Hello! This is a post about yummy snack ideas for our group snack. We love to eat in Room 310. We especially love healthy, tidy, dairy-free, scrumptios snacks. Here are some of our favourites:
Bagels and Cream Cheese along with another dairy free option like jam or Tofutti
Vegetables with Hummus or Babaganoush
Pita and Hummus
Fruit like grapes, fruit kebabs, orange slices, apples, watermelon, melon
pineapple
Crackers with cheese served with something else dairy free like fruit or veggies
Bread or Buns
Muffins
Banana Bread
Nut-free Granola Bars
This is our list for now because it is 2:25. We'll post some more ideas soon.
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Hello
Hi. I'm sorry I haven't gotten into the routine of updating here more often. Just trying to get settled in Room 310 first.
Our morning runs have proven to be a great start to the day. The kids are coming in on time and ready to learn. I hope to continue this trend.
If you have forgotten to return any forms that need to be returned to school, please take a minute to fill them out and return them to school. If you have already done so, or sent them in with a sibling, please jot down a quick note in the agenda to let me know.
Some forms missing are listed below:
●Student Verification Form (white)
●Supply Fees
●Permission Forms (pink)
●Churchill Family Directory / Parent Involvement Form (pink)
●Photo/Computer Form (pink)
●Permission Form for Morning Run (white)
We as a school are trying to get creative to raise funds for our many endeavours. We are most excited for Churchill Cooks Recipe Book. Please pass on any of your favourite family recipes to Megan at megan.egerton@ocdsb.ca. We need many more recipes to make this fundraise successful.
We are working on many great things in Room 310. I'm trying to stay hush hush so that you can see for yourself during our Class Meeting next Wednesday at 7:00. Please come out as we will be discussing a lot of important information.
Please continue to sign agendas each evening after students have written down their evening reading in it. This is an important routine in our room.
Thank you for all of the warm welcomes and friendly faces during this great beginning. I'm looking forward to a very productive and fun year.
Important Upcoming Dates:
Wednesday, September 21, 7:00pm: Class Meeting
Thursday, September 22, 5:00: School BBQ
Wednesday, September 28: Terry Fox Run
Friday, September 30: Movie Night
Welcome to Reading in 310
Dear Families:
This post will be dedicated to reading in our classroom. In room 310, a love and respect for reading is a big priority. A lot of time is spent on developing a community of readers who engage in the reading process actively and who learn to cherish their time as readers.
The Fall will be spent assessing students individually and giving them the chance to get to know themselves as readers. A reading survey will be conducted one one one with each student and will allow myself and each student to reflect on how they feel about reading. We will also spend time in the fall as a group reorganizing all of the books in our room and sharing with each other about books that we love. Students will learn how to choose a book, why we may abandon books, and we will review some of the strategies that good readers use to construct meaning from what they are reading.
I will gradually guide the students on how to respond meaningfully to what they are reading in order to communicate the meaning they garner from their independent reading. This will be in the form of a letter to myself. Eventually, our independent reading program will look like this:
Assessment will take place in several forms.
This post will be dedicated to reading in our classroom. In room 310, a love and respect for reading is a big priority. A lot of time is spent on developing a community of readers who engage in the reading process actively and who learn to cherish their time as readers.
The Fall will be spent assessing students individually and giving them the chance to get to know themselves as readers. A reading survey will be conducted one one one with each student and will allow myself and each student to reflect on how they feel about reading. We will also spend time in the fall as a group reorganizing all of the books in our room and sharing with each other about books that we love. Students will learn how to choose a book, why we may abandon books, and we will review some of the strategies that good readers use to construct meaning from what they are reading.
