Author: chadwickbaldwin

A Canadian teacher in China

Earth Day

Today on Earth Day we learned about pollination, and we practiced the 2nd R.

Pollination

We learned the new words of

  • Pollination
    • The moving of pollen from stamen to pistil
  • Fertilization
    • The act of making a seed from pollen and egg cell.
  • Germination
    • When a seed starts to grow
  • Petal
    • The colorful part of a plant
  • Pistil
    • A long tube that goes into the flower and ovary
  • Stamen
    • Thin branches that hold pollen
  • Ovary
    • Where egg cells are kept safe.
  • Nectar
    • Flower juice.

2nd R

In case you are not aware the 3 Rs are

  • Reduce
  • Reuse
  • Recycle

I asked the students to make something from things that they would probably throw away. Here are the results.

Monday, April 20th

News

This week we have 2 Special events: on Wednesday is Earth-day, and Thursday is World Book Day. Next Week we will be having our Mid-term Test.

Earth-day

This coming Wednesday is Earth-day. To celebrate this day I would like everyone to focus on the 3 Rs. Recycle, Reduce & Re-Use.

This year, I would like you to Re-Use something you would normally throw away. Turn it into something useful. Then send pictures of it on Wednesday in the reading group.

World Book Day

On Thursday please either dress up as your favorite book characters, OR Draw a picture of something that happens in your favorite book. You can send me the pictures in the Reading group.

Mid-term Test

This year the Mid Term test will be done the same way we did the Quiz in Week 5. A digital version and a printable version will be available. It will start on Thursday April 30th and Due on Friday May 1st.

Raz-Kids Reports.

  • Farrel Chen has reached Level Z
  • Kevin Zheng has reached Level T
  • Alex Sun has reached Level S
  • George Wang has reached Level M
  • Jack Yu has reached Level K
  • Gordon Zhang has reached Level J

I’m sorry I have been too busy with the moving to get an accurate check on the number of Raz-Kids Quizzes for this week.

Student Reports will start up again every 2nd Week starting after the Mid-term Test.

Today’s Work

Today we will be looking at new words, for both the Cornerstone book and the Wimpy Kid book. Reading Wimpy Kid will continue this week.

Get today’s work here

Friday night, April 17th

The children have been doing an amazing job of using the Zoom App to take classes. We have all worked hard and learned new things this week.

Today’s lesson was quite successful and can be reviewed here.

I wanted to repost the writing assignment here because we changed a little bit of the draft checking.

The assignment

Please write a letter to Mr. Chad (me). The letter will not be from you, but will be from one character of the play “The Shoemaker and the Elves”. You will write about what happened in their life after the story.

  • You must include good grade 4 grammar.
  • You must include possessives
  • You must use Grade 4 level spelling.
  • You must use 5 or more spelling words.
  • The actions that you mention in your letter must be something predictable from the story.
  • You must include the parts of a letter that we have learned.
  • You must peer review your drafts.

Peer Review

Peer Review is a simple way to check something before passing it in to be marked. You have been doing this in class for years now.

When you peer review, you look at someone else’s work, and you give yours to them. Then just look down the checklist above to make sure is done right. Then sign your name and send it back to me.

Peer review can be done by Monday, but the final draft is due on Wednesday

Friday Evening April 10

Starting this coming week we will be trying to hold more regular classes over Zoom. We will be finally be able to talk and see each other again. But that will bring a few changes to how we will be doing things.

Zoom

This Saturday ( tomorrow morning) at 9:00, I will be testing the Zoom class. I need everyone to try and connect to it. This is our first time and I would rather discover problems tomorrow than during the class.

If you are unable to connect between 9:00 and 9:10, because of technical issues let me know right away.

Raz- Kids News

  • Kevin Zheng reached Level S
  • Kevin Zheng had 32 perfect Quizzes
  • Christina Ma had 12 perfect Quizzes
  • Bella Han had 10 perfect Quizzes
  • Amy Chen had 9 perfect Quizzes
  • Alex Sun had 7 perfect Quizzes
  • Elsa Ling had 7 perfect Quizzes
  • Peter Liu had 7 perfect Quizzes
  • Jack Yu had 6 perfect Quizzes
  • Owen Cai had 6 perfect Quizzes
  • Zack Deng had 6 perfect Quizzes
  • Esther Liu had 5 perfect Quizzes
  • Felix Yang had 4 perfect Quizzes
  • George Wang had 4 perfect Quizzes
  • Gordon Zhang had 4 perfect Quizzes
  • Silver Zhang had 4 perfect Quizzes
  • Farrel Chen had 3 perfect Quizzes
  • Ada Liu had 2 perfect Quizzes.
  • Daniel Du had a perfect Quiz

Next Week

Starting Next Week I will be having 1 Zoom class per day with you. During that time we will be focusing on speach and verbal skills.

In the afternoon you will have work from your Cornerstones Workbook. That is related to what you learned in the Zoom class.

Raz-Kids will not be affected. You must still read at least 1 book from Raz kids everyday, send me a recording each week, and do at least 1 quiz (questions after the story). I will try to put more Raz books in our virtual library but if you read from that you must WeChat me to tell me which books and when

Education.com work will be relaxed. You will still be able to log in and do work on your own, but I will only assign 1 activity per week.

Science will be back to using activities from your Science book again, but I will still add Science A-Z reading every 2 weeks.

As mentioned before please upload pictures or documents of your homework into the correct spot in easyclass.com. don’t send any homework to me by WeChat unless you’re having difficulty with the easy class system.

I will not be sending Reports out starting this week. I am using this time to upload the kids current grades to Easyclass. Starting Monday, every Monday Wednesday Friday you will be able to check your current grades.

All work is due on Friday. Each Friday there will be a writing assignment which will be due on the following Friday.

Some assignments will be considered “practice” which means it will help you learn, but will not affect your grade. Those same skills will be graded in a different activity later in the same week.

Hopefully this new system will help us all progress well and help us stay organized.