This week we enjoyed continuing to learn about artist Georgia O'Keeffe and we created poppy art inspired by her painting "Oriental Poppies." Students used pastels for this art project. We learned about the importance of Remembrance Day and had a virtual assembly organized by the grade 5/6 classes on Tuesday.
Oriental Poppies by Georgia O'Keeffe
Students were also introduced to something we're calling a "Try Pad" last week. They have been using this to support them with their spelling. I love to encourage students to use phonetic spelling and to not get caught up in spelling everything perfectly, but this is a way for them to attempt spelling a word three times on their own before asking for help. There is one for each table to use and they have been working well so far. Students have also been completing a quick self-assessment with their writing tasks using our writing exemplars.
We also had a lot of excitement with our hermit crabs this week. Check out the blog post from earlier this week if you missed it. We also came to school this morning to find that another crab had decided to move shells.
This week we also re-watched the story "A Home for Hermit Crab" by Eric Carl. Students wrote or drew about the characters, setting, problem and solution of the story. We also started an art activity today based on this story where students decorated the hermit crabs shell and designed the perfect habitat for a hermit crab with all their necessities included. I will share pictures next week.
This week we also talked about the idea of gratitude and the importance of practicing gratitude. 2020 obviously has not been the best year, but even during a tough time, we can find many reasons to be grateful. Students received a "Gratitude Journal" with 25 days worth of writing prompts. We did the first one on Thursday which was - what are you grateful for at school and why? They are pretty sweet and thoughtful! We are going to be ending most days with our gratitude journals.
We are wrapping up our learning on 2D shapes for now. Students did some review of the shapes we have learned.
Today I kept telling students that we had a quiz at the end of the day. I really just wanted to teach them how to use an online program called "Kahoot." To learn, I created a quiz called "How well do you know Ms. Midgley?" Next week, we will try another Kahoot quiz to review 2D shapes. They had a lot of fun with it!
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Upcoming Dates
Monday, November 16th - Sunday, November 22nd - Scholastic Book Fair - Online
Thursday, November 19th PM & Friday, November 20th AM - Conferences (No School Friday)
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