Creating a Media text...en français

Creating a media text is all about combining words with images, fonts and colour to convey a message.

Our class created slideshows "en français" using these media techniques. We hope you get to know us better and enjoy our presentations!

Which media techniques did you enjoy?
Leave us a comment to let us know.

New Elves Seeking Employment at the North Pole

During the month of December students enjoyed stories about how Santa got his job as well as how the elves first came to meet Santa. Students were especially keen to share ideas about the skills and talents that Santa and the elves would have acquired during their earlier experiences.
                     

These discussions gave us great inspiration to write our own "Elf applications".  Students came up with interesting adjectives to describe themselves in hopes of persuading Santa that they become one of his elves.  They also tried to convince him further with "previous experiences" that would make them "just right" for the job.

Which "Elf" convinced you?  Did you find some good "persuasive words" in their application letters?

The final resutls are in!

So boys and girls...it is official!  We now know the kind of virtual pet our class will have on the blog!  He will arrive this weekend...be on the look out for a cute little puppy!

What did you notice about this graph that made it a better graph than the first one posted?

Results from our "Virtual Class Pet" survey...so far

The results are in!  The following graph shows the results of our class survey about the kind of virtual pet we should have on our blog.

Test your DATA knowledge by answering the following questions:

What does the data tell us?

What is the MODE?  This means that...

What kind of pet would most students like to have?

What kind of pet was the least favourite to have on our blog?

Does this graph have all the right parts?  What feedback can you give to make it a better graph?

You can leave a comment with your 
observations(your ideas of what you noticed.)

Learning about DATA....and learning about Writer's VOICE

This past week students were challenged to create a graph when given a set of data.  Each group was given a different set of survey results.  The results were in the form of tally charts.  

They were teamed up with a partner or worked independently and had to decide which kind of graph to create to show the results of the data they were given.

Since this is a new unit it was an INQUIRY task as well. 

INQUIRY:  exploring and learning by asking questions

 Some students chose to look at books to look for types of graphs while others used IXL, an interactive math website our class uses to practice math skills.  Still others used Google to search different kinds of graphs.

They then created their graphs!

Afterwards partners were given questions to answer while they did a gallery walk of the different graphs.

During our consolidation(follow-up discussions), students were asked questions like:

What made a graph easy to read?

What made a graph difficult to read?

What was missing on some graphs?

What would you change to fix-up your graph?

Did the scale look right?

Are we able to know what this graph is about?

We were able to come up with a list of success criteria that we can refer to when making graphs.  

We want our data to be clear!

Besides for our math learning, we also worked on letter writing during our English literacy lessons.

We read a very funny and inspiring book:

This book taught us about author's VOICE and PERSPECTIVE.

These crayon characters were used to try to convince or persuade their owner to reconsider how he is using his colours.

We were inspired to write our own letters and draw illustrations that resembled those of this delightful book.

Which letter did you find entertaining?
  
Did any of the letters persuade you? 

We would love your feedback!
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