Mrs. Jones-Gallant's Class Blog

Hi! It’s Mrs. Barton (your Teacher-Librarian). Hope everyone is well and making sure to get outside to enjoy the beautiful weather we are having. This week’s review Café Reading lesson will be the comprehension strategy Compare and Contrast. Compare and Contrast is when readers understand new ideas in text by thinking about how things are alike or different, thus deepening their comprehension. This strategy can be used to compare and contrast (C&C) books you are reading, to C&C characters in a book, and to C&C yourself to a character. Activity 1. Attached are two videos on ‘Amazing Animals’ from National Geographic Kids. I would like you to watch the videos and fill out the Venn Diagram on the next page. Each animal from the videos will be represented on the outer circles where you will write down how the animals are different. In the middle where the circles overlap, you will write down how the animals are the same. The picture above is an example of h...

Happy Victoria Day! I hope everyone had a great weekend J I guess long weekends are not quite as meaningful as they used to be. This week’s Café Reading lesson will be a review lesson on how to retell the story. Five Finger Retell is when students are able to retell the story by saying where the story takes place (setting), who the characters are, and what the problem and solution is (beginning, middle and end). Activity – Book Review Title: _____________________________ Author: ____________________________ Did you like the book? ☆☆☆☆☆ What was your favorite part? Draw or write a sentence What happened at the beginning? Draw or write What happened in the middle? Draw or write What happened at the end? Draw or write  1.      Please read, Let’s go for a Drive by Mo Willems  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P52RfUrIjGI 2.     Complete the Book Review assignment.      ...

Making Words May 11th to 15th A E I P R S T as, at, it, is pat, rat, rap, rip, tip, pit, pet pets, pest, rest, part, rate, ripe, rise, pita, rats arise, raise, paste, parts, riper pirate, praise, ripest pirates, parties

Making Words May 4th to 8th A E I N P R T at, an, in pin, tin, pit, pat, ran, tan. pan, rat, art, ten, net, ant pain, rain, pane, pant, pair, part paint, print parent painter

Hello everyone! It’s Mrs. Barton here again with our weekly Café Reading and Library lesson. This week’s lesson will be a review lesson on visualizing. Visualizing is when students listen to or read text and then start to create pictures in their mind or make a mind movie. When readers visualize what is happening in the story, they remember more of what they read or hear. Read - All the World by Liz Garton  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7C4IK5B6D4o    This book has great ‘picture’ words (sand, stone, pebble, sun). When I close my eyes, I can visualize (make pictures in my head) those things. Activities 1.      Go for a walk, hike, or bike ride. While you are doing this, look at the trees, the parks, the buildings, the sky, and anything else you see. 2.     After your walk, draw a picture of something that you saw. Close your eyes and try to remember. Visualiz...

Epic Scavenger Hunt Instructions: 1. Log into the reading website Epic. Once you are logged in, all you have to do is scroll down and check out all the different types or genres of books. Once you see the different types or genres, choose one and write it down. 2. Once you have found each type of book listed, choose one to read a few pages of. 3. Write down one question or connection you have about the book you chose to read. Type or Genre of Book                      Title of book found on Epic Example – Funny Book                      Super Potato: The Epic Origin of Super Potato 1. Sports 2. Adventure 3. Non-Fiction 4. Book about animals 5. Comic 6. Fantasy (dragons and wizards) Please write a question or connection you had to the book you read. Below is a link to Reading Bingo - I hope it works! https://drive.google.com/open?id=1OL80yNZDBLyYClb...

Making Words April 27th to May 1 Letters you can use: a  e  o  c  r  s  t  v Two letter words: at, as. or, to Three letter words: eat, ate, sat, rat, cat, rot, cot, sea, tea Four letter words: over, cost. cast, rate. race. rest, vest, seat, eats, rots, cots, core, tore, star Five letter words: roast, cover, votes, voter, cores, store, stare Secret Word: Overcast

Hello everyone! Its Mrs. Barton here again with our weekly Café Reading and Library lesson. I hope you and everyone in your family are doing well. This week’s lesson will be a review lesson on making connections. Making connections is when the reader brings information or life experiences they have had and connect it with what they are reading to increase their understanding. Making Connections with Text Attached are two YouTube read alouds. Both books talk about feelings and mindfulness (being present and feeling at peace). Everyone is dealing with a lot right now and it’s good to remind ourselves to take a few breaths and tell ourselves that everything will be okay. I made a lot of connections to these two books. ***Once you click on the link below, remember to skip the ads and expand the screen by clicking on the [ ] in the bottom right hand corner of the read aloud.*** I am Peace by Susan Verde - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXA3837uv3w Happiness: A Children’...

