Thursday January 23rd

 Here is the plan for today:

Period 1: Red light, read aloud and mini lesson on some of Lemony Snicket's 'literary devices'...eg., dramatic irony and the red herring.

Period 2: Writer's workshop: we'll continue to work on our awesomely persuasive paragraphs...they're already better than our last ones.

Period 3: weather permitting, we'll head outside.  When we come back in, we'll continue to develop proficiency in our times tables.  

Period 4: is music with Mrs. Haynes.

Period 5: is our first 'Computer Buddies' session with Mrs. Ever's class...very exciting.

Period 6:  I have STEM, magnetic Pac-Man games....but depending on how we're doing, we might play some 'force' games on Google Classroom.  

Wednesday January 22nd

Wow...I can't believe I forgot to post on Monday (and I was away yesterday)!  My apologies.

Here is the plan for today:

Period 1: Red light, read aloud (chapter 6 Bad Beginnings). Mini workshop on 'Snicket Definiitions'....we'll look at Lemony Snicket's cool writing style.

Period 2: Now that we're done our first Persuasive paragraphs, we'll write another, on our own!  Implementing everything we've learned so far.

Period 3: weather permitting, we'll stay outside for a bit.  Come back in for some Math - Review all the times tables we've covered so far.

Period 4: Music with Mrs. Haynes.

Period 5: We'll do a bit more math.  

Period 6: We'll continue to work on our magnetic 'Pac Man' Mazes.  

Friday January 16th

 Happy Friday..and the day after the snow day!

Here is the plan for today:

Period 1 - Red light, read aloud, we'll talk about 'defining objects', a tool Lemony Snickett uses well.  We'll also talk about Martin Luther King, and the Holiday happening in the States this weekend.

Period 2 is Writer's workshop.  We'll look at adding transition words to our persuasive paragraphs, and hopefully finish writing them in good copy.

Period 3 we'll stay outside for a bit...unless it's really cold.  When we come in it's math...today's an easy one...5 times tables!  I've got some work for them.

Period 4 -I've got a 'Mod Challenge' for them to tweak their 'chase pizza' coding games...

Period 5 -I'm hoping we can start work on our Pac Man Mazes....

Period 6 -Gym with Mr. D.

glowing moons

Here is a link

...in case you can't see the image...

Wednesday January 14th

 Here is the plan for today:

Period 1 - Red light, read aloud, reader's workshop

Period 2 -Writer's workshop - Using the OREO (Opinion, Reason, Example, Opinion) organizer, we're going to write persuasive paragraphs out in good copy!

Period 3 we'll stay outside for a bit. When we come in, we'll keep working on our times tables...today's and easy one...the 10's times tables (so far we've covered, 0, 1, 2, 4, 8, and hopefully 10's today).

Period 4-Music with Mrs. Haynes.

Period 5 and 6 we'll be using messy charcoal to sketch a glowing moon...we'll talk about value, gradients and contrast.  If we have some time at the end after clean up...maybe some free time?

Tuesday January 13th

 Here is the plan for today:

Period 1-Red light, read aloud (new book...Bad Beginning by Lemony Snickett...A Series of Unfortunate Events).  We'll also continue work on on our OREO persuasive paragraphs.

Period 2 is French with Mr. Woolley.

Period 3 we'll stay outside for a bit (weather permitting).

Period 4 We'll do some math.  We don't really need to learn the 8 times tables...but just for fun, I'm going to teach them the 'triple double'.   2's times table, the strategy was know your doubles.  4's was double the 2's (the double-double).  8's is the triple double!

Period 5 and 6 is Science.  I'm hoping to look at contact forces vs. non - contact forces (e.g., gravity, magnetism, static electricity).   Provided I can find enough cardboard, we'll begin a STEAM challenge where we build our own 'magnetic pac man' mazes.  I might have to wait until Thursday (pizza day) to do this....we shall see.

Monday January 12th

 Here is the plan for today:

Period 1 -Red light, Read aloud, weekend Round Up

Period 2 -Writer's workshop - Goal is to finish our persuasive writing organizers. 

Period 3 we'll head outside for some extra outdoor time.

Period 4 is Math - We'll review the two's strategy (doubles) and we we'll look at the 4's and try doubling our doubles.   

Period 5 is Gym with Mr. D.

Period 6 we'll take it easy after gym, do a little mindfulness activity and enjoy some free time.

Bonus: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YAdbFlJdPwKeX1j7ZHP3xRXecBrtMU4C2F4keKGiia4/edit?tab=t. -check out the link to the games we made on Microsoft Make Code Arcade - highly addictive!