Curriculum Night is this Thursday, September 22, 2011. It starts at 6:30 in the Gym. Parents are welcome to come up to the classrooms for a short visit and overview of the program.
I did not mention that in yesterday's class, I posed a journal response that was aimed at getting the students aware of some of the negative voices they may have in their heads about how they learn. I took a photo of the two questions.
We returned to the our fractions unit today and mastered, I would like to believe, the ability of adding fractions with the same denominator. For example: 3/2 + 5/2. A number of students were away today, but I will review this concept with them tomorrow, assuming they are here.
The class is in the process of preparing how to add fractions with unlike denominators. We will only be doing this for a particular set of numbers -- the numbers 2, 3, and 5 -- which we reviewed during our multiplication quizzes.
We followed up on a short reading response we did last week to an article on the tragedies of September 11, 2001. Different members of the class read and asked further questions about the event. We watched a short portion of a documentary on 911 that was on CBC Newsworld back in 2002 and began to record some observations on the characteristics of a documentary film. We will do this with another type of film on 911 in order to compare the styles and approaches to film making. I plan on integrating this into the Media Studies strand of the Language curriculum.
Homework: Complete JUMP Math fractions worksheet (if not completed in class); review for a final quiz on the 2, 3, and 5 multiplication table; some outstanding office verification forms need to be returned + some IEP Parent/Guardian input forms
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