March Activities

Dear Parents and Students,

I hope you are doing well during these difficult and uncertain times. Usually staff and students would be excited to return to class after the March Break. Unfortunately, this is not the case. The most important thing for everyone is our health and well being during these trying times.

In order to give students the opportunity to continue with the curriculum in the upcoming weeks, you will have an opportunity to do so by accessing your Google Drive Folder for language and math activities. This work is not meant to create added stress on families during these difficult times. Each person's situation is different, so work at the pace that is best for you.

The Ministry of Education has also created a website to support students and parents. Please remember that this is an option for students to work on certain skills at their own pace.

The learning goals for the next few weeks are as follows:

• Reading Comprehension Skill - questioning - by asking questions before, during, and after reading, students will gain a stronger understanding of the text and identify key ideas. Students will use this skill when doing research for their explanatory writing topic of their choice.

• Writing Form- explanatory - the primary purpose of explanatory writing is to increase knowledge. When writing an explanatory text, the writer answers questions of why or how. This writing form provides information on a specific topic in a straightforward way. Students will write and explanatory writing piece on the topic they chose in class. If you did not choose a topic yet, you can do so now. You can see in Google Drive the explanatory topics that most students have already chosen. This will give you an idea of the variety of topics you can choose.

• Measurement - students have worked on various tasks related to measurement before the break:
• Perimeter - distance around an object by adding up the side lengths (s+s+s+s)
• Area - the space an object occupies. Formulas for certain shapes are: 
• (Area = length x width for square and rectangle, Area = b x h for a parallelogram, Area = b x h / 2 for a triangle)
• Surface area - the total area of the faces, on the outside of an object, such as a cube, find the area of the 6 faces and add those areas to find the surface area).

Please see students Google Drive to access math work for measurement. An activity involving measuring length and converting units of measurement has been shared.

Please email me if you have any questions. 

Thanks,

Mr. MacGillivary