I hope that you had an amazing week! It was April Fools Day on the weekend. I am looking forward to hearing about some of the tricks the students participated in or fell victim to.
This past week we had our spelling quiz of words ending in "ness". This week's words all have "auto" as the prefix. I hope everyone has been studying for tomorrow's quiz. The new words for this week will also have a prefix, though I won't give away which one just yet.
We also started our book reviews this week. J.T. bravely went first sharing her review of the novel,"Beauty and the Beast". D.V. attempted to persuade all of us to read "The giving Tree". R.S. introduced us to an interesting text and listed some of the other titles by the same author for us to explore. S.C. shared "The Pyramid Hunter", the first book in a new series that she highly recommends. A.A. presented one the amazing books form "The Magic Treehouse" series and inspired us to check which titles we have in the classroom library. We are looking forward to this week's reviews and learning about some more amazing titles.
In Social Studies, we worked on finishing off our tri-aramas. There will not be any more class time provided to complete the art work aspect of this task so you may see some pieces of this coming home to be worked on. While we were using pastels and plasticine in class the remaining pieces can be completed solely through drawing with pencils, crayons or markers. Time will be provided at school to complete any remaining videos. With wrapping up our tri-aramas we switched our focus back to the First Nations. We examined recent artifacts created by a current Indigenous artist. We read, discussed and wrote about how the First Nations helped and taught the Early Settlers and we read poetry written by a Metis poet about bridging two cultures.
In Math, we worked with perimeter, area and multiplication. We will continue our studies of area and multiplication this week. As well as introducing the use of fractions.
In Language, we have already begun our study of the persuasive text form and will be further deconstructing this form and using it in our writing and presentations.
On Friday, we had our Eldorado Excellence award. The focus was on co-operation and the completion of our waste audit collaboration with the Region of Peel. We are so proud of all of our students! The school met its goal and committed to continuing to work on diverting waste from landfills through the use of effective recycling and composting.
Today is World Autism Awareness Day. Eldorado staff and students will be demonstrating our awareness tomorrow as we wear the puzzle piece pins the students in the R.I.S.E. created for every member of the school.
We are looking forward to Officer Mackin's anti-bullying presentation on Thursday.
I hope you have all been accessing our Seesaw classroom. We are trying to post more of our work there for you to see.
Have a great week!
Ms. Sparling
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