Health forms due Monday

Today we started to use a story planner to build our own creative stories. The planner looks like a dresser. We talked about how at home when you put clothes into your dresser, you use drawers to keep things organized and to find things easily. We talked about how our story plan dresser is similar in the sense that we want our ideas to be organized, linked and follow in a logical order. In the top drawer is the introduction. Here we introduce the setting, characters and beginning of the plot. Once we have done that we close the drawer and move on. The next drawer is the beginning. Here we talk about some events in the story and introduce the problem the characters will face. When we are done we close the drawer. The next is the middle of the story. Here we talk about the attempts to solve the problem. We decided there should be at least 3 attempts and lots of supporting details for each attempt. The attempts should be logically linked to the problem. We can't just add something random into the story otherwise it won't make sense. The last drawer is the ending. Here we solve the problem and wrap up the story with a strong conclusion. Ms. Binks is hoping that by having a structured plan, our stories start to sequence properly and become more interesting for the reader and writer.

In math today we learned about comparing fractions. We learned that when the numerators are the same but the denominator is different the smaller denominator is actually the larger fraction. We tested this out by drawing pictures and seeing which was shaded in more. Ask me to show you for 1/4 and 1/9
We learned that when the numerators and denominators are both different we can cross multiply to see which fraction is bigger. Here is a link to a video we watched to explain this:
Math Antics

We started to work on taking our research information and putting into a poster or book that we can present to the rest of the class. Some students still require research time to find out information about their animal's:
- habitat
- appearance
- diet
- adaptations
- life cycle
- family life
- communication
- conservation status
- interesting facts
Students who require more research time need to do this at home. Ms. Binks would ideally like our presentations ready by next Friday.

Reminders:
- Please return green Humane Society forms
- Yellow health forms are due back on Monday
- Please return My CBE forms