| What's your name? | What stuck with you today? | Anything else you'd like your class to know? |
| Oyster | What stuck with me was Tom was always sitting beside me singing | I am awesome and Gladiator Snails are awesome! |
| robert | what stuck with me today is : i am very happy | yes by!! |
| Liam | Today I was really learning well because I LOVE learning. | No Thanks B-) Sunglasses dude look at it side ways. |
| Raphie | A very annoying song called all abut the bass. | i dont think so |
| Katie | Of course the skype call and how pretty Ava cat is. Just today i noticed that she is very very pretty. | no not really |
| isaac | what stuck with me today was the skype call it was very interesting and i learned a lot things | no |
| hudson | i liked the skype call alote. and i liked the time on chromebooks. | no |
| Toni | I think when I did math with Kelly because the math was hard. | No I don't think so Shauna. |
| Sammy | i'm stuck with what i'm writing right now | no |
| sophie | i am owes hugre | no thaknyou |
| Owen.D | today i realy liked the class clene up because we got to get the classroom tidy. i also did not like how we lost so much time. | well, um, no. |
| james | I dont no! | yum! |
| Rowan | In my tree family I enjoyed reading a book called and tango makes three. | Not today. |
| shane | I like our new class jobs. | |
| Ava cat | I will remember the skype call. and the 3D printer. | NOPE! NEVER! NOPE |
| lilah | that crismis is coming. my sist wining. | no!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
| indi. | how to change the wallpaper on the chrome books for people like katie. | nope |
| Ava Bunny | I am going to see my dad. And chrismas is cuming. I cant wate to see my presents. | no |
| tom | i am tired and happy because i woke up and i was so tired but i also have hocky. | no |
| tim | i am stuck on thinking about a game i am going to play after school today and the game is named skipbob | no |
| Mariko | I dont know! | I dont want my class to know. |
Wednesday, 26 November 2014
What Stuck With You Today? November 26th, 2014
Wednesday, 19 November 2014
What We're Up To in Room 209 - Monday, November 17th-Thursday, November 20th
Language
-students are continuing to work on their 40 book challenge and are encouraged to select books from different genres
-we received emails from our friends Genevieve and Alison and wrote collaborative replies to them
-we wrote about a time when we were brave and how it felt to be worried or nervous and how it felt to do something that we knew was right
-students are practicing creating and working on collaborative documents on the Google Drive
-we are learning about the details that are important to include in a news story: the 5Ws and 1 H and thinking about our audience
-we can't tell you much about it, but "The Book with No Pictures" may make its way to your home soon!
-students are looking through their work to find words that they have used "temporary spelling" for and are creating their own, individual spelling lists to practice
-we are learning about end punctuation: periods, question marks and exclamation marks
-we are building up our stamina in the Read to Self portion of our ECLIPSE language program
-we are learning about how to use homonyms to understand and create puns and punny jokes
Art
-we are practicing drawing "Brave Bots"
Math
-we are talking about measurement, and focusing on length
-we are practicing using both standard and non-standard units of measurement
-students are relying on estimation skills and using tools to check their thinking
-we are learning about how mm cm and m are related
-we are continuing to practice telling time
-we are collecting non-perishable food items to measure their mass
-we did the Francis Fractions slideshow and talked about how fractions are meaningless if you don't know the size of the whole and that a fraction is about comparing the numerator and denominator
Science
-Hitchbot Jr is heading to Toronto for a Mini Maker Faire with our friend Alison from Maker Junior! We have built and dressed him and created prototypes for his instructions and notebook. He will meet Hitchbot and be tested in Toronto so we can make new iterations.
-we learned about a boy who has no eyes but can "see" with echolocation, like a bat!
-Scientists in the Schools came in and worked with the grade 4s on sound and the grade 3s on forces acting on structures and mechanisms
-Skype wasn't working, but we were planning to have a call with our friend Sofika from Copernicus Education about being an Imagineer. We'll do that next week.
Social Studies
-we are continuing to discuss the Learning Skills (Responsibility, Organization, Independent Work, Collaboration, Initiative and Self Regulation) and how we can demonstrate them in school
Phys Ed
-along with Gillian's grade 2s, we are learning traditional Scottish folk dances
Health
-we are modelling for our friends in the Mighty Minions how to eat mindfully (silent, still, hats off, stay in seat, enjoy your food using your senses)
-we are discussing
Tree Families
-our theme this month is empathy and our big idea is to walk a mile in someone else's shoes.
