Tuesday, March 6, 2012

To bridge some of the ideas for the writing of the narrative paragraph, I decided to fuse in a Dance and Movement exercise.  Going through a movement exercise will activate parts of the brain that may not happen when you just sit down with pen and paper to create a piece of writing.
For homework last night, and work in class today, the students used this framework from the TDSB, taken from the The Treasure Chest publication:

 

The students were to think about the topic (which was the important event they went through) and how they could communicate that with the audience by drawing on the four areas outlined in the chart.  I was hoping to model this for the students, but I am away from school today.   I will do this tomorrow.

We have been doing some comprehensive review on subtraction.  Each student was required to create a study sheet (the weekend's homework) that was going to be shared with other members of the class.  Emphasis, at this stage, is on practice and I hope to have a final test done before the students leave for March Break.

The IEP (Individual Education Plans) will be going home tomorrow, along with a brief explanation of the Strength Based Resilience program we will be starting in Room 52.  I am in the final stages of doing online questionnaire about each student. Once this is done, I will be able to proceed with the project.

Homework:  Complete Math review sheets if they were not done in class