Days 5-10 of our Mountain Climber activities challenged us! We've learned more about each other and ourselves with new ways to collaborate, contribute, and connect. Ask your kids about charades, riddles, and even agility ladders!
We've also reflected on our values as as SBLC students this week and created an art piece. Each of our unique traits are represented on our hands, and our values are written above with the reminder that we are truly a community of learners. Here's a pic of our work, now hanging outside of our classroom doors:
We've also reflected on our values as as SBLC students this week and created an art piece. Each of our unique traits are represented on our hands, and our values are written above with the reminder that we are truly a community of learners. Here's a pic of our work, now hanging outside of our classroom doors:
We've learned our spelling centers, which will be in action in the next few weeks. Each group (there are 4 in each block!) has a different list (designed to fit the needs of the group), so our centers/tests will fall on different days. Your child will have each week's list handwritten in their agendas if you would like them to study throughout the week. Know that they are working with these words in class all week, so there is no mandated spelling homework.
We've focused our discussions around nonfiction texts and their features this week. We formulated and documented thoughts, questions, and epiphanies (yep!) through partner reading and margin notes. Our grammar study has us examining the importance of accuracy when using capitalization and pronouns. They are learning that each mark and letter means something and has an influence over what their reader understands. Authors are communicating thoughts and ideas, and we have emphasized the importance of legibility to help in clarity for the reader. Each student is drafting -- and excited to see the power in their written expression.
Students have been selecting books that are "Just Right." Something that isn't too hard, isn't too easy...if there's more than 5 words on a page they don't know/can't pronounce, we may want to wait on that book until later. This is the book(s) they should be reading each night. We will be talking about home expectations in the next few weeks.
SBLC mathematicians have played games, solved puzzles, and participated in discussions that celebrate our values as a mathematical community. We value depth of understanding over speed or just "getting something done." We build, draw, and write our problem-solving "pathways" and value our process just as much as finding accurate solutions. We challenge each other to justify solutions and solve puzzles using logical reasoning. This week we've also studied place value patterns and discovered that both number naming and visual patterns are evident throughout our number system. We've learned a puzzle routine that will grow our logical reasoning, flexibility, and persistence and we're learning to use a wide variety of math manipulatives as tools to help us visualize.
In science, we have sharpened our observation and communication skills. We used observable and measurable physical properties to precisely describe rocks that we each gathered outside. Then we mixed up our rocks and challenged each other to find rocks based on our observations. Many of us received helpful feedback, revised our descriptions, and all of us have a deeper understanding of how/why scientists need to keep detailed notebook entries.
SBLC mathematicians have played games, solved puzzles, and participated in discussions that celebrate our values as a mathematical community. We value depth of understanding over speed or just "getting something done." We build, draw, and write our problem-solving "pathways" and value our process just as much as finding accurate solutions. We challenge each other to justify solutions and solve puzzles using logical reasoning. This week we've also studied place value patterns and discovered that both number naming and visual patterns are evident throughout our number system. We've learned a puzzle routine that will grow our logical reasoning, flexibility, and persistence and we're learning to use a wide variety of math manipulatives as tools to help us visualize.
In science, we have sharpened our observation and communication skills. We used observable and measurable physical properties to precisely describe rocks that we each gathered outside. Then we mixed up our rocks and challenged each other to find rocks based on our observations. Many of us received helpful feedback, revised our descriptions, and all of us have a deeper understanding of how/why scientists need to keep detailed notebook entries.
Back to School Night is coming Sept.12th. We will be sending more information soon. Have a fantastic 3-day weekend and we'll see you next week!
Jen and Jewellyn
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