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👋Welcome Back from Break-It's a new Year✨

Grades: 5th Grade, 6th Grade

Subjects: English Language Arts, Character Building, Social Studies

Standards: Understand that the starting point of a sentence gives prominence to the message in the text and allows for prediction of how the text will unfold (ACELA1505) (ACELA.5.3.2.), Use a range of software, including word processing programs, learning new functions as required to create texts (ACELY1717) (ACELY06.4.4.), Participate in and contribute to discussions, clarifying and interrogating ideas, developing and supporting arguments, sharing and evaluating information, experiences and opinions (ACELY1709) (ACELY.6.2.1.), Develop a variety of texts, including narratives, descriptions, biographies and persuasive texts, based on information collected from source materials L, CCT, PSC (6.2.4.2.), Understand the use of vocabulary to express greater precision of meaning, and know that words can have different meanings in different contexts (ACELA1512) (ACELA.5.4.4.), Plan, rehearse and deliver presentations for defined audiences and purposes incorporating accurate and sequenced content and multimodal elements (ACELY1700) (ACELY.5.2.3.)

Student Instructions

What did you do over the break? 1. The New Me! Take a selfie! upload some images that tell people about things you like. 2. Take a photo of your Desk Buddie. 3. Talk to your Desk Buddie and find out 5 new things you didn't know about them (use full sentences). Then find images that match some of your new findings about your desk Buddie. 4. How are you feeling today? Take a screen shot of the photo you found online that represents how you are feeling today and upload . 5. What are 3 things that you are looking foward to this year. Use the response tools to describe how you are feeling to answers the question. ( at least one complete sentence) 7. When you are done tap the green check mark.

Teacher Notes (not visible to students)

This is a lesson I use to welcome the students back to school and outline lesson expectations, review their Seesaw skills in using response tools and for them to break some of the "back to school" jitters.

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👋Welcome Back from Break-It's a new Year✨

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