Let’s Talk About A Treehouse!

Did you listen to Audrey’s Tree House?  If you did not, perhaps you will have time before our 10 a.m. class meeting today.

In-class we made our own designer tree house plans.  First though, we looked at some tree house designs.

Check these out: https://www.google.com/search?q=treehouse+designs&rlz=1C1GCEA_enCA840CA840&sxsrf=ALeKk02kItTBf2evOU_RlUM-d-DtpWpc8w:1592254643868&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjq1MHj2oTqAhUSgp4KHXgmA_sQ_AUoAXoECBMQAw&biw=1366&bih=657

Here are some photos from that link!

We look forward to meeting with you today.  Please have prepared your thoughts about who may be residing in the tree house you saw yesterday on the post and Shape of the Week!  Tell us something interesting about the inhabitants of that special tree house!

If you have also made some plans and designs of your own for a tree house, you can share them too!

See you soon, Mrs. E. in a tree!

Hello Division 9:

This is our final full week together.  Tomorrow, we will be having a class meeting at 10:00 a.m.  You will be asked to share who you think might be living in the tree house that sits in a tree at my father’s home!  Before you consider the photo I have attached, please have a listen to the story called, Audrey’s Tree House!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iSD61nlBdt6zCnE5kW1W_zCo7T_hL04L/view

I love how creative Audrey is with her ideas.  She reminds me of someone considering, “what are the possibilities?”  She also works very well with her father.  Father’s Day is coming up this Sunday, June 21 which is also the first full day of summer.  Let’s hope we get some summer sun!

On Father’s Day, we get to appreciate all the people in our lives that support and love us.  Anyone and everyone can be a father figure to us.  I know that all of you have special, caring relationships so please consider celebrating that love and kindness this Sunday!

So now that you have listened to Audrey’s Treehouse, here is the photo of a real house in a tree!  Who do you think could be living in there?  What are the possibilities?  What could be in the house?  How long has the home been hanging in the tree?  Be as creative as you want with your ideas and share them tomorrow during our class meeting.

You can then draw an architectural design for your own treehouse.  Make a blueprint.  Think about how you will get up or down from your treehouse!  Consider the tree you will be building in?  Will you have one level or a few?  What colour will it be?  Will you have stairs with a banister?  Will you have blue bed to hide all your secrets under?  Will you have a deck to sip tea on?  Will you have a bathtub to play in? What are the possibilities?

You can share your tree house design with me and I will share it with those in-class this week.  We will be creating our own tree house blueprints.

Please look to the Shape Of The Week for support with ideas for this week.  It is on the top of the blog.  Look for the dates June 15-19! Have fun!

Oh, right…I forgot to share that Clare, Zahra, Selina and I got to have a meeting with Thomas in Korea.  It was 6:20 a.m. for Thomas.  We enjoyed our chat time.  Here are some photos of our experience.

Have a Marvelous, Magical Treehouse Monday and I will see you tomorrow at the meeting.

Mrs. E.

Do you remember the Pink Refrigerator?  Dodsworth loved doing nothing.  His motto was “Try to do as little as possible!”  As we move toward the end of June, I would like you to continue putting forth your best effort so you are not like Dodsworth, doing as little as possible.

Dodsworth ended up finding his spark and passion through the magic of the pink refrigerator.  So on this Fridge Friday, think about Dodsworth finding paints, brushes and a sketchbook in the fridge.  Think about Dodsworth finding a fridge full of books.  Think about Dodsworth finding a trumpet and playing music.  Think about Dodsworth finding a cookbook and a whole assortment of ingredients in the fridge.  He found out that he was a gifted chef.  The Pink Refrigerator then told Dodsworth to keep exploring.

I want you to keep exploring your passions as we move toward the end of June and the end of your Division 9 year.

Evan Lin and Amos continue to explore their passions!  Check out their ukulele Rainbow medley and hula hooping!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJmjYPRVuD0&feature=youtu.be

https://youtu.be/Y5ddhtiJVdc

That is the last of our talent sharing for the year!  Thank you to all those that contributed to our BLOG POST TALENT SHOW!  As mentioned, keep exploring your passions just as Dodsworth decided to do.  We began the year with the OK Book which taught us to keep trying new things.

