Thursday November 9th

 Here is the plan for today:

Period 1 -reader's workshop and we'll finish Tale of Despereaux.  Our mini lesson will be looking at Diagraphs and Blends to help us solve words.

Period 2 Mrs. Haynes is going to take them for an extra period to practice their plays in drama while I go to an in-school meeting.

Period 3 is normally health with Mr. D, but we have our special author visit with Melanie Florence: https://www.melanieflorence.com/my-story

Period 4 we'll look at pattern rules and finish up our unit on patterning. 

Period 5 we have our buddies...we'll play Interland (internet safety) one last time with the task of the buddies coming up with a comic about being kind online.

Period 6 we'll do book exchange and hopefully work on our coding the oceans for a bit.  

Wednesday November 8th

 Here is the plan for today:

Period 1 reader's workshop - mini lesson focuses on using what we know about words to help us solve unfamiliar words.

Period 2 writer's workshop - Comic's have invaded our 'writing time'...but there is very little writing happening in many of the comics.  So we'll go over how to 'write' and do comics (I don't want to squash their 'writing enthusiasm' but I need a little more writing.)

Period 3 and 4 is math.  We'll looks specifically at 'pattern rules' and how to use them to create patterns.  I have a couple of worksheets for them to practise and show their knowledge of patterns and pattern rules.

Period 5 is music with Mrs. Haynes.

Period 6 we'll either work on proper letter formation and hopefully have some time to practise coding AI to clean up the ocean on code.org.

Tuesday November 7th

 Here is the plan for today:

Period 1 -reader's workshop - mini lesson -juggling 3 balls when reading (seeing, hearing, thinking).

Period 2 -writer' workshop -mini lesson - thinking of an object, writing everything you can think about it.

Period 3 and 4 is math.  We'll do some more work with patterning and using a table of values to figure out what's happening.  Hopefully some prodigy time afterwords.

Period 5 is coding.  We'll look at using 'AI' to build a game that focuses on cleaning the oceans.

Period 6 is Music with Mrs. Haynes.

Monday November 6th

 Here is the plan for today:

Period 1 -red light, read aloud, weekend round up and a 'lock down' drill practice.  

Period 2 -whatever is left of period 2 will be reader's/writer's workhshop -student choice. 

Period 3 and 4 is math.  We'll look at using a table of values to help us figure out patterns.  We'll do some partner work where we look at several different tables and try decide which 'pattern rule' belongs to each table.  Then there is a worksheet for them to do on their own.

Period 5 is French with Mme. O'Neil.

Period 6 I want to have the kids log on to blooket (to have some fun and do a quiz about some of the read alouds we've read and a quiz about Canadian Money.

Friday November 3rd

 Here is the plan for today:

Period 1 and 2 is reader's/writer's workshop.  Today is the day the kids can choose to read or write with a partner.  I do want to do a quick 'verb' activity with the whole class before they start.

Period 3 we'll talk very briefly about growing and shrinking patterns and then I hope to start the BFG movie.  

Period 4 is gym with Mr. D.

Period 5 and 6 we'll finish watching the BFG and discuss the differences between the 2 movies and the book.

I hope everyone has a terrific weekend.

Thursday November 2nd

 Here is the plan for today:

Period 1 -Reader's workshop - we'll do yesterday's lesson about how reading is really a juggling act (eyes, ears and brain).

Period 2 is Writer's workshop- using your senses to help you write.

Period 3 is math.  We'll look at both growing and shrinking patterns.

Period 4 is gym with Mr. D.

Period 5 is buddies with Mrs. Evers' class.  We'll show them the games we created on code.org.  Then play Interland with them to go over 'internet safety'.

Period 6 is library book exchange.  

Wednesday November 1st

 ugh...the day after Halloween...very scary.  Late nights, lots of junk food = ready to learn!  Wish me luck (and I'm feeling under the weather).

Here is the 'plan' for today.  We may have to adapt on the fly.  I've also changed the desks around (1st of the month)

Period 1 -reader's workshop - we'll talk about how reading is really a juggling act between what we see, hear, and think (then I wow them by actually juggling).

Period 2 is writer's workshop -the mini lesson is all about using our senses to help us write.

Period 3 and 4 is math.  We'll begin our next unit on Patterning.  We will talk about what exactly a pattern is, and do a worksheet about changing attributes (e.g., shape, size, direction). I'm hoping if it's nice outside maybe we can spend some time out there.

Period 5 is Music with Mrs. Haynes.

Period 6 I'm going to leave open for 'free time' maybe watch an episode of Wayside and solve some rubik's cubes?