-we shared the book "The English Roses" and discussed the message and big idea, and how we can connect to the story in our own lives, in the world around us and in other texts
-students are continuing to work on their 40 book challenge and are encouraged to select books from different genres
-we received emails from our friends Genevieve and Alison and wrote collaborative replies to them
-we wrote about a time when we were brave and how it felt to be worried or nervous and how it felt to do something that we knew was right
-students are practicing creating and working on collaborative documents on the Google Drive
-we are learning about the details that are important to include in a news story: the 5Ws and 1 H and thinking about our audience
-we can't tell you much about it, but "The Book with No Pictures" may make its way to your home soon!
-students are looking through their work to find words that they have used "temporary spelling" for and are creating their own, individual spelling lists to practice
-we are learning about end punctuation: periods, question marks and exclamation marks
-we are building up our stamina in the Read to Self portion of our ECLIPSE language program
-we are learning about how to use homonyms to understand and create puns and punny jokes
Art
-we are practicing drawing "Brave Bots"
Math
-we are talking about measurement, and focusing on length
-we are practicing using both standard and non-standard units of measurement
-students are relying on estimation skills and using tools to check their thinking
-we are learning about how mm cm and m are related
-we are continuing to practice telling time
-we are collecting non-perishable food items to measure their mass
-we did the Francis Fractions slideshow and talked about how fractions are meaningless if you don't know the size of the whole and that a fraction is about comparing the numerator and denominator
Science
-Hitchbot Jr is heading to Toronto for a Mini Maker Faire with our friend Alison from Maker Junior! We have built and dressed him and created prototypes for his instructions and notebook. He will meet Hitchbot and be tested in Toronto so we can make new iterations.
-we learned about a boy who has no eyes but can "see" with echolocation, like a bat!
-Scientists in the Schools came in and worked with the grade 4s on sound and the grade 3s on forces acting on structures and mechanisms
-Skype wasn't working, but we were planning to have a call with our friend Sofika from Copernicus Education about being an Imagineer. We'll do that next week.
Social Studies
-we are continuing to discuss the Learning Skills (Responsibility, Organization, Independent Work, Collaboration, Initiative and Self Regulation) and how we can demonstrate them in school
Phys Ed
-along with Gillian's grade 2s, we are learning traditional Scottish folk dances
Health
-we are modelling for our friends in the Mighty Minions how to eat mindfully (silent, still, hats off, stay in seat, enjoy your food using your senses)
-we are discussing
Tree Families
-our theme this month is empathy and our big idea is to walk a mile in someone else's shoes.
-we shared the book "The English Roses" and discussed the message and big idea, and how we can connect to the story in our own lives, in the world around us and in other texts
Tuesday, 28 October 2014
Monday, 13 October 2014
Monday, 6 October 2014
Science Updates
Catherine and the Gladiator Snails have been hard at work in Science. They have been learning, discussing, building and Imagineering.
In the Ontario Science curriculum, there are some amazing concepts that grade 3s and 4s study. This year, we've started out with "Understanding Structures and Mechanisms" and "Understanding Matter and Energy". Grade 3s have been focused on Strong & Stable Structures and Forces Causing Movement. Grade 4s have been focused on Pulleys & Gears and Light & Sound.
We have been Imagineering amazing things and planning out theme park attractions.
We have also learned about an amazing Canadian invention called "Hitchbot". Tomorrow, with Alison Evans Adnani from Maker Junior, we are going to start work on our very own "Hitchbot Jr"!
Thinker Keys - Science - Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires
Structures - Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires
Forces Acting on - Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires
Bridge Challenge - Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires
Imagineers - Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires
Hitchbot - Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires
In the Ontario Science curriculum, there are some amazing concepts that grade 3s and 4s study. This year, we've started out with "Understanding Structures and Mechanisms" and "Understanding Matter and Energy". Grade 3s have been focused on Strong & Stable Structures and Forces Causing Movement. Grade 4s have been focused on Pulleys & Gears and Light & Sound.
We have been Imagineering amazing things and planning out theme park attractions.
We have also learned about an amazing Canadian invention called "Hitchbot". Tomorrow, with Alison Evans Adnani from Maker Junior, we are going to start work on our very own "Hitchbot Jr"!
