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We are finishing up topic 2 and will be taking the end topic next Tuesday. Students are learning about coordinate pairs and how to create polygons and other shapes, as well as finding the distance between two points, finding the perimeter and area. They can do this with just the coordinates!! We are working on dot to dot puzzles to show our understanding of plotting on a quadrant plane using positive and negative integers.
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.
In Unit 2 we are learning about expository text and our reading texts are about government and how democracy came about. I appears the students are really enjoying this topic and we will be writing an expository piece starting next week.
We have completed Unit 1 in Second Step about setting smart goals and how to measure our success at accomplishing our goals. Our next unit will discuss bullying. We only have a few weeks of social studies left, so we will wrap it up with a project on the 4 commonly known groups that first settled in Canada and get a sneak peek into what will come up next when we meet again for social studies next January.
We have completed our life science unit! Over the next two weeks we will learn about matter, states of matter, and atoms - the building blocks of life. This will be our introduction to the next unit.
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