Friday's Agenda
Jump Start!
Think about your favourite fairy tale. In 10 words or less, explain the entire story to your Pod!
Literacy Component: Jump Start is a consistent part of the student's schedule. Each morning students will be greeted with a new Jump Start activity to complete. Today's activity gets the students thinking about the Fairy Tales they know. This is linked to literacy because Fairy Tales are often associated with story books. This activity encourages students to highlight the key descriptors of their favourite story. Most students will explain their favourites from the protagonists' view.
Teacher Role: Once the students have been given time to reflect and share with their Pods, the teacher will invite the class to discuss the process. Using assessment AS learning, the teacher will ask the students to show using the thumbs up, thumbs down approach whether they found the activity difficult/challenging or easy. The teacher will then ask students to explain what strategies they could use to make the activity less challenging (example; pull out major characters and themes to describe the story OR describe the beginning and end only).
Read Aloud
"The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales!" By Jon Scieszka
Literacy Component: Read Alouds encourage attentive listening and help students to reflect, and visualize the story. Reading the story aloud helps the students to hear the different voices throughout the book. This story specifically helps the students to hear the stories they know and love from a different perspective.
Teacher Role: The teacher will read the story aloud, modelling voice and expression. The teacher will prompt the students to critically reflect on the role of the narrator and characters throughout the fractured tale.
Reader's Theatre
Each group will have a chance to "perform" their scripts. Students will complete both peer and self assessments.
Literacy Component: Students will showcase their fluency and expressive development while in character. They will then assess their role and whether they were able to take on a character's point of view through their voice.
Teacher Role: The teacher will assess the student's performances with the criteria of voice, expression and audience.
Guided Reading & Literacy Centres
Activity 1: Interactive Exploration: Students will create their own Fractured Tale using the online platform
Activity 2: Writer's Corner: Write a letter to A. Wolf in jail! What questions do you still have? Do you believe his side of the story? What about Granny?
Activity 3: Read and Retell! In partners, choose a fairy tale from the class library. Before reading, decide what character (other than the protagonist) could tell the story. As you read the story together, use sticky notes to change different parts of the story to highlight the character of choice's point of view.
Activity 4: Word work: Create a word cloud with as many fairy tale related words as you can!
Activity 5: Guided Reading
Literacy Component: Inspired by the Daily 5 model, our classroom portal's daily Guided Reading and Literacy Centres offer students the opportunity to rotate through different activities that promote comprehension and writing tasks. During this 40 minute block, students are expected to complete 1 of the activities. Each day they should choose a new activity. Some activities are individual while others will require partner or group work. The teacher will select 1 group each day to work with in a guided reading circle. Each group works on a rotation.
Teacher Role: The teacher will need to plan and prep each literacy centre activity prior to the beginning of each day. The teacher can then leave out the centres with their written/visual explanations for the students to read through. The teacher should explain each of the centres at the beginning of the week. During this time, the teacher will lead a group in a Guided Reading circle. The levelled books chosen should have a fairy tale theme.
Math: Times-Table Tales
Students will be asked to work in their pods to create multiplication word problems using characters and storylines from Fairy Tales. They questions will be passed between the pods until each pod has had a chance to answer all of the created questions.
Literacy Component: This activity links the stories to the math.
Teacher Role: The teacher should provide the students with chart paper, markers and manipulative to help them work through the math problems. The teacher should be available to support students when needed.
Drama
Working in their pods, students will have 20-25 minutes to select a Fairy Tale and then create a dramatic performance that highlights the story in 60 seconds or less! Students may choose to create a script, a tableau or any other performance arts piece as long as they can articulate the main points of the story in under a minute. The pods will have the chance to perform their pieces in front of the class so that they can guess which Fairy Tale they are acting out.
Literacy Component: This activity gets students thinking about the highlights in each of the fairy tales. It encourages creativity and imagination in order to bring the story to life! This will help with the visualization of the texts.
Teacher Role: The teacher should explain the activity and monitor the group progression. The teacher should ensure the students are mindful of the time constraints.
Social Studies
Students will find a photograph or picture of a person, a group of people or a community. This photograph must pre-date their birthday! They will then complete the "Perceive-Know-Care About" activity sheet.
Literacy Component: This activity encourages students to perceive the photograph through the lens of those involved or affected by it. It enables students to reflect critically on the images while recognizing and respecting all of the views involved.
Teacher Role: The teacher should explain the activity and provide support when needed. Access to technology will be needed for the students to find and print their images.
Ten Minute Tale
This is a consistent end of day routine for the students. They are asked to write whatever they choose for 10 minutes in their personal journals.
Literacy Component: The students may choose to write about a lesson they completed that day or be prompted by the Fairy Tale and Point of View themes to create a story of their own.This activity promotes writing practice, encoding strategies and brainstorming.
Teacher Role: The teacher should remind the students that this is a free write period for themselves. Nobody will be reading these messages, stories, lists or doodles. It is simply an opportunity for students to engage in the act of writing
Jump Start!
