Blog Post for Friday, March 27th, 2020, Day 5

Dear Grade 6s. I am so happy and proud of the way you have all been working. We are accomplishing as much online as previous Grade 6s have accomplished face-to-face in the classroom.

We had another busy and productive day on Thursday. I managed to meet with each exhibition group to review their central idea and lines of inquiry. Students made good progress on their research and note-taking. Several groups met with their mentors. We also had a fantastic workshop with Ms. Hayward on how to cite our sources using MLA formatting. Ms. Hayward reviewed how to cite articles on a website, books, videos, and photos. She also showed us how to organize sources on the ‘Works Cited’ page of the essay, how to use an ‘in-text’ citation in the essay, and to format the sources on the ‘Works Cited’ page using a ‘hanging indent’. Students can visit Ms. Hayward’s Write It – CITE It page to review the content she discussed during her workshop.

You will begin today’s class with Mrs. Haag on the Grade 6 Discord Server. Be ready for class to start at 9 a.m. It is best to login at least 5 minutes earlier to deal with technical difficulties. If I am not there, I may be experiencing Wi-Fi issues. Please be patient. We will follow our daily schedule as closely as possible. 

During the exhibition process, specialist teachers (Mr. Orr, Mr. Oliver, Mme. Stella) with help facilitate learning for each of the exhibition groups during their scheduled class times.

Time	Location	Topic
9:00 – 9:30	Grade 6 Discord Server Meet in ms_haags_class VOICE and TEXT channels ‘Exhibition Planner’ Section 9. via Google Docs by exhibition groups	Attendance Announcements General Discussion (Catch-up, Pandemic and our new way life, etc.) The Witches by Roald Dahl Reflection on how the day went yesterday What did you learn from Ms. Hayward’s workshop on citing your sources using MLA formatting? What questions do you have about the workshop or citations? Did each of you complete 1 ½ pages of research notes? Today’s Schedule and Learning Goals
9:30 – 11:00	Grade 6 Discord Server Meet in Exhibition Breakout Groups via Discord  ‘Exhibition Planner’ Section 9. via Google Docs by exhibition groups	Today’s Learning Goal #1: Produce 1 ½ pages of typed research notes that meet the criteria we discussed yesterday. Today’s Learning Goal # 2: Mme. Stella will begin meeting with groups starting today to support you in translating your issue, central idea, and lines of inquiry into French from 9:30 – 10:00. Don’t worry if she does not get to you today. She will continue doing this next week. Once the translations are done, paste the French versions of these statements into your ‘Exhibition Planner’ under the English versions in Section 7. Attend your mentor meeting if it is scheduled for this time.
11:00 – 12:00	Take a break from your device. Move around in some way.	Recess and Lunch
12:00 – 1:00	Grade 6 Discord Server Group (meet in ms_josephs_class VOICE and TEXT channels)	Ms. Joseph will teach today’s math lesson at this time.
1:00 – 1:40	Grade 6 Discord Server Meet in ms_haags_class VOICE and TEXT channels ‘Exhibition Journal’ via Google Docs by individual students	Learning Goal # 3: Reflect on the exhibition project. Open your ‘Exhibition Journal’. Look at the comments I made about your last journal entry. How could you improve your writing for this week’s journal entry? On the next available page, record Day ‘5’ and today’s date. When writing your daily journal entry, try to answer 3 or 4 of the questions provided in the paragraph below. In the space provided for daily journal entries, write a journal entry that describes what you have learned in the past week about your issue. What are some of the challenges and successes you have experienced What are your areas of strength as an IB learner? What are your areas of weakness? What will you do to address these areas? Do you and your group members have any ideas on how to take action? What are you worried about and what still needs to be done? Limit each journal entry, so that it does not flow over to the next page. Include an image that represents something about today’s journal entry. Use what you learned in Ms. Hayward’s workshop to cite your source for your image. Attend your mentor meeting if it is scheduled for this time.
1:40 – 2:20	Take a break from your device. Move around in some way.	Recess and Lunch
2:20 – 3:30	Grade 6 Discord Server Meet in Exhibition Breakout Groups via Discord  ‘Exhibition Planner’ Section 9. via Google Docs by exhibition groups	Today’s Learning Goal #1: Produce 1 ½ pages of typed research notes that meet the criteria we discussed yesterday. Attend your mentor meeting if it is scheduled for this time.

Please let me know if you need help with anything.

Great job on completing our first week of online learning.

Have a wonderful weekend, everyone.