Blacklock
Fine Arts Elementary
Kindness Mission
Each day at 7:00 pm, step outside your home (with your family) and make some noise (use your voice, instruments or anything that makes noise) for all the essential workers who help to take care of our community (ex. nurses, doctors, paramedics, hospital cleaning staff, grocery store clerks, truck drivers, etc.).
Monday, June 15th
Let's Write!
Today's Topic:
Student Self-Reflection
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Use the PDF to complete 2 self-reflections for the following Core Competencies:
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**Important Parent Information:
These self-reflections will be used for Term 3 reporting.
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#1 Communication &
#2 Social Responsibility
Self-Reflections
#1
#2
1. Instructions:
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Reflect on the core competencies and complete the self-reflection PDFs.
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2. When You Are Finished:
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Scan or take a picture of your self-reflections and upload them to your portfolio (myBlueprint).
House Points
10 Points = Complete and upload Self Assessment #1 and #2
10 Points = Create a Math word problem about a garden
10 Points = Watch "Science Time with Alina G" video
Reading Time
Read through the journal writing you have completed at home.
Choose your favourite one and read it to your family!
Math Activity
Write a math story about
a garden that involves
measuring, adding, or
subtracting.
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Choose numbers that
stretch your thinking!
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What problem will you pose as part of your math story?
Scan or upload a picture of your work to your portfolio
(my Blueprint).
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Optional Math Activities:​
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Sign in to Mathletics after finishing today's math assignment. Check out the “Explore” and “Play” sections.
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Choose a math game you know how to play. (You could use a 100s chart, your computer/tablet, dice or cards.)
Science Time with Mr. T ... Alina G!
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Watch Alina G’s Whipped Coffee video.
If you have the correct ingredients, try following her instructions and making a whipped coffee for your Dad or Grandpa this weekend.
Special thanks to Liam G (Alina's brother) for narrating and filming this video!
Tuesday, June 16th
Let's Write!
Today's Topic:
Student Self-Reflection
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Use the PDF to complete 2 self-reflections for the following Core Competencies:
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**Important Parent Information:
These self-reflections will be used for Term 3 reporting.
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#3 Creative Thinking &
#4 Personal Awareness and
Responsibility
Self-Reflections
#3
#4
1. Instructions:
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Reflect on the core competencies and complete the self-reflection PDFs.
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2. When You Are Finished:
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Scan or take a picture of your self-reflections and upload them to your portfolio (myBlueprint).
House Points
30 Points = Complete and upload your Self-Reflections #3 and #4
10 Points = Create MORE than ten math problems with the answer of 75.
15 Points = Make a Name Poster for your bathroom mirror
Reading Time
Choose a short book or poem.
Read it 3 times:
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in a whisper voice
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in a silly voice
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in a normal voice
Math Activity
The number/answer is 75.
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What could the math question be?
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Think of ten or more different math
questions/problems that have an answer of 75.
Use words, pictures, numbers and symbols
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addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division.
Record all the questions on paper or using technology.
How are they the same?
How are they different?
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Scan or upload a picture of your work to your portfolio (myBlueprint).
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Optional Math Activities:
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Sign in to Mathletics after finishing today's math assignment. Check out the “Explore” and “Play” sections.
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Choose a math game you know how to play. (You could use a 100s chart, your computer/tablet, dice or cards.)
Artsy Fartsy Time
*Today's Special Task:
Name Poster
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Draw your name big in the middle of the paper.
Leave enough room around the edges to write more words in.
Fill the border with words that describe yourself.
Examples:
funny, kind, responsible, proud, amazing, athletic, beautiful, handsome, strong, intelligent, etc.
Put this paper up on your bathroom mirror.
Wednesday, June 17th
Let's Write!
Today's Topic:
Student Self-Reflection
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Use the PDF to complete 2 self-reflections for the following Core Competencies:
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**Important Parent Information:
These self-reflections will be used for Term 3 reporting.
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#5
#6
# 5 Critical Thinking
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#6 Positive Personal and Cultural Identity
Self-Reflections
1. Instructions:
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Reflect on the core competencies and complete the self-reflection PDFs.
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2. When You Are Finished:
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Scan or take a picture of your self-reflections and upload them to your portfolio (myBlueprint).
House Points
10 Points = Complete and upload Self-Reflections #5 and #6 to your portfolio
25 Points = Create a gift for Father's Day
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Reading Time
Phone or Zoom with your
grandparents or an aunt/uncle
and read a book to them.
Math Activity
Figure out three different sets
of numbers that would make
sense in this math story:
There are _____ rows of plants in a garden.
There are ______ plants in each row.
There are ______ plants in the garden.
Use numbers that stretch your thinking!
How can you show or record how you figured out your sets of numbers?
