As a teacher, I find that many students really struggle with finding the main idea and its supporting details. This past week, Mrs. Jones and I looked for a new approach to teaching main idea. With the help of Pinterest and Youtube, we found a few ideas to help our students understand what to do.
We started the week off with main idea bags; an idea found on pinterest.
Follow this link, to find details of the lesson we used.
We also followed a couple of anchor charts to provide students with a VISUAL to refer to when needed.
Found on missklohnsclassroom.blogspot.com
Next, I found a couple of videos to further make sense of and grasp this difficult concept. I really liked this video because it provides the students time to answer the questions posed during the video.
Check out this main idea song! Lyrics for our school would be,
“It’s a party in the R-A-D!”
I hope this information has been helpful!!
Always happy to hear from other teachers with ideas that work well in their classroom!
Holly Arntzen shared this video on youtube and I wanted to put it on our blog!
The students at Dr. Hanna had the amazing opportunity of performing in a Voices of Nature Concert in October. Holly Arntzen and Kevin Wright teach students to love and appreciate the beauty of nature. The concert Dr. Hanna students performed in at the Conexus Arts Centre was very inspirational, memorable and a lot of fun!
If you have the opportunity to be a part of the Voices of Nature School Music Program, I highly recommend it!
The grade 4/5 class were lucky enough to go to Agribition this year! Last Monday, November 24th the students headed on the bus to the Agribition grounds!
Check out some of our pictures from the trip!
Storytelling and smudging in the tipi’s!
Some students enjoyed watching hoop dancing.
Here is a short video!
The grade 4/5’s watching the milking demonstration!
Here is a video on how to milk a cow!
Next a couple pictures of the rodeo!
Here a video of barrel racing!
Some students spent time in the Family Agribition Pavilion. They saw baby chicks that just hatched and performed a surgical procedure?!?
Overall the students, parents, and teachers had a fabulous day! Some were a little bit tired and were ready for home:)
Thank you to the parent volunteers for coming along!
Here is a video that explains Fact Families!
Here is a another video for Fact Families!
XTRA XTRA; LEARN ALL ABOUT IT!!
Learn your multiplication facts here!!!
Click on the links below to read the December newsletter and calendar.
You should be able to print it off at home if you would like!
Part of my Digital Project is to start blogging with my class. So far, the students have really enjoyed blogging and commenting on their friend’s blogs!
Our very first blog was posted by Kaleeha. She must have been excited to blog because I hadn’t even asked the class to start blogging or even taught a lesson about it. Kaleeha just went ahead and wrote about herself and family. Since the screen shots are too small to read, I have included a copy of their post below each picture.
Kaleeha wrote;
Hello my name is Kaleeha.
My teachers are Mrs.Huber,Miss.Toshack and Mrs.Jones my class is a grade 4/5 class my classmates are so nice to me. my best friend in my class room is Sarissa. Me and Sarissa were best friends for tow years we love to play at recess all the time . We love to play with are friends and we play soccer together and that is the end of this story.
Love,Kaleeha.
Then Kaleeha wrote a second blog post;
Hi I will be talking about my famliy. My famliy are the Cappos and Ironstars too. When it is the summer we go to powwows me and my sisters and my dad dance at the powwows. My Mom gets us ready at the powwow some times at powwows we have braeds at the powwows and when the powwow is done they say how wins at powwows people juje the peopie that dance they are 4 places you can win 1234 those are the places you can win money at the powwows.With the money i go shopping with my famliy and that is what we do in the summer.
THE END Love,Kaleeha.
The next blog that stood out to me was Kaia’s. She wrote her entry right away and told us all about her trip to Banff.
