Monday is day three. Please make sure you are dressed ready to learn outside.

Make it Sow!
Tomorrow is the last day to order seeds for our Eco Team fundraiser.
Your support would be greatly appreciated!

Math
Today we continued discussing creating expressions based on patterns.
Tonight's assignment is to create your own pattern and the accompanying expression.
Please make sure your pattern works for several terms!
This assignment will be collected tomorrow.

Literacy
Next RINGO task is due tomorrow.

Fatty Legs - what questions have come up?
please make sure you are keeping your questions and wonderings document alive with new questions.

Great discussion on I Lost my Talk.  Thank you!
Here is what it looked like:

Tell your families about our clothesline math.
Complete worksheet 2.3.1

Tomorrow is the day of pink.
Wear your pink to show your support for anti-bullying action all over Canada.

Make it Sow!
Orders for our seed fundraiser are due Friday.
Please consider purchasing seeds or gift wrap to support our Eco Team.

Math
We are continuing to look at patterns and how we can create a rule for a pattern.
Today we collectively discovered 2N +3 for the pattern we looked at.
Homework is to come up with a rule for the second pattern on the handout.
Remember! Communicate with words, numbers and pictures.

Music
Playing assessment tomorrow!
- B-flat concert scale (scale, arpeggio and thirds)
- One piece of your choice.

Literacy
Tell the folks at home about Fatty Legs.
What have you learned so far in this book?
What questions do you have?

What an amazing day!!!
Thank you everyone.

Have a wonderful weekend.

Looking forward to an amazing day tomorrow!
Please make sure you dress to be outside all day.
Snow pants, hats mitts etc...
The bus leaves right after attendance - please don't be late!

Report cards went home today.
Please return the signature portion and the envelope in the next few days.

Everyone planning on going to the ROC on Friday MUST have a Special Winter Excursion Consent form signed. I have spoken to those students who still do not have one handed in.

Book trailers are due tomorrow!
Please refer to our checklist (earlier blog post) to ensure you have done your very best!

Make it Sow!
Please support our Eco Team through your purchases of seeds and seed gift wrap.
All funds raised will go towards our outdoor classroom and the replacement of the trees we lost due to the Emerald Ash Borer.
Order forms went home last week.

What a beautiful day! Hopefully next Friday will be just as beautiful. If you haven't already, please sign up for our field trip to the ROC. It's going to be a great day!

Math
Next week we will begin investigations in patterning and algebra.

Literacy
- Questions, questions, questions!
"The more I learn, the less I know."
We have started a questions and wonderings page as an ongoing document throughout our First Nations Relations literature study. Please keep adding questions as they come up in conversation and reading. During our time in the forest some great conversation came out about civilization and how we define it. Continue this conversation...

- Thank you to those who kept up with the schedule and handed in their latest RINGO task. If you didn't - please get that to me Monday.

- Your book trailer is due Thursday. Don't leave it until the last minute! Perhaps set aside some time this weekend to work on it. Remember the checklist we created together is on an earlier blog post.

History
Project is due Feb 13th

Field trip!
Please make sure you sign up for the field trip to the ROC next Friday.
Today an additional consent form went home. This form must be signed in order to participate.

Literacy
Today we began our literacy study to follow up  The Blanket Exercise. We will be looking at a variety of articles and books to raise and discuss issues facing Canada and our First Nations relations.

For today's article:
1. What is your opinion on Adam Nordwall's statement and actions?
2. What are your thoughts on the political cartoon? How was the cartoonist able to make such a strong statement with so few words?

Math
Checkpoints were returned today.
Final assessment on Geometry tomorrow.
- enlargements and reductions of similar shapes
- bisections of angles
- classifying shapes

History project is due Feb 13th

Thank you for your open minds and great questions as we experienced The Blanket Exercise today.

Please tell your family about it.

Please write down questions you still have.

This is only the beginning... keep asking questions.

Thank you to everyone who made it to school today! We got a great deal done!

Math
We continued to work on bisecting angles.
Tomorrow we will talk about the challenge set out in class.
Can you bisect four adjoining angles in an "x" formation using four compass arcs and two lines.
Final assessment: Friday

Literacy
We used our in class time to work on our book trailers.
Remember these are due Feb 16th.
Please don't leave it until the last minute to finish.

Music
We continued working on the B-flat concert scale.
There will be a formal assessment on this next week.

History
Project due Feb 13th

Art
Today we completed our pop art ceramic tiles with the glazing stage.
I'll fire them soon! They are looking great!

Please remember to sign up for our intermediate field trip on School Cash Online.
It is February 17th at the ROC in Georgina.
It will be a great day!

Math
Today we worked on constructing related lines using a compass.
Please practice the methods we learned today - better yet! teach it to someone at home.

Literacy
Continue work on your book trailer assignment.
Remember - you need to submit your plan along with your final assignment.

History
History project due Feb 13th

Help wanted!
I am still hoping for one or two volunteers to help out in our class this coming Wednesday from 10:45 - 12:25.
If you can help out, please send me an email. I would really appreciate it!

Mr. Terupt
The assignment for last night's blog post is due Monday.
I apologize for not giving that due date yesterday.

Don't forget to sign up for our winter field trip on School Cash Online.

Book Trailers
Due: Feb 16th
Through our discussions and analysis we have come to agree on this checklist:

• Eye catching visuals that are relevant to the book
• Create suspense - hints to the plot
• No spoilers! Don't give too much of the plot away
• Lead the viewer of your trailer to want to read the book
• Audio - appropriate music
• Text - not too much - catchy short phrases
• Introduce: characters, plot, settting

Have a great weekend!!!

Tomorrow is day three - please dress prepared to learn outside!

Math
Today we talked about similar figures vs. congruent figures and enlargements and reductions in similar figures. Follow up - text pg 244.
For tomorrow remember:
-How to classify triangles,
-How to construct triangles,
-similar vs. congruent figures and scale factor


Mr. Terupt
Peter- the class clown
Jessica - the new girl
Luke - the brain
Alexia - the queen bee
Jeffrey - the slacker
Danielle - the pushover
Anna - the shy one
These were the descriptions we were given at the start of the book. We learned in the book "everyone has a story" so now that we know the stories behind these young people, how would you describe them? Write a new 3-5 word description for each of the above characters and follow up your new description with an explanation as to why you chose that description.