Remember This? A Scavenger Hunt at the Museum of Nature!

Room 209 Fashion - Skye's Sweet Headband

What Stuck With You Today?

Our "What Stuck With You Today" poster is up in the hall and numbered with each student's class order number. When we remember to (!), each student writes a sticky note about what he or she learned that day.

We'll start doing this on the Drive once we get our Chromebooks, but for now, this is a quick and easy way for all of us to see what the Rainbow Eggheads learned on any given day.

Staying Organized - Our Mailboxes

The Rainbow Eggheads often have to deliver mail from the school to their families at home. One of the responsibilities of grade 5/6 students is to keep track of important papers and forms, and make sure it is easy for their parents and teachers to help them.

Students in Room 209 are expected to check and empty their mailboxes each day. When there are forms to be returned, they are expected to fill out all the information they can.

One of the jobs at the beginning of the year was for students to find a place at home to leave their forms for their parents to autograph.

Check in and make sure your Rainbow Egghead is doing this!

What We've Done So Far This Year

On Friday, in preparation for our upcoming Student Led Conferences, we collaboratively worked on a document called: What We've Done So Far This Year. Some students had iPads out to look back at what we've done on our blog and twitter account, others had laptops out and we added to this document at the same time. It was an awesome collaboration and made us all so excited for the Chromebooks to arrive - we'll get to do this all the time!

Walking in a 6 S Line

Jackson worked on this lovely poster to remind us to always be in our Class Order 6S line.

Before you post...THINK

In Room 209, we talk a lot about responsible digital citizenship. Rainbow Eggheads and their teacher love acronyms and THINK is a helpful one. THINK before you post!

ECLIPSE

This year, we're trying a new Literacy program in Room 209. It's based on the book "The Daily Five" that I read with Tiiu over the summer. Each student in Room 209 is practicing becoming a better reader and writer by following ECLIPSE. ECLIPSE is an acronym for Engaged, Choice, Literacy, Independent, Purposeful, Stamina, Enthusiastic. We have learned how to "Read to Self", "Work on Writing" and "Read With Someone". We start by coming up with an Independence chart, describing the purpose of our task and what students and teachers will be doing. Then, students do their favourite part and act out examples and non-examples. We then practice a skill, gradually building up our stamina. Anytime the teacher notices students that are not following the Independence chart, the bell rings and we all stop. We take the opportunity to discuss what went well and what we still need to work on.

School has gotten REALLY busy lately, but we'll be getting back on track with ECLIPSE as a regular part of our week soon! Students are missing it!

ECLIPSE - Practicing "Read to Someone"