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Students did a great job on the mid topic! We are now exploring a four quadrant plane and plotting positive and negative integers that make coordinates. We will learn ways to find distances between plotted coordinates and how to construct polygons on a four quadrant plane.
Our math classroom is a flipped classroom for math. This means that the students read, practice and learn the lessons at home. We still review the lessons and check the practice for understanding the next day, but this allows us more time to address the questions and confusion more intentionally before the students practice at home the next night and take the quick check at the end of the lesson. Students have their workbooks with the lessons in them as well as interactive videos of the lesson in Savvas, which they can access through clever.
This week students have been focusing on argumentative writing pieces. We have also completed a spiral review and we will finish our Unit 1 assessment. Moving forward to Unit 2 we will be diving into Expository (information text), Historical Fiction and Poetry.
We have been discussing goal setting in Second Step. This week we revisited our long term goal and discussed 'markers' that would tell us if we were moving towards finding success with our goals. We are also learning about the geography of Canada and the challenges faced by the newcomers to Canada. We are studying timelines and the development of different societies/cultures. We are using textbooks, short videos and articles as resources to gather information.
We have concluded our study of adaptations and students built wonderfully creative creatures who are adapted to all different types of habitats this week! Next week we will learn about cells and compare prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells.
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