Friday March 13th

 Phew....we made it (almost).

Here is the plan for today:

Period 1 -Red light, read aloud - First Chapter Friday. Then we'll play my new favourite board game, Wavelength as a class.  

Period 2 - We'll use the chromebooks to explore First Nations history and culture in a fun game off the TVO website called, Raven's Quest.  

Period 3 and 4 is board game day!  Mr. Z and I will open up our classes to let the kids play board games.

Period 5 we'll attempt to make some butter and try it out.  I also have a peaceful POV canoeing video to put on the big screen and some colouring sheets to do to keep us calm before...

Period 6 -Gym with Mr. D.

Thursday March 12th

 Here is the plan for today:

Period 1-Red light, read aloud (tongue twisters) we'll specifically look at alliterations.

Period 2- Writer's workshop: We're going to use our alliteration knowledge to make our own tongue twisters about animals in a zoo.

Period 3 is math...we'll start our first lesson on Fractions...just planting the seed before March Break.

Period 4 is Music

Period 5 is computer buddies...we'll finish our Venn Diagrams from last week and then help the Grade 1's learn to count money.

Period 6 will be some free time after working so hard all day.

Wednesday March 11th

 Here is the plan for today:

Period 1-Red light, read aloud, reader's workshop: focus in on alliterations.

Period 2 - Writer's workshop - try our good copy 'shape poems'.

Period 3 - More area and Perimeter Math, plus 6 questions on Knowledgehook.

Period 4 - Music

Period 5 and 6 is art/social studies.  We'll compare a job for us today (as kids) to a job for us from 1800.  After that we'll use some leftover 'squares' to make 'quilts' on paper...with the focus being on symmetry.  

Tuesday March 10th

 Here is the plan for today:

Period 1-Red light, read aloud, reader's/writer's workshop...continue work on our 'shape poems'.

Period 2- French with Mr. Woolley.

Period 3 -outside for a bit, come in and do some math. We'll be writing our names in block letters and calculating the area and perimeter of each letter.

Period 4 - more math - I have 6 questions on knowledgehook they'll need to answer.

Period 5 and 6 is social studies.  The big idea from today will be that everybody in the community, including children, had jobs (hard work) in the 1800's...we'll hopefully be doing a comparison between life now and then...

Monday March 9th

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.

 

Friday March 6th

 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!

Thursday March 5th

 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- I have a in-school meeting, but my supply teacher will go through our regular morning routine. For reader's workshop, they'll listen to the True Story of the 3 Little Pigs.  Hopefully zeroing in on voice and perspective.

Period 2 - I should be back, we'll do some 'shape poems' for writer's workshop.  The kids will draw a picture of something (e.g. snake) then write a sentence or two on the outline of that shape...(e.g., The green snake SLITHERS through the TALL grass CLICKING it's tongue as the ladybugs go PRANCING past. ).  We'll focus on the descriptive and sensory language.

Period 3 is math.  We'll continue working on Area.

Period 4 is Music.

Period 5 is computer buddies.  We'll be working on Venn Diagrams with our buddies using Google Drawing. 

Period 6 we'll use the chromebooks to take pictures of our 3 sisters creations and label them on Google Drawing.