Important notes are on the top today, because they're just so important!
1. Our performance will be on Thursday at 2 for the dress rehearsal, and at 6:30 in the evening for the final production. The students are working hard, and would love to see all parents there, cheering them on!
2. We have an artist in residence coming in next week to work with our students for our legacy art project in Fish Creek. We're looking for volunteers to help out with some manual labour and working with students. If you are available any day next week from 10-10:45 and are able to come in, please let me know! ([email protected]).
3. If you have technology (iPad/computer) for your child to use, can you please send it to school with them tomorrow, see below.
4. We need the looms back, tomorrow, too! Thanks!
And for the day...
We've crafted a rubric for our magazine project (below). The students examined a number of National Geographic Magazines to build criteria around Layout, Writing, Text Features, and Interactives. If this sounds familiar, it's because we've already done something similar! This time, though, you can see the students' learning reflected in the criteria they have chosen, and the expectations have obviously increased. I informed the students today that we'd be publishing a magazine (through iPhoto) that will be available for purchase in about a month. I'll let you know, more details to come.
In math, the students continued extracting information from pictures to show their understanding of fractions. For the most part, students are able to compare fractions with the same denominator, and are learning to make educated guesses when the denominators are different. Tomorrow we're going to take them outside to play a classic camp game that we have cleverly infused with fractions.
Tomorrow, too, we will be working on google docs for our paragraphs. We're short on technology as all classes have been using technology in similar ways...
Have a great night!
Mr. MacKenzie
1. Our performance will be on Thursday at 2 for the dress rehearsal, and at 6:30 in the evening for the final production. The students are working hard, and would love to see all parents there, cheering them on!
2. We have an artist in residence coming in next week to work with our students for our legacy art project in Fish Creek. We're looking for volunteers to help out with some manual labour and working with students. If you are available any day next week from 10-10:45 and are able to come in, please let me know! ([email protected]).
3. If you have technology (iPad/computer) for your child to use, can you please send it to school with them tomorrow, see below.
4. We need the looms back, tomorrow, too! Thanks!
And for the day...
We've crafted a rubric for our magazine project (below). The students examined a number of National Geographic Magazines to build criteria around Layout, Writing, Text Features, and Interactives. If this sounds familiar, it's because we've already done something similar! This time, though, you can see the students' learning reflected in the criteria they have chosen, and the expectations have obviously increased. I informed the students today that we'd be publishing a magazine (through iPhoto) that will be available for purchase in about a month. I'll let you know, more details to come.
In math, the students continued extracting information from pictures to show their understanding of fractions. For the most part, students are able to compare fractions with the same denominator, and are learning to make educated guesses when the denominators are different. Tomorrow we're going to take them outside to play a classic camp game that we have cleverly infused with fractions.
Tomorrow, too, we will be working on google docs for our paragraphs. We're short on technology as all classes have been using technology in similar ways...
Have a great night!
Mr. MacKenzie