Hello everyone! We hope you had a fantastic weekend! Loving all the photos of student work/tasks, keep them coming.
We want to welcome Mr. Kai back to Peace Pod. He will be helping learners in our Pod going forward and we are so happy to have him back working with us.
Morning Message
We all thought of the book Smelly Socks by Robert Munsch after Mrs. Bates posted the task of counting socks. We thought you would enjoy Ms. Disher reading the story. Challenge...can you count by 2's but start at 1? (hint: 1, 3, 5...how high can you go?). Have fun! Click on the link below to view Smelly Socks read by Ms. Disher...
Smelly Socks Read-Aloud
Your Job Today:
We want to make sure you are all able to log into Iris and Google.
If you were not able to complete last week’s tasks we’d like your
first job to be the following:
1. Log into Iris and post a photo of your workspace or just a photo
of you!
Use your CBE ID and password emailed to your parents last week.
Log into Iris here: IRIS log in
2. Go to Google and email your teacher.
Send your teacher an e-mail using your student Gmail account! Sign-in instructions are included below. Practice using standard letter writing format and include a greeting, content, and closing.
For example:
Dear _____,
How are you doing today? Today I am planning to ______.
From,
_______
Teacher's Gmail addresses (This is for students ONLY. Parents, please continue to e-mail the teachers' @cbe.ab.ca addresses):
Ms. Disher: jadisher@educbe.ca
Mrs. Campbell: mfcampbell@educbe.ca
Mrs. Bates: jabates@educbe.ca
To access your student Gmail account, clink this link: Gmail
Use your Gmail address and password provided to your parents in their email from your teacher.
If you did those jobs last week you can move onto today’s task.
Today’s Job: Printing Practice
Subject: Language Arts – Legibility
Technology: No technology required for this task.
Materials Required:
-Pencil
-Printing notebook
Support:
Parents will need to give their child the instructions but most children should be able to do this task independently. Parents may need to check in to ensure students are printing letters from top to bottom.
Timeframe: This should take approx. 15 minutes.
Task:
In your notebook package you got from the school you should have a half journal that is dark blue. This is your printing journal. For today we would like you to take some time to print the “downer letters” I and i. These letters are called downers as you start at the top of the line and move your pencil DOWN.
For I start at the top of the solid line and draw your line straight down.
For i start at the top of the dotted line and draw your line straight down. After you have drawn your line you can return to add the dot above the line.
Please practice 2 rows of l and 2 rows of i. Practice using a finger space by putting a finger space between each letter. (tip: if you have a popsicle stick at home you can use this instead of your finger to put appropriate spacing between letters)
Feedback: Use the following checklist to help you with your printing.
Strategies for neat printing of Downer Letters:
o Slow down
o Print letters from top to bottom
o Print letters on the line (no floaters)
o Print tall letters tall (l, t, f)
o Print small letters small (i)
Additional things to check out today:
Mrs. Coulson has a peace song for you to practice
Visit Mr. Der's blog for some physical activities
