Another sunny day. We are so fortunate. Usually by this time of year being on Duty is a cold experience but it has been like an extension of summer and everyone is enjoying it.
So this Thursday is our 'Friday' as there is no school for students tomorrow. I will be learning about the power of Microsoft Excel 2010 for teaching spread sheets and data management for math. Hopefully I can get some reading in too. Have a list from a workshop I took in Tacoma in June on the topic of encouraging reading skills in a format referred to as Daily 5.
Reminder
Have a good long weekend
No new home practice or review
Our day
Instead of Daily French - we discussed the new seating plan and ideas. The students then had personal input and I tallied the choices. We think we might have a workable plan (those interested had a sneak peek before the dismissal bell this afternoon). I will probably move desks this weekend.
Spelling Unit 4 ( and a couple of catch ups)
Reading/ language Activity: Right Brain, Left Brain
This is a topic we have discussed before- the Mind Up curriculum promotes the new brain research into teaching students what their brains are capable of and how we can strengthen their understanding of how they learn best.
The activity asks students to summarize content about which skills are more likely to be right or left hemisphere.
band class
Math 7 returned the quiz today
General results from 19 students 53% (10) passed with marks ranging from 50- 90% and 47% achieved less than 50%
Once we went over a few examples some students requested a redo which I will happily do on one condition. Yes, that's right - they review the skills and improve. Okay two conditions.
I also have to take into account that Thursday is Halloween and Friday will be the candy hangover absolutely no intention of running a math quiz on a Halloween Friday.
I think returning the quizzes had a positive effect on class as we worked diligently on practice for BEDMAS. I was impressed with their effort and accuracy.as I said yesterday order of operations is all about following a pattern of arithmetic step by step. It is a good pre-algebra skill.
Great class.
Read to Self and record
The front door of the school is being replaced and the high powered tools made those nasty, shudder worthy noises all afternoon so we decided if you can't beat 'em, we'd join them and we turned up the volume on our DVD for science called Oceans Deep (BBC) Which is one of the Planet Earth series. One of the grade six units is on Extreme Environments and this documentary shows the most bizarre deep ocean creatures you never knew existed (30 minutes) .
By the time the cross country runners left for their meet, we decided to put on some tunes to drown out the door noise and we settled into a half hour of games: cards, dominoes, Monopoly which lasted 12 minutes!! I have always thought that a quick version of that game would be a best seller but I don't have much time for game development yet.
It was not possible to read this afternoon as the Imagine Dragons crooned Radioactive and the door guys (directly underneath us) ran their power tools so we played around with a possible seating plan that was made available for any one who wanted to see it (complaints in triplicate on a tiny sticky note please!!)
Nothing for planners tonight :)
The students are getting all excited about the Halloween dance tonight grade 4-7
Hope everyone has a nice long weekend.
Mrs. J.
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