Mrs. Murphy Notes

Grade 6/7M, 6H & 5/6 English Language Arts

Notes

Posted: November 6, 2020

  • Read & Record - In agenda again this evening. 

  • sign spelling test  

  • cursive writing practice – Grayson plus any individual words I have written in the back of their spelling test tablets. 

  • Phys Ed 

  • October story – Read to someone - Often times we will hear when something doesn’t sound right so this is a good practice when revising and/or editing our writing. I will be marking this piece of writing for sentence fluency, so it is extra important that students use punctuation and capitals correctly. I will be adding a PowerPoint on the teacher's page with the activities we have done with this piece to help revise their piece. 

 

Posted: November 5, 2020

November 5 

Read & Record - In agenda again this evening. 

Spelling test - I will be calling sentences again and students are expected to use capitals and punctuation where it goes. 

SS – What’s the Gist? X2 - Students were assigned stories from the Tales of War papers to write short summaries for. 

Phys Ed  

Posted: November 4, 2020

Homework 

Read and Record - Record in agenda for this evening as I am marking the yellow duo-tangs. 

Study spelling words - We start with a base of words on Monday that students record into their agendas. We then add words up until Wednesday. On Wednesday I add the list of words to the teacher's page. If you are having trouble finding them your child should be able to show you as I have showed them several times and they have navigated to them on their own when they completed the “Teacher Page Search & Find”. 

Sign red duo-tang - You can sign and date the first page. The number of pages they had completed satisfactorily is marked out of 16 on the inside cover of the duo-tang. 

Prepare binder to pass in. - Students have been given class time to complete all the activities in this binder. Cover pages for Social Studies, Science, Computer and Wellness should be started~ they should at least have the titles on them. I have both the September and October writing activities posted as PowerPoints in the document section. This should be at the front of their binder and make up the bulk of it with a dark green piece of paper separating the September & October activities.   

Math Test

Posted: October 27, 2020

Read and Record 

Study spelling words 

Writing – work on stor - The draft of their story should have a beginning, middle and an end, if not they should complete this for homework today. This is the fifth day it has been assigned as homework and they have had class time to work on it.

               - sentence structure / beginnings  - All sentences should be circled so students can have a quick visual of how long or short their sentences are. We are looking for variety. All sentences should start with a capital and end with proper puctuation. The first word of every sentence should be highlighted and sentences should have a vaiety of beginings. 

Yellow duo-tangs – Halloween packet # 2 - We had time to work on this and research anything they didn't know during computer lab time today.

 

Posted: October 19, 2020

Read & Record – Students should be reading and recording 6 nights per week. 

Study Spelling Words - It is important to practice sentences using proper capitalization and punctuation.  

Cursive writing 

Work on story – binder - This is the 3rd Halloween themed story starter the students have started. We will start 4 and the students will pick the one they want to bring to completion. 

Math pgs. 58-59, 1(a-c), 2(a-c), 3 & 4 

Posted: October 8, 2020

Read 

Spelling test 

A/an/the worksheet 

Butterfly description - We discussed that paragraphs have an  introduction and a concluding sentence so these paragraphs should have them as well. Students should be implementing all the skills we have been working on.

Phys. Ed

Posted: October 7, 2020

Read  - Students should be continuing to read and record 6 days a week. Reading should be anywhere from 15 - 45 min. depending on how much other work they have.

Study spelling words see words of the week in the pages section. We have review words each week so if your child had trouble with a word on any previous week they should continue to study these. 

Yellow Duo-Tang - We discussed that it is important to read in all subjects and that reading helps us to learn in all subject areas. This reading comprehension activity is math based and it is important that students read the instructions.

Turkey Dinner - this will be the only meal served.

Headphones  - Math in the computer lab tomorrow.

Posted: October 1, 2020

Read 

Phys Ed 

Picture Day 

Spelling Test 

Butterfly - finish colouring if you didn't complete it in class

Posted: September 30, 2020

Read

Finish "Orange T-Shirt Story" questions. These questions should be answered in full sentences.

Study Spelling Words  - This list can noe be found in the "Pages" section in the words of the week document.

Word work practice sheet   This worksheet explains the rule for adding "s" to words that end in "y". 

 

 

Posted: September 28, 2020

 Read  

Terry Fox Donation $40 = 40 min of outdoor freetime

Study Spelling Words - I did not get a chance to check each students entries so if someone at home could check before they start studying that would be great.  

Memo - photo day

Watch & Practice “Honour Song” - see web links

Math pg. 51-52 ques. 8B & 11 

Posted: September 25, 2020

If we should find ourselves quarantined at home again I have sent home a packet as part of the schools “Outbreak Management Plan” that we will be using as part of our at home learning materials.  

If students are home sick and still feeling up to doing some work they should check the teachers page first. There they will find weekly spelling words and daily writing activities. If they are finished with those they should try to read and then they may work from either of the books in their bag. The Heartsmart is a workbook that they can write and colour in. If they choose to do activities in the spelling book those should be done on loose-leaf or in a scribbler. 

 

Posted: September 25, 2020

 Phys Ed 

Read 

Do Teacher Page Search and Find with someone at home. We did this in class today but I would like the students to show someone else this page and practice using it.

Spelling Test – sign 

Cursive Writing Practice - This is at the back of their spelling test notebooks. Today I demonstarted how to write Riley and we practiced it in class. 

 

Posted: September 23, 2020

Sept 23 

Read 

Math  

  • pg 51 ques. 1-6 

  • headphones - or $5 to purchase one - a memo was sent home about this last week.

Spelling - The weeks spelling list will be added in the pages bar by Wednesday of each week. 

Small bag - To carry their French and Math materials, that do not fit in their binder, to and from class. 

Memo's - Consent form & Thanksgiving Dinner Pre-order.

Posted: September 22, 2020

 

Read 

Share Why Write List 

Spelling 

Math pg. 51, 2 questions 

 

Posted: September 21, 2020

Read - I have started reading individually with children and will be sending reading activities home based on my observations. Students will usually have opportunity to do or start this reading at school but it is meant to be a part of their daily reading time not in addition to. Of course, students are always encouraged to read from material of their choice and to continue recording it in their reading logs. 

Sign Spelling Test - Students wrote this in Campfire notebooks on Friday. 

Study new words - These are words that are in the student's passwords so it is important that they can spell them especially the ones from their password. 

Cursive Writing - I gave instruction on Friday showing students how to form the letters for Anneliese’s name and expect that they do this double spaced and to the best of their ability. The rest of the words in the back of their campfire notebook should be practices 5X each. 

Science – share – We worked in groups today and students put their activities in their blue duo-tangs. I would like them to share them with someone and explain what their reading activity was about. 

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