First Day Reflections

Hello everyone and welcome to the grade 5 and 6 (G ) class! It was very exciting to meet all of you today. I have a hunch that this is going to be a very productive and creative year.
One of my favourite activities that we did today was when I asked you to imagine moving pictures in your head to match the soundscape that I shared with you first thing this morning. Your ideas were all so interesting and different from each other! I bet Steve Jobs would love to have had your input when his team was pulling ideas together for this advertising concept.

CHALLENGE: Leave a post telling about your first day at school. For example, you could talk about your favourite activity and explain why you enjoyed it so much.

Words to Live By from Mother Teresa

Please read and learn the following prayer. It is one that we will say in our classroom this year.

Spread love wherever you go.
Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.
Be the living expression of God's kindness.
Kindness in you face,
Kindness in your eyes,
Kindness in your smile,
And kindness in your warm greeting.
Amen.

Breaking the Ice

One of my past students put this quick video clip together but ran out of creative ideas to finish it off as a movie. Your help is required to pull it together! Watch the animated clip several times. Come up with an idea to finish it off in a way that suits your learning style and interests. This will help preserve the clip in a meaningful way and will also allow your new classmates to get to know you better

For example, if you are a musician you might wish to compose and play a piece of music that suits the animation. If you are a poet, you might choose to write and present a piece of poetry which adds to the action in the clip. If you are an actor, you could narrate a story that connects with the clip in some way. If your interests are in science you might choose to prepare a scientific journal entry about your new discovery. There is no right or wrong way of approaching this task. Come up with an idea and go with it!

Basically, you are being asked to put together something that interests you that somehow relates to the video clip. This exercise might take you 30 minutes or 3 hours. It will depend on your idea and your commitment to this introductory activity. You will be asked to share your ideas on Friday morning.

Sounds like the wheels are turning in a lot of your brains. Here is a sample:

Trinculo

Watch this clip until the 2:08 mark.

The Tempest clips

http://youtu.be/TK0ey_MktE4

June 15th, Not Since 100 Years Ago ....

So, what does this video have to do with anything noteworthy that is scheduled to happen on June 15 2012?

Tell us what you know that is connected to this story.