Good morning everyone!
Today is another exciting day with online school at St. Jude’s. We will all be meeting on Zoom for a Lower School assembly. Click on this link to attend at 8:45 am:
Zoom information on ManageBac
If you are one of the spelling bee contestants, be sure to keep practicing your spelling. Have someone in your family quiz you each day.
Remember to update your parents about all we are discussing during our inquiry unit. They are the most important ‘trusted adults’ in your lives.
Our next Lower School assembly is this Thursday.
A few messages from SJA:
Daily Challenge – Choose 2 of these, you have 7 seconds to do each one. Don’t forget to send Mr. Neal a video of you doing your choices! sneal@stjudesacademy.com
· Drink 250ml of water (1 cup of water)
· Eat a slice of bread and swallow completely
· Lick the tip of your elbow.
And don’t forget about the Spelling Bee!
And also, don’t forget that Track & Field is taking place next week during gym classes!
Dance: Join Zoom meeting, 4:00 – 4:45
Zoom information on ManageBac
Beginner Karate: Join Zoom meeting, 4:00 – 4:30
Zoom information in ManageBac
Morning Announcements:
· Announcements
· Our class anthology will need the following items: 100 word story, illustration of 100 word story, quote and sentence (due dates TBA)
· Grade 6 in-school spelling bee on Thursday at 9 a.m.
· Grade 7 in-school spelling bee on Thursday at 1 p.m.
· Interschool spelling be on Friday at 10 a.m.
· All participants must be in full uniform for the spelling bee
· Lower school assemblies at 8:45 a.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays on Zoom (link to be provided)
· After school programs today: Dance 4 – 4:45 & Beginner Karate 4 – 4:30 (information on ManageBac & blog)
· Daily Challenge – 7 second challenges!
Time
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Place to Be
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Class Information
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9:00 – 9:40
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Zoom
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Music with Mr. Oliver. Zoom link will be provided.
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9:40-10:10
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Zoom
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Gym with Mr. Orr. Zoom link will be provided.
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10:10-11:00
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Zoom
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French with Mme. Stella. Zoom link will be provided.
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11:00 – 12:00
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Lunch Break – Take a break from your devices
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12:00 – 1:00
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Zoom
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Inquiry into My Digital Footprint
Learning Goal: Students will better understand how to protect themselves and their peers from abduction (Part 1)
Students will watch the Amy’s Choice video – a true story about a 15-year old girl who ran away from home to meet in person with a man she first met online. They answer questions about how Amy was at risk and how they can avoid similar situations by communicating with trusted adults.
Students will download the Amy’s Choice worksheet from ManageBac. Instruct students to read the sentence fragments taken from Amy’s own words, without being specific, they will tell Amy’s story in their own words. This strategy allows students to begin thinking about the topic and work with the words they will hearing before watching the video. Have students join in groups to complete this activity. Each group will then share their version --with the class. We will continue with this lesson tomorrow.
Introduce students to the Real World Safety (RWS) rules. We will discuss these in class more tomorrow.
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1:00 – 1:40
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Grade 6 Discord Server
Join ‘mr_contes_class’ voice channel
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Language: 100-word story
Continue discussing writing a story in exactly 100 words (the title is not counted as part of the story).
It can be about anything. It will be shared with the class. It will be put through the entire writing process. Today’s goal is to complete the writing of the first draft. Remind students how to use the word count feature on Word or Google Docs to count words. Once everyone understands, everyone keeps quiet and writes. At the end of class time, students share their progress. All work MUST be complete in class time and must be 100% student work.
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2:30 – 3:00
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Lunch Break – Take a break from your devices
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2:20 – 2:50
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Grade 6 Discord Server
Join ‘mr_contes_class’ voice channel
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Inquiry into Math: Integers
· through discord we will take up homework as a class
· students will then compete a quiz to show their understanding of lessons 9.6 & 9.7
Students who complete their math quiz early will work on their 100-word story or begin working on chapter 3 novel study questions.
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2:50 – 3:30
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Grade 6 Discord Server
Join ‘mr_contes_class’ voice channel
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Novel Study
Learning Goal: Students will write from the perspectives of the characters in the text
Students meet in groups to discuss their responses to Chapter 2 questions and visualising prompts. Students are then assigned to read Chapter 3, answer discussion questions, and participate in activities. Today’s activity is imagining you are one of the characters and writing about how they may be feeling. Any incomplete work must be completed as homework
Students may choose to join a breakout room where students read silently, or they may choose to join a breakout room where students take turn reading aloud.
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Work that is not completed during class time will need to be completed as homework. Students should put more focus into reading at this time. It is an expectation that students are reading between 30 and 60 minutes per day.
If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to reach out so I can clarify and assist.
Steven Conte
