Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Wonderful Wednesday!

This morning we began the day having art with Mr. Monaghan.

Afterwards, we had physical education with Ms. Dacosta and Ms. Jaskolka. We began with a warm up; we did some laps around the gym. Afterwards we played a north, south, east, and west game. Before we finished up, we played duck duck goose.

In our unit of inquiry, we continued our inquiry into the media. We reviewed what is media and all the different forms:

We went over the purpose of media:

The different techniques used in media:

We also discussed what is media literacy:

We learned that we come across media everyday and that media tries to express a message to us. So when we are looking at media, it is important we think about what message is being expressed to us and that we understand what the message is. If we do not understand, we can ask questions.

We looked at an advertisement of Toys R Us that has the word FREE in really big letters. We learned that it is important to read everything that we see in the advertisement. When we did read it more closely, we saw that we would be able to get something free after spending 50 dollars.

We can see media messages. We watched a Marineland commercial and discussed why it made us want to go there; we went over the techniques posted above.

Marineland commercial

We can also hear media. We listened to a Marineland commercial that we would hear on the radio and learned that sound is an important technique when we cannot see media.

Afterwards, we completed a “signs and symbols” worksheet in order to remember that media has a message.

We also completed a “media everyday” worksheet, where we wrote about the different kinds of media that we see and hear everyday.

During math, we used a hundred’s chart to look for patterns when counting by 2s, 5s, and 10s. We noticed that when we are going down the column, the numbers in the ones column stayed the same. We also noticed that when we went down the column, the numbers increased by ten. We counted by 5’s starting at 11. We noticed that the final digits alternate 1, 6, 1, 6 and so on.

We then looked at a hundred’s chart that went from 101-200. We spoke about the similarities and differences.

Students then completed a page in their Math Makes Sense. We will continue working on looking for patterns on a hundred’s chart tomorrow.

After first recess and lunch, students had French.

When students returned they wrote their homework in their agenda’s and completed any unfinished work. 

After second recess and lunch, we went over as a class how to add detail to a sentence. We began with a verb and a noun. We then added an adjective to describe the noun. To help add detail to our sentence we ask two of the following questions: How? Where? Why? When? We did examples as a class:

At the end of the day we were working on Daily 5. We went over how to Read to Someone, and then we practiced in partners. We made sure to sit EEEK style (elbow, elbow, knee, knee), have our coaching tips ready when our partner would need help reading a book, and our checkmarks to remind us of the questions to ask when our partner is finished reading a page.

Homework:
- Read for 20 minutes
-Food Drive Donations
-Lunch forms due October 24
-Spelling Test Friday

  

   ***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.  

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