Tuesday April 30th

 What??  Last day of April?  The year is flying by.

Here is the plan for today:

Period 1 -Reader's workshop - We'll talk about how often in non-fiction books the authors will share the definition of difficult words write in their sentences.

Period 2 -Writer's workshop - we'll look closer at the EQAO sample test on line and go through one of the books together.  The big think will be incorporating part of the question into our answers.

Period 3 and 4 is math. We'll look at theoretical probability vs. experimental probability.  I've got some work for them to do.  If it's nice we may go outside for a bit (highly unlikely). https://www.superteacherworksheets.com/probability/probability8-experiment-suits.pdf

Period 5 we'll look at some old 'historica minutes' commercials and talk about how the First Nations had a hand in naming Canada. https://www.historicacanada.ca/productions/minutes

Period 6 is Music with Mrs. Haynes.

Monday May 29th

 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 and 4 is math.  We'll do some probability work/experiments.  And we'll also revisit the EQAO website to look at the 2nd math sample. 

https://www.superteacherworksheets.com/probability/probability10_TZQMZ_CA.pdf

https://www.superteacherworksheets.com/probability/probability2_TZQRQ_CA.pdf

Period 5 is French with Mrs. Coffin.

Period 6 Ms. O Neil will be covering me while I work with Mrs. Bryce (an itinerant teacher with the school board)

I'm hoping to send information home today about our upcoming 'Swim to Survive' field trip (on blue paper).

Friday April 26th

 Here is the plan for this exciting Friday...

Period 1 -We had a fire drill and practiced evacuation drill (e.g., whole school walked to the church).

Period 2 - I put the class into partners and they had to assess their friends paragraph....giving them a grade and discussing why.

Period 3 -Tech day!

Period 4 -Mr. D for gym/health

Period 5 -Relay practice....then Tech Day.

Period 6 - Tech Day!

Best day ever!

Wednesday April 24th

 Here is the plan for today:

Period 1 -red light, read aloud, reader's workshop: mini lesson focusing on being 'word conscious'...when we encounter new words....

Period 2 is writer's workshop -we'll use the hamburger organizer again to plan a paragraph about whether we rather drive or walk to school.  

Period 3 is math.  We'll start our next unit on probability. We'll mostly just discuss the language of probability (e.g., likely, unlikely, certain and impossible).  

Period 4 we'll head outside (weather permitting) and continue our Relay tryouts.

Period 5 Music with Mrs. Haynes.

Period 6 we'll listen to the first nations story 'Honouring the Buffalo' and do the work from yesterday.

Tuesday April 23rd

 Here is the plan for today:

Period 1 - Mrs. Haynes needed to switch things around, so they'll have music period 1.

Period 2 -we're going to look a little closer at our paragraphs from last week and look at some EQAO examples.

Period 3 and 4 is math.  We'll continue on with our EQAO them by looking at the EQAO practice tests and we'll do some prodigy.  I've selected EQAO Prep for math prodigy. It should help to prepare the students for the type of questions they may encounter.

Period 5 is social studies.  We'll listen to the first nations story of Honouring the Buffalo.   We'll do a bit of work on this.https://wonderhub.ca/wonderworld/item/honouring-the-buffalo-a-plains-cree-legend-by-judith-silverthorne-for-storytime/

Period 6 if it's nice we'll go outside and practice for the relay again.

Monday April 22nd

 Here is the plan for today:

Period 1 -red light, read aloud, weekend round up, reader's/writer's workshop

Period 2 -we went outside for the first of our relay practice/try outs.

Period 3 and 4 is math-we'll look at clockwise and counter clockwise rotations (1/4, 1/2 and 3/4 turns).

We'll play these games as a class:

https://ictgames.com/mobilePage/deadlyDoors/index.html

https://www.baamboozle.com/classic/680889

Then I have worksheet for them to complete.  When finished we'll continue working on our cursive alien art...

Period 5 is French with Mrs. Coffin.

Period 6 we'll head back outside for our earth day clean up. 

Friday April 19th

 Here is plan for today:

Period 1 and 2 is red light, read aloud, reader's/writer's workshop.  I'm hoping the class will be able to type out their paragraphs from yesterday and maybe play a little English Prodigy.

Period 3 is math.  We'll do some co-ordinate geometry work.

Period 4 is gym with Mr. D.

Period 5 and 6 is Art.  I'm hoping to do some cool art work using our names in written in cursive. 

Thursday April 18th

 Here is the plan for today:

Period 1- Red light, read aloud, reader's workshop: mini lesson focus on using just the right word...if you come across a word you don't know...first figure out if it describes something positive or negative...then try to use synonyms to come up with the appropriate word.

Period 2 -Writer's workshop -continue working on our paragraphs from yesterday...would you rather fly high or move fast.

Period 3 gym with Mr. D.

Period 4 math.  We'll look at coordinates on a grid and how to move from one are to the next. (eg., up 4, 3 to the left, quarter turn clockwise).

Period 5 is computer buddies....we'll teach our Grade 1 friends what Dojo Island is all about.

Period 6...assuming the class has a great day we'll enjoy some free time in the library.  Some kids will play on the chromebooks and some kids will beat me at Connect 4.  

Wednesday April 17th

 Yuck...rainy, windy Wednesday!

We'll try to make the best of it.  Here is the plan for today:

Period 1 -Red light, read aloud, reader's workshop...same mini lesson as yesterday (as we were planting radishes first period yesterday).

Period 2 -Writer's workshop: We'll continue exploring paragraph writing.  We'll write paragraphs about whether we would rather be able to fly high, or move fast.  

Period 3 and 4 is math.  We'll finish up our unit on mass and capacity.  I've got a little experiment I'd like them to try.