Today, via email,  you will receive a form that will ask you some Money Money questions.  Please answer the form and submit it to me by next Wednesday, June 17.

Please complete your Ocean Zone Art Piece as well as your Ocean Garbage Patch drawing and return them to me.

On Monday, you will get a link to a Treehouse Story Video I created for you to watch.  I will then send a photo of a house in a tree and you can be prepared to tell me what characters may live in that house during our Tuesday class meeting. You will also get an opportunity to see another Mystery Doug lesson.  This one will be about  Mars.  I will assign two more READWORKS passages.

Have a wonderful weekend!  Mrs. E.

Thoughtful Thursday!

Today is the 163rd day of the year.  There are 203 days left in 2020.  It is the 24th Thursday of the year on the 24th week of the year.  It is the 84th day of Spring and there are 10 days left until summer. Metric version of this date is 06-11-20!

On this special 11th day of the month, you are being encouraged to continue with your Clinton Star Behaviour and keep moving forward on your learning journey.  Remember to always be a STAR!  Show your awareness to  Stay Safe, Take Responsibility, Act Respectfully, Remember to be Inclusive.  Your STAR behaviour is so very important during this time in our history.

Please always be mindful to work from good, to better to your personal best and that is with both your academic and social growth and development.

Peter Reynolds shared some wonderful messages in his book Say Something!  He shared that “The world needs your voice! Mine and yours.” He tells us to “follow our heart, be brave, stay strong, listen and learn and let’s right the wrong. Let’s make our world a more colourful place, together is  better and hate has no home here.”

In class, we are taking some of the messages from Say Something and putting them in speaking bubbles in our classroom window.  We are letting “kindness be our compass.”

If you can’t remember the book, here’s a link to a read aloud

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWvD6usLuX8

“Be the change you want to see happen” and have a loving, caring, kind, thoughtful Thursday!

Mrs. E.

We are enjoying some DPA time in-class and Go NOODLE has been helping us.  We are moving up through the levels with some brain breaks and FLEX has been our go-to Go Noodle video.  Here are some FLEX characters we have made!

You can take some time to make your own FLEX characters and participate in some flex and stretch activities.

We have also been making use of puppets!  Your Shape Of The Week gives you some puppet ideas.  Have fun creating your own puppet plays.  Think of it as an extension of your Story Studio Builds.  Eric could make some car puppets! Nils could continue with Froggy and Toadie. Raina could work with Sparkle and Leo puppets.

Here is a look at some of our in-class puppet experiences.

We have the added lion and elephant in the scene on the left and the bat and buzzing bee on the right.  These puppet characters have been visiting Frog and Toad as well as visiting each other and having dance parties with their shadows. 

Please remember to get your Core Competency Reflection Pieces in by the end of today.  It is very important that I receive them from you.  If you have misplaced the emails with the attached activity, please let me know as soon as possible.  Thank you!

So continue to refer back to the SHAPE OF THE WEEK  page at the top of this site and continue to work on your Ocean projects, have some FLEX time and have a puppet party.  A Money Matters form will arrive on Friday for you to work on.

Your ocean projects are the 3 zones of the ocean visual art piece (show the sunlight, twilight, midnight layers of the ocean and the sea life in each layer) and the Garbage Patch activity as requested from your READWORKS passage, Garbage in the Ocean.

Enjoy your Waterway Wednesday!  Mrs. E.

Today We Are Going To Talk About It!

Join us for our class meeting at 10 a.m.  Go to the TEAMS site, click calendar, click JOIN MEETING!

Please arrive with microphones and cameras off.  Our class meeting will require your patience as I make sure that those of us in class are able to join in and participate.

We will take turns and share a Charlotte’s Web Word Collector Word that you have included in a well-dressed sentence that helps us understand the meaning of the word.  You will then share your Magnum Opus, your Hour of Triumph moment.  Many of your classmates did not get a chance to be the STAR OF THE WEEK.  They missed out on sharing what they are proud of.  This will be their opportunity to share their masterpiece, their great work, their proud moment.

I will share the final answers to Yoga By The Sea and say a few words about Mystery Doug and the Shape of the Week expectations.

