This weekend your student is bringing home their body of work in their notebooks. They are excited to make an appointment with you this weekend to sit down and talk through each artifact. Students know how to be present and in the moment when they are reflecting here at school. Provide a quiet space and ample time for this.We know this will definitely connect you more to your child and with the exciting learning they are doing. Please fill out your portion of the portfolio reflection and send all notebooks back on Monday.
We've explored the idea of acceptance and "widening our world" when we encounter people that are different than we are. We've talked about how noticing and judging are two separate things...and that, when we take the time to know and understand others better, they are oftentimes very much like us and not what we first thought. We watched a short film, "The Present," where we found ourselves making judgments on first impressions...and then, upon learning more, we changed our views. If you have time, they'd love to show you and talk about it.
In reading and ELA, we've worked on a complete expository outline. We see how planning out our pieces before writing makes it more organized. Using color codes and arrows also helps us see how each part expands and focuses the piece all the way to the meat and why -- the conclusion.
Salva's journey continues -- and he's encountered some really big problems at this point. We've learned so much about how real strength comes from within. Despite any setback, trauma, or seemingly impossible situation, Salva continues -- and actually finds his grounding as a capable, independent person THROUGH these issues. No one is there to protect him now...and he's more determined than we've ever seen. Lots of signposts, pausing, and discussion. Lots of great processing is happening in the Living Room as we grapple with a big world with big problems. It's amazing to hear their compassion, their newfound perspectives, and their growing maturity as they encounter things they've never thought about.
In math, we've continued to build our understanding of multiplication and its many connections to other concepts. Multiplication number talks are exercising our mental math muscles and many more students are taking the academic risk to share their "pathways" for solving aloud. Students have ownership of a wide repertoire of strategies including arrays, number lines, standard algorithms, and partial products. We've also started exploring a new online tool called Flipgrid that will allow us to share our areas of expertise in math strategies with each other, gradually creating an online strategy video library. Our first flipgrid assignment was to introduce ourselves in 30 seconds or less, and to notice the informative mistakes that helped us figure out how to use this new site.
As scientists, we are exploring force and motion. We talked about friction and gravity this week, building our schema and vocabulary in preparation for several hands-on lab experiences. Then we created ramps and started exploring the effects of friction on hot wheels cars in motion. We'll continue exploring these big ideas and designing experiments to test our claims next week.
Enjoy the weekend!
Jen and Jewellyn
We've explored the idea of acceptance and "widening our world" when we encounter people that are different than we are. We've talked about how noticing and judging are two separate things...and that, when we take the time to know and understand others better, they are oftentimes very much like us and not what we first thought. We watched a short film, "The Present," where we found ourselves making judgments on first impressions...and then, upon learning more, we changed our views. If you have time, they'd love to show you and talk about it.
In reading and ELA, we've worked on a complete expository outline. We see how planning out our pieces before writing makes it more organized. Using color codes and arrows also helps us see how each part expands and focuses the piece all the way to the meat and why -- the conclusion.
Salva's journey continues -- and he's encountered some really big problems at this point. We've learned so much about how real strength comes from within. Despite any setback, trauma, or seemingly impossible situation, Salva continues -- and actually finds his grounding as a capable, independent person THROUGH these issues. No one is there to protect him now...and he's more determined than we've ever seen. Lots of signposts, pausing, and discussion. Lots of great processing is happening in the Living Room as we grapple with a big world with big problems. It's amazing to hear their compassion, their newfound perspectives, and their growing maturity as they encounter things they've never thought about.
In math, we've continued to build our understanding of multiplication and its many connections to other concepts. Multiplication number talks are exercising our mental math muscles and many more students are taking the academic risk to share their "pathways" for solving aloud. Students have ownership of a wide repertoire of strategies including arrays, number lines, standard algorithms, and partial products. We've also started exploring a new online tool called Flipgrid that will allow us to share our areas of expertise in math strategies with each other, gradually creating an online strategy video library. Our first flipgrid assignment was to introduce ourselves in 30 seconds or less, and to notice the informative mistakes that helped us figure out how to use this new site.
As scientists, we are exploring force and motion. We talked about friction and gravity this week, building our schema and vocabulary in preparation for several hands-on lab experiences. Then we created ramps and started exploring the effects of friction on hot wheels cars in motion. We'll continue exploring these big ideas and designing experiments to test our claims next week.
Enjoy the weekend!
Jen and Jewellyn
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