Wednesday
Hi families,
This morning we had Explore and Play and Daily 5 literacy time. During work period we continued practicing our Weekly Words, finished up our dreams for Calgary and continued talking about patterns. We focused in on the different types of patterns (repeating, growing and shrinking) and we talked about the core, pattern rule and attributes! Students were asked to create a repeating pattern and tell the core of the pattern. They were also asked to create a growing and shrinking pattern and tell the pattern rule. Pattern rules can be tricky to word properly so this is definitely something we will continue working on. We also had guest reader and PE. We had PE by ourselves today because Mr. Link was busy with Code Mobile - students chose between using bean bags, scoops, or skipping.
In the afternoon we had our literacy groups. Students in my group continued talking about voice in writing. They were given three writing tasks and had to choose one to write about and show their personality in their writing.
1. a day at the beach
2. teaching someone about Pink Shirt Day
3. one day during recess...
Due to recent events regarding “The Momo Challenge”, some students came to school today talking about the images they’ve seen and stories they’ve heard due to various news broadcasts. This prompted a whole class sit down regarding internet safety. I reinforced what to do if they ever saw something inappropriate or uncomfortable on the internet: walk away and get an adult.
This morning we had Explore and Play and Daily 5 literacy time. During work period we continued practicing our Weekly Words, finished up our dreams for Calgary and continued talking about patterns. We focused in on the different types of patterns (repeating, growing and shrinking) and we talked about the core, pattern rule and attributes! Students were asked to create a repeating pattern and tell the core of the pattern. They were also asked to create a growing and shrinking pattern and tell the pattern rule. Pattern rules can be tricky to word properly so this is definitely something we will continue working on. We also had guest reader and PE. We had PE by ourselves today because Mr. Link was busy with Code Mobile - students chose between using bean bags, scoops, or skipping.
In the afternoon we had our literacy groups. Students in my group continued talking about voice in writing. They were given three writing tasks and had to choose one to write about and show their personality in their writing.
1. a day at the beach
2. teaching someone about Pink Shirt Day
3. one day during recess...
Due to recent events regarding “The Momo Challenge”, some students came to school today talking about the images they’ve seen and stories they’ve heard due to various news broadcasts. This prompted a whole class sit down regarding internet safety. I reinforced what to do if they ever saw something inappropriate or uncomfortable on the internet: walk away and get an adult.
“The Momo Challenge” may be the most recent viral phenomenon, but it is not the first and unfortunately will not be the last. I encourage you to have a similar conversation at home this evening regarding internet safety as a whole, and revisit your parent controls on any devices that are able to access the internet.
Here is a link to support your own understanding, as well as family conversations on the topic:
Code Mobile
Because of our Code Mobile time, we missed afternoon recess. Instead, we had 15 minutes of "indoor recess" time. We then spent some time learning about the program Scratch at our Code Mobile presentation. Here is some more info about Scratch if your child is interested!
More info and step by step instructions on how to make the game we made today will be coming to me soon and I will post that on our blog!
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