LUNCH DOODLES with Mo Willems! Episode 04

LUNCH DOODLES with Mo Willems! Episode 04

Mo Willems is the author of the Pigeon series and Elephant and Piggie series.  He has started a program called Lunch Doodles with Mo Willems that can be found on Youtube.  He does talk a lot at the beginning but gives kids more ideas to do after.  Enjoy!  

Mindfulness

MINDFULNESS 

A reminder of all the skills and strategies taught in class:

* Being aware of your senses

* 3 Big/slow breaths- inhale and exhale

* Being Present and in the moment

Simple Machines Playground

Before Spring Break we worked so hard on creating our simple machines playgrounds.  I was proud of all the groups as they overcame obstacles, persevered and worked as a team to create.  They turned out great!  Took some photos of them for a keepsake.

Hi all my wonderful students!

I hope you all are enjoying your time at home and the beautiful sunshine.  To start I want to say I miss you all so much.  We are still going to learn together, connect with each other and laugh together.

Your first assignment/task/activity is to contribute a joke to our padlet site.  We did this for our favourite Christmas song.  It was through a QR code, but now I will be giving you a link to click on.  Can't wait to read all of your jokes...

https://padlet.com/spiroddi1/ao8pvpzurj5f

* remember to click on the plus sign.  you can also add photos, you tube videos, etc by clicking on the 3 dots on the right hand corner*

I will be in touch with more information.

Mrs. Piroddi

MindUp-

The past few weeks our mindfulness has been focused on our senses...

Mindful Listening

- helps us choose which sounds to focus our attention on and help us to be thoughtful in the way we hear and respond to the words of others.


RAS (Reticular activating system) filters sounds and picks what is most important to listen to and respond to.  A mindful student is able to redirect attention to the task at hand.

Mindful Seeing

- enables us to better observe ourselves, other people and our surroundings to more fully enjoy and learn from them.  

- observe more details- helps to read social cues, 

- focus on texture, shape, colour, lines, and size of one object.

Mindful Tasting

- to fully appreciate the food we eat.

- requires slowing down to savor our food and notice flavour, texture and temperature.

- relaxed and aware, not multitasking (often eat without paying attention)

- prefrontal cortex is paying attention, absorbing details and thinking clearly

Canada province/territory project

Students were put into groups of two and each assigned a province or territory of Canada.  Only using non-fiction books on their province, they researched about their province (looking at text features, bold words, subtitles, etc.).  The research focus was on the provincial bird/flower, capital city, nickname, when they became part of Canada, landscape, climate and natural resources.  Students then represented their facts through pictures or symbols on the shape of their province/territory and wrote an artist statement explaining their art.

All groups did a great job and worked on their collaboration skills.