Many of our children this year have found it difficult to admit when they have negative feelings. We spent a class discussing true feelings, in a way that does not blame anyone. They learned to state what causes them to feel uncomfortable or upset.
The course of the world has affected our children, and our lives to the point that we all desperately want our children to be happy. If handled improperly, can make the children feel broken for having bad feelings. They are not sure how to show the feelings, or to express themselves. This leads to struggles within themselves and with others that can be avoided.
In our Social Emotional Lessons I hope to guide the children through this complex maze. They will understand how to find the way for themselves, and how to help others.
Then in class the children placed those feelings onto sticky notes.
We have been working on our thesis statements, and the concept of a call to action. In class some students have done excellently, others are still working on concepts.
Grade 3B has working hard at their Persuasive Writings. and I want to break the work up here a little bit for you.
In Lesson 1 – We looked at things around the school. We were looking for things that could be made better, and we made a list. Then we discussed it. Some of the things mentioned are listed below:
Better organization of the playgrounds. Specifically: The ECC playground is next to the UES playground but is unavailable to the large children. The Dinosaur area has a fun playground, but it is inaccessible to students normally. The Leopard is not usable by UES students.
Cleanliness: There is still a problem with trash being littered on the ground.
Shade: there should be more shady areas for hot days near the playground.
In Lesson 2 – We took time to write about one of the issues above. 1 short paragraph was asked for.
In Lesson 3 – We looked at How can we add words and phrases to make our reader interested in our issue. We looked at making our Thesis Clear and to the point.
In lesson 4 – We discussed things we love int he world. Things that are awesome. We chose one of these to write about. Our focus: how can this thing make the world better? Some children chose their parents, and were asking people to show the positive attributes their parents had. Some children a video game, and were trying to convince people that proper use of that game could help children learn better. Some people chose a country and listed out the positive things about that country, then focused on how the world could be better by copying these positives.
Lesson 5,6 and 7 were lessons about pacing and editing. We decided to follow these basic steps:
Write. Don’t worry about spelling or grammar. (By yourself)
Read. Read the writing to yourself or to a friend. (by yourself or with 1 partner)
Fix. Fix on the paper any mistakes you and your friend found. (By yourself or with 1 partner)
Go back to Write & continue.
Lesson 8 – We discussed our audience. and how to think about them as we are writing.
Lesson 9 – We discussed editing techniques. How you don’t have to stop what you are doing but may edit things as you go.
Also in Lesson 9 we discussed the layout of a Writing article
Today is the beginning of a review week. All homework should be in EXCEPT the dialogue writing.
Answers
The last couple weeks I have been too busy for a few things. One thing I fell behind on was answer sheets. So here are the answers to work we did from week 8 to week 9
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.
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
This week week had a lot of fun by talking and telling Jokes. I laughed a lot last week. This upcoming weekend is Easter. And I have a favour to ask of you all. This is voluntary. If you choose to do is is would being a lot of fun to the class.
Please draw eggs, and color them OR paint real eggs. Then hide them somewhere. Then take a picture to send me. On next Monday, I will post the pictures, and everyone can try to find as many eggs as they can.
Raz-Kids Announcements
Is would like to go on to the Raz-Kids announcements. A couple of you sent me a list of books the read from the class library. Great work everyone!
Alex Sun reached Level R
Felix Yang reached Level R
Amy Chen reached Level Q
Kevin Zeng reached Level Q
Zack Deng reached Level K
Kevin Zeng had 30 perfect Quizzes
Bella Had had 16 perfect Quizzes
Silver Zhang had 11 perfect Quizzes
Jack Yu had 8 perfect Quizzes
Amy Chen had 7 perfect Quizzes
Alex Sun had 6 perfect Quizzes
Farrel Chen had 5 perfect Quizzes
Christina Ma had 5 perfect Quizzes
Peter Liu had 5 perfect Quizzes
Elsa Ling had 5 perfect Quizzes
Zack Deng had 5 perfect Quizzes
Gordon Zhang had 4 perfect Quizzes
George Wang had 4 perfect Quizzes
Felix Yang had 3 perfect Quizzes
Esther Liu had 2 perfect Quizzes
Jack Que had 2 perfect Quizzes
Owen Cai had a perfect Quiz
Aily Chen had a perfect Quiz
Daniel Du had a perfect Quiz
Answers
Virtual Classroom update
Below is a link to all the weeks so far. We are now in week 8
I would like everyone to continue to do at least 1 Quiz on Raz-Kids this week. I will count it as a Reading comprehension Quiz. (If you do more than 1 I will average the scores). If You cannot get into Raz Kids I will place 3 books and their Quizzes in the “Suggested Reading” Folder tomorrow.
Today we will be working on the newest Wimpy Kids section. Please find it in the “01 Monday” Folder
Mr. Chad's class Blog 