Month: June 2020

Good morning Division 11!

This is our last week of school! Congratulations on all your flexility , hard work and resilience during our unusual school year! This year would not be possible without all of you and your amazing families! We made it! 🙂

This week (Mon, Tues and Wed) we are going to end the year focusing on literacy and your stores.

You can continue with your stores this week!

1. Change the value of your objects
2. Change your objects/ store or restaurant theme
3. Reverse roles with your family members and purchase from them

Please remember your pick up dates and times for your materials and report cards. If you have not let me know when you are coming please email me 🙂

Monday June 22

1. Langauge Arts: Silly Sentence Starters

In your journal describe the fun you would have with a bug that likes to sing.

2. Reading Bingo

Tuesday June 23

1. Language Arts: Personal Write 

Write in your journal about three things you would like to experience or hope to do this summer.

2. Reading Bingo

Wednesday June 24

Today is the last day of online learning for this school year! WOOOOO! 🙂 Wishing you a wonderful summer and looking forward to seeing all of you in September!

1. Language Arts: Personal Write

Option 1: Write in your journal about something you are proud of (accomplishing or learning) this school year.

Option 2: Write your favourite memory from this school year.

2. Reading Bingo

Thank you and have an amazing summer break! Can’t wait to see all of you in September!

Ms. Toor

Good morning everyone!

This week is our last full week of school! Excited to see all of you online this Friday June 19 @10am on Zoom for our last classroom meeting celebration. Remember to bring a snack and lets have some fun celebrating this school year!

A special holiday is coming up this weekend. Attached is the secret document. P.S. Dads do not open please 🙂

Secret Father’s Day Attachment

Monday June 15

1. Language Arts: Silly Sentence Starters

In your journal write three interesting sentences about a puppy that causes lots of trouble.

2. Mathematics: Financial Literacy

Please explain your thinking for each question and post to Freshgrade

If you need help draw a picture for each item and put one dollar under each image until all the money is gone

Look at how much each item would cost and think about the best deal

• Would you rather buy…?   5 games for $10 or 4 games for $8
• Would you rather buy…?   5 toys for $15 or 4 toys for $12

3. Science: Plant Life Cycle

3a). Watch the Video

3b). Complete the cycle below or create your own cycle of a plant using loose parts,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4.  Reading Bingo:

Tuesday June 16

1. Outdoor Classroom: Sound Walk Tuesday

Go for a walk. Find a spot and close your eyes. Document a sound you hear. Write and Draw a picture of what you heard (can be living or non-living) on a piece of paper or in your journal. Post to Freshgrade.

2. Mathematics: Financial Literacy 

As we no longer have pennies in our currency. Practice rounding up or down with numbers below.

• Amounts ending in 1 cents and 2 cents are rounded down to the nearest 10 cents
• Amounts ending in 3 cents and 4 cents are rounded up to the nearest 5 cents
• Amounts ending in 6 cents and 7 cents are rounded down to the nearest 5 cents
• Amounts ending in 8 cents and 9 cents are rounded up to the nearest 10 cents
• Amounts ending in 0 cent and 5 cents remain unchanged

Examples

• $5.76 would round up to $5.75
• 18 cents would round down to 20cents

What value would you round these numbers to? Would you round them up or down?

• 17 cents
• $1.14
• 99 cents
• $3.12
• $4. 36

3. Science: Plant Life Cycle 

3a). Watch the video

3b). Complete the activity below FreebiePlantUnitNeedsCanHaveAreChart

4. Reading Bingo:

Wednesday June 17

1. Langauge Arts: Silly Sentence Starters

In your Journal Write 3 questions you would ask a monster that is always crabby.

2. Mathematics: Financial Literacy

Option 1: Create a store.  In your home go find 5-10 objects that follow a theme for a store (for example toys, food, candy, toiletries, kitchen supplies/ utensils, stuffies and / or school supplies).

or 

Option 2: Create a restaurant with your family and use what you create (with food, paper or anything ADST related).

Build your restaurant/ store out of a blanket fort, cardboard or with your imagination (the possibilities are endless).

For option 1: Give those objects value by giving it a tag that includes the price of that object. Your child can create a tag to go on their selected object or can create a list similar to the image below.

Have your child select their value of the object based on their own level of skill. For example starting off with whole numbers or if you feel your child’s level of skip counting has developed to use numbers such as $5.25, $4.15 etc.

For option 2: Build a menu and give your meals/ food items prices

We will be using these objects and values for the next two activities on Thursday and Friday.

Reading Bingo:

Thursday June 18

1. Think Outside the Box Thursday: Use the image below and create something unique. Remember it is not a part of a mountain range ! Print out the picture or copy it on your own paper. Can’t wait to see what you come up with this week! Post to FreshGrade.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2. Language Arts: Silly Sentence Starters

In your journal write about a toy that wants to be a person.

