T.J. Oshie Day

 

Image from here.

November 27, 2015:  The day I first discovered T.J. Oshie - and from that day on, he has been my FAVORITE hockey player!

My love for Oshie can be seen in my classroom, where I have a Caps corner:

 

The one poster I received at a hockey game.  The other poster was drawn by a former student of mine when he was in my class.

TJ was even a character in the movie my students made last year. 

This morning when I walked into my classroom, I realized it was the 77th day of school.  My initial reaction was, "Wow!  It's T.J. Oshie day!"  (He wears the number 77 for the Caps.)  Then a light bulb went off in my head.... "WAIT!  I am so going to make today a T.J. Oshie day in my classroom!"  I went immediately to work on some activities, and within an hour, I had my whole day planned!  Check out the video here!

Here are the visuals of what is in the video:

Initial slide

 The cities that are important to Oshie. 

 (NOTE:  I tried to put the dots as close as possible to the exact location, but I know I am definitely off - especially in Washington State! I did the best I could!)

1.  Mount Vernon, Washington - where he was born.

2.  Everett, Washington - where he was raised.

3.  Warroad, Minnesota - where he played high school hockey.

4.  Grand Forks, North Dakota - where he went to college (University of North Dakota)

5.  St. Louis, Missouri - where he played for the St. Louis Blues.

6.  Washington, DC - where he plays for the Washington Capitals! :-)

 Again, an approximate location of Sochi in Russia, where he played in the 2014 Olympics.  Due to his shootout skills, T.J. led the U.S. men's hockey team to victory over Russia.

 Next, we got into some math.  It took awhile for the students to figure out that we need to subtract so I showed them two ways to figure out how old someone is.  

 I started by taking a student's birthday and modeling.

 After that, we went back to the problem and the students helped me solve it!  (That regrouping was rough but they had the BEST time with it!)

 Next, I gave them this measurement problem!

 I showed them a yardstick and we measured our wall to find where his height would be.  Then we measured another student who thought he was as tall as Oshie.  Then they measured me.  After the measuring, they created the list above.

One of our indicators this marking period is comparing past and present.  This was the perfect opportunity to do so.  We watched a two minute clip about the Ojibwe Tribe on Discovery Ed.  Then, I shared some facts from this website.  Finally, I read a book from our library called Ojibwe (First Americans.)

 Afterwards, the students told me facts they learned about the Ojibwe Tribe.

 Then I asked them this question.

 These were their responses.

Finally, after explaining what dreamcatchers are, I showed them pictures and told them they were going to make their very own!  I took out a whole bunch of art supplies: construction paper, pipe cleaners, shredded paper, tissue paper, feathers, yarn, toilet paper rolls, paper towel rolls, plates, sequins, and pony beads.  I let them get to work!

Everyone was so into the project, that it was QUIET in my room the whole time!

Here are the finished projects!

Even though this was a last minute special day, the students had SO much fun! 

Thanks for stopping by!

~Mrs. Lynch~

 

Hockey update 1/31/17

Our hockey learning continues! They are dreaming BIG dreams!!!

The students are continuing to interpret game stats! Instead of verbally telling them to me, they are now writing about what they see! At first I let them write about any of the players and anything they observed. While I got some great writing from them, I'm going to change it up from here on out. I will give each student one player. They will then write about the stats for that particular player. I think that will be less chaotic for them!

The students have been BEGGING me to make a penalty box in our room. I had them work on a persuasive writing assignment yesterday. The prompt was, "I think Mrs. Lynch should make a penalty box because...." I'm still reading the answers, but several students have said that I should do it because if they don't make a good choice I can put them in there! I read that to my principal and we both had a good laugh! I definitely WON'T do that!!!

The students spent several days brainstorming possible ideas for the movie. I combined their ideas into 3 different scenarios. This morning, I read the students the 3 storylines. Then they voted for the one they like best. We graphed their results!

Our story will be about a team that is always losing. They never give up! They put in a lot off effort. They finally win a game - in a shootout! Oh, and TJ Oshie is one of the players!

The other two stories were 1) There is someone who doesn't know how to play hockey. He / she learns how to play hockey, makes the team, and scores the game winning goal. 2) A hockey player gets hurt during a game. They are scared to start playing again. With encouragement from the team, they finally feel confident enough to start playing again.

After a quick brain break, the students learned about the 7 continents. They learned a fun song to help them remember. You can find it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxQ0WLlDxvU

Then, I opened up a flipchart I made. It had a map of the world. It also had a picture of each of the Caps players. Next to their picture was their name and where they are from. I read them those pieces of information and had them tell me which continent they were from! We will have more practice with that. The students made some GREAT observations! 13 players are from North America. 5 players are from Europe, and 3 players are from Asia!

I am still working on a field trip to the ice rink. I am trying SO hard to get the class to a practice with the Caps, but I haven't heard back from anyone I've contacted yet! I am not going to give up though! I'm going to keep on dreaming my BIG dream!

If any of my readers have connections to the Caps and can make this happen, PLEASE comment below! This is the letter I've been sharing: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qV2MvuwQcfXC_XI7R_wSBRT4FFdWjE-0wnr3DC9QHlc/edit?usp=sharing

As always, thanks for reading! :-)

~Stacey~

P.S. Here are the links to my other three hockey project posts:
http://rockinoutin1stgrade.blogspot.com/2017/01/hockey.html
http://rockinoutin1stgrade.blogspot.com/2017/01/impromptu-hockey-questions.html
http://rockinoutin1stgrade.blogspot.com/2017/01/whockey-school.html