You have a few Ocean projects to send in this week.  I am attaching a few links that we have watched in class.  These links will help you understand a little bit more about the layers of the ocean and what animals you may find there.  One of the videos will take you deep, deep to the depths of the ocean.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHVE4B-UjmM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ybBjbZnq9I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GE-lAftuQgc

While you are drawing and colouring, you can put some calming ocean waves or coastal beach music on.  We did that in class yesterday!

Tomorrow is the deadline for returning your Self-Assessment Core Competency Reflection work.  There are 3 options for you to choose and only 1 of them has to be completed and returned.  These pieces will be attached to your report cards so they need to be returned to me by tomorrow.  Thank you!

Please continue to access the Shape Of The Week activities and I look forward to seeing your ocean art!

Have a Terrific, Talk About It Tuesday.  Mrs. E.

Good Morning Everyone!  Sorry if this is arriving a bit late.  I left the Yoga By The Sea Book in the classroom for the weekend and had to get to it this morning before I could publish the daily post.

I hope you had a well-deserved long weekend as you have been working so hard.  Many of you have engaged in the READWORKS assignments, learning about oceans, lakes and rivers.  I have been connecting your readings with our Yoga By The Sea Guessing Game.  Today will be another reveal of answers with a few more clues that I will answer at our class meeting tomorrow.

The class meeting will be a bit different as I will be working from the classroom.  My laptop has a camera and microphone but the other digital devices in the classroom do not.  In order for our in-class students to participate, they will be able to access the classroom pc screen to see you share but then they will have to pop in front of my laptop to do their own sharing.  Of course, we will have to social distance ourselves in that moment.  So patience is of upmost importance tomorrow.  I have been receiving your self-assessment pieces so I know that you are all very good with your patient strategies.

Please arrive at 10 a.m. with microphones and cameras off.  We will take turns and share a Charlotte’s Web Word Collector Word that you have included in a well-dressed sentence that helps us understand the meaning of the word.  Please then share you Magnum Opus, your Hour of Triumph, your masterpiece, what you feel proud of.  Charlotte was proud of her egg sac filled with her 514 babies.  That was her greatest work.  She also knew she had been a good friend by saving Wilbur. Knowing that Wilbur received a medal at the fair and was going to be cared for and loved for the rest of his life gave her the peace at the end of her life.  I do hope you enjoyed the last 5 chapters of Charlotte’s Web and will be ready to talk tomorrow for our Talk About It Class Meeting.

Before I give you the answers to Yoga By The Sea and the new clues, I wanted to attach a Mystery Doug lesson that connects with our Pond, Oceans, Lakes, River theme.  It is Why Fish Can’t Breathe On Land.  When I think about that, I connect to our tadpoles who can’t breathe on land and then become frogs that are able to breathe on land as their gills turn into lungs.  But you are going to find out about swim bladders in this episode of Mystery Doug.  Try to also watch the Bonus Info as well.  It is so very interesting.

https://mysterydoug.com/mysteries/fish-breathing#slide-id-9079

Yoga By The Sea!

Answers from Thursday:

I am a boat; I am a bridge; I am a fish!  How did you do?  Did you guess correctly?  Now try to make those poses!

Today’s final clues:

A squishy blob inside my shell,  this round hinged home is where I dwell.  I try to burrow in the sands to hide from gulls and digging hands.  What am I?

I breathe the air, the air breathes me.  I am the land.  I am the sea.  I am the clouds that drift above.  I am special. I am love.  What am I?

I’ll reveal the answers to the final clues of Yoga By The Sea when we meet tomorrow.

Please Check the new SHAPE OF THE WEEK .  As we move toward the end of June, there will be fewer assignments for hand in but it is expected that you will continue to pursue online learning from home.  T  HIS WEEK THERE ARE 2 HAND-IN ASSIGNMENTS. For those of you that have not handed in your core competency reflection pieces, please do by Wednesday.  That was your 1 assignment from last week.

Continue to access the sidebar for activity links, take a virtual field trip from the virtual field trip page at the top of the blog and try out some Go Noodle activities.  Some of our in-class students really likely FLEX!  We have been and are making some FLEX characters from play clay. We are also working with puppets and you have a chance to as well.  Continue with your money money math activities.

