Hello all,

Hope you had a day here at Kindree.  Your homework centres around books and how to choose winning books.  This is the same as how you will decide which Canadian Silver Birch book becomes the winner for both fiction and non-fiction.

Homework: ” How would you choose book winners?”

Read the article from this link: http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/kids/news/story/0,28277,1874103,00.html

Blog questions for you to consider:

What do you think members of the American Library Association or the Ontario Library Assosication (Silver Birch Awards)  look for when choosing winning books?  Besides seeking out award-winning titles, how else can you or other readers find great books?  Does talking to your friends or others who may recommend  books to you change or have an impact on your choice of books?  What does winning an award mean to an author or the people who print books?

Consider these questions when replying to the blog post “How would you choose book winners“

Reshaping the Internet

What was the main idea to you as a reader?
Things to consider:
- How will the internet  be different for the next billion users? Who will be the users and are they different from current users….if so, how? Where will access be available that doesn’t currently have access to the internet?

Link to the XO Computer: http://laptop.org/en/laptop/

The most important to you?

 Show us how you back up ideas with evidence in your paragraphs.

Tonight’s homework:  Watch the video and answer related questions.

1.  What is the main idea of the video, in your opinion.  Your opinion paragraph must be backed up with evidence from what you viewed.

2. Character:  Is there a character that you identified with.  Explain who and why (relate your favourite character to someone in your life)

3. Critical Thinking: What stereotypes or biases are shown in this video. They could be used in the characters characteristics, or in the story line.

Video to watch:  http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/kids/cartoons-tv-movies-kids/iggy-arbuckle-kids/idle-iggy-kids.html

Imagine a Place

Imagine a place where people could eat chocolate and not feel guilty about it.  Imagine a place where your dreams matched what some people can achieve.  Imagine a place where education is free and all can have it.  Imagine a place without hate. Imagine a world full of tree houses, where adults and kids can play and climb to the sky. Imagine a place in which purple hair would be cool once in a while.  Imagine a place where there wasnt any littering but rather lots of green space.  Imagine a place where we could travel back in time and watch history unfold in front of our eyes. Imagine a place where we can all imagine and believe in all life’s possibilities no matter where you live on the planet.

What’s your “Imagine a Place”?

Follow this pattern and write a descriptive paragraph.

Enjoy.

Season 1 Episode 1

Listen

Here’s what on our 1st episode:

1.Delaney, Katherine M, Halla and Sarah Kay discuss all things great about Moshi Monsters.
2.Tiffany, Sarah and Kyleigh talk about both the pros and cons of “school”.
3.Behzaad and Ratheesh share their thoughts on their favourite video games.
4.Katherine N, Melissa and Crystal rate and discuss their film favs.
5.Jordan, Ricky, Vivek and Asad celebrate and debate video games.
6.Megan, Hamiza and Jasmine debate homework
7.Presian, Mo and Amila reveal their disdain for an on-line gaming site.
8.Liam and Liam go to the movies.

Family Literacy Night Homework

2 paragraph assignment:

If you had the chance to sit and chat with, or play with, and ask questions to or experience anything with any person throughout history or in your current life, who would that be? 

Would you like to kick a soccer ball with Pele, or sing with Celine Dion, meet your great great great grandmother, chat with Rosa Parks, play basketball with Barack Obama or go on the first ever air plane ride with the Wright Brothers? 

Part 1:

What is needed to be included in your response: a) who you would like to meet? b) why you would like to meet this person c) what do you hope to learn from he/she or take away from this experience? d) What kind of personality do you think they would have? e) anything else that you wanted to add.

Part 2:

Ask someone else in your family these questions and type their answers down too. It should be interesting for you to learn something knew on family literacy day and also for us to read the variety of answers.  Enjoy!

Write a paragraph response explaining your answers.  Make sure you dont list your answers but write your response in sentences.  Provide supporting details.

Describe “it” in your own words

A descriptive paragraph explains an image, video, song or anything  with adverbs (words that describe an action; runfast)and adjectives (words that describe a noun; black hair).

Look at these pictures.

Pick one picture and explain in a detailed paragraph or poem words what you see.  Talk us through in detail with adjectives and adverbs what is going on in your image that you chose.

Don’t tell us which image you chose…as readers, we will try and guess which one you are explaining.

Multiplying and Division Practice

—–Andy Warhol Painting

Use an array or model to answer number 1.

1. 9 students raised $437.00 for the Eden Food Bank.  If each student brought in the same amount of money, how much did each student raise?

Use repeated multiplication to help you solve division questions

2. 11 classmates purchased a painting for their principal, who was moving to a new school.  If the painting cost $139.00, how much did each classmate contribute for the gift?

3. Solve.  

In the store Canadian Tire, there was a row of 13 bottles on the floor.  Stacked on top of those, the pop bottles were piled 19 rows high.  How many pop cans in total?

4.  Solve with your method of choice and explain how you did it.

An army bus holds 36 soldiers. If 1128 soldiers are being bussed to their training site, how many buses are needed?

Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Music and Reading

Do you hum the alphabet song when trying to remember if “s” comes before “t”?  Do you remember songs easier than your timetables?

Whatever your experiences with music, music classes, choir,  piano/guitar etc., lessons or just listening to cd’s/mp3’s, we all think it is cool in different ways.

In your life, explain to us your experiences on the impact that music has had on you learning how to read and write.

Links that my help “jump start” your thinking:

http://treehousetv.com/blogs/read_indoor_fun/archive/2007/08/02/songs-with-actions.aspx