Hello Wonderful Students of mine… I miss you more than you miss me, I promise!
I started writing on your blogs just now to give some encouragement on your projects and then I started freaking out that there were no projects! Some of you haven’t added to your draft page since October 21st? What’s Up???

Here are your lessons for Thursday and Friday with Mr. Bromley, I promise to do my best to be back next Monday, it has been a pretty awful week for me but I have a great small moment story to share with you about an MRI I had today… very spooky but a GREAT SEED MOMENT was created.

This is how I look right now. It really really really hurts to use the computer. I can’t read anything… My head is sore. My eyes burn, my sinuses are all messed up and I feel sick and achy will all the medicine I am on. So if I CAN TYPE THIS… you can get moving with some of the work below! Make me proud 5KP.

Thursday and Friday Period 1 and Period 2 (borrow laptops from another teacher for one of these periods or use a lab in the library if no laptops are available)

Writer’s and Reader’s Workshop
Spend one of these two period’s typing up your second personal narrative (depending on when laptops are available) Spend the other period working on your own personal reading. As you read your book over these two days, use sticky notes to ask questions about things you don’t understand or wonder about. Keep the notes in your novels, we will be discussing them next week. The notes might be lists of words you don’t know, examples of similes you like or things that don’t make sense, use the yellow sheet of reader’s notebook questions on the wall to guide your thinking as you read.

Math Class
You will be tested on Unit 4 on either Monday or Tuesday depending on how well I believe you have comprehended the skills in this unit. So, work on the next section of the journal, use your math buddy to help you and complete the accompanying skills links for each section. I think you should have one more study link to complete on Thursday night… perfect! Don’t waste your time, if I hear you have, the test will be Monday for sure. The unit is brief, use your time to revise your skills. Make up questions for each other to test your knowledge and remember, the test will be covering the content you have covered in the study links…

Social Studies
Again, you will need to either use another 5th grade classes laptops or use the library downstairs. IF these options aren’t available for both periods each day, then spend the remaining time looking through the box of cultural studies books on the sofa and take notes (as wonderful Claire did last time) in your reader’s notebook.

I’m impressed with an idea Mr. Neill had on his blog recently. Go to this post and complete exactly the same task Mr. Neill has asked his students to do. BUT ALSO go to one student in Mr. Neill’s class and comment on their post. So, have you got it? Can you follow instructions? You’ll have:

*Your own post
*A comment on a 5KP student’s post
*A comment on a 5DN student’s post
This should all be done on the CULTURAL STUDIES draft page which sadly, so far, is NOT LOOKING GOOD!

Now, go to Ms. Yick’s Cultural Studies example again, and continue working on your own draft page. Before you go onto the tasks below, you need to make sure you have completed at least:
*3 of the features of culture (two paragraphs minimum for each feature, eg, 2 for education, 2 for recreation and 2 for life as a kid)
*2 of the big idea questions (again, two paragraphs minimum for each feature)

When you have finished these tasks AND ONLY THEN, whether it be on Thursday or Friday, you can then do the following, as always, IN ORDER.
*Go to your blog, how ever many widgets you have… HALVE THEM! I am serious, students, some of you crashed my computer tonight, and I am not in the mood for that. Some of you have over 20 widgets, GET RID OF half of THEM or Mr. Power and I will enjoy getting rid of ALL OF THEM over the weekend.

*Go to the next four people in the class (look at the names on the cubbies, you know the routine) and go to their cultural studies draft blog page and leave a comment telling them how you think they are going. I expect everyone to have done 3 features of culture and 2 big idea questions by the end of Friday’s class.

Those two tasks are homework for the weekend if you don’t get them done Thursday and Friday.

Ingrid and Patricia, please clean out Ash’s cage on Friday at recess and make sure he has enough food and water for the weekend and please please please make sure he can’t get out!

Boys and Girls, I am counting on you to be well behaved and respectful to Mr. Bromley as he is doing me a big favour looking after you so well this week. I do miss you, and I look forward to rewarding you next week with some extra special treats and coffee bar passes. We have a great session with visiting author Margriet Ruurs coming up.

Ask Mr. B to start thinking on Thursday about who he will give Student of the Week to tomorrow as well as a few coffee passes to those of you that have gone out of your way to work hard and do your best!