Morning Meeting Activity: Cup Stacking Challenge
- Using just an elastic band and a piece of yarn (for each person), build a cup pyramid without touching the cups with your hands or any part of your body.
Math: Prodigy
- Every student got set up with a specific topic/assignment on Prodigy, with changes made when needed.
Literacy: Narrative Writing – “The Greatest Excuse”
- Brainstormed real reasons your homework might be late versus logically absurd reasons your homework could be late.
- Background: “Your homework is late and the dog did not eat it, something else happened. What was it? Did you go through a portal to a different world? Did you wake up and have a huge adventure just getting to school?”
- Worked together to establish expectations and the criteria for this story.
- Each week, students will focus on a different part of the writing process. By the last class, they should be ready to share their stories with their peers (and the teacher)!
Outdoor Education
- What are some sensing words and descriptors to help describe the environment around you? Use your five senses: sound, touch, smell, taste, and sight.
Investigate & Explore:
- Learning about Tomatosphere. The objective is to examine the effects of the space environment on the germination of tomato seeds.
- What are the survival needs of tomato seeds (and plants)?
- Students helped soak the peat pellets, plant the seeds, and place the pellets next to the window in our classroom.
- Introduction to fair tests.
- Based on a comparison.
- Based on just one difference or change (the independent variable).
- Everything else is constant.
Art:
- Objective: to learn and use warm and cool colours
- Objective: to highlight biodiversity. (In the middle of the circle, choose a living organism you want to be the focus of your art.)
