Books We are Reading in the Classroom

Monday 30 April 2012

Homework: April 30

1. RAZ Kids
2. Vocabulary Words
3. Think of a topic for procedural writing
4. Think of words that end in the suffix -ence.

Making Inferences

By looking at these pictures, what can you infer?

Tiling

The grade 8's made tiling patterns. Take a look!

Procedural Writing

Today we brainstormed a list of potential topics they could write about. I also gave them an organizer along with a rubric for the assignment.

Vocabulary Words - April 30

Wednesday 25 April 2012

Homework for Wednesday, April 25

RAZ kids
Vocabulary work due Friday. Words are: knight, peasant, castle, moat, custom
Inferencing - What do you infer is happening in each photo? Why?
Math - Please complete question 3.

Patterning - Growing Patterns

Please do this question for homework.

Inferencing

In literacy, we will be discussing inferences and how we can make inferences while reading or looking at pictures.
What do you infer is happening in these photos? Why do you infer that?

Morning Message -April 25

Vocabulary - April 27

Procedural Writing

The students are working on how to write procedural text. They worked in groups to come up with similar criteria they saw in the procedural books they saw.

Mrs. Dawson - Grade 7/8 Teacher

Mr. Wideen's time at Dougall has come to an end. We are VERY sad to see him go. I have taken over teaching the Intermediate ELL students. I'm excited to work with them for the next few months.

Wednesday 4 April 2012

Procedural Writing - Making Ice Cream

We have been studying procedural writing in our language classes and we read about how to make ice cream. We followed the steps and tried it out. Boy, was it yummy!!