Wednesday, October 19th

General:

1. Early Dismissal on Friday @ 11:00am
2. Pillars of Care Assembly at 8:15am
3. Book orders due October 27th (Mr. Shackelton's class)
4. A notice went home about the Halloween dance that will take place next week.

Science:

• PLEASE BRING ALL LEAVES AND MATERIALS NECESSARY FOR YOUR PROJECT TOMORROW!!!!!
• Mrs. Tam will help press some leaves with wax paper and an iron.

Math:

• We continued practicing input and output numbers.  Students are also learning to write pattern rules to go with their patterns (e.g. Start with 3, multiple 4 each time).

Social:

• Today was a work period for the Regions of Canada.  Many students used their time wisely and now have a great start to their research.  As a class we discussed how important it was not to copy information from the internet word for word.  That is called plagiarism. 

Language Arts:

• We continued to look at how to write better main events (rising actions, climax) in stories.  Two common mistakes students tend to make include:
• summarize the event rather than STRETCHING IT OUT
• list action after action and linking it with "and then"
• Our main events should have a good balance between:
• description
• action
• dialogue
• thoughts/feelings
• sound effects