I will gradually guide the students on how to respond meaningfully to what they are reading in order to communicate the meaning they garner from their independent reading. This will be in the form of a letter to myself. Eventually, our independent reading program will look like this:
- 30 minutes of independent reading every day
- students will use this time to read or write a letter to me
- students will be expected to write one letter to me each week
- letters will reflect an understanding of what they are reading in the form of connections, predictions, and questions; they will also include any answers to questions I have asked them
- I will respond to each letter in writing, forming a correspondence
- I will spend the 30 minutes each day meeting one on one with students or with small groups of students, focusing on reading strategies that target issues that arise in class or from their correspondence with me
Assessment will take place in several forms.
- individual reading surveys conducted at the beginning and end of the year
- reading assessments conducted at several times throughout the year for fluency and comprehension
- CASI reading assessment conducted twice throughout the year
- continual assessment throughout the learning process that will guide our programming
- individual back and forth correspondence with students via their reading response letters
- one on one conferencing with students and small group work
- in class work
If you are interested, here is a link to the curriculum documents where you can read about the overall and specific reading expectations in grade 6. You may also find this document very helpful. It outlines a lot of key issues that define junior literacy students.
At Home Help
- Summarize and explain important ideas and supporting details from a text
- Read any text with your child and help them to pick out three important details from it.
- Use their prior knowledge and experiences together with clues from the text to develop their own interpretation about a text
- Read any text with your child and ask them "What is the story between the lines? How did you come to that conclusion?"
- Make connections to the text
- Read any text with your child and ask them to make connections. Types of connections:Text-to-Self (connect it to their own personal experiences), Text-to-Text (connect it to another book, movie, TV show etc.), Text-to-World (connect it to current or past world events)
- Make judgements and draw conclusions about a text and use proof from the text to support their answer
- Read any text with your child and ask them what conclusions they can make from the information given in the text
- Identify the point of view presented in the text, decide if they can agree with it or not and suggest other points of view that may be missing in the text
- Read any text with your child and ask them "Who is telling this story? Whose voice is missing from the text? Do you agree or disagree with the opinions of the author?"
- Read to them daily and have them read to you
- Exchange letters
- Read cereal boxes, video game manuals, grocery lists, recipes, newspapers, comics etc., with them, whatever they are interested in!
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Second day in and I'm happy to report that the students are still stunned into silence. Maybe it's from a lack of sleep, maybe they are stunned by my utter brilliance, or maybe they are just that great at being exceptional students. Either way, they have proven to be hard working and quiet so far. I'm crossing my fingers that it lasts.
We have accomplished a lot in these first two days. Students have already completed a time capsule by answering some interest questions, taking some measurements, and writing themselves a note. We are going to lock this up and open it at the end of the year.
As a class, we have also taken a look at twitter. We learned about how to tweet and why people tweet. We even made our own handles, avatars, and tweeted about our first day at school. Today, we read some very short stories that people have tweeted. We practiced our skills in visualization as we listened to these short tales. It was interesting to "see" the different ways that people visualized the stories.
Today we began to create our classroom goals. I presented the students with seven questions:
What should kids in our class be doing to make sure our classroom runs as smooth as possible?
Our classroom should be ______ everyday.
School is important because ___________.
What is one of your overall goals for this year in sixth grade?
What will you need to do to achieve that goal?
Write one goal you have for yourself after you graduate high school.
What will you need to do to achieve that goal?
They wrote their answers on sticky notes and added them to the posters. Tomorrow, we will look for trends in our answers and use these to guide us in creating our class goals which we will refer to all year to keep us on track.
If you have not handed in your parent questionnaires yet, please do so. Thank you.
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Greetings from your Student Teacher
Hello parents,
My name is Will Fyles and I will be helping Tiiu with the grade six class this term as part of the Onsite Education Program at Ottawa University. This program is different from other education programs in that I will be at Churchill Alternative 4 days a week almost every week starting today. I am looking forward to this opporunity and want to have a positive impact in this classroom and in the school as a whole. My role in Room 310 will be changing as time goes on. I will start off doing primarily observation with limited participation and over time, I will take on more responsibilities. Towards the end of the term I will be teaching full classes with Tiiu observing me. I will be participating in the before school cross-country program and hopefully other extracurricular programs too.
