Animal Cell drawings are due on Friday, January 23rd

Reminders:

-Girls basketball practice tomorrow at 8:00 am

-Girls basketball game at Holy Rosary tomorrow, January 22nd

-Science Centre Field Trip on January 27th. Please remember to bring $4 to school by Friday.