Friday December 17th

I just realized I didn't post my blog yesterday...sorry!  It's a little chaotic towards the end!  Both my readers I'm sure were devastated.  

Here we are, last post of 2021!  We made it...

We're going to do all sorts of cutting-edge teaching and learning today.  Hopefully, just maybe, squeeze in a little fun too.

I have no clue what January is going to look like, but I'm hopeful it will be in class at Glenview.  Fingers are crossed.

Until then, I want to wish you all a very safe and relaxing holiday!  I will see you in the New Year!

Wednesday December 15th

 Here is the plan for today:

Period 1 is reader's workshop.  We'll look at taking words apart and putting them back together to help us solve them (e.g., un-der-gr-ou-nd=underground)

Period 2 is French with Mr. Woolley.

Period 3 and 4 is Math on the chromebooks.  We'll stay outside weather permitting for a bit, then come inside and answer some math prodigy questions.  If we have time, I'd like to do a 'game show' on knowledgehook (math website)

Period 5 and 6 we're going to hopefully star working on a little craft, maybe even put on a movie at the end of the day....

Tuesday December 14th

 Here is the 'plan' for today...'plan' being the operative word.  Lots of bouncy children.  

Period 1 is technology with Mr. Butt.

Period 2 is reader's workshop.  Our mini lesson will focus on 'looking for vowels that go together'...to help us solve words.

Period 3 and 4 is math.  After our mask break we'll do the math from yesterday that we didn't get to.  Looking at the parts of a bar graph and making bar graphs.

Period 5 is writer's workshop.  Mini lesson will focus on 'word mapping' (brainstorming to generate ideas). 

Period 6 we have the gym.  We'll play some more soccer games. 4 corner bench ball today.

Monday December 13th

 Last week of school...I'm not sure if it has flown by, or dragged on.  Depends which day you ask, I guess?

Here is the plan for today.

Period 1 and 2 we'll do this fun red light activity:

https://www.transum.org/Software/SW/Starter_of_the_day/starter_December15.ASP

Then we'll share highlights from our weekends and read The One and Only Ivan.  After that it's student choice for reader's/writer's workshop.

Period 3 and 4 we'll have a healthy mask break and then jump into art.  We'll be looking at a 'worms eye' perspective to draw this snowman huddle:

https://tinyartroom.wordpress.com/2014/12/08/snowmen-at-play/

Period 5 we'll do a bit of math.  We'll look a little closer at bar graphs and create our own.

Period 6 is music with Mrs. Haynes.

Thursday December 9th

 Here are the plans for today.

Period 1 is red light, read aloud and reader's workshop.  The mini lesson will focus on skipping words we don't know and coming back later.

Period 2 is writer's workshop.  I imagine most kids will continue to work on writing letters to their friends (they're really excited about this...and I'm really excited that they're excited about writing).  The mini lesson will focus on mix and matching story elements (characters, plot, settings).

Period 3 and 4 is math.  We'll have a healthy mask break.  Then we'll begin work looking at horizontal and vertical pictographs.  

Period 5 they have Mrs. Haynes for music.

Period 6 we have the gym.  We'll play a new soccer game called '4 corner soccer'.  Should be chaotic, but fun!

Wednesday December 8th

 Here is the plan for today...

Period 1 is reader's workshop and we'll start reading our new read aloud - The One and Only Ivan.

Period 2 is French.

Period 3 and 4 we'll have a healthy mask break.  Then we'll come in do a little work on mean and mode.  We have the chrome books booked.  I've got questions set up on Math Prodigy and Knowledge hook.

Period 5 we're going to 'live stream' the Science of Ice put on by the Ontario Science Centre.

Period 6 we'll use as finish up/catch up period.  Hopefully we can finish the rest of the Tale of Desperaux movie.

Tuesday December 7th

 Yikes....I just found out we're short on supply teachers...so the plans are going to change.  I'll be adapting on the fly after I put together my room after the filming for yesterday's musical.