Café Reading and Library Hi boys and girls! I hope you are keeping yourselves busy playing and learning. It’s Mrs. Barton (your child’s Teacher Librarian). Every week I usually get the opportunity to read a story, practice a reading strategy, and/or complete a library activity with all of the classes at our school. Since I am unable to do this right now, I will be providing your classroom teacher with a weekly Café Reading or Library skills lesson. Most lessons will have a story link attached or an assigned reading from the reading website – EPIC as well as some activities to go along with the story. Feel free to do whatever you feel comfortable with. Maybe just look at the link together. Maybe discuss the story with your child after or choose to complete an activity listed. This is not meant to put added pressure on any parent, it is just my way to let my students know I am here for them and miss our weekly work sessions. Café Reading Strategy – Questioning Read the book - The Yuck...

Multiplication Dice Toss You will need: 2 dice and counters (use smarties, cheerios, raisins) Player number one rolls the dice. Players multiply the two dice. The first player to say the correct answer out loud collects one counter and then rolls the dice for the next round. In the event of a tie, both players may pick up a counter and the youngest player then rolls the dice for the next round. After a set amount of time, players count up their counters. The player with the most counters is the winner. Multiplication War You will need a deck of cards: Use the aces (aces equal one), twos, threes, fours, fives and tens. You can add the 6,7, 8 and 9 cards to make the game more challenging. Players divide cards evenly between themselves. Players turn over two cards each and then multiply them. The player with the highest product (answer) collects all four cards. In the event of a tie (the same answer) each player turns over two more cards and multiplies them. The player wit...

Making Words Spelling This week I told students to make words in their spelling scribblers using the following letters: a i b b r s t Here is an example of how your child can set up the lesson in his/her spelling notebook. two letter words: it as at is three letter words: bit sit its rat sat bib tab bat rib four letter words: bits rats bibs bait tabs bats star five letter words: stair six letter words: rabbit The secret word is rabbits! If you have scrabble tiles or banana gram tiles at home let your child use these letter tiles to spell their words. We use wooden scrabble tiles and plastic letter tiles when we do our making words lessons in class. Have fun making words. Get the whole family involved. Can you make more words than me?

Easy Playdough Recipe 1/4 cup of salt 3 tablespoons oil 1 cup boiling water 3 cups flour food colouring Mix the salt and oil together. The salt will soak up most of the oil. With help from an adult, pour the boiling water into the salt mixture,  Stir until the salt has dissolved.  Add a few drops of food colouring. Slowly add the flour and keep stirring. A soft dough will form. Kneed the ball of clay on the counter or on a piece of wax paper for about one minute. Store the playdough in a zip lock bag.

A note about school supplies When you pick up your child's supplies please check the bag for the following items:  A yellow duo tang marked phonics. These are new worksheets your child can work on. Please have your child do one or two pages a day. These worksheets will have to last for quite a while as I may not be able to photocopy and distribute any more this year.  A green folder with math worksheets. I will have a different math focus every two weeks. We will be starting with multiplication and division. Do not allow your child to work on the other math worksheets yet. Only multiplication and division.  I will post games and other ideas to help students learn each of the math concepts.  Handwriting booklet. Have your child complete two pages a week. They need to trace over the letters that are there. They also need to practice writing the letters themselves.  I have included a home school spelling scribbler. I will be assigning the students two or...

Today we said "goodbye" to our coho salmon. Mr. Wallace and Mrs. Jones-Gallant had quite a time catching all of the fish and putting them into the bucket. Rob, the fisheries officer, stopped by and collected the bucket of fish.  Later that day we checked the tank and there were about 10 fish swimming around in the tank!!  They had been hiding under the grate. I guess they didn't want to go back to the creek!  We will have to keep feeding them and we will try catching the last few fish another day.

Welcome students and parents. I realize these are very challenging times for us all. If you need to contact me to discuss your child's learning please send me an email on the account I have provided you.  I will use this blog to post weekly learning activities and assignments. For school district information check out the school district website at www.cmsd.bc.ca