Friday, August 29, 2014

Day 8

8:45 Student Arrival

Morning Meets, Greets, & Light Snack
8:50AM Spelling/Vocab quiz
9:15AM BLOCK 1  Morning Math PLACE VALUE GAME
Sketching excercise?


10:15-10:30 Morning Recess

BLOCK 2 READ ALOUD/LITERATURE
11:10 CB (Social Skills Practice)
11:40 Lunch Break

12:50 Silent Reading & sharing
BLOCK 3 FUN FRIDAY





Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Day 6

8:45 Student Arrival

Morning Meets, Greets, & Light Snack
8:50AM Mini Warm-Up Activity
9:15AM BLOCK 1  Morning Math PLACE VALUE Continued
PE Break (Dragon's Lair)?

10:15-10:30 Morning Recess

BLOCK 2 Storybird (Student Practice)
11:10 CB (Social Skills Practice)
11:40 Lunch Break

12:50 Silent Reading & sharing
BLOCK 3 Science Draco, the flying lizard!

1:45 LEVEL REWARDS!!








 9:15AM BLOCK 1  Morning Math PLACE VALUE Continued

Finish the video series together (khanacademy)
 Place value dice game!!!

 BLOCK 2 Storybird (Student Practice)
 Yesterday I explored some examples with them, today they will try it on their own!



BLOCK 3 Science Draco, the flying lizard!

We will watch a short video that describes the (gliding) flying lizard and then do the following experiment together:
 
Glide like a draco
The draco lizard is able to glide from tree to tree using special ‘wings’ that evolved out of it’s ribs. These ‘wings’ are pieces of skin and rib that can be spread out on each side. As the draco takes off from it’s perch, it spreads out the wings and uses them to glide to another tree sometimes up to 200 feet away!
Your child can explore the science of gliding with a simple paper airplane experiment.

What you need:

  • Recycled copy paper to make planes
  • A long tape measure
  • A piece of paper and pencil to record results

What to do:

  1. Be sure to make space in the room you are in.
  2. Lay out the measuring tape.
  3. Try making different types of paper airplanes with your child. Encourage them to experiment with known designs and to invent their own! You can download instructions to different styles of paper airplanes here.
  4. Number each plane and make a list of the numbers so your child can keep track of how well each plane glided.
  5. You and your child can turns gliding the planes and recording how far they flew using the tape measure. If child experiments with modifying the planes as they go, make sure they record the modifications and the results so they can look back and compare the changed design to the original.
  6. At the end look at the design of the winning plane and the losing plane. Which plane stayed in the air for the shortest time and why? Ask your child why they think the winning plane to stay stayed in the air for such a long time and was able to glide as far as it did.

Monday, August 25, 2014

Day 5


Morning Meets, Greets, & Light Snack
8:50AM New Lunch/Recess Rules & Mini Warm-Up Activity
9:15AM BLOCK 1  Morning Math PLACE VALUE
PE Break (Dragon's Lair)?

10:15-10:30 Morning Recess

BLOCK 2 Stretching Sentences
**Writing Task; Stretch your own sentence
11:10 CB (Social Skills Practice)
11:40 Lunch Break

12:50 Silent Reading & sharing
BLOCK 3 Storybird Reading, Creation, Introduction

1:45 LEVEL REWARDS!!

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Quote of the day
Citation du jour
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Image of the day
Image du jour


 
 

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BLOCK 1  Morning Math PLACE VALUE



FORMS OF NUMBERS:
  •  Standard
  • Expanded
  • Written


 https://www.khanacademy.org/math/pre-algebra/order-of-operations/place_value/v/place-value-1



Practice!


BLOCK 2 Stretching Sentences


Example: 




 Then a few examples will be modeled by teacher, then the class will create some together, then they will do an independent sentence on their own.


 Student's practice sentence:


BLOCK 3 Storybird Reading, Creation, Introduction

For storybird (online interactive story creation), I will read some examples of published stories.  Then we will explore the interface and create a class story.  The following day, they will use their stretched sentences as a platform to independently create a storybird.

www.storybird.com 

WORK will be posted on website:

www.colescollaborativecommunity.blogspot.com


Day 4

8:45 Student Arrival

Morning Meets, Greets, & Light Snack
8:50AM Any questions? & Mini Activity
9:15AM BLOCK 1  Morning Math (Groups) & Assessment
9:45 CB (Social Skills Practice)

10:15-10:30 Morning Recess

BLOCK 2 Science/Earthquakes/Emergency Plan
**Writing Task; Answer sheet for Earthquakes
11:40 Lunch Break

12:50 Silent Reading & sharing
BLOCK 3 Go over homework, Read Aloud/Literature/HARD LUCK
PE Break (Dragon's Lair)?
1:45 LEVEL REWARDS!!















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 9:15AM BLOCK 1  Morning Math (Groups) & Assessment
 2nd grade
http://www.free-test-online.com/ccss/grade2/grade2_operations.html
3rd grade
http://www.free-test-online.com/ccss/grade3/grade3_ccss.html


The students will complete their Minecraft math addition sheet in smaller groups, while rotating beginning of the year assessments online.
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BLOCK 2 Science/Earthquakes/Emergency Plan**Writing Task; Answer sheet for Earthquakes


Vocabulary, Answer sheet.


 
BLOCK 3 Go over homework, Read Aloud/Literature/HARD LUCK

Homework Policies

Read Aloud (Hard Luck) & Discussions

 

Friday, August 22, 2014

Fabulous Fridays

8:45 Student Arrival

Morning Meets, Greets, & Light Snack
Dance session
9:15AM BLOCK 1  Morning MinecraftMath (addition)
9:45 CB (Social Skills Practice)

10:15-10:30 Morning Recess
1 truth, 1 untruth BLOCK 2 Community meeting check-in
**Writing Task; Class contract!


11:50 Lunch Break

12:50 Silent Reading & sharing
BLOCK 3 Fun Friday!
2:20 Clean-up, bus time/activity




Thursday, August 21, 2014

Day 2...





8:45 Student Arrival

Morning Meets, Greets, & Light Snack
9:00AM POINT SHEETS!
9:15AM BLOCK 1  Morning MinecraftMath
9:45 CB (Social Skills Practice)

10:15-10:30 Morning Recess

BLOCK 2 Giving Tree/Community
**Writing Task; Apple's to add to Erin's Tree

11:50 Lunch Break

12:50 Silent Reading & sharing
BLOCK 3 Read Aloud/Literature/HARD LUCK
1:45 LEVEL REWARDS!!



9:15AM BLOCK 1  Morning MinecraftMath

We will be exploring a word problem that is based among the minecraft world (universal child language).

  

Enderman has three kinds of animals on his farm.  He has 6 wolves.  He has twice as many cows as wolves.  He has 3 times as many sheeps as cows.  How many sheeps does Enderman have on his farm?

Wednesday, August 20, 2014

A New Year, New location, New students, New Staff and its Raining!!! Happy Days!

Good Morning New Students! 


The Plan O' the Day:

Morning Meets & Greets, snack. Go over some shinanegans...pop sticks... etc
Sentence of the Day
BLOCK 1 Getting to know each other
Class Break
Snack/Recess
1 truth and a lie 

BLOCK 2 Labels Letter Art
Lunch/Recess
Silent Reading
BLOCK 3 LEGO MAN Art
? Level Rewards or outdoor game



Sentence of the day



The coolest thing I did this summer was ______________________.