Wednesday November 19th

 Yikes...I forgot about my post yesterday...sorry!  Life has been busy.  Progress reports went home on Monday...We adopted a 3 legged rescue cat yesterday...my brain isn't working at full power.

Here is what the plan for today is:

Period 1 -Red light, read aloud, class discussion about respect and inclusion.  Reader's workshop on juggling while reading...ask your kids!

Period 2 -Writer's workshop: mini lesson on using quotation marks properly. 

Period 3 we stayed outside most of the period, came in and review repeating patterns.

Period 4 is Music with Mrs. Haynes.

Period 5 I'm going to do some patterning centres hopefully.  Make different repeating patterns with different manipulatives.

Period 6 I have some mindfulness colouring activity we'll try.  

Monday November 17th

 Here is the plan for today:

Period 1- Red light, read aloud, weekend round up.

Period 2 I've got some funny comics we're going to write the speaking parts for.

Period 3 is outside/math - when we come in we'll finish making our bar/picto graphs.

Period 4 is I'm hoping to do some prodigy questions.

Period 5 is gym with Mr. D.

Period 6 is Health, from last week, which we skipped because it turns out Health is the least favourite subject at school (according to Isla and Maddy's survey).

Friday November 14th

 Here is the plan for today:

Period 1 -Red light, Read aloud, and activity on Pronouns.

Period 2 -Library/book exchange 

Period 3 and 4 -outside (for a bit)/Math - we'll be wrapping up our math unit on graphing, the kids are hopefully going to conduct a survey and make 2 graphs today...a bar and a picto...and write about them.

Period 5 is Health, we'll learn about safe drinking water.

Period 6 is Gym with Mr. D.

Have a safe and happy weekend everyone!

How good does their art look?  I love this class.  I give them an idea...and do a 'terrible teacher sample' then they elevate it and make it their own!

Here is the plan for today:

Period 1 Red light, read aloud, reader's workshop: Reader's notice how characters respond to problems...we'll use Because of Winn Dixie for this.

Period 2 Writer's workshop: Writer's show how character's feel through dialogue and action. 

Period 3 we'll stay outside for a bit.  When we come in we'll talk about choosing the right kind of graph (e.g., Bar vs Picture), based on the data.  I've got several tables of data that they'll discuss with groups which graph would make most sense to use and why.

Period 4 is Music with Mrs. Haynes.

Period 5 and 6 is social studies. We'll continue with living and working in Ontario.  Now that the students understand the land (e.g., Hudson's bay, Great Lakes, Canadian Shield) we'll talk about how People organize themselves on that land (e.g., Rural, Urban and Suburban).  I have a cut and paste activity where the kids have to sort based upon those 3 categories (e.g., skyscraper = urban).  

 

 

Wednesday November 12th

 I just realized I didn't post yesterday...oops!  We had fun, we did stuff.   

Here is the plan for today:

Period 1: Red light, read aloud, reader's workshop: lesson on how quotation marks help us 'read better'.

Period 2: Writer's workshop.  We'll practice putting in the proper punctuation into some dialogue and hopefully use some of it in our own writing.

Period 3: we'll go outside for a bit, weather dependent.  When we come in I've got another worksheet where the kids have to make a bar graph and answer some questions.

Period 4: Music with Mrs. Haynes.

Period 5 and 6 is Art. We'll be using chalk pastels today to make some birch trees in the winter to celebrate the first snow fall this year.  They will hopefully look something like this:

Monday November 10th

 Here is the plan for today:

Period 1 -Red light, read aloud, weekend round up

Period 2 -Partner or alone reading or writing.

Period 3 outside for snow fun.

Period 4 Math, we did some more work on pictographs.

Period 5 is gym.

Period 6 is Health. I have a quick 'fire safety' lesson.  When we're done that we'll have some finish up/unplugged free time.  

Friday November 8th

 Happy Friday!

Here is the plan for today:

Period 1 - Red light, read aloud, reader's workshop- I've got another 'class script' to show how we can capture a characters emotions via dialogue (e.g., Aleks whispered, “I think there’s something under the bed…”)

Period 2 -we'll head to the library for book exchange. I also have posted a parts of speech game on classroom where we'll learn about adverbs. After we're done that, they can work on their adjective awards.

Period 3 we'll stay outside of a bit. When we come back in we'll talk about pictographs (https://www.mathsisfun.com/data/pictographs.html).

Period 4 if they finish the work I have, they'll go onto Prodigy and answer some pictograph questions.

Period 5 I've got a STEM challenge where I'll put the kids into groups and they'll work together to build the tallest tower out of Spaghetti noodles and marshmallows.  

Marshmallow Challenge

Period 6 is gym with Mr. D.