Friday

Journal Thinking

Use your sentence starters to make some notes about what you did, learnt or found out yesterday.

Example:
I have been thinking about...

I have been thinking about the number memory idea that Mr. Harrison showed us.  I was surprised how easy it was to remember the 10 items in the list and I'm starting to understand how to use these items to remember other things.

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Questions
What is Jake the Peg?
Why was he at assembly yesterday?
Mr. Wiersma did this for a school talent quest a few years ago. Some teachers though it would be funny and make Mr. Wiersma smile.

Rights and Responsibilities Venn Diagram
Take 5 minutes to add more ideas of your own or share ideas with your friends.

Choose your top 5 (most important) rights, responsibilities and privileges.

Write these top 5 ideas on a slip of paper and stick them on the charts at the front of the room.

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Thinking About My Week

Something I worked well on is...

I tried my best...

Something that was hard...

I enjoyed...

Someone who helped me this week was...

---- Class Pat on the back.

Scattergories

List 1 - A
Fruit
Country
Town or City
Musical Instrument
Book Title
Famous Person
Song
Movie
Sport
Drink
Boys Name
Girls Name

List 2 - P
Transport
Something in the sky
A famous building
An ocean
An animal
A plant
A game
A toy
A famous place
An item of clothing
A medical problem
An item in the classroom

Morning Journal

Thinking About My Learning

Yesterday I found out...

Example:

Yesterday I found out about a way to plan my ideas for writing and how to organise them into paragraphs using numbers and colours.

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Venn  Diagrams are a Thinking Tool for sorting out ideas into groups.

Rights and Responsibilities - Privileges

more ideas for you to consider:

tidy desk, school to go to, ask questions, get help, ask for help, help others, have books, use computers, play games, choose where I sit, choose my own project, have clean clothes, have breakfast, eat my lunch, have friends, be included in activities, include others in activities, choose to work on my own, choose to work with others, to be listened to, to listen to other people, to wait my turn, to share things

Morning Journal

Think back about your day yesterday.

Use two sentence starters from your list to help you get stared with your thinking.

Example:

Yesterday I learn how to sprint faster.  I found out that your arms move at the same speed as your legs.  By making your arms go faster as you run it is possible to sprint faster.

Rights and Responsibilities

What Rights and Responsibilities do we have at school?

Here's a list of ideas to get you started.

You need to decide which one is a Right and wich one is a Responsibility?

tools  ready, be on time, have fun, choices, show manners, be safe, be on task, time to play, be treated fairly, treat people fairly

What could we put in the middle of the diagram?

Venn Diagrams

Thinking Tools - Venn Diagrams
Complete your side of the venn diagram.
What could go in the other spaces?
Could you put things outside the circle?
What would they be?

Venn diagrams are a good way to compare what is the same and different about two or three things.
Use this thinking tool to review your holidays and then talk with others to find out what they did.
Use pictures and words to record your thinking.

Welcome Back

Review and Reminders

• Personal Responsibility
• What am I responsible for at school?

Rights Responsibilities and Privileges

• What are my rights? 
• How do I show that I'm responsible?
• What privileges do I earn or loose?

Thinking Tools - Venn Diagrams

Venn diagrams are a good way to compare what is the same and different about two or three things.
Use this thinking tool to review your holidays and then talk with others to find out what they did.
Use pictures and words to record your thinking.