Good morning everyone!
I hope you’re all enjoying the beautiful sunshine this week - and I’m sure the lightening homework load is helping! I went on a nature hike yesterday and go these beautiful pictures - I hope you are finding time to safely go outside as well.
Here are some tips and advice as you prepare your lessons for other classes later this week:
1. Set up the Zoom meeting link for your lesson and include it in your email to the host teacher
2. For the Zoom link, ensure the SJA authentication required is checked to prevent non-SJA students from entering the meeting
3. Assign your group partners are co-hosts in case you get bumped out of the call.
4. When you email the host teacher, confirm the day and time of the lesson. Let the teacher know how long the lesson will be and if the students need to be ready to play a game, e.g. Kahoot!
5. Be on time, in fact arrive early.
6. Let your family know you are presenting and arrange for a quiet surrounding while you teach.
7. Welcome the student and teacher guests when they join your Zoom call and give them instructions, e.g. video on/off, mute/unmute, etc.
8. Introduce yourselves and let them know what your lesson is about and what to expect, e.g. a skit and then a presentation, etc.
9. Talk slowly and clearly.
10. Look at the camera.
11. Allow for Q & A and a discussion at the end of your lesson.
12. Thank the guests for allowing you to have their class time to present a lesson.
A few messages from SJA:
Daily Challenge – Treat your family to supper this week by winning first place in our weekly challenges! Get a $50 Uber Eats dinner delivered courtesy of St. Jude’s – winner will be announced on June 23 during morning assembly.
Choose 4 of these challenges and send Mr. Neal your videos and pictures:
1. Play checkers with a parent or sibling – send a picture whether you win or lose!
2. Make a Kleenex Box Monster! See attached picture.
3. It’s time to get lean and mean – as an airplane that is! Make your best paper airplane and see how far it goes.
4. “I can jump THIS high!” show us how high you can jump – but only on one foot!
5. Blow up a balloon and hop 10 feet with it between your legs. Bonus points if you pop it with your knees at the end.
6. Help clean the house! Get two towels (ask Mom or Dad which ones) and skate along the floor polishing it to a brilliant shine!
7. It’s time for a wheel barrow race. Get a parent or sibling to hold your legs up and you race on your hands! You need to go at least 10 feet in one direction and then back again.
Have fun everyone!
Yoga: Join Zoom meeting, 4:00 – 4:45
Zoom information on ManageBac
Music: Join Zoom meeting, 4:00 – 4:30
Zoom information on ManageBac
Ms. Hayward is running a Guess Who! Competition using bitmojis of teachers? How many can you name?
Here is an opportunity to get lots of house points. Match the Bitmoji to the correct teacher. The FIRST three to send the most correct answers to Ms. Hayward (hhayward@stjudesacademy.com) win BIG house points.
50,000 for first with ALL correct
25,000 for first with most
10,000 for second with most
5,000 for third with most
2,000 each for the two "bonus people".
Last chance to send answers will be Friday, June 19.
And don’t forget about our upcoming SJA Imaginarium!
We have our House Cup Ceremony coming up! Are you excited?!
Morning Announcements:
· Announcements
· Lower School assemblies every Tuesday and Thursday on Zoom at 8:45
· Grade 6 morning announcements on Discord at 8:45 on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays
· Grade 6 Graduation Speech (contribute to the Google doc that will be shared with you)
· Last 2 days of fun – June 29th and June 30th – What should we do? Keep thinking of ideas.
· ‘Guess Who’ due this Friday to Ms. Hayward (hhayward@stjudesacademy.com)
· SJA Imaginarium, June 24th – June 30th
· JK – Grade 11 Promotion Ceremonies on Wednesday, June 24th
· Grade 6 PYP Graduation Ceremony at 9 am on Thursday, June 25th
· Fun Awards, Friday, June 26th
· House Cup Assembly, Friday, June 26th at 2pm
· Leadership camp for Grade 6 – limited space (spots filling quickly)
· After-School Online Programs Today
Time
|
Place to Be
|
Class Information
|
9:00 – 9:40
|
Zoom
|
Music with Mr. Oliver. Zoom link will be provided.
|
9:40 – 10:10
|
Zoom
|
Gym with Mr. Orr. Zoom link will be provided.
|
10:10-11:00
|
Zoom
|
French with Mme. Stella. Zoom link will be provided.
|
11:00 – 12:00
|
Lunch Break – Take a break from your devices
| |
12:00 – 1:40
|
Zoom
|
Inquiry into My Digital Footprint
You will present your summative project to our class.
Today’s goals are to:
· Present presentation/skit/activities
· Reflect on and receive feedback on each presentation/skit/activity, i.e., How effective was your lesson? Were you successful in getting across the key concepts responsibility & perspective? How effective were your teaching methods? What could you have done differently? What worked well?
· You will be an audience members for other groups and provide them with feedback describing what they did well and what they should improve on
· Improve your lesson based on the feedback you received
|
2:30 – 3:00
|
Lunch Break – Take a break from your devices
| |
2:20 – 3:30
|
Grade 6 Discord Server
Join ‘mr_contes_class’ voice channel
|
Inquiry into Math
Learning Goals: solve equations using inverse operations.
First, we will take up the homework as a class.
Next, we will go through the lesson provided in the PDF and some examples of how to solve equations using inverse operations.
Students will complete questions a-x provided in the PDF.
Success Criteria: I understand that…
· to solve an equation means to find the value of the variable that makes the equation true
· an equation can be solved by using inverse operations
I can:
· solve an equation by finding the value of the variable that makes the equation true-solve an equation by using inverse operations
|
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