Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Terrific Tuesday!

This morning we began the day reading chapter 6 of Flat Stanley’s The Japanese Ninja Surprise. Stanley’s family has found him in Japan but before they could take him home, four ninja’s came with a large black cloth and began to put it over all of them; however, we do not know what happened next! Student’s then predicted what they think will happen!

Afterwards, students had physical education with Ms. Lovan.

When student’s returned, we began our new unit of inquiry. We were inquiring into the media and the different forms of media we see everyday. We made a brainstorm together on the board:

We also discussed the purpose of media:

We then spoke about the different techniques that are used in the media that persuade, entertain and/or inform us:

1. Sound
2. Movement
3. Colour
4. Graphics

We watched a video that used all of these techniques:

Techniques used in media 

Here is an example of the techniques being used in this video: 

Animated Film:  I Want a Dog

Techniques	Example	What effect did this have on you?
SOUND (sound effects, jingles, dialogue)	Dogs barking I Want a Dog song	I was surprised/It made me laugh I wanted to sing along.
MOVEMENT (actions, actors)	May falling off chair	It made me laugh.
COLOUR (bright or dull)	May’s bedroom	I liked looking at it.
GRAPHICS (pictures and images)	Dogs on her wall	They made me laugh

We watched a few minutes of the video today and we will watch it again tomorrow to reinforce the four techniques used in media that we will be focusing on during our unit of inquiry.

During math, we used a hundreds chart to help us find missing numbers. We were counting by 10s, 5s, and 2s to figure out what number Ms. Jaskolka was thinking of. We figured out when looking at the hundreds chart, we can count by tens by going down one column. After exploring the hundreds chart together, students completed 2 pages in their Math Makes Sense.

After first recess and lunch, students had French.

When students returned, they wrote their homework in their agenda and then completed any unfinished work.

After second recess and lunch, students completed a review of lessons 1-5:

This week we are reviewing the words from lessons 1-5. No words are going home this week. Instead, students will be tested on 10 random words on Friday.  

Then we made ninjas, like in Flat Stanley, during visual arts.

At the end of the day, we read the end of Chapter 6 and learned that Oda Nobu was captured by the ninjas and Stanley is going to try and go find him. 

Homework:

1.     Read for 20 minutes

2.     MMS pg. 43-44

3.     Spelling pg. 25-28

4.     Lunch Forms due Friday

5.     Donations for the food drive