Tuesday October 6th

 I generally get to work fairly early, so it's often easier for me to post in the morning...however, plans often change.  Here is what I'm hoping happens today!

Periods 1 & 2 Literacy:

We'll begin the day with this 'brain teaser'...focusing on just 'trying'!

https://www.transum.org/software/SW/Starter_of_the_day/starter_October8.asp

Then we'll read aloud from 'You Can't Scare Me'.  Then we'll talk about 'Mind over Matter' and choosing to pick books to help engage us.

For writing we'll look at breaking our writing time into smaller chunks to help us build stamina.

Periods 3 and 4 we'll be going onto Google Classroom to use a random number generator to make our own subtractions questions.  They'll be taking screenshots and manipulating them in a google drawing to solve.

Period 5 Mr. Butt has them for library tech.  I think he'll do some coding with them.

Period 6 we're going to try collaborating on Google Earth to make our own 'tour' of Ontario's landform regions.  

Hopefully we'll be able to squeeze some outside time in there throughout the day!

Monday October 5th

 Here is what we did today:

Period 1 and 2 we started the morning by shaping our play doh into the best 'mud monsters' we could make.  Then we had our 'weekend round up', sharing highlights of our weekends.  Then we read from 'You Can't Scare Me'.  Then the kids had 15 minutes to read on their own. **We still have about 5 kids without their own books...try to remember to bring a book you enjoy to school each day** 

Then we looked at this website:

http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/construct/

Before we started writing.  

Periods 3 & 4 we did some math.  We looked at subtraction with regrouping...the class worked really hard, and I think we're starting to get it!  Keep practising at home!

https://www.mathplayground.com/video_subtraction_regrouping.html -video

Games

https://www.softschools.com/math/subtraction/2_digit_subtraction/2_digit_subtraction_with_regrouping/

https://mrnussbaum.com/fun-regrouping-in-subtraction-games-from-computermice

https://www.education.com/game/two-digit-subtraction-mountain/

Then we did this work:

https://www.worksheetfun.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/wfun16_graph_sub_2D_T_O_1.pdf

https://www.coloringsquared.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/SH5-Wizard-mystery-subtraction-math-facts.pdf

We were able to get outside for a little fresh air in between all that work.

Period 5 we coloured in maps of the 3 landform regions of Ontario

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PY98BeiJx8azlwXWmnxfSCvfmoFZZULc/view?usp=sharing

Then we had a little time to watch some Wayside right before, Music.

Period 6 Music (with Mrs. Haynes).

RAZ KIDS

 OK...we finally have our license for RAZ KIDS for those of you that prefer reading on line, with incentives.  

Here is the link:

https://www.kidsa-z.com/main/Login?_ga=2.199011885.364128881.1601641970-1380978293.1601641970

It's also under 'material' inside of Google Classroom.

Teacher username is:  across9

Their passwords are just their 4 letter passwords to log into Halton Cloud.

I've set the levels ... to what I've assessed them at.  However, if you feel the books are not challenging enough (they're acing every quiz) or too hard (they're bombing every quiz) please let me know and I can adjust the levels as necessary.  

I'm hoping we can practise logging in at school today...I'll also be sending home their log in cards today...

Friday October 2nd

 Here is what I have planned for today:

Period 1:  We'll start the day with this brain puzzle:  https://www.transum.org/software/SW/Starter_of_the_day/starter_October3.asp

Then we'll read a loud from 'You Can't Scare Me'...focusing on asking 'good questions' while we read.  

We'll also check out this website and can help with spelling: http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/construct/

Period 2 Mr. Butt has them for technology.

Period 3 and 4 we are going to do some math.  I'm going to introduce the concept of subtraction.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwQKugrFmJQ (song)

https://www.khanacademy.org/math/early-math/cc-early-math-add-sub-100/cc-early-math-sub-two-dig-intro/v/subtracting-2-digit-numbers-without-regrouping (video)

Game:

https://www.abcya.com/games/subtraction_game

Introduce subtraction (using a ruler/numberline)

https://apps.mathlearningcenter.org/number-line/

After, we'll try do some work on these type of sheets:

https://www.k5learning.com/worksheets/math/grade-2-subtract-2-digit-numbers-no-regrouping-a.pdf -front

https://www.coloringsquared.com/free-coloring-pages-math-for-kids/math-fact-coloring-pages/free-subtraction-worksheets/#Advanced%20Subtraction -back

Period 5 and 6 we have the Chromebooks.  I'm going to try and do a subtraction activity (including screenshots) on Google Classroom and get the class set up with our new Raz Kids accounts.  More information to come soon!

LEAF ART

 So we changed our math to art today...because it was beautiful outside.

I was very impressed with how well the kids worked, and the masterpieces they created.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1TSVeN_9Sd-5o4SguD4ll-H5MxxRnvvCT?usp=sharing

(I hope that link works)

Thursday October 1st

 I'm going to try and blog early today (busy day). Here is the plan.

Period 1 & 2 is literacy.

We'll start the morning with the problem:

https://www.transum.org/software/SW/Starter_of_the_day/starter_October1.asp

Then we'll read aloud "You Can't Scare Me" Goosebumps book.  Then for reader's workshop, we're going to focus on 'asking questions to engage with the texts we're reading'.  For writer's workshop we'll focus on 'good writing is REWRITING'.  So we'll go back to some of our writing and look for ways to improve them.

Period 3 and 4 is typically math...but looking at the weather, I think we might be better to switch to art today and save our 'subtraction introduction' until tomorrow.  If it's nice out we're going to collect some leaves and make our own 'Leaf People' after reading 'Leaf Man'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvAK2hxNFrY -leaf man

https://inspirationlaboratories.com/leaf-man-virtual-book-club-for-kids/ (samples)

Period 5 Mr. Woolley has them for French.

Period 6 will be a mindfulness period. We're going to talk about what we do to 'de-stress'. We'll do some 'Go Noodle' activities and just try and finish up some unfinished work.

Wednesday September 30th

 Here is what we did today (so far).

Periods 1 and 2 were all about goal setting.  We made goals for how much/far we could read and write...then we took the time to beat those goals.  We also read a few chapters from our Goosebumps novel.

Periods 3 and 4 were math.  The kids worked hard on completing this assessment (find the mistakes)...and then they had some more 'math time' to do either the mystery puzzle or coloured square practise. 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1txC52XuakO6EDfyK5WHB6HO2SCiCqKRa/view?usp=sharing (assesment)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TT2rKNXiLsWLJNV98ay00JaGqkDi08hk/view?usp=sharing (puzzle)

https://www.coloringsquared.com/free-coloring-pages-math-for-kids/math-fact-coloring-pages/free-addition-worksheet-activities/#Mystery (coloured square)

we were able to get outside for a little play time before recess.  

Period 5 Is social studies.  We're going to read about the Hudsons Bay lowlands and work on our 'Living and Working in Ontario' title page.  

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pm85wi733wkySWsLLBDD-Jak2KBn19XC/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/17UwTVu7N21_6yJTRB61uzsZHr-bg6xy8/view?usp=sharing

Period 6 Mr. Woolley is coming in for French.