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Mistakes ... but I hate being wrong!

10/29/2020

 
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This week, we looked at our learning skills and took some time to be very reflective of our own learning so far this semester. For this week I want you to continue to be reflective about your learning, and your personality and to think about failure and making mistakes. Making mistakes feels bad, failure isn’t fun, it never feels good, and sometimes it can be downright embarrassing! The crazy thing about it though, is that it’s through mistakes and failure that we experience large amounts of growth; as learners, and as people. In your blog post this week, I want you to think back on this past month, week, year, etc. and come up with a failure or mistake that still sticks with you as well as what you learned from that experience. Write down what happened, why you feel that you failed or what the mistake was and what you learned from this failure.  
My example for this week:  
One mistake that still stands out clearly in my mind happened when I was Mr. Else’s student teacher. I had a class of grade six students and I was teaching them about finding the volume of a triangular prism. This was a very important lesson because II had the vice principal in the class watching and I TAUGHT IT TO THEM WRONG! I got confused with the numbers and the vice-principal had to come up and help me with the lesson. After this lesson, I chose to go down to her office to apologize for not being prepared enough and for making a mistake. She helped me understand the math concept more deeply and helped me to realize that in teaching, there are many mistakes. It turns out it’s what you do once you’ve made the mistake that matters. Use your mistakes, reflect on them and grow as a person! Forgive yourself, learn, and move on!  


Scary Stories: It's all in HOW you read them!

10/22/2020

 
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Tell A SCARY Story
Halloween is coming up and while this may look a little different for some of us this year, it’s always a great chance to help develop our story-telling skills! A scary story is amazing because it’s not only what you write that makes it scary, it’s also in HOW you tell that story. This week, your challenge is to write a scary story (one you come up with or one that you’ve heard before). This way, on Friday, we’ll get to hear each other read our scary stories out loud in class! 
To get you in the mood, here is a story a friend of mine told my girls when we were camping this summer! It’s called Hairy Toe! 
*Story read from American Folklore

Celebrated Frog Jumping Contest of Calaveras County: Summary

10/15/2020

 
Over the past few weeks in math we’ve been working on algebra through the lens of the frog jumping contest made famous by Mark Twain in his short story. I have found this incredible Lego  stop-motion version of this story! Your challenge this week is to write a ONE PARAGRAPH (not one sentence) SUMMARY of what happens in the story. If you’d like to read the actual story by Mark Twain, it can be found here. ​

I've got a Gratitude Attitude

10/8/2020

 

    Watch the above video that explains the neuroscience behind being grateful, isn’t it amazing that our brains actually change when we are thankful to others or when we look back on our day and think about things that we were thankful for. With this time of year being Thanksgiving, it seems to me to be a perfect occasion for us to get some of this bonus happiness that they were talking about in the video. For your blog post this week, you are to use this doc to help you record different things you’ve been thankful for for the week and then, as the week finishes, write a blog post in which you share the three gratitudes that were most important to you and why. To help you with what I mean, I’ll write out three important gratitudes for me. 

  1. I am grateful for my wife, and best friend, Jacey. She has done an amazing job of keeping our family organized, on track and always takes the lead when it comes to packing up for camping. I am so grateful that we have the opportunity to camp with our daughters and it’s in large part because she makes such an effort to make lists, pack up the stuff and get me going.
  2. I am so grateful for the willingness of you, 6-4 in trying to be the best you can be. You’ve all been willing to try new learning, from frisbee to frog math, and within each day, there’s been something that makes me genuinely laugh. Thank you for being so willing to enjoy school with me.
  3. I am grateful for my daughters and their easy-going attitudes. Going back to school after a year off has been a challenge to organize, and adjusting to new routines and new schools can be hard but they’ve both been such troopers and for that I’m grateful. 

Have an amazing long weekend everyone! I can’t wait to see what your gratitudes are!

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Surf's Up in 360 - Hang ten, and write about it!

10/1/2020

 
This week we’ve been focussing on writing powerful introductions and looking at ways to ‘hook’ our readers into wanting to read more. We want to write using descriptive language, using our senses to connect our readers to the actions in our writing. We have looked at getting our readers emotionally invested in what we’re writing through the choices we make. This week, your challenge is to practice this. Watch the above 360 video (you can look around while the video plays) and use your best descriptive language, describe what is happening in the video, create the experience you’ve viewed with your eyes with the words you write. Hook your readers in, so that they feel what you felt watching but only by reading it!
Hang ten my friends!

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