A Foggy Monday

A great start to the week!

Things are going well with our 5 au quotidien and individual reading with me. I'm asking students to bring in their own headphones (if possible) if their group is going to be listening to the French tv show in class.

We then talked about the 4 main parts of writing a story. Authors need to figure out plot, characters, setting, and point of view. We focused on setting today, looking at different movies and books we know of that occur in one main setting (e.g., Full House, Titanic) vs ones that occur in multiple settings (e.g., Madeleine, The Hunger Games). Students then chose one book or movie and began to fill in a chart of the 5 senses (e.g., what they could smell if they were a character in the book - Titanic - you could smell the salt of the ocean).

In math, we explored the Fibonacci sequence! Ask your child how to continue this pattern: 3, 3, 6, 9, 15, 24... We also looked at a multiplication table and a 4x4 table, trying to find as many patterns as possible. It was great to hear excited voices as I circulated the room; "if you go diagonally, it's +3 each time!"

After Reading Buddies with our grade 8 friends in Mlle Rubletz's class, we continued with our math, but this time there was a problem to tackle. If there is a 8x8 pool that needs a border of tiles around it, how can you calculate the border without counting each individual tile? Students had many great solutions - although it took a few tries! Great collaboration.