Tuesday, February 18, 2020

Good day!  I see that I missed Friday in my eagerness to get away for the long weekend.  Yesterday was Family Day, so today was the first day of a short week. 

Reminders: Summer in February tomorrow! 
                    Friday is Professional Development Day so no school for students.

Today was pyjama day and a pancake breakfast!  It was popular and a fun start to our day.  Upon our return to the class, we finished up the Hearts activity which involved identifying four basic parts of speech.  We went through this together, adding words to each one to make clearer sense of it.

Next, the kids went to P.E.!!

After recess, we finished the grammar activity sheet, reviewed factoring and making arrays, played a few math games with partners, and completed "Plangendas" before lunch.

 

Directly after lunch, students worked to finish their biome projects on Book Creator.  These are almost done for most. 

Finally, we did some art "Creating Texture Using Oil Pastels" with our 'stuffies' as models.  These turned out wonderfully!  See for yourself below.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thursday, February 13, 2020

Wow!  What a busy, productive day! Here's a look:

 Students were fortunate to work with our guest fabric artist Mrs. Pendergast for the entire morning.  They began with their planned quilt square from yesterday, transferring it onto their white square.  Once they were coloured and outlined, students sewed their squares onto larger blue squares.  Finally, some students had a chance to add 3-D paint to theirs; others will complete this part at a later date.
[See a variety of photos below]

After lunch, it was a time of "Ketchup and Pickles": students got caught up with unfinished projects, including their Zentangle biome animal.  Here are a few of their finished pieces.

At the end of the day, they created Valentines pouches for tomorrow.
REMINDERS: Wear Valentine's Day colours; spelling / vocab. quizette tomorrow!

 

 

 

Wednesday, February 12, 2020

Good afternoon!  Here's a look at our busy, exciting day:

With started our morning with Mrs. Pendergast, the guest fabric artist who is leading our students in a huge quilt-making project with a focus on climate change.  Today, students drew a shape onto a small piece of fabric, then practiced using fabric markers and 3-D paint to see how these materials will respond on fabric.  Then they designed their quilt square for tomorrow, when they will put things together. 

 

 

 

 

After recess and P.E., we did some more factoring and creating arrays in math.  Then the students had fun working with multiples inside a circle simply joining numbered dots to create patterns.

After lunch, they worked hard on their biome research projects, adding to Book Creator.  They were given a checklist to help keep them on track.  (see below)

 

BIOMES &  Non-Fiction Book Features Using BOOK CREATOR CHECKLIST

Biome: ______________________________________________ Your name: _______________

Criteria	Description	Dates worked on	Date completed
Research booklet	with information recorded is to be submitted; info should be in note form, not full sentences
BOOK CREATOR:	Title and Author; SAVED
Cover / Title page	Title page is attractive and inviting. Contains: name of biome, your name, and a picture
Table of Contents	*To be completed once the book has been finished
Definition & Location	A clear definition of your biome, including climate and any distinguishing features; explanation of location(s), including latitude
Map	World map showing areas of your biome
Climate	Description of climate; seasons
Landforms	Key landforms specific to your biome
Flora (plants)	Specific to your biome; this may differ depending upon location in the world
Fauna (animals)	As  above; no need to list all of the fauna, just key or distinctive ones
Indigenous peoples	Key nations or tribes specific to your biome (Eg. Inuit in the Tundra in Canada; different name in Russia? Scandinavia?
Pictures (from online) Pictures (from books)	1000X1000 resolution; no watermarks Not blurry; only photo visible
Captions	Pictures should include a caption about where it is or what it is
Venn Diagram	Of either climate vs weather, biome vs ecosystem, or specifics to your biome (Eg. tropical rainforest vs temperate rainforest; grasslands vs savanna…)
Graph Interesting facts Labelled diagram Glossary	These items are optional!  You may wish to include them… or not.
Composition, vocabulary	Words should be your own; no plagiarizing! Avoid scientific language and vocabulary that does not sound like you speaking.
Style	No emojis, jokes, or funny remarks
Conventions	Edit your work for complete sentences, punctuation, capitals where appropriate
Presentation	Pages should look nice, have attractive backgrounds, and an easy-to-read font.