Literacy

The focus for the first half of the term, is non-fiction. These are some features of informational texts:

Not all non-fiction texts are informational texts. We will be writing a news article and you wrote a short biography. Those are also non-fiction texts with different features. The question on the reading test was to identify the feature, describe its purpose and give an example from the text. For example: Caption: A short sentence near a picture that gives the reader important information about the picture. e.g. caption on page 5 tells the reader that the picture is a map showing the location of the Ancient Greece 

Olympics

Your Olympic scrapbook is due on Friday. Make sure you have the following sections somewhere in your scrapbook:

• Title page including Olympic games,  mascot and Olympic symbols
• Meaning of rings, mascot and symbols
• Athlete information page(s)
• Tables of medals won by Canada and chosen country
• At least one page on country
• At least one page on chosen sport(s)/event including short description of one sport / event
• At least one page on Canada

Make sure photos / pictures have captions

Pages have titles 

Be creative

Arrange clippings neatly

You are welcome to include maps, other photos or pictures from the Internet

Mind Map

Your last Canada assignment is your mind map. It is also due on Friday. Choose one of the following regions:

• Appalachians
• Canadian Shield
• Hudson Bay Lowlands
• Great Lakes St. Lawrence Lowlands
• Appalachians

Your mind map will start with the following words (you may arrange them any way you like, they don't have to be inside of an oval or shape).

Then write the specific natural resources, people etc in your region. Then you may branch off from those words. Small illustrations are added to show the ideas in your mind map. Here are some examples of mind maps. Remember, don't make your map too busy that people have difficulty reading or understanding the information. You may outline using a thin Sharpie, but colour only with pencil crayons.

I like this one because they have connected ideas between topics. For example there are many connections your can make between natural resources and physical regions or natural resources and industries.

Math

Make sure you complete your MathUP action task and practice questions. We will be applying our addition and subtraction skills to problem solving. It is assumed that you know how to add and subtract using a pencil and paper strategy. Remember, that's not the only strategy. Sometimes adding up is easier than subtracting across zeros. 

Review of addition

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAvuom42NyY&t=297s

Review of subtraction:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6M89-6106I&t=88s

Reminders:

• Time test signed, corrected and next steps recorded.
• Keep old tests at home.
• Complete your pop art colouring, they look very cool!
• Three groups still need to present their "The One and Only Ivan" role plays on Monday.
• Share a book people..... BRING YOUR BOOK!