IMPORTANT INFORMATION
Glenbow Museum Volunteer Call-out! All Grade 3s will be going to the Glenbow Museum for a field trip on Tuesday, March 13th for the whole day. We need 5 volunteers (with police clearance). If you can share in this day of learning, please let Jodi our Room Coordinator know, or you can email me and I will pass it on to her. Zoo School This is a callout for volunteers for Zoo School. When: April 9-13 Time: All day. Bus leaves at 8:10, arriving back at the school shortly before dismissal. You can meet up there, and parking at the zoo will be free for volunteers. I will confirm the time our day starts at the zoo if you choose to meet us there. We need 5 volunteers a day. You can contact Jodi (classroom coordinator) or you can email me. You can volunteer for 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 days. They have to be whole days. A Zoo School coordinator will be visiting our class on April 4th to go over the program, protocols and expectations. Volunteers are invited to this event. More details to follow. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me. IMPORTANT DATES February 26: Elder Shirley Hill February 28: Pink Shirt Day OUR DAY 102 days to go, 78 days left. Days like today is why I love teaching! Actually every day I spend with your kids is why I love teaching. True story! We have been working on a different reader’s response journalling technique, with the focus on setting. We had read a page from the book Coraline and discussed words we didn’t know. Today, we discussed setting (time and place). On one side of our journal page, we glued the text in, and the other we used the silver pencil bins to trace a good sized circle. On the text students will underline the evidence of the setting. The inside of the circle will be an illustration based on what we are reading. Outside of the circle will be the evidence from the text (to help the different learners in the class: numbered, point form, colour-coded…). Students were mindful in their work. Huzzah! After music and a story, our buddies came into our class to practice our Hand Rain Song, which will be performed at the Spring Concert. They did a FABULOUS job! This is going to sound amazing! When our Buddies left, we focused on the Six-Room Poetry. I had the students look at three different Alberta campground pictures. The beautiful thing about the SmartBoard, is the SmartBoard can show one thing, while I can do something on my screen. On my screen, I found different campground sounds: a campfire crackling, a guitar quietly strumming, children playing, someone walking on gravel, an axe chopping wood, and wind in the pine trees. I played these overtop of each other, changing the volume for each one. It got very quiet in the room. I think we all wanted to be there, in the mountains, being part of nature. I had the gave the students observational intentions, such as “Imagine you are roasting a marshmallow. What is happening to the marshmallow? How is it getting golden brown? Did something distract you, and now your marshmallow is on fire? Imagine someone is cooking dinner.” After a few minutes, I had students give me phrases for the Image Room. I reminded students that this is like being a scientist, where you are stating what you see. Some wonderful statements came out, such as, “a circle of grey and blue rocks”, or “I see light green and dark green trees”. This was a great one, as I discussed how this phrase could also go into the Light Room, and how light affects colour. “It’s the same coloured tree, but this tree looks light, and this tree has a dark green.” Many students had the “AHA!” moment. I had the students copy down each phrase in their Visual Journals. I reinforced the concept of adding detail isn’t being “poetic”, using similes or metaphors (yet), but adding in more describing words to build the picture of someone who can’t see what they see. For example, “a circle of grey and blue rocks” became “a circle of grey and blue rocks around the campsite”. We continue this process next week. We finished our day off with Circle. The intention for today was coming to Circle quickly and quietly. I wish you a beautiful weekend. Cheerios! Ms Lauf Comments are closed.
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