Just Read
My friend and author Phil Bildner has just started his own YouTube show called “Out of My Mind“. In the pilot episode, he talks about reading. How much time do you spend reading? Check out the first episode below:
8, Resources for your River Valley Project
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7, Providing Evidence to Support Your Ideas
Today, we look at how to take our one page reflection about our three objects and provide enough evidence to support our ideas. Here are questions to ask yourself to make sure you are on track: – IDEAS: Do you have reasons to explain why you chose each object for your “museum exhibit”? – EVIDENCE: Did you dive … [Read more…]
7, You in a Nutshell
You have just been assigned to identify three objects in your life that encapsulate YOU, who YOU are, what YOU love, how special YOU are. The task is posted on ManageBac. If you have any questions, please comment below and I will try to answer them as soon as possible. Please do not ask a question … [Read more…]
7, Using Evidence to Support Your Idea
Today, we read Thank you, Mr. Falker, by one of my favorite children’s book authors, Patricia Polacco. We used that to look at four characters, or groups of characters: Trisha, the grandparents, Mr. Falker and the classmates. Tonight for homework, please use evidence from the story to formulate one paragraph that describes the character (or characters). … [Read more…]
7,8, Current Events
Components of a current events discussion: – source— From where did you learn this news? – description— Who? What? When? Where? Why? How? (Not all questions may be answered in each event.) – opinion— What are your thoughts or connections after learning of this event? Here is a great website to read the news: Newsela. … [Read more…]
8, River Valley Civilizations Project
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8, Agricultural Revolution and the Birth of Cities (Taco Orangutans)
Today, we brainstormed in groups the definition of cities. We then identified the key words in each of the four groups. Here are what you found to be the important words: civil area community people work live society facilites safety resources apartment blocks modern centre population urban civilisation houses develop thrive economics bank Then, we watched a BrainPOP video on … [Read more…]
8, Agricultural Revolution and the Birth of Cities (Humanicorns)
Today, class 380-1 officially became known as Humanicorns. This might be one of the most clever class names I’ve heard come across! After such serious business, we brainstormed in groups the definition of cities. We then identified the key words in each of the four groups. Here are what you found to be the important words: area … [Read more…]
7, Studying History
Why do we study history? We discussed that today and came up with a variety of reasons. The most common response was that we learn to understand how we came to be who/ where we are, as well as we learn from our mistakes so we don’t repeat them. We learned that our first unit in Humanities, … [Read more…]