I brought in a durian today and challenged people to try and eat it. Blergh.
It does NOT taste like a mango!
Sadly, I didn’t carpe diem the day and get videos or pictures, and I’m worried that all of the snap chats have disappeared. If you have a picture or a video, please send it to me!
I need to see some durian pictures on our clap out videos!
Today, we were back in the library working on our avocado moment posters! We are back in the classroom tomorrow.
Good luck, testers! <3
Welcome to the first day of term 3! We have a nice mix of returning students, new students, and even Saydi is back! Yay!
This is a really easy way to catch up on what we did in class yesterday (or any day, for that matter). Just make sure that you are looking at the blog post for the B class since I’m also teaching the A part of the class at the same time.
We started today off with a brief welcome! A few things about myself – yes, I am pregnant and expecting boy/girl twins in May. I do things a little differently than a typical English teacher – I’m not afraid of looking like a dork if it’s going to help you remember material. We work in this class everyday, but it’s generally not hard work. I usually don’t freak out over cell phones unless you are spending more time on your cell phone than your actual class work OR if you are on your cell phone while I am directly teaching.
We signed up for Dyknow as well. I use it more for an educational tool than a babysitting tool, but I still use it. 🙂
I did explain a few key differences of my class: namely, that I am on a point system. There most points you can earn for the term is 1500 points. That means that if you have 1500 points at the end of the term, you will have earned 100%. If you earn 1300/1500 points, you’ll have earned a 90, 1200 points earns an 80, 1100 points is a 73, and 1050 points is a 70.
The first thing we did on Day One was create to characters for The Pride of Riley. The things that I’ll be focusing on when I grade them are your Nature, Demeanor, Attributes, and your (4) R’s. If you weren’t here, you can find this material in BB under Welcome to the Ship: First Day Stuff: Gamification.
The big things that I will be grading are your Nature and Demeanor, your Attributes (7/5/3), and your R’s. Remember the nuggets are your learning objectives!
We then did the First Day Survey. You can find that in BB, but the link can also be found here.
Lastly, you guys drew me a picture for my belated birthday present! We ran out of time to get the reflection questions done, but we’ll start class with that tomorrow. Bryan, that means the only thing you’ll need to do on your own are the character sheet and the First Day Survey.
Today is a pretty easy day – we are creating our own Bucketlist. Remember last week, we created an account at BucketList? Well, we are using that site to create our OWN BucketList.
I’m giving you an option – you can just create your BucketList for 15 points, OR, you can earn up to 30 points if you create a digital poster/presentation. You can use the media of your choice:
The key here is that is s media file – hence the nugget for Media Literacy today. Just make sure that you drop the link or file off in the drop box.
You *have* to have your Obituary completed in order to do the activity tomorrow. Make sure it’s in!
Today, we took our color quiz answers (from Tuesday) and we created a poster with them. There is a template in LMS with circle text boxes Each text box has a sentence prompt. First, change the color of each circle to the corresponding color from the quiz. You will use your color quiz to answer those questions. You do not need to write down each answer – choose about three words. You can use synonyms – in face, I recommend it.
Once you get the fild done, drop it off, I will print it in color for you, and then we will cut and paste the circles on a poster with our name on it. Make your name POP!
Arghh, mateys!
We started out today by coloring. Yeah. And people say that Riley is HARD. Hah.
Each person chose a marker and couldn’t trade it in. The crew then had to draw one cohesive picture on posterboard and use each color at least once. You can’t switch out markers to the person who was the artist.
Here are the final posters:
Then we went to LMS and went to the Carpe Diem folder – the one with the sun on it. We worked on the 13 Questions – that is the pre-writing that is in the drop box.
After that, we worked on making our own Bucket List. There will be a rough draft grade and a final draft grade. The rough draft will be a completion grade and the final copy will be a poster. Riley suggested Glogster, but you can use any program as long as it is a pretty poster. The poster will be due on Friday in the drop box.
