Click here to find a weekly overview of activities for
Math, Reading, Writing, and some optional activities.
MAKE SURE TO SCROLL TO THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE.
Need help organizing?
Try using this checklist to help keep track of what you need to do.
INFERRING CONTINUED
Use what you know, use the clues that you read, and make an inference!
It's as easy as 1,2,3!
You do this naturally, it's explaining it that can be hard. Try to talk through the activities with someone in your house this week to try to see if they understand what you are inferencing and why!
If you do not have a book to read, or need to find one to fit an author's purpose, try reading a book on
LET'S WRITE
This is your time!
Let's work through the writing process.
Brainstorming and Drafting with the use of an organizer.
Rough Draft your beginning and your middle.
See where you get!
Can't wait to hear and see what you have been up to!
Keep at it ROCKSTARS!
MOTION GEOMETRY
(aka Transformational Geometry)
Gangnam Translation Style Song
Check out these helpful videos with the new transformational geometry this week.
Try cutting out a shape and taking pictures of its movements and explaining which transformation it has undergone.
CHECK OUT THIS GAME THAT HAS BEEN CREATED FOR YOU!
This week there are 2 documents for this game:
1) GAME PIECES
2) INSTRUCTIONS
Print, look on screen, and play! Have fun with your family, see if you can beat them! Do you know your rotates (turns), reflects (flips), and translates (slides)?
If not, you should! He is an incredible artist that has multiple famous paintings and believed that "Everything starts with a dot"!
Check out the slideshow to learn a few things about him, and then check out and try to create your own art by following the slide ideas.
Remember, if you try any of these out, email me at merrittjo@hdsb.ca.
Take it a step further by trying to incorporate your knowledge of warm and cool colours!
Do you work with Ms Petrie? Check out this tab to help you with your activities this week!
Try checking out our "Extra Work" folder for some more practice on different units.
There are even some fun games to be found!
Remember, practice helps us to learn, mistakes help us to learn, and we only get better if we put the work in! Click the image to open the folder.
We are going to try to streamline handing in work this week. Try following this video to create a Google Slideshow or a Google Doc to put in ALL of your week's work.
REMEMBER, once you have made the slide you have to SHARE it with me in order for me to see it! If you have any questions, please let me know and I can walk you through the process.