Here is the plan for this beautiful Monday.
Period 1 - Red light, Weekend Round Up, Read aloud.
Period 2 - Onomatopoeia activity on google Drawing.
Period 3 -Outside...because it's supposed to be beautiful! We'll come in and play area game in pairs.
Period 4 we'll continue math, and hopefully explore some games I post on Google Classroom.
Period 5 is gym.
Period 6 is a little mindfulness activity I have planned. Partner charades. Still working on building community and having some fun.
Thank goodness it's Friday!
Here is the plan for today:
Period 1 - Red light, read aloud, Finish up digital labels for our 3 sisters 3D sculptures.
Period 2 -Library- First Chapter Friday, followed by some Onomatopoeia work on Google Classroom ...we'll call it digital art.
Period 3 -is Math. After the mutiny that almost occurred the other day when we tried to do a gameshow on 'Knowledgehook', I've got a few questions on Prodigy.
Period 4 we're going to do a scavenger hunt, looking around the school for 'Area' questions that Oliver will hopefully hang up when he gets here.
Period 5 - We'll do a little mindfulness/community building. We're going to have a 'talking circle' where we share appreciations about each other.
Period 6 - Gym with Mr. D.
Have a great weekend everyone!
First of all...let me tell you, the 3 sisters, 3D sculptures we made yesterday for art turned out awesome:
Here is the plan for today:
Period 1 - Red light, read aloud, reader's workshop. We'll finish The Nose From Jupiter. I have a blooket game to play afterwords.
Period 2 - We'll write Alan goodbye letters from Norbert.
Period 3 -we'll stay outside and enjoy the weather for a bit before we come in and do some Math...more Area work.
Period 4 is music.
Period 5 and 6 is Art. I'm hoping to use Plasticine to make models of the 3 sisters that we learned about yesterday (Corn, Beans and Squash).
Here is the plan for today:
Period 1-Red light, read aloud, and we'll play a table group game of 'two truths and a lie'.
Period 2 - French.
Period 3 - Outside for a bit, and come in and start learning about AREA. I have a fun activity planned for them.
Period 4 we're going to try a new feature of Knowlegehook called 'game show'. Wish me luck.
Period 5 and 6 is social studies. We'll learn about neighbours and knowledge. We'll talk about how the settlers and first nations shared knowledge and resources in the 1700 and 1800's. I'm currently making some 'cedar tea' to show the kids how the first nations helped the settlers fight off scurvy.
I can not believe it is March already.
Here is the plan for today:
Period 1 -Red light, read aloud, weekend round Up and a seating swap (first of the month).
Period 2 - I have a small activity they'll do in their new groups (Write a story with only 8 words)
Period 3 -if it's nice we'll stay outside for a bit, then when we come in we'll investigate perimeter. They'll practice making shapes with the same perimeter (but different looking shapes).
Period 4 -once they're finished their work I put 6 questions on Knowledgehook.
Period 5 -gym with Mr. D
Period 6 - I have a Stem Challenge....(hopefully to help facilitate the new groups)...tallest paper tower with 20 pieces of paper....NO TALKING. Should be entertaining.
This felt like a long week...not sure why?
Here is the plan for today:
Period 1 -Red light, read aloud, reader's workshop - try and finish our list poems.
Period 2 - Library- First Chapter Fridays - then we'll try to type out our 'list poems'...any extra time we can use to practice our typing.
Period 3 -we'll stay outside for a bit. When we come in it's time to finish our scavenger hunt.
Period 4 - we'll go onto math prodigy...we'll be calculating the perimeter of irregular polygons.
Period 5 - Is health. We'll do some role playing about conflict resolution.
Period 6 is gym with Mr. D.
Sorry I missed Tuesday's blog, and I was away yesterday!
Here is the plan for today:
Period 1-Red light, read aloud, mini workshop on 'reading a character's internal temperature/mood'.
Period 2 -Writer's workshop - sensory/list poems.
Period 3 - outside for a bit, Perimeter scavenger hunt.
Period 4 -music
Period 5 -buddies -we're going to use google earth to check out Milan and the Olympic venues.
Period 6 - I have a few questions on Knowledgehook and then the kids will have some free time.
Here is the plan for today:
Period 1 -Red light, read aloud, weekend round up.
Period 2 -Finish Apology Letters and review the rubric.
Period 3 -we'll stay outside for some extra time hopefully, then come in and do math. We'll finish our 'Olympic Jump Off' where we're all jumping and converting our jumps from m to cm to mm...
Period 4 -I have 10 'converting' questions on Prodigy...and some other 'converting games' posted on google classroom.
Period 5-gym with Mr. D.
