Weekly Times November 24, 2012
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Units of InquirySTORY OF EARTH- Where We Are in Place and Time
- Thinking Journals- writing down our thinking and talking about it
- Changes project presentations - Gallery Walk- students were able to decided how to represent their changes to others - posters, Powerpoint, Keynote, Timeline, Poetry
- Animal Adaptations - an inquiry into an animal of choice and what makes it specially adapted to its environment
- Provocations - thinking about how we adapt to new situations with a lesson on origami in Japanese and working with blindfolded partners in PE
- Japanese Lesson Video:http://youtu.be/L5Ep0NgYmQY
- PE Blindfolded Soccer: http://youtu.be/H72eZ9FMKcc
- Adaptations activity with matching the animal and its adaptation (to be continued)
- Adaptations song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YX8VQIJVpT
Language
Spelling - review of oi/oy and ow/ou
Writing - in thinking journal and what we are thankful for
Guided Reading Groups - Saving the Stegosaurus or Dinosaurs Before Dark
Read alouds: I Hate English
Peer Leader - videos - students saw an Ambrit-made video and reflected in their thinking journals about empathy and being caring:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TemswwtJopM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpMCFik7IZ8
Maths
Multiplication - quick check of 3's and 4's - students might make and use flash cards to help
Time - telling time on the clock to the minute as well as quarter past, half past and a quarter to the hour
ANNOUNCEMENTS/NOTICES
- Weekend Assignments: -
- Reading Log - Please read aloud with your child for 15 minutes - see letter in the LOG - children should have logged some reading at least 5 times this week with two being their banded books aloud to an adult - as usual
- Reading JOURNAL - I have written the same letter to each student asking them to write about the problem/solution as well as a character
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