Period 1 was supposed to be library tech, with Mr. Butt, but it is no longer.

Period 2 is was going to be writer's workshop.  We're working on letters for National Letter Writing Day.  We'll be writing letters to our friends in Mrs. Benison's class.

Period 3 and 4 is math.  We're going to look at collecting and organizing data a little more.  I'll introduce the concept of Mode and Mean (they'll use calculator's to figure out mean).

Period 5 is reader's workshop.  Hopefully we can read (and possibly respond) to Mrs. Benison's letters.

Period 6 is gym.  We'll play some more bench ball soccer.

Monday December 6th

 Happy Monday.

Period 1 is weekend round up and read aloud, we finished A Tale of Desperaux.

Period 2 is Reader's/Writer's workshop.  We worked on letter writing.

Period 3 and 4 we have art.  We're going to make Christmas Cards for seniors that live down the road at the old age home.

Period 5 we'll do some math, actually the math from Friday we didn't get to (collecting and organizing data)

Period 6 is music, I believe they're recording our part for the holiday concert.

Friday December 3rd

 Here is the plan for today!

Period 1 we're going to do a desk clean up, then we'll head to the gym for some games and hopefully a bit of basketball scrimmages.  

Period 2 we've got the chromebooks booked, and I've posted some 'how to' videos on Google classroom to help us decorate the room for our Holiday Concert video shoot on Monday.

Period 3 we'll have a mask break then do a partner activity trying to sort various jobs, and which landform region they belong to (e.g., airport security would be more appropriate 'great lakes/St. Lawerence lowlands job because there are lots of people and airports)

Period 4 we'll just talk a little about 'collecting and organizing data'.  We'll look at pages 12-15 on this slideshow:https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1awBHOmQ2pVvllq37Egc9a2u159sBP8rESWckkRlyi-Q/edit?usp=sharing

Period 5 Mr. Butt has them for technology.

Period 6 I'll be in a meeting but I believe Mr. Farnand will be watching them as they enjoy a little free time before the weekend.  

Thursday December 2nd

 Here is the plan for today (by the way, yesterday with no cards...amazing!  Thanks!)

Today is also following a 'Friday Schedule'.

Period 1: Reader's workshop- mini lesson focuses on decoding multisyllabic words

Period 2: Writer's workshop - mini lesson focuses on "What if?".  We'll look at true stories we have and see what happens if we change just one element (e.g., character, setting or problem).

Period 3 and 4 we will begin our next unit in math on 'Data Literacy'. We're going to look at ways to sort and organize information.  Specifically, Venn Diagrams, Carroll diagrams and tree diagrams.  

We'll check out this websites as a class: https://nrich.maths.org/13212 -carroll diagram game

And attempt to do this work:

https://www.biglearners.com/?blKey=showWSPDFOnPage&wsCatCode=a02fd93e1897b37e6a7c69434722a564 -worksheet-tree

https://teleskola.mt/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/animal-carroll-diagram-ec1e645e8e855156255cf091d8e9bc8a.jpg-worksheet -carroll

Period 5 is Mr. Butt for technology.

Period 6 we'll enjoy a bit of free time/finish up time.

Wednesday December 1st

 We made it to December!  

Here is the plan for today:

Period 1 - Surprise music class...Mrs. Haynes really needs to practise for our holiday concert, so we have music period 1 today.

Period 2 -Mr. Woolley for French.

Period 3 and 4 is mask break and chrome books.  We'll be starting our next math unit on 'data management' (collecting and organizing data, putting that information into graphs).  So all the questions on prodigy are aligned with that strand of math.  

Period 5 is reader's workshop.  Mini lesson is about 'running into a word' (trying to solve unfamiliar words by just 'going for it').

Period 6 is writer's workshop.  Mini lesson will focus on finding poems everywhere.  Yesterday we wrote poems about commonly heard phrases (e.g., Wake Up, you'll be late for school) and today we'll look at finding random objects (e.g., granola bar) and we will come up with some poems about those.