Be safe...Happy Holidays!

 Hey everyone,

I just want to wish everyone a happy holiday!  I hope you all find some time to relax with family and friends.  Happy New Year! 

See you in 2024!

Thursday...

I just realized I didn't post on the blog today or yesterday...gulp!  Both of my dedicated readers are probably devastated and concerned.  I'm sorry...the days sort of got away from me.

Well it was the last full day before the Holiday Break.  I worked them super hard.  Lots of tests, quizzes and exams today.  Really a punishingly brutal work day.  

We were able to squeeze in 3 minutes of fun between math and language...but that was about all.  

Tomorrow we'll do lots more hard work...I may even forget to post.  If that's the case, be safe, have fun and Happy New Year!

Tuesday December 19th

 Here is the plan for today (I wasn't here yesterday, but Mrs. Sylvester said she had a wonderful day).

Period 1 -Reader's workshop/read aloud.

Period 2 -the Child and Youth Councillor for our school will be coming in to do a small presentation on 'personal space'.  

Period 3 we'll finish up some 'tree diagram' work from last week on how to organize and sort data.

Period 4 we'll use the chromebooks to do some work on Math prodigy and hopefully some coding.

Period 5 we'll use to work on Holiday gifts and free time.

Period 6 is music with Mrs. Haynes.

Friday December 15th

 Happy Friday!

Here is the plan for today.

Period 1 and 2 is reader's/writer's workshop - student choice.  On Fridays the students get the choice to work with a partner if they wish (to read and/or write).

Period 3 is math.  We'll look at organizing data into 'tree diagrams'.  

Period 4 is gym with Mr. D.

Period 5 and 6 is art.  We'll do some Optical Illusion art today in the style of Bridgit Riley.  

Have a terrific weekend everyone.

Thursday December 14th

Here is the plan for today:

Period 1 -Reader's workshop - Mini lesson will focus on 'reading fluently in an interesting voice'...specifically non fiction.

Period 2 is writer's workshop - we'll look at word choice and really examine the verbs we choose.

Period 3 is gym with Mr. D.

Period 4 is math.  We'll review carroll charts and then look at Venn Diagrams.  We'll play these games as a class then do some work: 

https://math4childrenplus.com/sets-and-venn-diagrams-rally-game/

http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/ShapeSorter/

Period 5 is buddies with Mrs. Ever's class.  We'll do some 'word ladders' and some Santa Tracker.

Period 6 is library book exchange.

Wednesday December 13th

 Here is the plan for today:

Period 1 reader's workshop: Mini lesson focusing on fluency.  Just going back to re-read words more smoothly.

Period 2 is writer's workshop:  We'll share some of our 'strong voice' writing from yesterday and keep it rolling!

Period 3 and 4 is math and coding.  We'll construct our 3D shapes and keep on coding 'the artist'...it's hard work but we're really working on perseverance.

Period 5 is music.

Period 6 I am hoping to do a little 'printing practice' and maybe some free time!

Tuesday December 12th

 Here is the plan for today:

Period 1 is reader's workshop:  We'll look at reading words across a break line (e.g., power-ful...and 'ful' is on the next line).

Period 2 is writer's workshop:  We'll continue using our strong writing voice to write about topics that we're passionate about.

Period 3 and 4 is math/coding.  I have a quick math activity where the students need to build any 3D shape they want and count the Edges, faces and vertices.  After that we'll jump on to code.org to work on developing our 'artist skills'.  

Period 5 we'll use for finish up/mindfulness.

Period 6 is music with Mrs. Haynes.