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Our Class Mission Statement: We are 5-1 ... hear us ROAR!

9/28/2017

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Welcome back to your blog post this week! I want to give a special shout out to those students who were in my class last year (Dream, Evan, Rumaysa, and Kate), who have been coming onto the blog and posting again this year, even though it isn’t part of their homework!. It’s so awesome to know that you’re still interested in our learning here in 5-1!
But now, onto the post! This week we are going to be (or will have completed) the Terry Fox Run and we have done a lot of learning around Terry Fox, about his determination to succeed, to not let his disability get in his way, to help others without thinking for himself. With this idea in mind, I would like you to think of a class mission statement, something that will guide how we will conduct ourselves in and around school. A mission statement is a short paragraph that guides your actions and I want you to put yours on the blog this week so we can collaborate and write one together. When you think of your mission statement, think of a way that it can include our whole class and what you want us to become this year. Your mission statement can start with: We are 5-1 and we are kind. This year we will …

Who Do We Want to Be?

9/21/2017

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A big focus of grade five has been thinking about who we are and who do we want to be. In Wonder, we read that the most is important question is “What kind of person do I want to be?” To help us answer this question, we need to know where we came from. We have been working on writing retells in 5-1 over the past few weeks and we decided that having a powerful introduction is one of the best ways to grab your reader’s attention and make them want to read our writing.

This week you will be writing the introduction to YOU, to your story, to figure out where you’ve been so you can figure out who you want to be! Write the introduction to your biography.
Think about the strategies we talked about in class:

Word choice
Start with a quote
Appeal to your reader’s feelings and senses

I’m so excited to read the start of your lives! Write well, remember it’s only the introductory paragraph!

Practicing Descriptive Writing

9/15/2017

Congratulations on being (almost) done your second week of school! From my perspective, it has been truly amazing to start to get to know each one of you! I hope that your first two weeks have been engaging, exciting and that you’re starting to see that how you think about your learning, your work, and your ideas are so important!
With that in mind, can you write a DESCRIPTIVE paragraph that describes a positive experience that you’ve had these first few weeks of school. Remember, when being descriptive try to use all of your senses to make the experience feel real for the reader.
I will happily start:
The room was humming as I looked around. The students were scattered about the room, some focussed intently on their screens, others pointing out tips and hints to their peers. Students were asking each other for help, learning from each other, and pushing themselves forward. The collaboration was inspiring; an amazing group of students, polite and kind, wanting to learn, wanting to share, being the best they can be. This was truly a positive learning space and it made me feel so proud, so happy, and so lucky to be a part of this new community!

Promises, Positivity, and a Brand New Year!

9/7/2017

Welcome to your first blog post of grade five! Each week, I will post a prompt and one of your homework tasks will be responding to the blog. We will read your posts on Fridays during social media morning (period 2). This has been such a busy end of summer as I planned and prepared to start at John T Tuck. In getting a new classroom ready this year, I was thinking about new beginnings, fresh starts and about how change is both scary and good for you. As you think about the person you want to be this year, I’d like about what it will take to become that person. How do you become the person you want to be, what steps will you have to take? What are three rules or promises that you can make that will help you become this person? What will you strive for this year?
Here are my promises to you!

This year I promise to:
1. Give 110% in my lesson planning and delivery. I will try to engage you through the activities I plan in class, making them meaningful, powerful, and helpful.
2. Listen to you. If you have questions, concerns, ideas, thoughts, or anything else and you would like to talk to me about them, I will be there to listen. This can be in class, after school, before school, or at break. You voice matters, you matter!
3. Expect amazing things. I promise that my expectations for you will be high, and that I will expect that you can achieve in all subjects, I know that you are an exceptional learner and that you will succeed in so many different ways!
What are your promises?

Our Class Mission Statement: We are 5-1 ... hear us ROAR!

Who Do We Want to Be?

Practicing Descriptive Writing

Promises, Positivity, and a Brand New Year!

Mr. Steltman's Class

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