Sunday, 3 May 2020

Week 5: May 4-8


Week 5 (May 4 - 8)
Division 13
WEEKLY ASSIGNMENTS

CLASS ZOOM MEETING: Wednesday 10:00 – 11:00 a.m.

ZOOM DROP-IN (Optional) Friday at 10:00 a.m.

May the 4th be with you – Video: Pourquoi Star Wars est si Populaire?

Curriculum Area
Lesson/Concept
Student Activity
English Literacy
Theme: Compassion

You do not need to hand anything in this week for English.

BONUS: Write a Kidblog post about any of this week’s activities about Compassion. You can write about the act of kindness you did, the short films you watched or any thing else related to the theme of compassion.
1.   Read assigned book Reach Out: Being Compassionate on Epic.

2.   Watch Pip, and Kitbull - animated short films. Think or talk about with a family member what you think the message is of these short films and how they are related to this week’s theme of compassion.

3.   Do an ACT OF KINDNESS – Some you have written letters for the elderly, if not, choose another act of kindness to do this week. Check out this website for tons of RAK ideas: https://www.randomactsofkindness.org/kindness-ideas , use an idea from the book you read on Epic or use your own idea!

French Literacy
La musique francophone – Chanson de la semaine choisie par les élèves.

Grammaire : passé composé








 Projet de Passion
1.    Écoute la chanson de la semaine choisie par - Danika: L’oiseau et l’enfant par Kids United
Ecoute la chanson choisie par Mme - Soprano, a nos heros du quotidien

2.    Regarde la leçon sur les verbes au passé composé : Français avec Pierre.

3.   Faire des exercices de pratique sur le passé composé : les exercices en ligne ou Fiche à imprimer (Tu n’as pas besoin de remettre ce travail, mais tu peux m’envoyer un photo de ton travail. Il y aussi des exercices de pratique en dessous du vidéo de la leçon avec Pierre que tu peux faire.

4.   Travail sur ton projet – You should be putting it all together now. Start recording audio to your power point, preparing cue cards for presentation or making your video depending on the format that you are doing.

Projects are due next week. You can send to me and/or we will organize small groups for presentations.

Later this week you will be asked to complete a self-asssessment of your work on this project so far.

Numeracy
Concept: Measurement




Optional: XTRA Math for multiplication & division fact mastery


Click this link for Math lessons and worksheets:  Math Antics for Div. 13

Grade 5&6
1) Watch lesson “Units of Distance”

2) Complete practice exercises/worksheets (minimum 1 page)

3)There is NO “I KNoW IT” Math this week. Please complete last week’s if you have not already (length & capacity) OR send me a pic of your practice work that you’ve been doing.


Get active for at least 30 minutes each day!


Activity of the week:
Try this 30 minute Yoga class

Try the “Spell your name workout” (pdf in Teams and in email)

Campbell has posted another “quarantine challenge” in Kidblog! Check it out


EXTENSIONS OPPORTUNITIES – These are optional

Mother’s Day is Sunday, May 10th – students, check your email for some Mother’s Day ideas that I’ll send you separately.

Art – Try these “Lunch Doodles” with Mo Willems (the author-illustrator Mme Hirniak talked about last week).

Science –  Check out the fun science quizzes on National Geographic Kids site.

French – Try Duolingo to set yourself goals for daily French practice.

WEEKLY WORDS : Words with /oi/



1.   destroy
2.   annoy
3.   enjoy
4.   employment
5.   loyal
6.   oyster
7.   voyage
8.   choice
9.   appointment
10. moisture
11. coin
12. avoid
13. voice
14. noise
15. broil

Sunday, 26 April 2020

Week 4 April 27 - May 1

Week 4 (April 27-May 1)
Division 13
WEEKLY ASSIGNMENTS

CLASS ZOOM MEETING: Wednesday 10:oo – 11:00 Thème: Les livres (apporter un livre préféré ou un livre que tu es en train de lire à montrer à la classe)

ZOOM DROP-IN (Optional) Friday 10:00 – 11:00


Curriculum Area
Lesson/Concept
Student Activity
English Literacy
Last week of poetry! Write an adverb poem.

Grammar lesson: Parts of speech




First, watch this video to learn and review the 8 parts of speech.

Then, watch this video to watch specific lesson on adverbs.

For your last poem this month you will be writing an “Adverb Poem”. Directions how to write this poem can be found on Kidblog, Teams and in your email for the week. Don’t forget to post your finished adverb poem in Kidblog!

Play this Kahoot challenge to review parts of speech.
Game PIN: 01910242

BONUS: Write another poem of your choice. You can view more types of poems on the poetry power point I’ve included in this email and posted in Teams.

French Literacy
La musique francophone – Chanson de la semaine choisie par les élèves.










Projet de Passion
1.    Écoute la chanson de la semaine choisi par Campbell :  Un homme debout par Claudio CapeoSend me your favourite French song to feature as the song of the week!
*Si tu aimes cette chanson, voivi une autre par le meme artiste: Riche par Claudio Capéo

2.   Écriture - Ecris une page « au présent » au sujet d’un jour dans ta vie chez toi pendant la pandémie de Covid-19. Write a page french in the present tense about a typical day at home during this pandemic. You can organize your writing into paragraphs or as a daily schedule with times. Écris sur Word en Office 365 et partage avec moi quand tu as fini (par email).

3.   Mercredi pendant notre Zoom - lecture par Madame du livre Parce-que par Marc Barnett et activité à suivre.
Projet – Once you’ve brainstormed and organized ideas for your passion project, start to translate any key words or phrases you’ll need to know to express your ideas in french. Remember DO NOT translate whole paragraphs at a time.