3. Mathematics: Financial Literacy 

Using values created the day before (from the selected objects) practice exchanging money, skip counting, addition and subtraction to prepare for opening your store with your family.

Reading Bingo:

Friday June 19

Zoom Meeting @10am (same link as always)

1. Language Arts: Silly Sentence Starters

In your journal describe what it would be like to live next door to a pet that is full of energy.

2. Mathematics: Financial Literacy 

Open up your store to your family members.

This activity will help you practice your skills such as exchanging money, skip counting, addition and subtraction.

3. Reading Bingo:

Thank you,

Ms. Toor

Good morning Division 11!

Here are the weeks activities. Thank you to everyone who completed the mandatory assignment and for those who I was able to conference with over zoom last week! Looking forward to zooming with the rest of the remote learners group this week 🙂

This week we are starting financial literacy and getting into the first stage of the plant life cycle. We will continue working on our writing using the silly sentence starters and continue to practice reading each day for 20 minutes.

Monday June 8

1. Language Arts: Silly Sentence Starters

Create a journal page written by a monkey that is lots of fun

• Write in the perspective of a monkey or what the monkey is thinking about
• Add a picture drawn by the “monkey”

2. Mathematics: Financial Literacy

2a). Financial Literacy Songs and videos. 

This is our first introduction into financial literacy and being responsible with money.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmBUy3vhTdg

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

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

2b). Financial Literacy Brainstorm 

On the BrainstormBubble write down what you know about money using the questions below.

• Prior Knowledge: What do you know about money? Why is money important? Why do we need money?

3. Reading Bingo:

Tuesday June 9

1. Science: Sound Walk:

Each Tuesday we will continue to go on a walk outside or listen outside to the sounds you hear. Close you eyes and listen close. Choose one sound that stuck out to you. *if raining too hard open your window or door or listen under cover.

Write down in your journal what sound you hear and draw a picture to share what sound you heard.

2. Language Arts: Silly Sentence Starter

• Write  in your journal or piece of paper a song about a backpack that can grant wishes 
•  Add a picture if you would like as well 

3. Mathematics: Financial Literacy 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3a). Use the sheet below colour and print out. Please ignore the instructions and colour the coins on the sheet below this instruction just like regular coins in the template above (using colours like brown, gold/ yellow, grey/ silver).

NOTE: We will talk about the penny that is no longer in our Canadian currency. As it involves rounding up or down we will talk about that very soon and have another lesson about that in the next couple weeks.

ColourbyCodeCanadianCoins

If you do not have a printer that is okay as you can use loose change if you have it or can even make your own coins using paper. We will need coins to do many other activities whether they are paper, fake money or real money. Thank you!

3b). Use the wallet template to create a wallet to store your financial literacy money in. Design you wallet as you would like.

 

 

 

 

 

4. Reading Bingo: 

Wednesday June 10

1. Langauge Arts: Silly Sentence Starters

Write in your journal or blank piece of paper.

• Write about three interesting sentences about a hamburger that likes to sing.

2. Mathematics: Financial Literacy 

Cut out your money from yesterday. After practicing skip counting keep it in your wallet or a safe place as we will continue using them to practice our financial literacy skills.

• Practice identifying how much each coin is worth
• Practice skip counting with money (counting by 5s, 10s, 25s etc)

5s: 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50, 55, 50, 65, 70, 75, 80, 85, 90, 95, 100

10s: 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100

25s: 25, 50, 75, 100

You can use the coins made yesterday to help use as a visual to help with skip counting.

3. Science: Parts of a Plant

To introduce looking at the plant lifecycle we will begin looking at the parts of a plant. Watch the video

4. Reading Bingo:

Thursday June 11

1. Think Outside the Box Thursday: Use the image below and create something unique. Remember it is not a heart ! Print out the picture or copy it on your own paper. Can’t wait to see what you come up with this week! Post to FreshGrade.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2. Record your Reading: on raz kids or your own book

• Watch the video on how to record yourself reading on Razkids
• https://www.raz-kids.com/shared/video.html?id=286
• Login into Razkids and follow the steps (if you need your username/ password please email me and I can send it)
• Begin recording yourself reading any book that is a good fit book (not too easy or too hard)
• Complete the comprehension component (quiz) following the reading

**Remember some of you are working on different things like fluency, comprehension, decoding text etc. Keep those reading goals in mind while reading. This is also many of your first try at recording yourselves online.

**If it does not work take a video of your child reading or a voice recording. Videos can be uploaded to FreshGrade and voice recordings on your device can be emailed directly to me if you are unable to record through Raz-Kids. If you try a video please just point the camera onto the screen (book) to limit nervousness.

3: Mathematics: Financial Literacy

Please explain your thinking for each question: you can write it down or record yourself in an interview.

