Thursday February 29th

 Happy Leap Day!

Here is the plan for today:

Period 1 and 2 -we'll do red light and a read aloud.  After that we'll hopefully work on our whacky newspaper articles we're writing based on our headlines we wrote using the letters of our name.  We'll try working on the chromebooks to complete this task.

Period 3 is gym with Mr. D.

Period 4 we'll look at the Kilometre in math...and we'll talk about how to convert from mm to cm to m to km.

Period 5 we have buddies...we'll help them finish coding their mazes. 

Period 6 is Library and hopefully we'll be able to do some coding on our interactive maps in there.  

Wednesday February 28th

 Here is the plan for today:

Period 1 - We'll talk about Pink Shirt day, what it is and why it's important.  The we'll do reader's workshop.

Period 2 is writer's workshop.  We'll look at the parts of a newspaper article and then try to write our own.

Period 3 and 4 is math.  We'll continue looking at the cm and the m.  We'll do some more work then I'll introduce the mm (millimetre) and we'll look at converting between mm and cm's.  We'll try these games as a class:

https://kids.classroomsecrets.co.uk/resource/year-3-equivalent-lengths-mm-and-cm-game/ -game

https://www.twinkl.ca/go/resource/mm-to-cm-m-km-length-equivalents-interactive-matching-activity-tg-437-game

Period 5 is Drama/Music with Mrs. Haynes.

Period 6 we'll continue working on coding our own interactive maps.  

Tuesday Februrary 27th

 Here is the plan for today:

Period 1 - Red light, read aloud, reader's workshop...mini lesson focusing on using the 'blurb' to help us choose books.  

Period 2 is Writer's workshop - I'm hoping today, we can begin work on writing our 'fictional news articles' based upon on whacky headlines.  We'll answer the 5 W's in our stories.

Period 3 and 4 is math.  We'll continue on with linear measurement.  We keep looking at the metre and centimetre.  I'm hoping we can get outside before the rain too.

Period 5 I'm hoping we can continue coding our interactive maps.

Period 6 is music with Mrs. Haynes.  

Monday February 26th

 Happy Monday...here is the plan for today:

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

Period 2 -Reader's/Writer's workshop - student choice.

Periods 3 and 4 is Math.  We'll start our next unit on linear measurement....today we'll be looking specifically at the centimetre and metre.  

Period 5 is French with Mme. Coffin.

Period 6 I'm hoping to use the chromebooks to work on coding our interactive maps.  

Friday February 23nd

 Happy Friday!

Here is the plan today:

Period 1 and 2 is language.  We'll read a Choose Your Own Adventure book.  I have the chromebooks first thing...I'm hoping to finish our Science from the other day where we investigate a plant and make a poster.  I also want the kids to finish their interactive maps coding templates.  All of this work is posted on Google Classroom.

Period 3 we'll do the coloured square division worksheets from yesterday: https://www.coloringsquared.com/free-coloring-pages-math-for-kids/math-fact-coloring-pages/division-problems-math-activities/basic-division/

Period 4 is gym with Mr. D.

Period 5 and 6 we'll spend some extra time outside before we come in and do some 'fingerprint art' creating our own fingerprint characters...should be fun!

Thursday February 22nd

 Alright...Thursday!

Here is the plan:

Period 1 we'll do a little more work on Black History Month.  We'll learn a little about the artist Edward Mitchell Bannister.  Then we'll do 'reader's workshop' and we'll look at how characters reactions can help us discover the problem in a story.

Period 2 is writer's workshop.  I'm really hoping we can finish our wacky headlines so we can actually dive into writing them soon.

Period 3 is Gym with Mr. D.

Period 4 is Math - I've got some more fun division practise/game/colouring work.

Period 5 is computer buddies.  We're going to help our buddies learn to code their very own 'crazy' maze.  

Period 6 we'll head to the library and hopefully finish up some work on the computer.  

Wednesday February 21st

Here is the plan for today...

Period 1:  We'll continue our learning on Black History by diving a little deeper into the Underground Railroad and who Harriet Tubman was.  Then we'll do some independent reading.

Period 2 is Writer's workshop.  We'll continue to work on our fictional headlines.

Period 3 is math.  We'll do some more fun division work...I've got a division colouring sheet and a division word search.

