Happy Friday Parents and Students!

Hello Div 02 Parents and Students,

Thank you for taking the time to read our weekly blog post.  I appreciate those parents who continue to support their child by ask them questions about what they are doing in class.  I would also like to thank those students who continue to use the blog games to practice the skills we are learning in class.

Important Note: parents I would like you to read with your child for at least 20 minutes a day.

This week in room 231:

Math- we finished our number sense unit by comparing fractions, decimals and percents.  We brought our basketball unit into the classroom by having the students evaluate shooting percentages.  Our focus this week was converting fractions and decimals into percents.

LA- we continued to read our novel "My Name Is Seepeetza."  The students wrote a letter to Seepeetza's teachers about their discipline policies and we continued to practice our fluency.  The students used the I-Pads to record their reading and evaluate their fluency.  We also had our spelling test today.

Art- the students painted their topographic maps.  They look wonderful.  Parents please stop in and take a look!

Gym- we learned a new fit camp routine, did some layup data collection and went outside for some play time.

HCE- we talked about understanding the importance of  how much sodium we need,  the good and bad types of sugars, and the importance of fiber intake.  We also evaluated our snacks for how much sodium, sugar and fiber they contain.

Science- the 6's continued to work on their electricity web quests and the 7's looked at the difference between food chains and food webs.

Science Tech- the students continued to design a blog and we spent the week programming robots.



Thank you for an awesome week.  I look forward to seeing you all on Monday!

Mr. Tobacca

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FRIDAY:)

Hello parents and division 2 students,

We had another super busy week at Queneesh.  Congrats to the boys and girls basketball teams that played against Huband on Wednesday!  This week in room 230 we explored the following topics.

Social Studies- we build topographic maps and discussed land forms, contour lines and topography.  We also had a guest speaker, "Ken Lees" talked to us about Residential Schools.  If you don't know about this topic please ask your child because our goal in our class is to educate others.

Math- we continued to work on decimals.  This week we focused on multiplying and dividing decimals.  Next week we will link our understanding of fractions, decimals and percents to our Basketball unit.  We have also started looking at linking our LA reading strategies to word problems in Math (questioning, making connections, visualizing, making inferences and transforming)

Science- the grade 7's learned about food webs and how they are an important part of an ecosystem and we finished our bean sprout experiment looking at Abotic/Biotic factors.  The 6's continued to work on their electricity web quest and we learned about circuits with Mr. Savard. Next week we will be programming the robots we built.

Art- we integrated our Social Studies 2D map making into Art by constructing 3D topographic maps.  We also made a class mosaic, which we hung up on the wall.

Gym- we did some 3 on 3 basketball and fit camp.

HCE- we talked about carbohydrates- good (complex)vs bad (simple).  And the grade 7's spent some time talking with Dr. Claire.

Computers- we started designing out own blogs using weebly.

Thanks for an awesome week and don't forget to check out the decimal games on the blog!

Mr. Tobacca

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Friday :)

Hello parents and Div 02 students,

Wow this week was super busy.  There were all kinds of things happening and we made it through all of them.

This week in room 231 we explored the following:

Math- we looked at ordering decimals, adding and subtracting decimals and multiplying decimals.

Science- the grade 6's started their electricity web quest and the 7's discussed how ecosystems are organized.  We also did played with Lego and snap circuits and linked that to how electricity works (simple circuits, switches, current etc)

LA- we are learning how to write a paragraph (topic sentence, supporting details and concluding sentence).  We also continued to read our class novel "My Name is Seepteeza" and worked on our fluency project with Lynn Swift, Carol Walters and Kara Dawson.

Gym- we focused on some basketball skills and fit camp started up again.

Social Studies- we looked at different types of maps, important elements on a map and the difference between relative and absolute location.

Science Tech- the student continued to explore blogging and we connected it to our paragraph writing.

Thanks for a great week.  See you all on Monday.

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Happy New Year

Hello everyone and welcome back.  It was so nice to see everyone's smiling face on Monday morning.  I truly missed each and everyone of you and I look forward to some doing some fun learning activities this in 2015.

Parents here are some new things that your child will be learning about in our classroom: Robotics, Reading Fluency Project, Class Novel Study, First Nations Studies, Reading Power Strategies, Ecosystems, Blogging and Electricity!

This week in Div 02 we explored the following topics:

Math- decimal place value (tenths, hundredths, thousandths), converting fractions (divide the denominator by the numerator)into decimals and percents.  Check out the decimal links on the left side of the blog under Math!

LA- we started reading "My Name is Seepeetza," we were introduced to 5 new reading power strategies 1. Questioning 2.Connecting 3.Visualizing 4. Inferring 5. Transforming, we also started our reading fluency project with Lynn Swift and Carol Walters.

Science- the grade 7's started an Ecosystems units and we looked at the difference between a Biome and an Ecosystem.  The grade 6's started their Electricity unit.

PE- we played a few cooperative games and worked on some more basketball skills (speed dribble, chest pass and layups).

Science Tech- we discussed what a blog is and we started blogging.

Social Studies- we started a geography unit and looked at the 5 themes of geography and the different types of maps.

Art- we discussed the Art element "line" and constructed a tinfoil impression using line.

Thanks for an awesome week.  Enjoy your weekend and I will see you all on Monday!

Mr. Tobacca


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