Monday January 13th

I hope everyone had a nice weekend.

Here is what today should look like:
Period 1 Red light - Read aloud - Weekend Round UP
Period 2 Reader's/Writer's Workshop

Period 3 Music with Mrs. Haynes
Period 4 Math-we'll continue on with the 3D solids we were working with last week.

Period 5 and 6 is art.  We're going to watch a few Youtube videos that teach us how to sketch and shade 3D objects:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48_P5552638-3D sketches

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTMQ7KmMcBw - a box

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMr6eimcolc&t=170s -value/shading

Youtube Fridays

Just wanted to send a quick message that we're going to be starting 'Youtube Fridays' next week.

4 kids will be sharing a Youtube video every Friday.  The list is alphabetically by last name.

The kids are bringing home the instructions and the rubric.  In case you loose them (or they don't make it home) here is an electronic version.

YouTube Friday Instructions

YouTube Friday Rubric

Today we watched the first 5 minutes of this video and I modelled for the class how to answer the 4 questions.

Danny MacAskill's Imaginate

Here is an example of our conversation:

1. Mr. Cross:  How many times has this video been viewed?

Adam: Ninety million fifty six thousand one hundred and fifty nine (at the time I wrote this post)

2. Mr. Cross:  Why did you choose this video?

Adam:  I thought the bike stunts were super cool.  I know Eloise and Adelaide take BMX lessons and I thought they might like it too.

3. Mr. Cross:  Who do you think the target audience is and why? 

Adam:  I think the target audience is probably younger people around 18-30 years of age who are into extreme sports.  I think this because the main character is a young male and seems to me like teenagers really like to watch and participate in extreme sports.  I noticed this video was made by 'Redbull' and they make energy drinks.  I saw lots of Redbull logos in the video, like on his helmet and on the race car.  Little kids shouldn't drink Energy Drinks because they're not healthy.  

4. Mr. Cross:  Is there anybody who might not like this video?  Why or Why not?

Adam:  I don't think other Energy Drink companies would like this video, because they want more customers to recognize and buy their products, not Redbull.  I also think that parents might not like this video either, because they don't want their kids drinking Redbull or trying those dangerous stunts.

January 10th

Happy Friday!

Period 1-Read aloud. Reader's/Writer's workshop.
Period 2- French.

Period 3 we're going to talk about 'Youtube Fridays', a new media literacy activity we'll be doing each Friday...information coming home today.
Period 4 we're going to talk briefly about 3D solids and try and name some Pyramids and Prisms.  There's a worksheet to follow where we count the edges, faces and vertices on 3D shapes.

Period 5 we have the computers...we'll do some more 3D solid work.
Period 6 I'm hoping to play some guitar...finally...hopefully!

January 9th

Here is today's plan.

Period 1 read aloud, reader's workshop.  Mini lesson focuses on building fluency (goodbye robot reading)
Period 2 is writer's workshop.  The mini lesson will focus on writing the 'inside story' now that we've mastered our character's 'outside appearance'. 

Period 3 is math, we'll continue to build different polygons using pattern blocks (2D geometry).
Period 4 Mr. Woolley has them for French.

Period 5 we might do the second rotation of the 4 corner sports circuit from yesterday (swimming, skiing, basketball and skipping).
Period 6 we'll hopefully get to that social studies land regions/job sort that I've been planning to do since Monday!

January 8th

Here is the plan for today!

Period 1 read aloud, reader's workshop.
Period 2 writer's workshop...we'll be looking at 'visualizing' our characters, flushing out what they look like on the outside.

Period 3 we have math.  We're going to talk a little more about 2D shapes...and explore all the different shapes we can make using pattern blocks.
Period 4 Mr. Butt has them for library/technology.

Period 5 we have gym...we're going to do some 'fitness circuits'.
Period 6 we'll do the social studies from yesterday we didn't get to...examining the different jobs in Ontario's different landforms(e.g., banking in the Great Lakes/St. Lawerence region).

January 7th 2020

Yesterday was great...let's make today even better!

Period 1 -Reader's workshop - we're going to look at 'making the bumpy smooth' (going back and re-reading choppy bits smoothly)
Period 2 is Writer's workshop.

Period 3 is music.
Period 4 we're going to look at all the various 2D shapes and their properties (e.g., number of sides/angles)

Period 5 we have the Chromebooks (hopefully) and I'm assigning prodigy questions for them.
Period 6 we'll continue with social studies looking at some of the various jobs in the different land form regions.

January 6th

Happy New Year, and welcome back!

If your kids are anything like my son, Eli, they were crying because they had to put on clothes today...

Here is what today should look like...key word is 'should'...as I bet all our brains are a little foggy.

Period 1 -Read aloud / Weekend Round UP
Period 2 -Reader's /Writer's workshop...I want all the kids to write a 'resolution'.

Period 3 is music
Period 4 we'll do the great seating swap followed by a game of SKUNK

Period 5 and 6 we have art and we'll be looking at Dutch artist Piet Mondrian!