Info Night Slideshow

A Day in the Life of an 8yo Student

Created byMrs. Szeryk’s Eight Year-Old Class

MATH

• Solving

• Estimate

• Addition /Subtraction

• Problems

• Rounding

• Graphs

• Money

• Tests

Reading

In Reading weLearned about the Part of a Story which are called Literary Elements

Write summaries and responses Post on Kidblogs and Edmodo kidblog.org/8isgreat and edmodo.com

Have reading groupsAre doing Global Read Aloud (Charlotte’s Web)Make connections while we read help us understand the story better

Language Arts!

•We wrote autobiographical poems

•We learn about the Writing Process

•We write various Paragraphs,

including Descriptive Paragraphs

•We Revise and Edit our writing

•We learned about Transition words

•We do Spelling

•We practice Grammar in our Skills Book

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•Raz-kids – we read books online

•Writing – we study about end marks

•How to write paragraphs

•Reading – we read stories and nonfiction

•Spelling – we practise every week

•Journals – We write about anything

Snack recess

• Snack recess is 20 minutes long.

• There are swings, slides and a Bubble gym.

• Also some of the games we play are escape, two square, tag and we also swing

as high as we can go on the swings.

Cultural Studies

• We learned the provinces and territories of Canada

• We learned about the Native People of Canada and the European explorers

• We learned how to read a map and make a map

• We did projects of the provinces and territories of Canada

Science

dissected an owl pellet learned about Habitats who needs an oak tree we are studying about biomes went on a nature walk made leaf posters modeled a cactus stems made out of paper and wax paper dissected a cactus to observe how it survives in its habitat

Lunch Recess

•Lunch recess is 45 minutes long.

• Some of us have home lunch and some of us have school lunch

•We eat for 20 minutes and then go outside to play

Native and Foreign Languages:

Slovak

French

German

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SLOVAK

• Read Slovak Stories

• Write In Slovak

• Spelling test

• Writing In Fun Spelling Books

French• We are learning about

family and numbers• We sing French songs

like “Frere Jacques” and “Sur le Pont Davignon”

German

•In German class,we go to a website called Atanto Extra

•We also sing German songs

•When we learn a new word, we write it in our notebooks

Special Classes:

Music

Library

PE

Art

Technology and Tablets

MUSIC

In music we learn musicWe listen to music We play music with drums and

tambourines We sing a little bit

• In Library, Ms Beata reads us a book• She asks us questions about what we

read• We use rulers to hold book places and

then we check out our books

We Love P.E. Very Much !

• P.E. is very fun because we play : soccer and tag games like freeze tag, fisher man and fish, and police and robber

• We really like our teacher Mr.Slahor

ART IS FUN!

In art we make lots of crafts, such as making a imaginary animals and clay

beads and puppets!

I think ART is the best subject ever!

TechnologyWe made picture collages of our

summer vacationsWe learned how to use Word ArtWe learned how to save pictures and documentsWe practise typingWe learned about how to write good comments on the Internet and keep our information privateWe learend how to make and upload avatars We learned how to use Edmodo and Kidblog

On Edmodo and 8isgreatWe first read Charlotte’s WebIn Edmodo we all talk about our

comprehensionAnd on 8isgreat we comment on other

school blogs or we comment on 8isgreat

Tablets

• We use Edmodo

• Sometimes we play games like Brain Lab, vocabulary games, and Minecraft

• We watch YouTube videos

• Sometimes we listen to our favorite songs

Activities

Every day, we have activities from 2:50 to 3:40

Some activities are:

Digital Photography, Animation, Drama, Cross-Stitching, Flat Classroom Project, Online Magazine,

Capoeira, Scouts, Floor Hockey, Slovak, French, Piano, Guitar, Violin, Art, Dance, and Choir

Then we go home!

Thanks for coming!