Friday October 2nd

 Here is the plan for today:

Period 1 - Red light, discussion celebrating such a great day yesterday...what worked?  And reader's workshop - reading with a friend.

Period 2 is writer's workshop.  We're going to try a 'story chain' as a class.  One person writes a sentence, then another person writes the next one...and so on. (focusing on engagement)

Period 3 and 4 is math.  We'll play race to 50 again, and introduce race to 100 for those kids that are ready to step it up (and regroup 3 digit numbers).

We'll also try a couple of gameshows in Knowledgehook..I'm still trying to learn to use the program myself.

Period 5 is gym/Terry Fox Run

Period 6 is Free time!

Thursday October 1st

October already?  Wow, that went fast.

Here is the plan for today:

Period 1 -seating swap, I change the desks every month...so everyone will have a chance to work with everyone.   Then we'll do reader's workshop, continuing to focus on building stamina.

Period 2 -writer's workshop, we'll come up as a class with a character we invent that could be in wayside. 

Period 3 is math.  We're going to scratch the surface on regrouping when adding...also called 'carrying'.  We'll play a game called race to 50 to get started.

Period 4 is music.

Period 5 and 6 is Science.  We'll look a little closer at the parts of a plant (stem, root, flower, leaves) and what they do (e.g., roots collect nutrients from the soil, stem carries nutrients and water to the rest of the plant, the leaves catch the sun and turn sunlight into food)

If there's any time, we may have some free time!

Wednesday September 30th

 Here is the plan for today:

Period 1 -Red light, read aloud (Every Child Matters) and a discussion about Orange shirt day.  Then independent reading.

Period 2 Writer's workshop.  We'll still working on developing stamina.  I'm going to put up some writing prompts to do with Orange shirt day to hopefully spark some ideas.

Period 3 is math.  We're going to roll dice, make numbers and put them into expanded form: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1d91EjAsU1j4-pnwcUcsFWQf6iVjq-k5O/view?usp=sharing

Period 4 is music.

Period 5 is art.  We'll decorate our own orange shirts, cut them out and hopefully hang them on a clothes line.

Period 6 when they're finished their orange shirt, I'll have the chromebooks available to play some fun games on cbckids.ca...where hopefully they can learn a little more about indigenous cultures. 

Tuesday September 28th

 Here is plan for today:

Period 1 - Red light, Read aloud, class discussion about gym class yesterday, independent reading to build stamina.

Period 2 - French with Mr. Woolley.

Period 3 and 4 is math.  We'll continue on our 'Terry Fox inspired math', take a bit of a body break, then come in and do some knowledgehook.

Period 5 and 6 is our first Science lesson.  We'll be learning about plants.  Today we'll look first at different types of plants and then we'll do little 'lima bean' dissection. If we're lucky...maybe even some free time?

Monday September 28th

 Mr. Cross is back!  

It sounds like Mrs. Sylvester loved her week with the class...which is nice to hear.

Here is the plan for today:

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

Period 2- We'll brainstorm stuff to write about (possibly our weekends?) and do some writing.

Period 3 and 4 is math.  We'll walk a kilometer as a class and compare that to what Terry Fox ran each day (42 km) and how much he ran all together (over 5000 km).

Period 5 we'll do a little mindfulness activity. Learning we can do hard things and when we're stressed or anxious just take it one step at a time.

Period 6 is Gym with Mr. D.

Terry Fox information

 This is from Mrs. Inouye, our teacher organizer:

Making a Donation. Please Share with parents.

1. Donate a Toonie for 'Toonie for Terry Tuesday': Through School Cash Online we are asking each student to donate a Toonie for Terry to kick off our fundraising. NO CASH.

2. Donate Online: You can make a secure donation directly to our school's Fundraising Page (tax receipts are issued immediately by email for online gifts). Please indicate your child's name and classroom teacher in the comment box.

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Marathon Monday - Mapping Terry’s "Marathon of Hope" 

- track distances on a map

- get outside and walk a kilometer

Toonie for Terry Tuesday

- collection is done through School Cash Online

- celebrate Terry’s character & courage 

- Who was Terry?

Willpower Wednesday 

- What is willpower & perseverance? 

- What obstacles did Terry overcome? 

- What is something that you had to overcome?

Together Thursday 

- emphasize teamwork & community 

- Who supported Terry? 

- team building activity

Finish-Line Friday 

- Run Day!

- freezies on the black top when they're done

- SWBEC students along the course to cheer on and direct students

  P.3 - Gr. 1 & 2

  P.4 - Kindergarten

  NB

  P.5 - 3 & 4

  P.6 - 4/5, 5 & 6

Friday September 18th

 I can't believe I forgot to post yesterday...my apologies...we did stuff!

Here is the plan for today.

Period 1 - Red light, read aloud, reader's workshop shop.  We'll talk about what good 'partner reading' looks and sounds like.

Period 2 is Writer's workshop.  The other day we struggled to write for 5 whole minutes...we're going to continue to build stamina and do it again today!

Period 3 is math.  We're going to review 'expanded form' and use base ten blocks to make creations and count them.  

Period 4 we'll try logging into Knowledge hook again to do a game show and activity.

Period 5 is gym with Mr. D.

Period 6 we'll watch the pilot episode of the Wayside cartoon!

Just a quick reminder, I will be away all of next week, I will check my emails when I return.  Mrs. Sylvester will be filling in for me...so no blog posts next week!