Weekly Update: April 21st - 25th

Happy Friday!

Here is one of the activities we have been working on this week: Completing Story Maps for Short Stories!

 Learning Intentions:

• Examine the structure of a variety of narrative texts.
• Examine elements within a variety of fictional texts.
• Examine major characters in fictional texts.
• Use and develop organizational processes, methods, or tools to support the creation of written texts.
• Persevere through challenges that may arise in the creative expression of ideas.

This week we read three different short stories and completed story maps for each.  We reviewed the terms setting, characters, problem/conflict, solution and main events. Students listened to the stories and worked on identifying each of these story elements. Next week, students will be asked to start planning and drafting their own version of one of these stories, changing only one or two elements from the original. We will work on the writing process and slowly move from pre-writing/planning to drafting to editing and revising and eventually publishing their story in a small book.

Check out the stories we listened to this week below, and ask your child which story they would like to make their own version of!

Reminders:

• We will begin our Yellow Steps residency next week, which will have students outside walking throughout our community. We are currently scheduled to walk to the Shouldice Accessible Park on Monday, April 28th from 10:00 - 11:45am and to Hextall Park on Thursday, May 1st from 10:30 - 12:00pm. Please make sure that students come to school on time in appropriate outdoor walking shoes and dressed for the weather. You may also want to pack additional snacks for your child.
• We will have our Algebra Test on Tuesday next week. Students will be asked to determine if each side of an equation is balanced, create equations that have a value of specific target numbers, solve for unknown variables, solve equations according to the order of operations and solve word problems. You may want to take some time to practice these skills over the weekend. On Monday we will post new Pixel Art Mysteries and students will bring home a Math Mystery that they can review before the test.

Have a wonderful weekend!
-Ms. Mostaghel 😁