Learning In New Ways
Blogs Challenge #3:
This is the 2nd week of the student blogging challenge for 2011. We hope you all continue to prove to your teachers that you are blogging well and showing improvements in your posts and commenting skills.
So this week, the theme is FAVOURITES. This allows you lots of choice. But to show a great post to your teacher you will need to include:
■at least three paragraphs of writing
■an image with correct attribution
■a link to another website where you found information
The discussion on if Remembrance Day should be a holiday as resurfaced once again. Provinces such as Nova Scotia have a day off school for all students on Remembrance Day. In Ontario, government and bank employees receive a day off work but all students are in class. Are there benefits to being at school on this day, to reflect to question? Or, should this be a day as in Nova Scotia where students can reflect at home or go to a war memorial with family or friends or whatever they feel is right for them.
Write a paragraph outlining your opinion if Ontario should make Remembrance Day be a holiday for all students.
Why do you think this?
Express your opinion using your own experiences with Remembrance Day and the video/article to help support your point of view.
We are all interested to hear about your opinion and read your ideas.
Video from an ex-soldier’s perspective: http://www.ottawacitizen.com/life/Video+Remembrance/3785162/story.html
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History of Hallowe’en: http://www.history.com/content/halloween
or http://www.halloweenhistory.org/
Write a paragraph outlining your position. Make sure you have an interesting opening sentence and an interesting closer.
Student example:
Trick-Or-Treat!Halloween is the best night ever!You can enjoy time with friends,eat candy and dress up as what every person or thing you want!It is the 2′nd best time to pull pranks on people.It is a scary, tasty, fun time.When ever i finish trick-or-treating i always trade candy with friends.Halloween is the 1 of the best holidays ever!HAPPY HALLOWEEN!-BOO!
or:
Hallowen is not a great holiday, if it’s a holiday shouldn’t you get a day off of school and work? Why isn’t it during the whole day? Why? I tell you why to scare you silly and for what, a little bit of candy! I could get some candy for less then a buck.
After you go trick or treating you go to bed thinking about monsters and stuff. Why? Because it isn’t a good holiday. I don’t like to get scared. Do you?
Our Skate Canada Day on PhotoPeach
As you are now grade 5 learners, we are excited to hear all your fantastic ideas. 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
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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 explainin