Wednesday May 19 - Online

 Wednesday May 19 - Online

We had a great day today!  We are nearing the end of our online learning and are ready to come back on Tuesday to see our students lovely faces (well at least their eyes!!).  

It was officially announced at 2:30 today, that we are all back to in-person school on Tuesday!!  

This is the best birthday present ever for Mrs. Zwack!!

We had a discussion about using other online platforms during learning time.  We all need to be good digital citizens and to make sure that our focus is on the lesson, participating in discussions, and completing the assignment.  Mr. Strand has let us know that there has been some side activities going on, by some students in the school, using tools such as Jamboard (connected to the Google Suite) without teacher or parent supervision.  Please chat with your children to ensure they are making good digital choices!

Mrs. Zwack's class had music with Mrs. Coulsen while Mr. Kelly's class had literacy time.  Thank you to Mrs. Coulsen for sending delicious ice cream cupcakes!

In math today we introduced measuring CAPACITY or the amount of liquid a container can hold.  There are more details and a video that we watched, located in Google Classroom.  There is no assignment at this time.  Please have some measuring instruments (mL and L) and a few empty containers (cup, bowl, empty bottle, etc.) for measuring practice tomorrow!

In Writing this afternoon, we talked about developing a character for our Realistic Fiction writing.  

We shared our favourite characters and why we felt so connected to them.  The students really showed understanding of "connection" with a character and were able to provide some detailed reasons about their personal connection.  Our job as writers, is to create characters that the reader will want to get to know more about!

              Mrs. Zwack loved Ramona!

                                                                            

                                                            Mr Kelly loved the Hardy Boys!

There is no assignment right now for writing and we do not want students to begin filling in their Character Development sheet yet!  

We want them to think about our discussion today and to "percolate" their ideas overnight!  

We will give more direction and provide time to complete the sheet tomorrow morning.  

They may certainly jot down some burning ideas on scrap paper if they wish.  We know we have some excited authors!!

Assignments due today:

Most Book Clubs have assignments due.  These responses should be in the student's Reader's Toolkits to bring back to school on Tuesday.

Upcoming Due Assignments:

GRIT poster due Friday

Music Projects

A few book club's work will be due Friday.