Thursday, December 17th, 2015

This morning was an exiting time as we worked on a number of crafts.  Please ask your child about the craft they made.

 

This afternoon the students continued to work on their Random Acts of Kindness project.  The students have been doing a really great job with it.

Later in the afternoon the students had an opportunity to watch a bit of "Polar Express" with their buddies.  What a great movie!!!!

I hope everyone enjoys their well deserved break.  After Christmas I will be heading up north to Whitehorse to go dogsledding and ice climbing. :)

Wednesday, December 16h, 2015

Students had an opportunity to practice their stories and concert today.

This morning students rehearsed their concert with Mrs. McBride.  I can't wait to see the concert this evening.  After that students went into their smaller groups and found where they will be rehearsing.  Here are a couple of pictures of the group I was working with.

This afternoon students spent some time finishing coding their Winter Scene with Scratch.  If you would like to watch your child's scene please ask your child to show you their program at home.  Below are a couple of pictures and videos.

Later this afternoon, students had an opportunity to hear Jeff Stockton's last story.  What a fantastic story.  Please ask you child about this story.

I'm looking forward to seeing everyone tonight!!!! I'm getting really excited for them as they all have been working really hard on their story and I'm super proud of them all.

Notes:
1) PJ Day tomorrow.
2) No school Friday.

Blog written by Room 82

Tuesday, December 15th

The morning we had a rehearsal for the Jeff Stockton storytelling presentation, as well we watched the Tone Chimes perform, sang a bunch of carols, and watched three Elf Yourselfs.

Elora had the opportunity to read/write the Mad Libs.

This afternoon we practiced in our small groups our Jeff Stockton stories.  Students are NOT suppose to practice tonight, in order to give them a relaxing brain break.

Later this afternoon we started to create our Winter Scenes in Scratch.  Please ask your child what program they decided to create.  Please see below for some videos and pictures.

Notes:
1) Thursday is PJ Day..... YAAAAAAAAY!!!!!

Written by students in Room 82

December 14th, 2015

This morning we attended our first Christmas concert.  We had a lot of fun singing and dancing to the various songs.  The video below shows one of the dances the school moved to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10TUPkt2ez0

After the assembly we continued to work on our Random Acts of Kindness project.  The students have been really working hard on their projects.  Please see below for some pictures.

This afternoon each student told their story in front of the class.  I then assessed them based on the Storytelling Targets.  Each student should practice tonight in front of you while keeping the following targets in mind; eye contact, voice, body language, expression, imagination, and story.


HOMEWORK:
Please answer the following question in your kidblog from our read aloud this morning.
Why did Justin tell Auggie that he had a cool room?

www.kidblog.org/class/mrs-quilleys-class

Notes from the school:

Students and parents of Cranston School are being invited to participate in an online survey suggesting names for the new Middle School. The link below will take you to the survey - please complete by January 6, 2016.  Thank you!

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Naming_New_Cranston_Middle_School

Coding Friday

Today we were very busy with a number of different projects.

This morning if students completed their Mars video, they had an opportunity to work on their "Hour of Code" coding as it's computer science week.  Please see below for some pictures.

After coding students worked on their Random Acts of Kindness project.  Please see below for an example of a comic strip for this project.

This morning there were 5 classes in the music room practicing a number of winter songs.  The video below is of these classes singing "Ugly Sweater". 

HOMEWORK:
If students would like to finish their "Hour of Code" coding they can visit this site to complete.
http://studio.code.org/sections/IYPLXQ
Once you have completed your 20 exercises please print off your certificate and bring to the class on Monday.  That way we can take a picture of all the certificates together.  We have two to start with.

Written by the students of Room 82!

Thinking Thursday

Well today just flew by!!!!

This morning we worked with Jeff Stockton a couple of times supporting students with their stories.  Students are required to practice every night in front of their parents to help them remember their story.  However, they are not supposed to practice the night before their concert.  Instead Jeff informed all the students that they are supposed to ask their parents to get them a cookie or a pop instead :) (i.e. they are supposed to be relaxing)!  Please see below for some pictures.

The students continued to work on their Random Acts of Kindness project for their celebration of learning, which is taking place the second week of January.  Students are either working on a website, creating a game through coding, making a comic book, a flip book, stop motion video, a skit, poem, QR code, or a puppet show.  Students are doing a really great job with this.

Most of the students have placed their Mars Inquiry video onto IRIS.  Please check out your child's video, as they all did a really great job.

I want to send out a BIG THANK YOU to our families for bringing in presents for our FAMILIES HELPING FAMILIES program.  We generated a bunch of presents for the family.

HOMEWORK:
Students are to create their secret number by giving at least three clues.  Once they have posted their clues they are to go and solve three of their peers numbers.  This homework is to be done on this blog.

December 7th, 2015

This morning our class continued working on coding.  This was a great opportunity as there is an Hour of Code program going through North America giving students an opportunity to become acquainted with coding.  Please ask your child what 10 blocks they were required to put in a sequence to create a code.  Once students placed these 10 blocks in a sequence within their coding book they were required to see what their actual code did in Scratch.  Please see below for some pictures and videos.

This afternoon we had our 1st annual Crafternoon in which students were able to sign up for a craft they wanted to complete.  This is a picture of the craft room 82 completed.  

HOMEWORK:

Please answer the following question in your kidblog.

Why did Auggie say, "Ya think? Welcome to my world!"

www.kidblog.org/class/mrs-quilleys-class/login

I hope everyone has a great night.

Room 82

December 1st, 2015

This morning our class worked with the students from Room 82 to create examples of different "Random Acts of Kindness" for either globally, community, friends, family, school, etc.  Please watch below a couple of videos that students created showing different "Random Acts of Kindness".

This afternoon we continued working on our Mars Inquiry.  Please follow our twitter account @learners82, as we are trying to get in contact with Scott Kelly to find out what he would bring to Mars if he has the opportunity.

HOMEWORK:
Students are required to come up with a deep thinking question they would like to ask Scott Kelly.  Remember the question needs to be less than 140 characters!!

Families Helping Families.
We are still looking for items to support our family.  Please see the below document for items that you may be able to help support our family in need.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hG3zbwPu_YylocGQUG9TGdfP9nyN9iCsOIbAI70sqms/edit?usp=sharing