Period 4 is Gym (Friday Schedule today) with Mr. D.

Period 5 and 6 we'll start our next Science unit learning about plants.  We'll use a really great resource from TVO today: https://tvolearn.com/pages/grade-3-science-and-technology-Global-Focus-learning-activity-1 . Hopefully we can get outside and enjoy the nice weather some time during this last block.

Tuesday February 20th

 Here is the plan for today:

Period 1- We'll talk about the underground railroad and watch a short video explaining exactly what it is.  After that we'll share highlights from our weekend. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVwv1Rwn4EA&feature=youtu.be&themeRefresh=1

Period 2 is Reader's/Writer's workshop - student choice (treating today like a Monday).

Period 3 and 4 is math.  We'll continue to work on Division doing some work on paper and some work on the computer.  I'm also hoping to get outside for a little fresh air.  

https://www.superteacherworksheets.com/division/equal-groups_TZNTM.pdf

https://www.superteacherworksheets.com/division/multiplication-and-division-fact-families_TZNTT.pdf

Period 5 is French with Mrs. Coffin.

Period 6 I'm hoping we can use the chromebooks to continue coding our interactive maps.  

Thursday February 15th

 Happy Thursday...just a reminder, don't send your kids to school tomorrow...it's a PD day!

Here is the plan for today:

Period 1 -We'll do our red light activity and read Tales of a 4th Grade Nothing.  After that we'll do a Black History Month Activity...we'll watch this video explaining exactly what Black History Month is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3K_aVm_pShA

Period 2 we'll do an engaging writing activity (hopefully) where we'll use the letters in our name to make up a fake Headlines and maybe even start writing an article (e.g., Creepy Racoons Open Secret Store)

Period 3 is gym with Mr. D.

Period 4 is Dance-A-Thon (woo hoo)

Period 5 is tech buddies...we'll work with our buddies to finish the Venn Diagrams from last week.  Afterwords we'll have some fun time on ABCya.com.

Period 6 we have the library and we might have a little free time on the chromebooks.

Stay safe everyone, enjoy the long weekend!

Wednesday February 14th

 Happy Valentine's Day!

Here is the plan for today:

Period 1 -Red light, Read aloud and Pancakes.

Period 2 -Writer's workshop...I'm planning on a few fun activities to encourage engagement.

Period 3 and 4 we'll be looking at Division some more...we're starting to get it...I think!  We'll look at division with Arrays and some related multiplicaiton facts.  

https://www.superteacherworksheets.com/division/arrays-division_TTAES.pdf

https://www.superteacherworksheets.com/multiplication/fact-family-arrays_LPKOJ.pdf

Period 5 is Music with Mrs. Haynes.

Period 6 we'll continue working on our Array City Skylines...maybe even play some Seatball...a game I taught them yesterday ...they were so amazing at taking responsibility and supporting others....brought a tear to an old teacher's eye...This is a good bunch of kids here.  I am lucky.

Tuesday February 13th

 Here is the plan for today:

Period 1- Red light, read aloud, reader's workshop...mini lesson focusing on summarizing (telling just the important parts...but not too much).

Period 2 is writer's workshop.  We'll be working alone (or in partners) to rewrite some boring dialogue to make it more interesting.

Period 3 and 4 is math.  We'll continue to look at division....I've posted an online assignment on Google Classroom that I hope they can finish today.  

Period 5 we'll continue to work on our city skyline array building from last week.

Period 6 is Music with Mrs. Haynes.

Monday February 12th

 Here is the plan for today:

Period 1: Red light, read aloud, Weekend Round Up.

Period 2: Reader's/Writer's workshop - student choice.

Period 3: Math -we're going to start division....talking about equal groups.   We'll try this work:

https://www.mathworksheets4kids.com/division/models/grouping/color/how-many-groups-1.pdfhttps://www.2nd-grade-math-salamanders.com/image-files/2nd-grade-division-worksheets-understanding-division-1.gif

Period 4 -because the Grade 1's are celebrating 100's day we had to move French to Period 4 today...with Mrs. Coffin.

Period 5 we'll go to the church for an 'Earth Rangers' Assembly.

Period 6 we'll come back and finish up any unfinished work...maybe even work on our 'Array Cities' a little.  

