Thursday's Agenda
Jump Start!
Think about the story Snow White from the perspective of the Evil Queen. What changes? Write down your notes in your book.
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 the story from the perspective of the antagonist.
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.
Buddy Read
In partners, students will choose two books from the classroom library. Each student will take turns reading to the other.
Literacy Component: Students will be encouraged to select stories from the Fairy Tale shelf, however they will not be limited to this genre. Students will practice their decoding strategies, fluency and expression while reading aloud to their partners.
Teacher Role: The teacher should be wandering around the classroom and make anecdotal notes in relation to each student's progression in their fluency development.
Reader's Theatre
Students will work in their groups, practicing their scripts and discussing their character's point of view. They will rehearse their voice and expression in order to emulate their character's perspective.
Literacy Component: Students will be able to explore their voice through expression in order to embody their character's point of view. This activity strongly supports the Oral Communication strand in the curriculum.
Teacher Role: The teacher should monitor each group's progress and make anecdotal notes on each of the students.
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: Elapsed Time
The students will read the story "Cinderella". They will then work in their pods to answer the Cinderella word problems. The whole group should first work together to solve one of the questions. Students will have 2 days to complete these questions before submitting them. This is day 2 of the challenge questions.
Literacy Component: The questions are directly linked with the story "Cinderella". The students will be engaged in attentive listening during the real aloud of the story.
Teacher Role: The teacher will read the storybook aloud. The teacher will then model how to calculate elapsed time using one the questions from the questions page. Once the groups begin working on these problems, the teacher should check in and support them when needed.
Art
Students will create "Wanted Posters" for a character of their choosing from a Fairy tale. Students can use whatever medium they prefer (paint, pastel, crayon, etc).
Literacy Component: Students will draw on the perspective of the "good guys" in the stories to create "Wanted Posters" for the "bad guy" in the story. This activity draws on point of view, audience, and purpose as is listed in the curriculum.
Teacher Role: The teacher will encourage students to use whatever medium they wish. The teacher will explain that the students must choose a character that is typically portrayed or seen as "bad" in their Wanted posters.
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 the story Snow White from the perspective of the Evil Queen. What changes? Write down your notes in your book.
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 the story from the perspective of the antagonist.
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.
Buddy Read
In partners, students will choose two books from the classroom library. Each student will take turns reading to the other.
Literacy Component: Students will be encouraged to select stories from the Fairy Tale shelf, however they will not be limited to this genre. Students will practice their decoding strategies, fluency and expression while reading aloud to their partners.
Teacher Role: The teacher should be wandering around the classroom and make anecdotal notes in relation to each student's progression in their fluency development.
Reader's Theatre
Students will work in their groups, practicing their scripts and discussing their character's point of view. They will rehearse their voice and expression in order to emulate their character's perspective.
Literacy Component: Students will be able to explore their voice through expression in order to embody their character's point of view. This activity strongly supports the Oral Communication strand in the curriculum.
Teacher Role: The teacher should monitor each group's progress and make anecdotal notes on each of the students.
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: Elapsed Time
The students will read the story "Cinderella". They will then work in their pods to answer the Cinderella word problems. The whole group should first work together to solve one of the questions. Students will have 2 days to complete these questions before submitting them. This is day 2 of the challenge questions.
Literacy Component: The questions are directly linked with the story "Cinderella". The students will be engaged in attentive listening during the real aloud of the story.
Teacher Role: The teacher will read the storybook aloud. The teacher will then model how to calculate elapsed time using one the questions from the questions page. Once the groups begin working on these problems, the teacher should check in and support them when needed.
Art
Students will create "Wanted Posters" for a character of their choosing from a Fairy tale. Students can use whatever medium they prefer (paint, pastel, crayon, etc).
Literacy Component: Students will draw on the perspective of the "good guys" in the stories to create "Wanted Posters" for the "bad guy" in the story. This activity draws on point of view, audience, and purpose as is listed in the curriculum.
Teacher Role: The teacher will encourage students to use whatever medium they wish. The teacher will explain that the students must choose a character that is typically portrayed or seen as "bad" in their Wanted posters.
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.