Think about your favourite fairy tale. In 10 words or less, explain the entire story to your Pod!
Literacy Component: Jump Start is a consistent part of the student's schedule. Each morning students will be greeted with a new Jump Start activity to complete. Today's activity gets the students thinking about the Fairy Tales they know. This is linked to literacy because Fairy Tales are often associated with story books. This activity encourages students to highlight the key descriptors of their favourite story. Most students will explain their favourites from the protagonists' view.
Teacher Role: Once the students have been given time to reflect and share with their Pods, the teacher will invite the class to discuss the process. Using assessment AS learning, the teacher will ask the students to show using the thumbs up, thumbs down approach whether they found the activity difficult/challenging or easy. The teacher will then ask students to explain what strategies they could use to make the activity less challenging (example; pull out major characters and themes to describe the story OR describe the beginning and end only).
Read Aloud
"The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales!" By Jon Scieszka
Literacy Component: Read Alouds encourage attentive listening and help students to reflect, and visualize the story. Reading the story aloud helps the students to hear the different voices throughout the book. This story specifically helps the students to hear the stories they know and love from a different perspective.
Teacher Role: The teacher will read the story aloud, modelling voice and expression. The teacher will prompt the students to critically reflect on the role of the narrator and characters throughout the fractured tale.
Reader's Theatre
Each group will have a chance to "perform" their scripts. Students will complete both peer and self assessments.
Literacy Component: Students will showcase their fluency and expressive development while in character. They will then assess their role and whether they were able to take on a character's point of view through their voice.
Teacher Role: The teacher will assess the student's performances with the criteria of voice, expression and audience.
Guided Reading & Literacy Centres
Activity 1: Interactive Exploration: Students will create their own Fractured Tale using the online platform
Activity 2: Writer's Corner: Write a letter to A. Wolf in jail! What questions do you still have? Do you believe his side of the story? What about Granny?
Activity 3: Read and Retell! In partners, choose a fairy tale from the class library. Before reading, decide what character (other than the protagonist) could tell the story. As you read the story together, use sticky notes to change different parts of the story to highlight the character of choice's point of view.
Activity 4: Word work: Create a word cloud with as many fairy tale related words as you can!
Activity 5: Guided Reading
Literacy Component: Inspired by the Daily 5 model, our classroom portal's daily Guided Reading and Literacy Centres offer students the opportunity to rotate through different activities that promote comprehension and writing tasks. During this 40 minute block, students are expected to complete 1 of the activities. Each day they should choose a new activity. Some activities are individual while others will require partner or group work. The teacher will select 1 group each day to work with in a guided reading circle. Each group works on a rotation.
Teacher Role: The teacher will need to plan and prep each literacy centre activity prior to the beginning of each day. The teacher can then leave out the centres with their written/visual explanations for the students to read through. The teacher should explain each of the centres at the beginning of the week. During this time, the teacher will lead a group in a Guided Reading circle. The levelled books chosen should have a fairy tale theme.
Math: Times-Table Tales
Students will be asked to work in their pods to create multiplication word problems using characters and storylines from Fairy Tales. They questions will be passed between the pods until each pod has had a chance to answer all of the created questions.
Literacy Component: This activity links the stories to the math.
Teacher Role: The teacher should provide the students with chart paper, markers and manipulative to help them work through the math problems. The teacher should be available to support students when needed.
Drama
Working in their pods, students will have 20-25 minutes to select a Fairy Tale and then create a dramatic performance that highlights the story in 60 seconds or less! Students may choose to create a script, a tableau or any other performance arts piece as long as they can articulate the main points of the story in under a minute. The pods will have the chance to perform their pieces in front of the class so that they can guess which Fairy Tale they are acting out.
Literacy Component: This activity gets students thinking about the highlights in each of the fairy tales. It encourages creativity and imagination in order to bring the story to life! This will help with the visualization of the texts.
Teacher Role: The teacher should explain the activity and monitor the group progression. The teacher should ensure the students are mindful of the time constraints.
Social Studies
Students will find a photograph or picture of a person, a group of people or a community. This photograph must pre-date their birthday! They will then complete the "Perceive-Know-Care About" activity sheet.
Literacy Component: This activity encourages students to perceive the photograph through the lens of those involved or affected by it. It enables students to reflect critically on the images while recognizing and respecting all of the views involved.
Teacher Role: The teacher should explain the activity and provide support when needed. Access to technology will be needed for the students to find and print their images.
Ten Minute Tale
This is a consistent end of day routine for the students. They are asked to write whatever they choose for 10 minutes in their personal journals.
Literacy Component: The students may choose to write about a lesson they completed that day or be prompted by the Fairy Tale and Point of View themes to create a story of their own.This activity promotes writing practice, encoding strategies and brainstorming.
Teacher Role: The teacher should remind the students that this is a free write period for themselves. Nobody will be reading these messages, stories, lists or doodles. It is simply an opportunity for students to engage in the act of writing