Friday February 9th

 Here is the plan for today:

Period 1 and 2 is reader's/writer's workshop.  I'm hoping to do a quick mini lesson on understanding points of view, then we'll jump onto english prodigy to answer a few POV questions.  After they're done that, they'll have the rest of the time to read or write with a partner.

Period 3 I'm hoping to continue coding by working on our planning template on google classroom.

Period 4 is Health with Mr. D.

Period 5 and 6 is art.  We'll make some cool 'city skyline arrays' and hopefully get outside for a little bit.  

Hopefully the art will look something like this: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/56928382778956814/

Have a great weekend

Thursday February 8th

 Here is the plan for today:

Period 1 -red light, read aloud, reader's workshop: we'll focus on using the title to help us understand the problem in stories.

Period 2 -writer's workshop - we'll continue our work form yesterday with the run on sentences and do a worksheet to consolidate our learning.

Period 3 is gym with Mr. D.

Period 4 is math.  I might do a fun array/art activity instead of starting division...I think they'll like this more.

Period 5 is tech buddies...we're going to work with our buddies to make Venn Diagrams.

Period 6 is Library, and we'll continue to work our interactive maps on code.org.

Wednesday February 7th

 I apologize to all of my faithful reader (I feel like their is only one of you out there), I was away yesterday, hence, no blog.

I'm back today and here is the plan:

Period 1-red light, read aloud (Tale of a 4th Grade Nothing) and reader's workshop.  We'll talk about how we can use titles to help us figure out the problem of the story (sometimes).

Period 2 -writer's workshop.  Our lesson will focus on stopping the run-on sentence, like the one I'm currently writing that will continue to go on forever and ever because when you're in Grade 3 sometimes you just don't need to use periods but obviously we all know that you do need periods but sometimes it's hard to tell where to put the periods so we'll talk about that as a class and try to fix up a couple of sample run-on sentences like the one I'm writing right now!

Period 3 and 4 is math.  I'm hoping it's equally as beautiful out today as it was yesterday and we can get outside for some fun.  When we come in I have some more 'array' work to do before we start division.

https://mathcurious.com/2020/06/11/array-maze/ & https://www.superteacherworksheets.com/multiplication/array-dice-game_TRYHD.pdf

Period 5 is Mrs. Haynes for music.

Period 6 we'll continue working on coding our interactive maps...or maybe we'll draw our own town maps...depending on chromebook availability.

Monday February 5th

 Here is the plan for today:

Period 1 -Red light, read aloud, Weekend Round Up.

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

Period 3 and 4 is math.  We'll play some more 'array games' and hopefully get outside to enjoy the nicer weather.

https://mathcurious.com/2020/06/11/array-maze/

https://www.superteacherworksheets.com/multiplication/array-dice-game_TRYHD.pdf

Period 5 is French with Mrs. Coffin.

Period 6 we'll do a 'snip and sort' jobs in Ontario activity.  I'll give them a list of jobs, and they have to guess which landform region that job would most likely exist (e.g., airport security = great lakes/St. Lawerence lowlands)

Friday February 2nd

 Happy Friday!

Here is the plan for today:

Period 1 and 2 is reader's /writer's workshop.  Student choice.

Period 3 is math...we'll do the array work from yesterday we didn't actually get to.

Period 4 is Health with Mr. D

Period 5 and 6 is art.  We'll continue to develop our water colour skills by making these awesome landscape pictures:https://cassiestephens.blogspot.com/2018/11/in-art-room-jen-aranyi-inspired.html

Thursday February 1st

 Happy February!

Here is the plan for today:

Period 1: Red light, desk swap, read aloud, reader's workshop -we'll focus on our voices matching the feeling

Period 2: writer's workshop: we'll finish re-writing yesterday's piece by varying sentence beginnings...we'll share and reflect on our work

Period 3 is Gym with Mr. D.

Period 4 is math.  We'll play a couple of 'array games' to reenforce our multiplication facts.

https://mathcurious.com/2020/06/11/array-maze/

https://www.superteacherworksheets.com/multiplication/array-dice-game_TRYHD.pdf

Period 5 is buddies with Mrs. Ever's Class, we'll help them finish their safety posters and show them their first lesson in coding.  

Period 6 we're in the library.  We'll finish up any unfinished work and maybe have a little free time...if we deserve it.