Good morning,

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To discuss:

1. Documents for the Week
2. Learning Opportunities

1. Documents for the Week:

b.) Literacy:

Keep It Calm It Courage It Template.

d.) Makers:

Makers – emotions

2. Learning Opportunities

To-do:
* : hand-in
(extension): optional

Priorities:
a.) Morning Journal*
b.) Literacy *
c.) Math

Extensions:
d.) Makers – Emotions (optional)
e.) Genius Hour (optional)

Priorities

a.) Morning Journal *

We will continue practicing our questioning and inferring skills by observing the picture below. Please follow the prompts beneath the picture to help you make meaning of the picture. Make a comment on this blog post with your questions and inferences. I encourage you to comment on each other’s posts. Remember to provide evidence on your thoughts.

Click photo to enlarge.

What questions do you have? (I wonder…)
What is going on in this picture? (I think… or Maybe…)
What do you see that makes you say that? (I think…. because…)
What more can you find?

Last week’s photo explained:

The reveal:

This week’s image comes from the May 11, 2020 article “After Months Apart, Mother’s Day Visits Through a Doorway” The story details the scene at a Los Angeles nursing home on Mother’s Day. Families got their first chance to see Mom since the coronavirus lockdown began — as long as they stayed outside, and she stayed in.

b.) Literacy*

Thursday
Reflect

How has your thinking stretched or changed?

Examples of how your emotional thinking has stretched:

• feelings can be positive, negative, and anxious;
• we can take action with our feelings;
• different actions help us have more control over our feelings;
• courage can help us feel less anxious,
• mindful breathing can help us feel less angry or frustrated;
• remembering happy times can make us feel happy)

c.) Math

Please continue your math program.
Khan Academy, IXL, worksheets, etc.

If you would like support/guidance on a math program, please contact me

Extensions (optional)

d.) Makers

Create an emotions structure.

Refer to this planning sheet: Makers – emotions

1. Plan 1
   Using the three main emotional categories (Keep it, Calm it, Courage it), plan what each of these emotions may look like if they were a physical structure.
   Keep it (positive feelings) – ex. calm, content, excited, happy, curious — For me this would look like sitting at the beach or in the forest. Colours I may include in my structure would be yellow and green (everyone’s will be different).
   Calm it (negative feelings) – ex. angry, frustrated, confused, sad — For me, this would look like a big, dark pit. Colours may include black or red. I may want to include a lot of spirals or angry, jagged lines.
   Courage it (anxious feelings)
   Courage it (anxious feelings) – ex. worried, concerned, intimidated, afraid — For me this may be standing at a cliff’s edge, or at the top of a roller coaster. Colours I would include would be very mixed!
2. Plan 2
   How will you turn these emotional categories into a physical structure? This may be a house with three rooms, a three-headed monster, a robot with different categories, a theme park with parts focusing on each category.
3.  Create
4. Test/Fix
5. Share

e.) Genius Hour (optional)

Continue your Genius Hour project. You may want to focus on your “weird animal” this week.  This is an ongoing project. If you have completed it or are just starting, here is the planning sheet to start a new inquiry: Genius Hour Planning Sheet

Follow these steps:
Brainstorm – what topics interest you? Write down topics that interest you (e.g. birds, palm trees, global warming, Jupiter, etc…). Select one to focus on this week.

Question – What deep questions do you wish to explore on your topic? (e.g. how do birds fly?)

Research – How are you going to find answers to your questions? With limited variety of resources, it will likely be online or an interview with an “expert” on the topic (perhaps family/friends).

Present – How are you going to share your knowledge? Please come up with a a way to briefly present your project. This may be through a speech, slideshow, poster, poem, comic, video, song, etc.

Share – Practice your presentation and share — either to me, family/friends, to the class during Sharing Circle.

Please follow the following planning sheet to guide you through your planning and  research.

Have a good day,

Ms. Daneshwand