You will find me out in the yard, at class meetings and I look forward to meeting you all throughout the year. If you have any questions or comments you can contact me at will.fyles@yahoo.com
Sincerely,
Will
My name is Will Fyles and I will be helping Tiiu with the grade six class this term as part of the Onsite Education Program at Ottawa University. This program is different from other education programs in that I will be at Churchill Alternative 4 days a week almost every week starting today. I am looking forward to this opporunity and want to have a positive impact in this classroom and in the school as a whole. My role in Room 310 will be changing as time goes on. I will start off doing primarily observation with limited participation and over time, I will take on more responsibilities. Towards the end of the term I will be teaching full classes with Tiiu observing me. I will be participating in the before school cross-country program and hopefully other extracurricular programs too.
You will find me out in the yard, at class meetings and I look forward to meeting you all throughout the year. If you have any questions or comments you can contact me at will.fyles@yahoo.com
Sincerely,
Will
Welcome!
Hello! Welcome to Room 310's blog. This is a project that I started a few years ago but was able to use more effectively last year. It is a great way for you to feel more connected with what is going on in the classroom and may provide you with more insight than the occasional grunt you get at the dinner table from the students.
This is my tenth year at Churchill and I feel very privileged to be working in such a great community. We have an excellent team of teachers and professionals working here and it makes my job that much more enjoyable. I am excited to be able to focus on one curriculum this year and am hopeful that our class size will remain as manageable as it is right now. I am also looking forward to working with our two on-site students teachers from the University of Ottawa. Will is here until December and Tara, who is working with Roy right now, will be with us in January. I will have Will introduce himself here on the blog for you.
Over the next week, there will be many important forms for you to fill out and return. Please ask students to bring you their agendas each night as that is where they will be waiting for you. Students are also expected to read for a minimum of twenty minutes each evening. They are to write down the title of what they are reading and have you initial it as well. This is an important routine for our program. Today, there is a parent questionnaire in their agendas. Please fill it out and return it as soon as possible.
I look forward to meeting all of you. I will be hosting a class meeting where we will go over a lot of important information. I hope you can all attend. I will let you know the date for that soon. In the meantime, if you need to get a hold of me, the most effective way is via email. My address is tiiu.tsao@ocdsb.ca. Thank you!
This is my tenth year at Churchill and I feel very privileged to be working in such a great community. We have an excellent team of teachers and professionals working here and it makes my job that much more enjoyable. I am excited to be able to focus on one curriculum this year and am hopeful that our class size will remain as manageable as it is right now. I am also looking forward to working with our two on-site students teachers from the University of Ottawa. Will is here until December and Tara, who is working with Roy right now, will be with us in January. I will have Will introduce himself here on the blog for you.
Over the next week, there will be many important forms for you to fill out and return. Please ask students to bring you their agendas each night as that is where they will be waiting for you. Students are also expected to read for a minimum of twenty minutes each evening. They are to write down the title of what they are reading and have you initial it as well. This is an important routine for our program. Today, there is a parent questionnaire in their agendas. Please fill it out and return it as soon as possible.
I look forward to meeting all of you. I will be hosting a class meeting where we will go over a lot of important information. I hope you can all attend. I will let you know the date for that soon. In the meantime, if you need to get a hold of me, the most effective way is via email. My address is tiiu.tsao@ocdsb.ca. Thank you!
Monday, May 2, 2011
Dates to Remember
May 6 Final Copy of Biographies due, Pottery
May 13 School of Rock concert, 12:00 and 7:00
May 16-17 MacSkimming with Andrew's 5s
May 20 Plant Sale and Sharing
May 23 Victoria Day
May 25 Bike Day
May 27 Jump Rope for Heart
May 30-31 EQAO
June 3 PA Day
June 16 Grades 5/6 visit Summit
June 27 Honouring Ceremony for 6s
Whew!
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