We have now had 10 writing tip lessons focusing on the success criteria for powerful personal writing. I was very happy to see how well everyone was able to incorporate these tips into their writing on yesterday's PAR. Your writing is improving every time you add these tips into your work. Keep it up! We also continued on with novel approach and had another lesson on making our thinking visible. We focused on the strategies of: setting a purpose, making connections and using background knowledge, and visualizing. In the afternoon, we carried on with our inquiry. Students had to use many reading strategies in inquiry, especially monitoring comprehension as some of the research we are finding is difficult to understand. The skills we are learning in both inquiry and novel approach are very important as they are used in all subject areas at school and in many activities outside of school as well. |
- We still need drivers for Skating (click here to sign up)
- Skating will be at Kerrisdale Arena and we will leave school at 10:00am
- Complete p 47-49 posted yesterday
- Review the learning intentions on fresh grade as we will be having a mid unit assessment this week
- Watch the two videos on screen time posted below
- After watching them write a piece explaining the benefits of less screen time
- Include several things that you can do to make screen time a more healthy activity
- Today we had 30 minutes of Free play time outside. What did you do? Was it fun? How was it different than screen time?
- How was what you did today different than screen time? Which is more healthy? Include these ideas in your piece
- Paragraph plan:
Topic Sentence: Screen time is serious concern in the world today. (Write about the benefits of less screen time from the video)
Part 2: Body #1
Things you can do to make screen time more healthy
Part 3: Body #2
What you did today in your free time at school outside and why it was fun/not fun or healthy/not healthy compared to screen time
Part 4: Conclusion
Your overall opinion on screen time summarized in a few sentences
- Give another student some feed back on their writing
- Edit/revise to improve your work