Process!

This week we finished drafting and creating our Courage Projects. We implemented phrases that have Kind, Specific, and Helpful thoughts to encourage one another to make this clearer for an audience. We also used our rubrics as tools to evaluate where our work was, and we also used those descriptors to help us "level up" and elevate the quality of our work.

This week we finished drafting and creating our Courage Projects. We implemented phrases that have Kind, Specific, and Helpful thoughts to encourage one another to make this clearer for an audience. We also used our rubrics as tools to evaluate where our work was, and we used those descriptors to help us "level up" and elevate the quality of our work.

In reading, we've been examining characters -- analyzing traits, determining their struggles, and identifying ways they changed. We have been learning to prove our thinking with evidence from the text too. In our word work, we looked at ways sounds come together in words as well as webbed them to connect with other words to expand our understanding. We started our first week of language study too -- examining complete sentences and how they are built with subjects and predicates. It's time to be held accountable for capitals at the beginnings of our sentences and having ending punctuation -- IN ALL OF OUR WORK. Our drafting, revising, and editing of our personal map pieces is almost done too -- almost ready to publish!

Our mathematicians continue to deepen their understanding of place value. We finished solving the Deca tree problem in small groups, then each group presented their work to our mathematical community. We listened and offered questions and critique as each group shared their representations, solution, informative mistakes, and generalizations. We also solved our first two PODs (problem of the day). Each POD is a differentiated word problem that we solve with a strategy called UPS check. As your student will tell you, this powerful strategy empowers us to notice and deeply understand all of the relationships in a word problem. We ended the week with a fun place value scavenger hunt around the room.

We enjoyed seeing so many of you at Back to School Night. We really appreciate the support you give us, and are excited to continue building our relationships with you.

 We shared your wonderful feedback with the kids...here's a glimpse -- they were over the moon with excitement to read what you had written to them. They asked for more time to make more improvements -- see the power?

We hope you have a restful weekend!