Week 1 of Learning From Home is in the books.  I know that we had some bumps in the road getting access to Dreambox and understanding our new set of expectations, but we should ready to roll.  I really enjoyed viewing the posts that families have made with our social media sites and now one on one with classroom teachers.  I encourage everyone to share, it makes us all smile when see how great your products are.  By now, everyone should have been contacted by an anchor.  We will continue to reach out weekly to support families, so please let your anchor know how to best connect with you.  For the students that I have been connecting with I am eager to hear about your Easter bunny stories.  I will be sharing my adventures of getting a haircut from home and our adventure of clipping our dog Odie.

Finally, I want to let all of the Knight community know that you can reach me by email (judson.waye@nbed.nb.ca) or on social media (judson waye - facebook, @judsonwaye on Twitter) if you ever have a question, comment or feedback for the school.  

Just an FYI - The staff has some plans cooked up that we are excited to share with you in the near future.  

In your video your group must answer the following questions:

1. Define the problem - (Demonstrate Erosion)
2. Describe your solution - (Your design concept)
3. Explain your challenges - (Whats not working…What you had to change in (re-phase))
4. What are your next steps…what would change next (to make more efficient)

From your planning documents, each phase will be due for assessment on these dates. (90%)

• Phase 1 (Planning) - Feb 15
• Phase 2 - (Doing) - Feb 22
• Phase 3 - (Analysis) - March 1

Class Presentation - March 12 (10%)

Today we learned and practiced making graphs for our project.  We did both a bar graph (column) and line graphs as examples.  Later, students had computer lab time to practice making graph in Word using the weather data from last week.

Some students were absent, for anyone that needs the basics of how to create a graph, use this youtube link. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCWF-g5POj4

Students worked hard in class the last couple of days on creating a digital version of their projects.  We are now finished the planning phase of the project and that power point should be saved to the class USB by end of class on Monday.  Some students have already saved their work to the drive, but others needed a little extra time.  Those students can work at lunch hour and during homework class today.

Students are asked to shoot the video of their experiment over the weekend.  Some students may have commitments, so we will be accpeting the video files until Wednesday.  Students need to save their own video files to their own USB drives so we can add the files to their powerpoint next week.