Thinker Keys - Science - Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires
Structures - Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires
Forces Acting on - Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires
Bridge Challenge - Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires
Imagineers - Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires
Hitchbot - Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires
EPCOT Dream to EPCOT Dream Class
The year Walt Disney died, he was dreaming and sharing about his biggest dream ever: EPCOT. His dream of the Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow eventually got changed into a futuristic amusement park, but we watched the original Imagineer talk about his plans for a futuristic community and we were amazed by his vision.
In our EPCOT class, we've been working together to think about the roles of all members of a dream class and what a dream class looks like. We have had lots of visitors and volunteers in our class to watch how we learn in EPCOT class. The Gladiator Snails all have business cards and can tell you what being in an EPCOT class means to them.
In our EPCOT class, we've been working together to think about the roles of all members of a dream class and what a dream class looks like. We have had lots of visitors and volunteers in our class to watch how we learn in EPCOT class. The Gladiator Snails all have business cards and can tell you what being in an EPCOT class means to them.
What Makes Us an EPCOT Class?
What Makes Our Class an EPCOT Class?
Experimental - try new things
Prototype - something you’re testing, people come see us as an example
Classroom
Of
Tomorrow - we do things differently every day, we think about the future
What We Already Do that Makes Us EPCOT:
-that it’s an alternative school. -Sophie
-our class is like EPCOT because we have Imagineering journals and our class name is very creative. Imagineering journals are books that you draw your ideas or get you thinking and you can’t erase. You can always redo it and you can only create. -Indi
-we’re Imagineers. -Katie
-our class is Imagineers and we do things differently every day in our class -Ava Cat
-what makes us like EPCOT is that we’re Blue Sky thinkers which means that we think all the way up to the sky-Oyster
-what makes us EPCOT is that we use computers and electronics all the time -Ali
-what makes us EPCOT class is that we try new things every day -Sammy
-our school is EPCOT because we do lots of things that other schools don’t - we have animals, we’re allowed to wear hats-Hudson
-I understand why Hudson said it’s different. Walt Disney, he really tried different things and he tried to make a whole city by himself which is a pretty amazing thing and it was different, which means, why can’t we do things differently? -Oyster
-what makes our class special is that we don’t have to wear uniforms -Sophie
-what makes our class special is when we made our Dream Classes kinda like EPCOT, that kind of drawings -Robert
Our Dream (How to Really Live EPCOT in our Class)….
-that we try new things, and we are Imagineers and we should always be creative like Blue Sky workers -Ava Cat
-do more stuff that’s more creative and fun -Isaac
-for the Art Electives, we should do something based on what Walt Disney had done, we could be designers -Grace
-we should do lots of Math on the Chromebooks-Tom
-I was thinking of special days, like Pet Day! We use a chart so everybody can bring their pets, but if they don’t have pets, they can bring electronics. That seems fair. -Ava Bunny
-maybe we could do a lot of research on Walt and Roy Disney and study them and we could do a little bit of their plan in our classroom -Oyster
-we can make a big Cardboard City as a class and plan it out and stuff and make it kinda like EPCOT. Maybe we could make it a pollution free design. -Owen D
-Maybe we should start doing more, put some things out for us, we have a partner, and mix up our ideas and build something. It doesn't have to be something specific, you have to build something -Sophie
-I was thinking we could put pillows on the stage so when we’re reading or doing ECLIPSE, we can sit on them-Rowan
-I was thinking that maybe we could design our own book or something else -Mariko
-put pillows on the stage, we could do it tomorrow and make it comfortable -Sammy
-I think I want to move the bungee chairs, swap it around. Some people are getting books and it’s hard to get past the people getting the bungee chairs-Liam
-I think we should raise the stage a bit, it can hurt your back a bit right now. Get some wood. -Raphie
-try new things every day -Shane
-I think we should put some desks in so that no one copies each other and we should invent more stuff cause it’s really fun to invent something that really works -Katie
-maybe we should play some more games at Gym like the Gladiator Game-Toni
-can we see if we can do a lot of work on the Chromebooks -James
-we should have more GoNoodle time -Ali
-we’re an EPCOT class because we’re going to bring in something secret, Shauna’s going to surprise us with something -Hudson
-I’m excited to get the Chromebooks. We get our own Chromebooks for the whole entire year. We get to write with them. - Robert
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