Daily Work Pad for Monday 17 March 2014

Welcome to our relief teacher for the day.  I am sorry but I am unwell and will see all of you tomorrow.  Work hard today everybody and show your relief teacher how well you can work at tasks, especially when you are in your groups. To the teacher:  Unfortunately, I am without a computer at the smartboard and so you will have to model to students from one of the classroom computers.  If you need to print this off, find a computer which has a printer on it (up the back) to print it out (see option at bottom of this post).  I have some of the Three Little Pigs Ending sheets, so they can work in their draft writing books (in a pile on floor beside my desk and blue desk).  Have students set up all computers around room before school with Dolphinkids on the desktop.  Have a great day with a lovely bunch of students!  :-)

9:00  Assembly

9:45  News – students know how to set this up and run it.  (Elliot and Reid can get Dolphinkids up on a classroom computer to see the news roster for timer etc.)

10:00  Writing – Discuss parts of a Narrative – orientation, complication, resolution and ending.  Today we are focusing on RESOLUTION and ENDING.  Go over the story of the Three Little Pigs  which students have done and compared.  Talk about the different resolutions to the problem (wolf) and endings.  Today, students need to come up with their own Resolution and Ending.  They will start from: “The third little pig built his house from bricks.” The wolf….

10:40: Maths – On Dolphinkids show them post “Battleships” and model how the game is played.  They each have a sheet with their ships filled in (in their trays) and partners to play the game.  They are finding and calling grid references (more sheets in grey pigeonholes near door).  Let them play the game.

RECESS

Sport with Mandy Sinclair until 12:25

12:25 Language – Three Little Pigs sheet (PMI on one side) language activities on the back of an A3 sheet on table next to my desk under window.

LUNCH

1:50 Spelling – students have their own contracts and today need to do next task.  Making sentences with at least 10 of their words.  Underline the word they have used from their spelling lists.

2:20 Inquiry Groups #2.   Sheets on my desk – Venice, Parliament House and Thinkers Keys.

Teacher has Harbour Bridge Group – Venice (read through Venice information sheet, highlighting keywords to fill in Information Retrieval sheet on building foundations etc…)

Computer is Opera House Group – Parliament House activity

Desk is Eiffel Towers – Give them paper to do Thinkers Key – VARIATIONS.  Show at least 4 different ways to clean the windows of a skyscraper.  Draw and label your drawings and be as imaginative as you can.  Colour too.

Enjoy your day! Mrs Veary  😎