• Would you rather have 1 loonies or 10 dimes?
• Would you rather have 10 quarters or 100 nickels?

4. Reading Bingo:

Friday June 12

1. Langauge Arts: Silly Sentence Starters

Write in your journal or blank piece of paper.

• Write a scary story about a bedroom that smells like feet

2. Mathematics: Financial Literacy 

Please explain your thinking for each questions: you can write or record yourself in an interview.

• Would you rather have 100 nickels or 2 toonies?
• Would you rather have 100 dimes or 40 quarters?

3. Science: Parts of a Plant 

Demonstrate your understanding of the parts of plant using loose parts. Review the video from Wednesday as well to review the parts of a plant to help with this activity.

Some examples below:

4. Reading Bingo: 

Thank you,

Ms. Toor

Good morning Division 11

This week is our first transition week. I will be teaching in the classroom on Mondays and Tuesdays. I apologize in advance if I am unable to answer emails right away on those days but will check it throughout the day.

You will notice there is an activity on Tuesday June 2 that is a mandatory assignment. It is mandatory as it is a component that has to be completed for your child’s report card. Thank you for your cooperation and understanding!

Please remember to upload your picture for a very special someone who is leaving Suncrest on Freshgrade.

Monday June 1

1. Langauge Arts: Silly Sentence Starters

Write a silly story or use the thinking bubble image below. Write about a pet that knows that people are thinking. Choose an animal, name of a pet and share what the pet is thinking about humans or their owner. Post to Freshgrade.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2. Mathematics: Time

Fill in the 2 sheets below and continue working on our skills.

3. While We Can’t Hug Video 

Watch the video above. It is an important message to remember as times are transitioning. Talk with your families about the importance of this story.

4. Reading Bingo: Select one activity from the sheet. Remember to read each day for 20 minutes.

Science Optional: Watch the Magic School Bus

Episode: Wet All Over (water cycle)

Link or on Netflix Season 2 Episode 5

Tuesday June 2

1. Core Competency Self-Assessment (mandatory assignment) 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Student Name (Click here for another even better copy of the form)**

 

This assignment will be part of your report card and must be completed.

“Please write next to “I CAN” show my thinking in creative ways

Please “self reflect” on ways you have used your creative thinking competency this term. Share an activity you did during remote learning where you showed your creative side (this can include an ADST assignment, Think Outside the Box Thursday or a way you have demonstrated your learning creatively). Draw and write in the square provided on the template of an activity you demonstrated creative thinking.

**I will conference with everyone in person (if you are attending school) or over zoom to go over this assignment and fill out the bottom portion together (the scale). I will be in touch with a schedule to complete the bottom of the template and to also complete the student voice section for the summative report card this term.

Please take a picture and post to Freshgrade**

 

2. Science and Outdoor Classroom: Sound Walk

Go for a walk. Document a sound you hear. Write and Draw a picture of what you heard (can be living or non-living) on a piece of paper or in your journal. Post to Freshgrade.

3. Reading Bingo: Select one activity from the sheet. Remember to read each day for 20 minutes.

Wednesday June 3

1. Language Arts: Silly Sentence Starters

In your journal or a piece of paper: Create a book cover for a bed that can fly. Post to Freshgrade.

2. Mathematics: Time

Please watch the video about AM and PM then complete the worksheet below.

3. Reading Bingo: Select one activity from the sheet. Remember to read each day for 20 minutes.

Thursday June 4

1. Think Outside the Box Thursday! Use the image below and create something unique. Remember it is not a part of a door ! Print out the picture or copy it on your own paper. Can’t wait to see what you come up with this week! Post to FreshGrade.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2. Science: Water

While almost 70 percent of the world is covered by water, only 2.5 percent of it is fresh. The rest is saline and ocean-based. Even then, just 1 percent of our freshwater is easily accessible, most of it trapped in glaciers.

Think about the ways you use water at home. Fill out the brainstorm below. Star what activity uses the most water out of all the activities listed. Post to Freshgrade.

3. Reading Bingo: Select one activity off the bingo sheet. Remember to read for 20 minutes each day doing an activity from the list.

Friday June 5

1. Language Arts: Silly Sentence Starters

Create the ultimate pizza. In your journal or on the template below create a pizza with any toppings you decide (lets be creative; there are no limits). Write down your ingredients as well. Post to freshgrade.

2. Mathematics: Time

Today we are working on understanding all the parts of an analog clock. Post to freshgrade.

3. Science: Water

Listen to the story “Why Should I Save Water” by Jen Green

After the story use the template or your journal. Write down one or two ways you can do to conserve water. Post to Freshgrade.

4.  Reading Bingo: Select one activity from the sheet. Remember to read each day for 20 minutes.

Ms. Toor