Our Week at a Glance

Data Management

We began our unit in Data Management with the following task to activate students' prior knowledge. Surprisingly, all groups chose to display the results of their survey in a bar graph.  We discussed our work in a bansho.  From there, we co-created the success criteria for creating graphs.

On Monday, students created broken-line graphs on Excel.  We eventually got most of them loaded into our Google Doc Presentation, hoping we could access them from the ipads to describe trends and give feedback, but we still have some kinks to work out.   Here is what we've accomplished so far.  Some students should have referred to the success criteria before submitting their final graph, but this was their first graph using computers, so I think the primary focus was getting use to the program.

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Then we tried our second online lesson using ipads and Google Docs.  Our intent was to put our knowledge of broken-line graphs to use on paper, upload our work and then give critical feedback, but the whole process took so long that we did not have time for the most valuable part - the group feedback and consolidation!  So although, the need for embedding technology into our daily lessons is very important, at this time the reality of it is quite frustrating.

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 Français

In French, we continue to practise scripted conversations to build our vocabulary and fluency.  We read aloud and silently from little readers, focusing on pronunciation, language acquisition and comprehension strategies. We have a new word study list, adjectives, to support our writing and to prepare us for an upcoming writing project. 

Language Arts

In writing, we are concentrating on writing personal narratives.  We began with lessons and activities to help us generate topics for personal narratives, learn how to narrow them down to a "seed", and zoom in on the important details.  The past two days, students have been learning how to craft a lead, to hook and draw their reader in.  

During Writer's Workshop we have decided that we needed some guidelines to ensure our success.

We even have special writing folders to keep our Personal Writer's Notebook in, to house our mentor texts, and contain our current writing piece.

Sciences sociales

In Sciences sociales, we have begun to look at the different levels of government in Canada and their responsibilities, as well as the citizens responsibilities.  We have been working on piccollages on the ipads to help display the information we have gathered.  This is what we have so far.

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GRRRRR!!!! IT DID NOT WORK!  I WILL FIGURE OUT HOW TO SHARE OUR GOOGLE DOC WORK IN THE BLOG LATER - IN THE MEAN TIME, YOU CAN SEE THEM ON THE PAGES ATTACHED TO THIS BLOG, SIMPLY BY CLICKING ON THE LINKS.

HOPE YOU ALL HAD A GOOD WEEKEND!