Period 6 - we'll finally get to the art I've had planned since Wednesday, inspired by famous Black artist: Esther Mahlangu
Happy Rainy Friday!
Here is the plan for today:
Period 1 - red light, read aloud, finish our apology letters.
Period 2 - Library - we're going to start something new....called First Chapter Fridays (I stole the idea from Mrs. Rivers). I'll read a chapter to them at the library...see if I can suck any of the children into a new series/book.
Period 3 -Olympic Jump Off...we'll be seeing how far we can jump and measuring it in Meters and Centimetres.
Period 4 -I have some questions for them to answer on Prodigy...all about converting measurements and choosing the right tool for the job.
Period 5 we'll do the art I continue to push from day to day...Esther Mahlangu
Period 6 is gym with Mr. D.
Have a good weekend everyone...go Canada!
Happy Icy Thursday!
Here is the plan for today....
Period 1- Red light, read aloud (a mandatory read aloud about consent, and body boundaries). We'll read aloud from Nose From Jupiter. I am going to have the class write 1 sentence from Norbert's perspective.
Period 2-Writer's workshop. Now that we're all done our 'body part complaint letters' we're going to write 'apology' letters. Same format.
Period 3 -Math, we'll continue to work on converting measurements.
Period 4 -Music.
Period 5 -Computer Buddies, we'll use Google's AutoDraw program to make our own digital flags. The Grade 3's will help navigate between tabs...we'll look at flags from around the world for inspiration. It's sort of fun and addictive: www.autodraw.com (try it out)
Period 6 -I have yesterday's art planned...but I think we'll be too invested in the woman's hockey game to do it...so probably just a finish up period.
I'll share what I have planned today...but we'll see how many kids brave it through the ice to get here...plans are subject to change!
Period 1 - Red light, Read aloud, Reader's workshop: I have a mini lesson on using text clues to help us find our voice while reading.
Period 2 -Writer's workshop - I'm hoping everyone can now write an apology letter back to their 'striking' body part.
Period 3 and 4 is math. We'll look at how to convert mm to cm and cm to m and m to km...then back down the other way. I have a combination of work and play planned.
Period 5 is gym.
Period 6 I'm hoping to start a real quick short art lesson on famous Black artist: Esther Mahlangu.
Here is the plan for today:
It's a Friday schedule...
Period 1 - Red light, read aloud, weekend round Up. Then we'll work to finish our 'body part strike' letters of resignation. I will go over with them the success criteria.
Period 2 -we'll head to the library for book exchange. The kids will have the choice to read or write quietly, or play some literacy based games on the chromebook posted on Google Classroom.
Period 3 is math. We'll work in partners to measure various objects around the classroom and school. We will measure tiny things (mm), medium things (cm) and larger things (m).
Period 4 I have posted 3 questions on Knowledgehook that the students should be able to answer quiet easily.
Period 5 we'll do a health lesson about staying safe in different places and focus on smart decision making with some role playing activities.
Period 6 is Gym with Mr. D.
Here is the plan for today...which should be a little chaotic
Period 1 -Red light, read aloud and finishing up our 'body part strike' letters.
Period 2 - We'll move math to this period and then try our hand measuring various objects around the class.
Period 3 -We'll stay outside for bit, but come in and hopefully watch a little bit of the Olympic Hockey game.
Period 4 -Dance-A-Thon
Period 5 and 6 The kids can exchange Valentines, and we'll work on a family day craft and maybe cruise into the long weekend with some Series of Unfortunate Events.
Here is the plan for today:
Period 1-Red light, Read aloud, Reader's workshop: Mini lesson is focusing on the conflict between Alan and Norbert.
Period 2 -Writer' workshop. We're having fun with this perspective writing. Today we're going to write Body Part Strike letters (e.g., Dear Human, I'm writing to tell you that I'm leaving your face...). Writing letters of complaint from different parts of our body.
Period 3 we'll play outside for a bit, then come in and do some measuring around the classroom.
Period 4 is Music.
Period 5 and 6 is Art. I'm going to combine 'valentine's day' with a Black History Month. We'll look at the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat unique street art...and make a heart in his style (with a 3 point crown on it)
Here is the plan for today:
Period 1 -Red light, read aloud, and a quick lesson from the perspective of a body part.
Period 2 -French.
Period 3 and 4 we'll stay outside for a bit...it's finally normal weather! Then when we come in we'll work on measurement. We'll look closer at the millimetre. I've got some work to do measuring various objects in the classroom. We also have some work to finish up on Prodigy.
Period 5 and 6 we'll do a little health, talking about mental health and stressful feelings. We will also start work on a new STEM challenge. I'll put them into random groups and they'll try to make paper bridges to support as many toy cars as possible.
