Reminders
Friday April 27th: Professional Development Day- no school for students
Wednesday April 25th: Field trip to Magee Mainstage Theatre Production of Cinderella. Students in divisions 2, 3, 6, and 7 will travel by chartered bus to Magee at 11:30am to arrive by 12:00 for the 12:30pm show. Students will arrive back at Tyee for 3:00pm.
Project Chef: Thank you for a fabulous week Division 3! A big thank you to all the parent volunteers who came out to cook with us.
WEEKLY WORK
Math
Math Notebooks will be due for all three grades on Thursday this week.
PS: Grade 4 and 6 will be starting geometry this week. Grade 5 will be learning one-step equations with variables.
Language
4/5s: Grade 4 and 5 students will use grammar booklet as a resource while we study verbs this week.
6s: Grade 6 students will continue their sentence analysis work. Grade 6 students will also continue to study etymology. Etymology work and quiz will be due on Thursday.
Students will continue our class-wide novel study on the true story “fatty legs” written by Christy Jordan-Fenton and Margaret Pokiak-Fenton. The reading strategies we are going to be using in this novel study include: connecting, visualizing, questioning, inferring, and transforming. This week we will read chapters 6 and 7. Students are responsible for chapter 6 and 7 questions and work.
Culture
This week we will begin discussing the Learning Fair and possible topics around the theme of food. Students will be reviewing reliable sources for information and note taking strategies.
Due to the size and composition of Division 3, we will be receiving remedy time from Ms. Joellen Housego on Monday afternoons. She will be teaching French on Monday afternoons.
Students have a few ongoing coding projects that they are working on through Hour of Code (https://code.org/learn). So far, students have shown a tremendous ability to persevere and problem solve when confronted with challenging aspects of the code.