March 20, 2015

Point of View

We are currently learning about point of view, voice and perspective in our reading and in our writing. We have been reading stories told from different points of view, writing from different points of view and even rapping about different points of view! Here is a link to a very catchy rap about point of view from flowcabulary.com. https://www.flocabulary.com/point-of-view/

Students have started writing about a fiction character Mr. Jones, a substitute teacher who was being heckled by the students during his lesson when his pants ripped! Some students were assigned to write about the situation from Mr. Jones perspective, some students wrote from the students perspective, and the rest of the students wrote from the perspective of Mr. Jones' pants! As you can imagine, the students went straight to work, giggling with glee about their new writing assignment!

As a follow activity on Friday, students analyzed a movie clip and 3 written descriptions from Toy Story 3. They were asked to identify the different points of view and perspectives from each 3 characters in the same situation and discuss how different perspectives effect how each story is being told.

Battle of the Books Tournament
Congratulations to all of our Battle of the Books teams who participated in the tournament on Wednesday. 13 teams participated from 3 different schools including Gladys McDonald, Walker and Coldwell. Battle has been an exciting way to work as a team while developing our skills as readers. It has been a fun season and I'm looking forward to next years Battle of the Books already!

Report Cards and Conference Times **Important** 
Report cards were sent home on Friday. Inside the report card envelope is your child's conference time. Please sign and return the conference time slip to school with your child on Monday, indicating whether or not you will be attending your assigned conference time. Our classroom population has grown since our last conference day and we now have 29 students in learning centre 4!  With this larger class size, I have less flexibility with moving conference times on that day because every time slot for that day has been filled at this time. If you are unable to make it to your child's conference but would still like to meet with me please indicate so on your time sheet and we can arrange a  meeting after school on a different day.

Important Dates and Reminders:
Friday, March 20: Report Cards are Sent Home
Friday, March 27: Three-Way Conferences - No School but students are expected to attend their                                        conference.
Tuesday, March 31: Day of Pink Rally at the U of R for Grade 5 and up.
Wednesday, April 1:Day of Pink and March Reading Logs are Due