Have a Meaningful, Magical Monday and we will see you at the meeting tomorrow.  Mrs. E.

Hello to a Thinking Thursday.   And I would first like to start off by thanking you for thinking about why Life In The Ocean does not have any questions attached.  In class, we do not have the digital capacity that all of you at home do.  We do not have the tech tools to use so we must do some hands-on assignments.  The reading passage Life In The Ocean is going to be used next week as a support for a hands-on assignment.  The reading passages were assigned over a 2 week period but some of you are working through them all in one week.  Good for you.  You will see next week why I assigned a reading passage without questions.  Until then, be patient.  A word that you are going to hear time and time again.

Today, for our Thinking Thursday, I would like you to think about a few things.  Of course, I know you are thinking about your core competency self-assessment reflections and working toward returning one to me.  

I would also like you to think about the spiderlings that Charlotte had hatch from her egg sac.  There were 514 baby spiders.  Instead of creating number sentences to the date today, I am going to ask you to consider making number sentences for 514!  That’s right. You could be making number sentences for hours with this number.  So get to it!

I also hope you are experimenting with some of the financial fluency activities and videos I have provided in the Shape Of The Week.  Money, money, money!!!!

I would also like you to think about your Magnum Opus.  Your great work!  On Tuesday, June 9, we will meet again at 10 a.m. for our in-class/on-line class meeting.  Not only will you share one of the Charlotte’s Web Word Collector Words and the sentence you created but you will share what you believe to be your Magnum Opus.  For Charlotte, it was her egg sac.  The creation of her peach-coloured, waterproof, tough material egg sac that held her 514 babies was her masterpiece, her great work, the finest thing she had ever made.  What is that for you? What do you think is the finest thing you have ever made, created or done.  You could even consider your Hour of Triumph.  For Charlotte, having Wilbur recognized at the County Fair and being honoured with a medal was her hour of triumph. She knew that by helping Wilbur, she was also lifting up her life.  When she filled his bucket, her bucket was filled.  So perhaps, you would rather share a moment that you felt proud about.

So think about it and arrive with microphones and cameras off next Tuesday, ready to share your Word Collector Words and your Magnum Opus or Hour of Triumph Moment.

Tomorrow is a Pro-D Day so I will not be posting.  I will leave you today with the answers to our Yoga By The Sea Clues and I will give you 3 more.  Please continue with your READWORKS passages, listen to the final chapters of Charlotte’s Web, play with money, prepare for our class meeting and return your self-assessment reflection piece.

Answers to Wednesday Clues:  1. I Am A RAINBOW (Can you think of a pose?) 2. I Am The MOON (Can you think of a pose?) 3. I Am An EAGLE (Can you think of a pose?)

More Clues for Yoga By The Sea (answers will arrive on Monday):

1.People row or paddle me.  I can sail across the sea, with a captain and a crew, to navigate the endless blue. What am I?

2. To get across from A to B, you might go up and over me, or sail under in a boat or sneak across a castle’s moat.  What am I?

3.Would you like to live with me…swimming in the deep blue sea?  Glistening fins and shiny scales, hanging out with clams and whales?  What am I?

So much to think about on this THINKING THURSDAY!  Mrs. E.

Today, we only have essential support work students in the Clinton School.  Those are students who have parents working the front lines.  Teachers are also essential workers.  In order to make sure that we stay healthy and well and the school is safe for our in-class learners, it is cleaning day at Clinton.  Many of the Clinton Staff are on-site but students are not to visit the school grounds from 9-3 unless they are children of ESW families.

How did you do with your the Yoga By The Sea guessing game? I am posting the answers to the clues and giving you 3 more clues today.  During our health and wellness class meeting, many of you shared what you are doing to stay mindful, peaceful and patient.  The Core Competency Self-Assessment asks you what strategies you use when feeling impatient.  Perhaps, playing a game is a strategy you use when needing to be patient.  So let’s play!

Answers from Tuesday clues:  1. I Am The Ocean  (what is a good ocean pose?) 2. I Am A Seal (what is a good seal pose?) 3. I Am A Dolphin (what is a good dolphin pose?)