Period 5 is music with Mrs. Haynes.

Period 6 we'll do the social studies from yesterday (that we also didn't get around to), reading Buffalo Bird Girl and answering questions.  

Tuesday April 16th

 Here is the plan for today:

Period 1 -Red light, read aloud (Holes) and reader's workshop- mini lesson focusing on using clues to infer the meaning of 'tricky words'.

Period 2 - Writer's workshop - We'll look at some previous EQAO paragraph writing questions...we'll do one as a class then they'll do one on their own...just to practice our paragraph writing skills.

https://exploringeducation.weebly.com/uploads/4/0/7/4/4074807/eqao_writing_paragraphs.pdf

Period 3 is lesson 4 of 6 where Wafa the CYC worker comes in to help us recognize and manage anxiety.

Period 4 is math -we'll do a little more capacity/mass work.

Period 5 We'll listen to the story 'Buffalo Bird Girl' and we'll discuss how the first nations people used and honoured the buffalo.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNhUrTA09nc

Period 6 is Music with Mrs. Haynes.

Monday April 15th

Here is the plan on this glorious Monday - 

Period 1 -Red light, Read aloud, Weekend Round Up

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

Period 3 and 4 is Math - Today will be an introduction to Mass and Capacity.  We'll do some work and hopefully answer some questions on Math prodigy.

Period 5 is Music with Mrs. Haynes.

Period 6 we'll finish up our movie from Friday 

Friday April 12th

 Here is the plan for today:

Period 1 and 2 -reader's/writer's workshop - student choice

Period 3 Math - design our own flags (and write about fractions)

Period 4 gym

Period 5 and 6 -Art OP (optical illusion) spring flowers / Movie!

Wednesday April 10th

 Here is the plan for today:

First off, we'll welcome Mrs. Benison's Grade 3 girls while she takes the Grade 4's on a field trip.

Period 1 - Reader's workshop. We'll talk about where words are in the sentence to help us figure them out (e.g., verbs are usually right after nouns).  

Period 2 is Writer's workshop - I'm hoping my last few students will finish and present their Choose Your Own Adventure slideshows...and hopefully we begin work on writing proper paragraphs.

Period 3 and 4 Math - We'll finish up the Fraction Flag activity we're doing in partners from yesterday.  After that the students will hopefully design their own flags and figure out the fractions of the colours they use.  If it's nice I'm sure we'll get outside at some point.

Period 5 is Music with Mrs. Haynes.

Period 6 we'll use the chromebooks to finish coding our balanced eco systems.  

Tuesday April 9th

 Happy Day after the eclipse?  

Here is the plan for today:

Period 1-Red light, Read aloud and Weekend Round up.

Period 2 -Reader's/Writer's workshop - student choice (acting like a Monday)

Period 3 -Wafa the CYC worker is coming in to run the 3rd instalment of the 'chill club'.

Period 4 -Math -we'll look at flags from various countries and try to figure out the fractions of colours.

Period 5 -We'll dig a little deeper for social studies and narrow in on life in Canada around 1890...and where in the timeline we did last week, that period fits in....we'll have discussion about how some things are the same and some things are different...and what life might of been like back then.  

Friday April 5th

 Here is the plan for today:

Period 1 - Reader's/Writer's workshop -lots of scrabble, boggle and comic making with friends.

Period 2 -We continued to work on CYOA slideshows and prodigy for the early finishers.

Period 3 -we'll present our slideshows and design our own 'fraction flags'.

Period 4 -gym with Mr. D.

Period 5 and 6 is art...we're going to do some Solar Eclipse chalk pastel work that should hopefully look sort of like this:

Thursday April 4th

 Here is the plan for today:

Period 1 -Reader's Workshop - mini lesson will focus on using clues to figure out unfamiliar words (e.g., if it's right after a noun...chances are it's a verb)

Period 2 -Writer' workshop -we'll continue to work on our Choose Your Own Adventure slideshows...hopefully finish soon.  

Period 3 we'll continue working in small groups organizing a timeline of events.  Mostly we need to chat about 'good group work vs bad group work'.  We'll share the actual order of events.  

Period 4 is math.  We'll look at several different flags and talk about fractions (2/3 red, 1/3 white).  We'll design and describe our own flags.  

Period 5 is French with Mrs. Coffin (Monday Schedule).

Period 6 is I'd love to work on Dojo Island...see if we can create some 'fraction' based creations.  

Wednesday April 3rd

 Period 1- Reader's workshop -mini lesson focusing on 'picturing it' to help us understand.

Period 2 -Writer's workshop - continue working on our CYOA slideshows (hopefully finish them...maybe even present a few).

Period 3 and 4 is math.  We'll look at fractions as part of a set/group and do this work: 

https://www.superteacherworksheets.com/fractions/fractions-of-a-group_TWMBQ.pdf

https://www.k5learning.com/worksheets/math/grade-3-fraction-part-set-a.pdf

Period 5 is Music with Mrs. Haynes.

Period 6 we'll do a little team building activity then work in small groups to organize events from history into a timeline.  

Tuesday April 2nd

 Here is the plan for today:

Period 1 and 2 -Desk Swap!  I moved the carpet and re arranged the desks...we'll see how this works...at least for now?  We'll clean and organize our desks and acclimatize to the new set up.  After that we'll read move of The Homework Machine. We'll treat today like a Monday, so the kids will be able to choose to read or write for reader's/writer's workshop today.

Period 3 Wafa the CYC worker will be coming in to do lesson 2 of her 'chill club'.  

Period 4 we'll play a fun 'I Have, Who Has' fraction game.  

Period 5 we'll use the chromebooks to hopefully finish coding our eco systems

Period 6 is Music with Mrs Haynes.