Numeracy
Concept: measurement


Optional: XTRA Math for multiplication & division fact mastery




All of the Math lessons and worksheets for the week are accessible using our new class web link. Click here: Math Antics for Div. 13

Grade 5&6
1) Watch lesson “Intro to the Metric system”

2) Complete practice exercises/worksheets (minimum 1 page)

3)Login to “I know it Math” to complete end of week assignment “quiz”.


Get active for at least 30 minutes each day!


Activity of the week:
Get moving with M. Tremblay: https://vimeo.com/412355399
Get moving with Mme Ferrier: https://vimeo.com/412210921

BONUS: Send a short video clip of you doing an exercise for M. Tremblay   


EXTENSIONS OPPORTUNITIES – These are optional

Art –  Laity View Yearbook Cover contest:
Get out your crayons, pencils or paints and create your winning design! Express your artistic ability to show off your Laity View spirit!
• Use regular size (8 ½” x 11”) white paper
• Draw your cover page in a vertical layout (Up and down NOT side to side)
• Include the school name and 2019-2020 in the design
• Include your first name somewhere in your drawing
• Black and white OR color drawings Remember to provide student’s name, grade and division/teacher with your submission.
ALL ENTRIES MUST BE SUBMITTED TO BOX AT FRONT DOOR OF SCHOOL OR BY EMAIL to lv_reception@sd42.ca by : Thursday April 30th

Science –  Try this experiment of the week “Floating Penny

French – Do this quiz d’actu “Special printemps”

Music: Mrs. Dahle's Music Opportunities


WEEKLY WORDS : Homophones


1.   threw
2.   through
3.   right
4.   write
5.   hole
6.   whole
7.   road
8.   rode
9.   their
10. there
11. they’re
12. it’s
13. its
14. waist
15. waste









Sunday, 19 April 2020

Week of April 20-24

Week of April 20-24
Division 13
WEEKLY ASSIGNMENTS

CLASS ZOOM MEETING: Wednesday 10:oo – 11:00 *Come prepared to be active!
ZOOM DROP-IN/HELP DESK Friday 10:00 – 10:30


Curriculum Area
Lesson/Concept
Student Activity
English Literacy
Continue with poetry!

Theme: Earth Day (April 22nd)
  
Read assigned books in Epic:
1.   The Word Collector by Peter Reynolds (AUDIO BOOK)
2.   The Word Collector by Sonja Wimmer
3.   Let’s celebrate Earth Day
4.   Celebrate April

Your task this week is to be “word collectors”. After reading both Word collector stories in Epic, read through a variety of other Earth Day themed books in Epic to collect earth day themed words. You can search Earth Day in the search bar and choose your own books to read to collect your Earth Day themed words. Collect a minimum of 20 words that you will the use as a foundation to create your own Earth Day Found Poem. See Found Poetry document in Teams or in email for further instructions and post your final found poem in KIdblog.

BONUS: Click here to read an article from TIME for KIDS titled “The Plastic Bag Problem”

BONUS: Invent a new holiday to be celebrated and write a post about it in Kidblog!
French Literacy
1.Ecoute chanson : Le pire Bu GIMS  

2.Grammaire – Revision des verbes du 1er groupe au present
Regarde la vidéo : Français avec Pierre




Projet de Passion
1.   Complete ce que tu peux sur « les fiches apprenants » pour la chanson Le Pire. The pdfs are posted in Teams and also sent as attachements in your email for the week.

2.   Complete la feuille de grammaire sur les verbes au présent. The pdf is posted in Teams ans also attached in weekly email.
Ensuite, jouer au Kahoot :

Game PIN : 06601395
Projet – Continuer à planifier ton projet de passion. Choosing a topic and selecting and organizing the main ideas.

Numeracy
Concept: Division/Divisibility

Grade 5 – factors/divisibility

Grade 6 – Division with 2 digit divisor

Optional: XTRA Math




All of the Math lessons and worksheets for the week are accessible using our new class web link. Click here: Math Antics for Div. 13

Grade 5
1)   Watch lesson on Factoring
Grade 6
    1)Watch lesson on Long Division with 2 digit divisors

2) Complete practice exercises/worksheets (minimum 1 page)

2)   Login to “I know it Math” to complete end of week assignment “quiz”.
*IT IS IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT THE COMMAS ARE NOT DECIMALS IN THE QUESTIONS. It can be very confusing as commas are used as decimal points in French Math worksheets. All of the Math work that is being assigned for remote learning is based on English therefore periods are used for decimal points and commas are used to separate larger numbers.


Get active for at least 30 minutes each day!


Activity of the week:
Get moving with basketball player Mason Plumblee
*You’ll need a skipping rope but can just hop if you don’t have one or make your own!
BONUS: Design your own homemade skee ball game … record your game to share with everyone!



EXTENSIONS OPPORTUNITIES – These are optional

Science –  Try this experiment of the week “EGGS IN MOTION”.

French
1.   Check out this awesome French music playlist on youtube:

2.   Concours virtuel: https://bc-yk.cpf.ca/concoursvirtuel/

Watch a documentary with your family I Throw like A Girl – The Mo’Ne Davis mini-doc directed by Spike Lee (16 min)

TYPING – Learn how to type using this online typing program! Challenge yourself to 15 minutes a day!

WEEKLY WORDS : Plurals

1.   sandwiches
2.   speeches
3.   wishes
4.   athletes
5.   vegetables
6.   stories
7.   parties
8.   companies
9.   calves
10.  skis