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Symmetry Art Using Photo Booth on the iPadposted Mar 27, 2017, 6:24 PM by Patrick Johnson |
Welcome!![]() 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, Visual Arts, Science Mrs. McDonough- Music, Drama, Dance Mr. Byrd- Social Studies Ms. Jowett (VP)- Health Important RemindersFeb 25th: Into the Woods Permission Forms Due Feb 27th:Into the Woods walking trip to Georgian College March 1st: PD Day March 11th to 15th: March Break April 15th to 19th: Primary Musical Performances ** Pizza is served at 2nd nutrition break Curriculum FocusUpdated: Feb 21st/2019 Language Reading -Reader's Theatre -Determining important information and summarizing non-fiction articles -Non-fiction text features -The Power to Visualise what we are reading -The Power to Connect (making deep thinking connections) -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 -Writing in paragraphs -Writing and researching reports (non-fiction) -Writing paragraphs that includes a main idea -Creating graphic organizers to help narrow down our topic and plan our writing (idea cakes and word webs) -Writing procedures and instructions -Writing recounts -Daily/creative writing- Narrowing down writing ideas -building vocabulary -changing ends on words Math -counting up strategy for subtraction -Creating surveys and representing data on pictographs and bar graphs -Venn Diagrams, sorting data sets -3 digit addition and subtraction (including money) -Location and movement on a grid -Adding and subtracting with carrying and borrowing -Counting money amounts to $10 -Finding perimeter -measuring in cm, m and km. Picking the appropriate unit of measure -Solving problems involving 1 and 2 digit numbers -Counting by 2s, 5s, 10s, 25s -Strategies for answering multiple choice questions -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 -balances -fitness, cooperative games -safety Science -Animal structures versus human structures, impact on enviroment -strong and stable structures -exploring and identifying forces -S.T.E.A.M. activities iPad AppsHomeworkWORD 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 Literacy at homeExplore Non-Fiction
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
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 The ArtsMath at homeNumbersense Activities
Patterning Activities Measurement Activities
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