1. Reading Log - Please read 2 Raz-Kids book for your level. 1 Fiction and 1 Non-Fiction
2. Try to do some research for your project
3. Report - Rough copy - Due Monday
4. El Deafo - Bunnies Question and Traits - Due Monday
SKATING FORM: LINK
Japanese Culture Day was very successful. For the parents who
volunteered, thank you so much!
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Language Arts
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Cambridge Writing – Non-Fiction
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The students spent the week doing
research, planning, designing the layout and writing their non-chronological
reports. The rough copies must be finished by by Monday.
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Novel Study – El Deafo
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As stated
previously, our next class noel is El Deafo. It is a graphic novel and
students can read it at home using their tablets on Sora.
Links here
We read chapter
1-5 this week and the students have to complete two pages in their booklets
by Monday.
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Inquiry
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Innovation
PYP Unit 2 – Where We Are in Place and Time
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The central idea
is:
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Innovation leads to discovery
and helps to develop new understanding.
In this week, we
focused on:.
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Exploring magnets – how they
work and why they are important
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Free Inquiry Project – In groups,
they are working on a project based on an invention of the students’ choice.
We will work on the inquiry booklet for this project for the next few weeks.
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Character Education
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PYP
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During our
character education classes this week, we focused on:
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Going over some school issues
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How to do research (research
skills)
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Primary Assembly
Specific skills
(Approaches to Learning). For the last few months of the term, we are
focusing on 3 skills:
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Reading: reading non-fiction texts
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Recording data: doing research and
summarizing the information
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Acquisition of knowledge: organizing
the information that we find
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Extra
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Upcoming Dates
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Field Trip, Wednesday,
November 21
Skating Trip, Wednesday,
December 5
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