Sorry I forgot to post on Friday...it was a good day...we did stuff!
Here is the plan for today:
Period 1 -Red light, read aloud, weekend round up.
Period 2 Reader's/Writer's workshop...hoping everyone finishes their perspective writing.
Period 3 and 4 Maybe we'll get outside? Regardless, we'll start our new measurement unit. Looking today at the cm and m...and maybe touch on the KM. I have some work to do unplugged...then a little bit of 'plugged in' work afterwards.
Period 5 is Gym.
Period 6 we'll do a little mindfulness and enjoy some free time while we watch the Olympics!
Here is the plan for today:
Period 1: Red light, read aloud, and I have a fun activity planned where the kids need to make an 'identity card' for Norbert (the Alien living in Alan's nose).
Period 2: Writer' workshop: We're going to re-examine perspective. I'm trying to have the kids write from an ant or alien's perspective...so a tennis ball isn't just a 'green fuzzy tennis ball', but it becomes a 'Glowing yellow hairy planet! When it hits the ground, it screams 'boing' and tries to fly back to the stars. It has a white mountain range that wraps around it's belly.'
Period 3 is Math. I'm hoping to conference with everyone about multiplication and division while they work on their cootie catchers and answer questions on prodigy.
Period 4 is Music.
Period 5 is Computer buddies...we'll be playing around on Chrome's Music Lab.
Period 6 is finish up. We'll finish up our math, conferences, writing...and maybe even enjoying a bit of free time?
Here is the plan for today:
Period 1 - Red light, read aloud (new book, A Nose From Jupitar). Mini lesson is focusing on perspective.
Period 2 -writer's workshop - mini lesson will also focus on perspective....(e.g., seeing a stapler as a metal crocodile).
Period 3 we'll stay outside for a bit, before we come in and do some math, we'll look at division, with a small remainder (e.g., 15 markers shared between 2 baskets = 7 per basket with 1 left over).
Period 4 is Music.
Period 5 and 6 is art. In honour of Black History Month, we'll look at Black artist, Alma Thomas. We'll try to recreate some of her work...or at least in her style.
Here is the plan for today:
Period 1 - Red light, Finish up informational paragraphs
Period 2 - French
Period 3 -Outside for a bit? Come in and do some math. We'll continue to examine how multiplication and division are related (inverse facts: 3 x 4 = 12 so 12 / 4 = 3). Then we'll dig into how division just means equal groups (or rows or columns...when looking at arrays).
Period 4 -I've got some old school paper work for them to do before they do some 'new school' digital questions.
Period 5 and 6 is science. We'll be looking at contact vs non contact, specifically focusing in on Gravity (non contact) and how it essentially pulling us to the centre of the earth. Any extra time will be for finishing up unfinished work.
Happy February...wow this year is flying by!
Here is the plan for today:
Period 1 - Red light, seating swap, weekend round up.
Period 2 - I have a 'Violet Baudelaire' STEM challenge for them this morning...using some string, paper clips and some elastics to make a 'key snatcher'.
Periods 3 and 4 we'll actually watch the NETFLIX tv series of the Bad Beginning. It's very faithful to the book.
Period 5 is gym.
Period 6 we'll do an 'esti mystery' and use the rest of the period to finish up some unfinished work.
From the office....
Kindness Cookies will be on sale next week ONLY on School Cash Online ONLY to purchase for Pink Shirt Day (Wednesday February 25th) delivery. All proceeds will go to the Halton Learning Foundation that supports education equity and opportunities for students of the HDSB by helping to remove financial barriers.
Here is the plan for today:
Period 1 - Red light, read aloud, we'll finish our book!
Period 2 - we'll continue researching in the library on the chromebooks. We're writing informational paragraphs on animals we've researched.
Period 3 - is math. We'll continue to look at arrays, and see how division and multiplication are related...specifically we'll look at related facts.
Period 4 -I have some questions on Knowledgehook the kids will answer and some more time to pracitce our times tables.
Period 5- is a finish up period.
Period 6 is gym with Mr. D.
Stay warm everyone.
Here is the plan for today:
Period 1 -Red light, read aloud, reader's workshop: Violet, the main character in our class novel is an expert inventor and knot tie-er? I'm going to teach them how to tie a tie....maybe it will be a useful skill for someone down the line?
Period 2 -Writer's workshop: We'll continue one with our expert burger paragraphs. We have to do a little debrief on fact vs. opinion.
Period 3 is math. We'll continue to look at division with arrays and how it's related to multiplication.
Period 4 is music with Mrs. Haynes.
Period 5 is computer buddies...we'll show them a super cool website called weave. They'll create symmetrical artwork.
Period 6 is going to be a free time/finish up period.
