Monday November 28th

 I apologize for missing the blog on Thursday...crazy days with interviews and book fairs!

Here is the plan for today:

Period 1 we'll do a red light activity, then read aloud, then weekend round up.

Period 2 will be reader's/writer's workshop, student choice.

Period 3 is gym with Mr. D.

Period 4 is math.  We'll look at bar graphs, how to read and create them.

Period 5 is social studies.  We've covered Great Lakes/St. Lawerence lowlands and the Hudsons's Bay lowlands.  Today we'll look at the last landform in Ontario, the Canadian shield.  

Period 6 we'll leave open to finish any unfinished work.  

Wednesday November 23rd

 Is it Friday yet?

Here is what our day has looked like (which is quite different than what I had planned).  Book Fairs, Canadian Soccer!!

Period 1 we did a little memorization activity to start the day.  Then we had out 'book fair' shopping time.  

Period 2, when we finally got back from the book fair we couldn't do anything but read and write in our new purchases.  So we did that for the whole period.

Period 3 it was so nice outside...so we ended up staying outside for most of the period. 

Period 4 we had our reading buddies with Mrs. Evers' class.  We played some fun word games posted on the Classroom. 

Period 5 is French with Mrs. O'Neil.  

Period 6 we'll put the Canada vs. Belgium world cup game on while try to do some math work...'try' being the key word.  We'll hopefully do the 'picto graph' work from yesterday we never got around to.

Tuesday November 22nd

 Here is the plan for today...

Period 1 -music with Mrs. Haynes.

Period 2-Read aloud, reader's workshop. Mini lesson focuses on 'using what you know'.

Period 3 is Math.  We'll look at both vertical and horizontal pictographs.  How to read and create them.

Period 4 is our turn to preview the book fair (TOMORROW WE CAN PURCHASE). 

Period 5 is writer's workshop.  We'll look at starting with a character to help us begin our stories.

Period 6 is finish up.

Monday November 21st

 Yes!  Back in class...and hopefully a little stability?

Here is the plan for today.

Period 1 -read aloud and weekend round up

Period 2 -student choice reader's/writer's workshop.

Period 3 and 4 is math.  We'll look at collecting data and the difference between discreet and continous data. 

Period 5 and 6 is social studies.  We'll look at the Hudsons Bay Lowlands and some of the jobs in that area. Any extra time we have will be free time.

Friday November 18th

 Here is the plan for today:

Period 1 & 2 we'll read aloud the BFG, get our 'book talk' about the book fair and have reader's/writer's workshop (student choice).

Period 3 & 4 is math.  We're going to do the Mean and Mode work from yesterday...after we're done our work I've set up a bunch of mean and mode questions on math prodigy.

Period 5 is gym with Mr. D.

Period 6 will be a finish up/free time period.  

Have a good weekend everyone.

Thursday November 17th

Apparently I forgot to post yesterday...oops...sorry!

Here is the plan for today:

Period 1 is read aloud, and reader's workshop.  Mini lesson focusing on using diagraphs and blends (grouping letters together).

Period 2 is writer's workshop. The mini lesson will focus on 'starting with a character', as a strategy to help us start writing.

Period 3 is math.  After a healthy mask break we'll come inside and learn about the Mean and Mode of data...it'll be a hard concept to grasp, but we'll use calculators to help us calculate averages (mean).

Period 4 is music with Mrs. Haynes.

Period 5 and 6 is art.  We'll be looking at Andy Warhol, and trying to re-create his 'pop art' style with our own donuts or cupcakes.

Tuesday November 15th

Well yesterday we started with only 7 away and by the end of the day we were at 9 away.  Something nasty is making it's way through our class.

Here is the plan for today:

Period 1 we'll start off with this brain teaser:

 https://www.transum.org/software/sw/starter_of_the_day/starter_March12.asp this will lead in well to our work with tree diagrams.

 Then we have a diversity assembly pretty much until first break.

Period 3 and 4 is math.  We're going to be working on sorting Data using Venn Diagrams and Tree Charts.  Yesterday the class worked hard to finish all their work...hopefully we can do the same today.

Period 5 Mrs. Alvarez is coming back in with her engaging writing prompts and going to continue to inspire our enjoyment of writing.

Period 6 Mrs. Haynes is going to take them for music (normally it's period 1, but she wanted to switch because of the assembly.