I've just uploaded our animations -- the result of several weeks hard work with Mr. Jenkins. Though all the animations are together in the one video, I've marked the times for individual shorts in the notes so you can find your favourites more easily and watch them over, and over, and over again.
This week, we welcomed a new artist and a new student teacher:
Andrew Suri will be teaching us Banethi, a dance form based on Martial Arts from Northern India. We hope to put together a concert preformance from the moves he teaches us for the Winter Concert in January.
Ms. Benakis comes to us from Nipissing University. She will be with us for the next two weeks, spearheading a new math unit on Patterning and the Government unit for Grade 5 Social Studies as well. After Halloween, she'll return to North Bay and then return to us again in December for another 3 weeks.
In the next while, we have two trips and another visitor planned. On Tuesday, we'll be visiting Central Commerce to watch a free performance of Romeo and Juliet. On October 21, we have an afternoon with the folks from Sci High and, on November 4th, we have a trip to listen to a holocaust survivor speak. Forms have gone home for both trips. Though the play and SciHigh's visit are totally free, we have to pay for TTC on November 4th.
In class this week, we'll finish up presentations from the biography project, begin lit circles and also begin to get into the meat of science and social studies as well. As always, if you have any questions, please email me (lisagoegan at hotmail.com) and remember to keep checking the agenda daily to keep up to date with daily work and assignments.