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Scan or upload a picture of your work to your portfolio (myBlueprint).
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Optional Math Activities:
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Sign in to Mathletics after finishing today's math assignment. Check out the “Explore” and “Play” sections.
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Choose a math game you know how to play. (You could use a 100s chart, your computer/tablet, dice or cards.)
Taking Care of Others
Today's Special Task:
Create something for Father's Day.
Use materials that you can find at home,
in your recycling box, craft supplies,
or in nature.
Thursday, June 18th
Let's Write!
Today's Topic:
Did you know that baby seahorses are born from inside their father’s tummies?
Watch the following videos and write 5 facts about seahorses.
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Make sure to include at least one fact about the seahorse fathers.
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1. Instructions:
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​​​Write for at least 10 minutes.
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Write in your journal or special writer’s notebook.
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Pick any topic you like or use the topic for today.
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2. Look Over Your Work and Ask Yourself:​
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Does my writing make sense?
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Is there a better way to say that?
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Did I try to use some interesting and descriptive words?
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Did I start with a capital letter and end with a period, question mark, or exclamation mark?
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3. Make Corrections and Changes to Your Writing.
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4. When You Are Finished:
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Scan or take a picture of your work when it is completed and upload it to your portfolio (myBlueprint).
House Points
25 Points = Take a video of you cheer/song for Father's Day and upload it to your portfolio
20 Points = Write more than 8 facts about seahorses
200 Points = Correct answer the House Points Bonus Challenge
Reading Time
Pick a book you’ve never read before. Stop half way through and make a prediction (No Cheating!).
Was your prediction correct?
Math Activity
Choose three questions that
seems just right for you to practice:
18-9 or 25-8 or 50-25
or 75-49 or 175-79 or
425-375 or 850-375
What different strategies can you
use to solve these questions?
How can you show or record how you figured out the answers?
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Scan or upload a picture of your work to your portfolio (myBlueprint).
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Optional Math Activities:
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Sign in to Mathletics after finishing today's math assignment. Check out the “Explore” and “Play” sections.
or
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Choose a math game you know how to play. (You could use a 100s chart, your computer/tablet, dice or cards.)
Taking Care of Others
*Today's Special Task: Write a song or cheer made to honor your dad.
House Points
Bonus Challenge
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Mrs. Huang has really enjoyed creating this website for you and your families.
Have you noticed her "Easter Egg" in the opening graphic each week?
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**An "Easter Egg" in a movie, book, or
website is actually a hidden clue, joke,
or reference.
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Go back to Week 2 and
check out the "WEEK ___" graphic
for each week.
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What tricky thing did she sneak in?
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Email your answer to housepointsbfa@gmail.com for an extra 200 points!
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Be sure to include your house team name or the points will automatically go to the Monkeys!
Friday, June 19th
Happy Father's Day! (Sunday)
The Congo Pod Teachers
Reading Time
Write a letter to yourself with 5 sentences all starting with “I am…”
Choose character traits (from Tuesday's list) that you are proud of and look in the mirror and read it out loud.
Let's Write!
Today's Topic:
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Write a poem about your Dad and/or Grandpa.
Click on the PDF for fill-in-the-blanks poem worksheets
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Create a card out of your own paper and write your poem inside it.
1. Instructions:
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​​​Write for at least 10 minutes.
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Write in your journal or special writer’s notebook.
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Pick any topic you like or use the topic for today.
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2. Look Over Your Work and Ask Yourself:​
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Does my writing make sense?
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Is there a better way to say that?
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Did I try to use some interesting and descriptive words?
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Did I start with a capital letter and end with a period, question mark, or exclamation mark?
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3. Make Corrections and Changes to Your Writing.
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4. When You Are Finished:
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Scan or take a picture of your work when it is completed and upload it to your portfolio (myBlueprint).
House Points
Math Activity
Design and draw a garden.
Make room to plant 4 rows of plants.
For each row, you could have
4 or 5 plants.
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How many plants are in your garden?
Show how you figured that out.
What strategy/method do you think is a strength of yours?
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Scan or upload a picture of your work to your portfolio (myBlueprint).
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Optional Math Activities:
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Sign in to Mathletics after finishing today's math assignment. Check out the “Explore” and “Play” sections.
or
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Choose a math game you know how to play. (You could use a 100s chart, your computer/tablet, dice or cards.)
Story Time with The Mischievous Librarian
Mary Wears What She Wants
Written and illustrated by KEITH NEGLEY
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Slideshow by Mrs. MacLean
Langley Picture Book of the Year #10
10 Points = Make a poem for Father's Day
20 Points = Listen to Storytime with the Mischievous Librarian
10 points = Email your grand total of house points for the week to BFAkmclub@gmail.com
10 Points = Email your grand total of house points for the week to housepointsbfa@gmail.com
