WWII Lit Circles:The Stickies

WWII Literature Circle

As you are reading, you will be using your sticky notes to track your thinking.

The thinking on these sticky notes are what you will be bringing to your book club discussions. You must bring a MINIMUM of 3 new sticky notes to discuss from each chunk of the book on the reading schedule.

Make sure that you aren't just using your sticky notes to mark pages. They need to include YOUR THINKING too.

 

When it's nice outside, you take gym outdoors for a community walk...and then take a silly pic:)

 

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We wrote a thing!

 As many of you saw during our student-led conferences, we've been hard at work at writing poems inspired by George Ella Lyon's, I am from poem.

We started by immersing ourselves in the genre by analyzing mentor texts. Once we had a good idea of what a quality poem looked like, we started the journey of writing one together. We call this a shared-write.

Step one was to brainstorm all of our ideas using a graphic organizer.

Next, we drafted a poem as a class.

Next, we used immersive reader to help us revise our text.  This feature in Word allows us to isolate adjectives, nouns, verbs and adverbs. By doing this, we could easily strengthen our word choice and see where we needed to more descriptive and precise language.

Finally, we made our changes in Word and edited our text for errors by using spell check and re-reading our writing aloud. Below is the published copy of our shared write.

Students were then ready to begin writing their own poems independently. If you have a moment, check out your kiddos poem in Teams. Their poems are AMAZING and I shed more than a few tears reading them.

Celebration of Learning Assembly and Pink Shirt Day

We are so excited to share our learning at the celebration of learning assembly tomorrow! We practiced our parts today and plan to practice them again tonight so that we are ready for our big day.

Tomorrow is also Pink Shirt Day. We invite and encourage all staff and students to wear a pink shirt (or anything pink!) on Wednesday, February 22nd. Ecole Ness recognizes this an an anti-bullying day and an opportunity to stand together as a school community against all acts of bullying. This day, and every day, we can work to demonstrate and inspire kindness and empathy towards others.

Pink Shirt Day and Celebration of Learning Assembly

 Next week, on Wednesday February 22nd, it's Pink Shirt Day and 6-5's celebration of learning assembly. Today, we were hard at work on our shared Powerpoint presentation that we will be showing at the assembly!

 Parents are welcome to come and watch us celebrate some of our learning and our three of our chevaliers par excellence. 

An email with specific details will be coming home soon!

Google Doodle Presentations and Where I'm From Poems

 In sciences humaines, we started our Google Doodle presentations. Today we learned about Saskatchewan and Nova Scotia. The presentations were so informative and the art work was stellar!

In ELA, we are learning about list poems by studying, I am From poems inspired by George Ella Lyon. 

Les sciences de la nature

 In M Hussey's class, we are starting a new group research project about different space missions. We are thrilled about this new adventure.

This morning we had the pleasure of attending our second celebration of learning assembly. Next month, our class will be one of the classes featured. We are very excited to start thinking about what we will share.