Here is the plan for today:
Period 1 -Red light, read aloud, reader's workshop - Stress Level Graph (examining Lemony Snicket's pacing)
Period 2 - Now that we're persuasive (OREO) masters, it's time to look at the 'Hamburger' model for writing informational paragraphs. We started working on our first hamburger/informational paragraph.
Period 3 -Math. We dug into the concept of division being 'equal groups'. And how that relates to the rows and columns of arrays. The kids seem to actually enjoy division.
Period 4 - Music.
Period 5 and 6 is art. We'll examined pointillism and look at some of the work by Georges Seurat.
NOTE: Tomorrow is 'literacy day'...dress up as your favourite character from a book!
Here is the plan for today:
Period 1 - Red light, read aloud, reader's/writer's workshop. Hopefully everyone can finish their persuasive paragraphs.
Period 2 is Pancake day/French.
Period 3 is Math - We'll do some more 'around the world' and play some games to strengthen our times tables.
Period 4 we'll continue Math...we'll do some more plugged in and unplugged work.
Period 5 and 6 is Science/Stem Pac-Man Maze challenge.
Happy Birthday Emmie! Happy Friday Everyone!
Here is the plan for today:
Period 1- Red light, read aloud, finish up good copies of persuasive paragraphs.
Period 2-to the library! Book exchange and we'll work on creating 'emoji stories' on the chromebooks...this will be very fun and a little chaotic (19 kids working on the same slideshow...)
Period 3 -We'll continue on with our multiplication practice. We're working on flashcards, multiplication charts and multiplication colouring sheets.
Period 4-we'll use the chromebooks and keep on practicing our times tables on multiplication.com
Period 5- We'll use this period to keep working on our magnetic Pac Man Mazes.
Period 6 is gym with Mr. D.
Remember, Monday is a PD day
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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!
Here is the plan for today:
Period 1 - Red light and then some cursive practice...we never got to yesterday.
Period 2 -we'll head to the library, with the Chromebooks. We've got 2 jobs to do: 1-answer 3 multiplication questions on Knowledgehook. 2-share the link to our coded games on a shared document.
Periods 3 and 4 -we'll watch the One and Only Ivan Movie.
Period 5 -I have a follow up book vs movie sheet for the kids to go through. We'll talk about the some of the differences and why Disney made those choices (e.g., why use a CGI gorilla instead of a real life one?).
Period 6 -gym with Mr. D.
Have a terrific weekend everyone.
Here is the plan for today:
Period 1 - Red light, read aloud (I'm actually going to show them a cool website filled with videos geared towards kids, called The Kids Should See This...I'll show them a couple of videos, but this one will lead into reading and 'persuasive writing'. https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/the-science-of-storytelling-how-can-reading-books-change-our-brains
Period 2 -We'll talk about persuasive writing, and we'll look at the OREO organizer (opinon, reason, example, re-state Opinion). We'll write a paragraph together about Zoo's...are they good or bad? Then I have some topics (e.g., Tacos vs. Pizza) the kids can choose to write about.
Period 3 -Hopefully it's nice enough to go outside for a bit? If not, I'll show them how to put their coding games into a google document!
Period 4 -Music.
Period 5 -I'm going to teach the kids about 'doubles' (e.g, 4 + 4 = 8) and show them how that relates to the 2 times tables....I have a game and some work to do with that.
Period 6 -I am hoping to start cursive writing...looking at the clock climber letters (a,d,g,q,c), letter's that start at '2 o'clock'.
Here is what we did today:
Period 1-Red light a lot of digging deeper about the real Ivan (from The One and Only Ivan).
Period 2 -we had a bit of time to read and write (after all our Ivan learning)
Period 3 -we were outside
Period 4 -music
Period 5 -we'll do a little northern lights art.
Period 6 -we'll do some more coding.
Alright! I've got my phone and able to access the Halton District School Board machine!
Here it the plan for this icy Tuesday...
Period 1 - Red light, read aloud, reader's workshops (how has Ivan changed from the start to the end of the story).
Period 2 French with Mr. Woolley.
Period 3 Outside to play if weather is permitting?
Period 4 -We'll start our next unit in math, multiplication.
Period 5 and 6 we'll talk a little bit about 'coding'...algorithm's and try our hand at coding on Microsoft's Make code Arcade.
Welcome back everyone!
I am not sure if your children let you know, but I forgot my phone at home and was locked out of everything Halton related today...I couldn't access anything with Halton's Multi Factor Authentication attached to my phone. No attendance, day plans, emails, anything! I didn't realize how dependent on technology I've become! New, New Year's Resolution!
We adapted and had a fun day...hopefully I will be back on track for tomorrow.