Kaia wrote;
Hi, i’m going to tell you about my trip to Banff & Calgary! First off I packed up my stuff & my grandparents picked me up from Yorkton. In the car was me, my grandparents, aunt Sarah & Daycin, other wise known as my cousin. It was boring having to travel like about 8 hours, by then it would be night time so we just stopped at a hotel. Me, Daycin & Sarah went swimming! There was a water slide & me and Daycin went on it! We chased Sarah around in the swimming pool for fun. After we went to bed, but first we ate chips & dip and watched “America’s Funniest Home Videos” I have to admit, I laughed a lot of times! In the morning we went to see Calgary, well, you know you have to go through Calgary to go to Banff? Right? As soon as we saw the beautiful mountains I knew we were here. We got a hotel, it was pretty nice, we stayed there last year. We went swimming for 1 or 2 hours, the next day we went to the mountains, the view was so beautiful, the water was teal-ish blue, I wish I lived in Banff… after that we went to “Tony Roma’s” for dinner, it was delicious, I had ribs.. yum! The next day.. we went to Bruno’s Bar and Grill. Then my grandpa said we can go and shop, we did, me and Daycin got a ball that bounces on water! – Continues after swimming lessons!
The next blogger I wanted to share, is Kiara. She is an example of the student in the class who is always happy and loves school. I also decided she was going to teach the next lesson on adjectives!
Hello my name is Kiara ,
I have three brothers and one sister. My family is the Cuellars ,we are Spanish! I have an awesome best friend named Kaia she is really nice.She always cheers me up.I have four inspiring friends.One of them is Kaleeha. Kaleeha is cool,amazing and creative.The second friend Sarissa. Sarissa is hilarious,pretty and good gymnast.Muna is a great dancer and a good stylist.Then Jade you can’t forget about Jade.Jade is very caring,kind and taught me a lot of stuff.
That’s all my friends,thanks for listening
By kiara
The next students wrote a shorter amount in their blog. This would be an example of a typical student’s work in grade 4 that I would see.
Hello my name is Tailor I’m a older child I have one brother two sisters.Tanner Charlie and Vienna I go to my Dad’s every Thursday and every second weekend I go to Soccer on Saturdays I like to play catch with Vienna and Tanner my sisters are two months(Charlie) one year nine months(Vienna)
Hi I am Griffin I love playing video games and I am 9.My dad loves playing video games with me and helps me. He is 39.My mom cleans a lot of stuff ,bathrooms ,living rooms ect. She’s 34.Last my sister .She bugs me a lot like its her job but when she’s not bored she watch’s tv, dolls and facetiming my grandma. A lot!
Lucas shared a lot of information and added good detail but forget something really important. That’s right, punctuation!
Hi my name is Lucas I’m telling you about my family I have two brothers ones lane ones Cody lane likes to play football he is star running back and we also have Cody he is funny and likes to play foot ball no matter what he was line backer in football also i have my dad he likes to build amazing things like wooden tables and my mom she likes to build with my dad and cook next me I like to play football and soccer thank you for reading my blog
My final blog post that I wanted to share is Kayden’s. We typically don’t see this much writing in class, but he sure likes to blog. I also didn’t know he is a HUGE fan of the Pats!
Kayden wrote (unfortunately it doesn’t show all the different coloured fonts he chose for his entry);
My favorite team is the Regina Pats because they have good players and they win a lot. I go to every game with my mom and my dad. My favorite player this year is Sam Steele he wears number 39 on his jersey. My second favorite player is Dryden Hunt number 29. My favorite player that ever played for the Pats is Jordan Weal. He is too old to play for the Pats. He was assigned to the LA Kings. I named my guinea pig after him, her name is Wealz. When I go to the Pats games I like to play mini sticks in the mini rink with my friends. I even decorated my room in Pats colors, red, white and blue. I collect Pats cards and autographs, every time they autograph after a game, I get one. When I play NHL 14 on my xBox 360 I always am the Pats. I have 2 Pats jerseys, one of them is all signed from different players. Another of my favorite players was Jordan Eberle and he is too old and now plays for the Edmonton Oilers. You can only play for the Pats until you are 21 years old. I went on the ice and skated with the Pats and got more autographs and they are my favorite favorite team. I have mostly every single poster and they are signed.
Last of all, Isabelle shared a picture of her dog Guiness in one of her blog posts!
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