Symmetry Art Using Photo Booth on the iPad

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Symmetry Art Using Photo Booth on the iPad

posted Mar 27, 2017, 6:24 PM by Patrick Johnson

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Welcome to our class blog. My name is Mr. Johnson. To learn more about me, visit my All About Me page.

You can e-mail me at:pmjohnson@scdsb.on.ca You can also call me at Maple Grove PS (however please do not use my voicemail as it is not working correctly).

Teachers:

Mr. Johnson- Language, Math, Gym, Health, Science

Ms. VanDiepen,- Music

Ms. Seager- Social Studies

Ms. Greenwood-Visual Arts

Madam Helene- Drama, Dance

EQAO- May 22nd, May 24th, May 28th

June 1st- P.A. Day

June 7th- In class tryouts for Primary Talent Show

June 14th- Poutine Truck

June 19th Talent Show

** Pizza is served at 1st nutrition break (last year it was second nutrition break)**

Updated:May 22nd

Language

Reading

-Answering reading comprehension questions and backing up our opinions by siting examples from the text

-Using inferences to transform our thinking

-Making inferences

-Main Idea- Turning heading into questions

-Asking Questions (non-fiction texts)

-Non-Fiction Text Features (The Power to Zoom in on text features)

-The Power to Visualize- Visualizing picture words as we read and creating a movie in our mind's eye

-Making predictions (Cover, Author, Title, Picture Flick)

-Check for Understanding (summarizing what we have read)

-The Power to Connect (making connections from the text to our own lives)

Writing

-Narratives, paragraph writing

-nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs

-Descriptive writing, writing paragraphs

-Writer's notebook: Working on writer's voice

-Persuasive writing

-Writing reports

-Writing procedures

-Writing recounts

-Daily/creative writing- Narrowing down writing ideas

-building vocabulary

-changing ends on words

Math

-Probability- Describing the likeliness of an event occurring. Conducting probability experiments

-Solving equations 3+5= 4+ ?

-Adding and solving problems with money up to $10

-Multiplication and Division

-Geometry- 3D shapes, prisms and pyramids

-Geometry: Congruent shapes and lines of symmetry

-Reading time (to 5 minute intervals)

-Measuring length, perimeter and area using standard units

-Repeating patterns with at least 2 attributes changing. Growing and shrinking number and shape patterns.

-Interpreting and making inferences from pictographs and bar graphs

-Constructing surveys, creating pictographs and bar graphs

-Sorting attributes, Venn Diagrams

-Rounding to the nearest group of 10

-Mental math (addition and subtraction)

-representing numbers to 100 and beyond (for examples using base ten, tally marks, arrays, place value, expanded form etc)

Gym/Health

-Basketball, running intervals

-balances

-fitness, cooperative games

-safety

Science

-plants and soil

-building stable structures

-exploring and identifying forces

-S.T.E.A.M. activities

WORD STUDY

Try practising the spelling lists on our class Spelling City page!

You can also download Spelling Task Cards to try with our weekly words!

You can also download the Spelling city iPad app (free) and just search for our class under Patrick Johnson

Explore Non-Fiction

American Museum of Natural History (kids)

National Geographic Kids- Animals

PebbleGo

Britannica School (login: simcodsb password: simc7729)

Tumblebooks (login: SCDSB password books)
Skillwise
Red Fish (K-1)
Raz-Kids
The Magic Key- Interactive stories that reinforce punctuation and other skills
Variety of Language Games
Bitstrips (class code: goo011)

Grammar

Adjective Game

Practice Your Sight Words!
Pre-Primer
Primer
Grade 1
Grade 2
Grade 3

Practice your sight words with these audio power point books!

Making Words
Make words with the Word Wizard

Symmetry Art Using Photo Booth on the iPad

Welcome!

Important Reminders

Google Classroom

Curriculum Focus

iPad Apps

Homework

Literacy at home

The Arts

Math at home