Tuesday February 14th

 Happy Valentines Day!

Here is the plan for today.

Period 1 is reader's workshop.  We'll focus on 'getting your eyes ahead' to help with fluency.

Period 2 is writer's workshop.  I'm hoping to finish rough copies of our persuasive paragraphs.

Period 3 we'll stay outside for a bit before we come in for some Math.  We'll continue with Division.  I have a couple of division games to play.

Period 4 if there is still time, we might start a Valentines movie (Gnomeo and Juilet).

Period 5 they have Mr. D for gym.

Period 6 we'll finish up our movie...maybe even enjoy a little popcorn treat.

Monday February 13th

 Here is the plan for today...

Period 1 we'll read aloud a book about media literacy and share highlights of our weekends.

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

Period 3 and 4 is math. I have several Division games planned.  If we have time afterwards we'll log into Prodigy and do some more division questions.

Period 5 -I just found out Mrs. Haynes is not here, so we'll start our 'Media' lesson a little early and carry it over Period 6.  If there is any time at the end of the day, perhaps we'll enjoy a little free time.

Friday February 10th

 TGIF...

Here is the plan for today:

Period 1 -Music - Mrs. Haynes.

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

Period 3 and 4 we'll stay outside for a little extra before we come in for some Math.  We'll continue working on Division.  We'll do these worksheets:

https://www.superteacherworksheets.com/division/division-1-equal-groups_JKLHJ.pdf

https://www.superteacherworksheets.com/division/division-numberhunt_AZZTY.pdf

If there is any time left over, I'd like to start work on our Media Literacy unit, looking at implied and overt messages in advertisements.

Period 5 I'm hoping as a class we can try and play Boggle in groups...sort of just go over the rules and try to figure out the game.

Period 6 I'm hoping we can coast into the weekend with a little bit of free time (after we've finished all our unfinished work).

Thursday February 9th

 Ugh...I'm back.  The Cross clan has been hit by covid...again.  

My symptoms are improving, so I'm back, masked.  Wearing a mask, teaching 8 year olds while congested should be a new form of torture...thankfully this class rocks.  

Here is the plan for today.

Period 1 -reader's workshop...I thought it best to not do any guided reading today (trying to keep my distance)

Period 2 -writer's workshop...we'll continue with persuasive writing.

Period 3 is math.  We'll work on arrays and equal groups/division:

fact-family-arrays_LPKOJ.pdf

arrays-division_TTAES.pdf

Period 4 is Gym with Mr. D.

Period 5 we'll do some cool finger-print art I stole from my son's class...and hopefully video conference with our classmate Zak who is home recovering. 

Period 6 the class has earned quite a bit of free time from Mrs. Wilson and Mrs. McHaffie that I'll allow them to cash in.  

Monday February 6th

 Here is the plan for today:

Period 1 is red light and read aloud, followed by Weekend Round Up.

Period 2 is reader's/writer's workshop. I'm hoping most of the class will finish their Google drawing paragraph on Google classroom (from last week).

Period 3 and 4 we'll stay outside for a little bit, then come in to do math.  We're going to start looking at what division is and begin work on division. We'll go through this slide show together:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1gLosy2XWg9WUPAce5uBb9f5-A6pBlSsP8n9oDwjzWmw/edit?usp=sharing

Then follow it up with this work:

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

Period 5 is Mrs. Haynes for music.

Period 6 we'll continue on with our STEM catapults.

Friday February 3rd

 Friday!  A very cold Friday.

Here is the plan for today:

Period 1-Music with Mrs. Haynes.

Period 2 -Reader's Writers' Workshop - student choice.  I'm hoping to write our sweet paragraphs on Google Drawing, complete with pictures.  

Period 3 and 4 is Math.  We'll play a whole class game of Multiplication Bingo.  Then we'll use the chromebooks and play on Multiplication.com or Prodigy to brush up on our facts...next week we'll be diving into division!

Period 5 and 6 I'm going to call 'STEM' challenge.  The kids really enjoyed our 'who can build the strongest paper bridge' challenge earlier this week.  Today I'll challenge them to see who can build a catapult that throws a pom pom the furthest.  They'll only be able to use popsicle sticks and elastic bands.

Thursday February 2nd

 Here is the plan for today...

Period 1 is reader's workshop -we'll look at punctuation in the middle of the sentence (dashes, semi-colons and comma)

Period 2 is writer's workshop - we didn't have a lot of time yesterday to work on our periods...we'll continue writing our perfect paragraphs

Period 3 is math.  We'll continue practising our times tables with games and colouring sheets: MultiplicationColoringSheetsMathFreebie-1.pdf

Period 4 is the Dance-A-Thon with Professor Jamz...and Mr. D.

Period 5/6 is art...we'll integrate math with art...and build city skylines with arrays....like this:

https://www.brightconcepts4teachers.com/2016/09/array-city-ideas-to-integrate-curriculum.html