Clues for Wellness Wednesday:

1.I can reach way up high and paint my magic in the sky.  Radiant colours everywhere.  See them balance in the air. What am I?

2.Come and sing a lullaby to the crescent in the sky.  Sometimes I am full and bright, a brilliant glowing ball of light! What am I?

3.I soar above the land and sea or sit upon a giant  tree.  Perching poised with piercing eyes, I silently search sea and skies.  What am I?

Connecting once again with Charlotte’s Web, I am going to give you some words that I found in the text that may be good ones for a Word Collector.  Your job will be to put these words in alphabetical order, figure out how many syllables they have, find the meaning for these words in the dictionary (you do not need an actual dictionary as you can always find the meaning from a digital source) and make a sentence up for each word. Those working in-class will be participating in these activities.

Next Tuesday, June 9, we will be having a class meeting.  You will be choosing one of the words I am providing and you will share one of the sentences that you have created with one of these words. We will also be sharing our Magnum Opus or our Hour of Triumph.  More info about that will come tomorrow.

Charlotte was a good writer and Wilbur even shared, “I haven’t got your gift for words!”  I know that Division 9 Word Collectors have a gift for words so give these ones a try!

Here are your Charlotte’s Web Word Collector Words from Chapters 18-22:

humble, fetching, vanished, scattering, masterpiece, languish, indigestion, murmured, promptly, weary, triumph, phenomenon, modest, revive, drenched, sentiments, desperate, summoned, aeronaut, pledge

Have a Wellness Wednesday!  Mrs. E.

I so appreciated all of the pond stories you shared with me last week.  That is why I am calling toaday, Toadally Awesome !  Many of your stories had frogs and toads.  Even Charlotte’s Web speaks of the frogs in Spring, “I heard the frogs today,” said the old sheep one evening, “Listen, you can hear them now.”  Arnold Lobel wrote many adventures with friends Frog and Toad.  Nils shared with me a few of those stories that he and his father worked on together.  Nils is the narrator of the stories.  Please take time to watch and listen.  They are adorable.  The first one is about snail mail and the second one reminded me of how I had to recently tear the March to June calendar pages off in the classrooom.  Here are the Toad and Frog videos narrated by Nils!

https://youtu.be/1Qrwhx_ZHMQ

https://youtu.be/TsMwfIwm-c8

In class, I have a pond scene set up on the sink counter with Toad and Frog.  It allows those of us in class to continue to have conversations about ponds, friendship and habitats.

The ocean reads from READWORKS also continue to provide us with knowledge about habitats.  The video from last week, How Whales Change Climate, connects with this weeks reading passages.

Charlotte’s Web is also a story about friendship and I hope you are enjoying the final chapters of the story.  There are some emotional pieces too.  It is always challenging for me to read the chapter called Last Day!  Thank you for sending in your friendship requests for next year.  I appreciate your thoughtful requests. As Wilbur said of Charlotte, “No one ever had such a friend – so affectionate, so loyal, so skillful.”

Today you will be receiving the Self-Assessment Core Competency Activity.  You will be receiving a scanned document you can print fill in and scan back to me, a one-drive word edit document and a Form Fillable document.  You can choose which one suits you and is easiest for you to access and return.  You only have to complete and send one of these documents back.  As it is necessary for everyone to return the document, I wanted to make sure I gave options for completing and returning.  Send back as soon as you can with a final due date of Wednesday, June 10.

As promised in my video read of I Am Yoga, I am now going to give you some clues from Yoga By The Sea!  I will give you clues and then you are to guess the pose represents and what the pose position.  I will give 3 different clues for 3 different poses today.  You can comment on the blog if you think you know “What Am I?”

1. I wrap the world in seven seas.  Pirates sail on my breeze.  My tides are low.  My tides are high.  Each wave is like a breath and sigh.  What Am I?
2. Sleek and graceful in the sea, on land I flop more awkwardly.  smooth and round with flippered feet.  Think of all the fish I eat. What am I?
3. I burst up through the warm blue sea, then dive down low and splash with glee.  I click and cluck and whistle sound.  My laughter bubbles all around.   What am I?

Have fun trying to guess these clues and try to figure a pose to match.  I know you will do a TOADALLY awesome job.  Mrs. E.