Creative Thinking:
1. Novelty and value
2. Generating ideas
3. Developing ideas

Personal Awareness & Responsibility:
1. Self-determination
2. Self-regulation
3. Well-being

French Language Arts

• French Community Circle oral discussions with a focus on Powerful Questions.
• We play the game ‘Verbathon’ to improve awareness of French verb conjugation in the present tense.
• For French reading this week, our focus continues to be on making deep connections to the texts we are reading, emphasizing understanding underlying themes and emotions.  We continue to use the book ‘The Breadwinner/Parvana” as the focus for these elements of fiction reading.
• Students will continue reading Literature Circle books in French.  Students have chosen a ‘just right’ book for their reading level in French, read with a partner or small group, and complete a book report to demonstrate their comprehension of the book they are reading.
• We continue to focus on the oral pronunciation of ‘liaisons’ in French with our book study of “The Breadwinner”.

English Language Arts

• For English reading, our focus will be on making deep connections to the texts we are reading, emphasizing understanding underlying themes and emotions.  We will use the book “The Breadwinner/Parvana” as the focus for these elements of fiction reading.
  
• We continue our work with the weekly Words Their Way words.  On the first day of each week, students receive their new words to practice for the week.  During the course of the following days, students practice sorting, writing, and quizzing themselves with their practice words.  Students write a weekly quiz on their words each Friday.  To view the words your child is practising each week, please visit the website www.spellingcity.com/gmellems.
• We will also focus on reading informational texts. We will work on reading for understanding and focus on how to synthesize the information.

Math

• We continue to review multiplication facts 2 – 12
• We continue understanding the language of problem solving – focusing on the key words that represent each math operation.
• We continue our study of decimal operations – addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.  This week, we will continue our study of decimal division.
• We will continue identifying and constructing angles developing a better understanding of spatial relationships and mathematical.

Science

• In Science, we will start a mini chemistry unit. This week we will learn about the basic structures of atoms and how elements are made up of one atom.

PE

• We continue our folk dance unit in gym class with Grant.

Young Entrepreneurs

• We will continue to work on the financial aspect of our portfolios and begin creating our business plans and marketing posters in the computer lab.

Drama Challenge

• We have already begun working on our skits and will have two more days of practice this week. On Wednesday, students will present in class and one group will be chosen to compete at our school championship on Thursday afternoon at 1:15 p.m.