Here are a few last minute things to close up the 2014-2015 school year: Our first place winner at Werner Elemenatary for our Math Olympiad competition was 5th grader, Evan Lanham. Evan answered 20/25 problem solving challenges correct during the course of the year. He received his trophy last week. Many other students also received awards for scoring in the top 50% of the students in the nation who competed. Congrats to everyone who participated this year! I took a bunch of pictures from Eco Week last week. 5th grade families wanting to check out those memories can access the pictures a couple of ways. First, you can go to the photo page on this website to view them. Or you can access my Shutterfly classroom site using the link below: http://traceybean.weebly.com/photos.html https://wernerelementary.shutterfly.com/pictures/11 HAVE A GREAT SUMMER!!
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Either this week or next, you will be receiving a giant manila envelope with your child's ALP (Advanced Learning Plan) final progress report. Included will be rubrics completed by either your child's homeroom teacher or myself. You will also find self-reflections from your student about their own growth this year. In addition, there are copies of the mid-year progress reports that you should have received in January. Each child is required by the state of Colorado to have an affective goal (a social/emotional area for growth) and so you will find the checklists and reflections related to that too. Finally, please make sure to look at the white pages on the front which is the actual ALP that was written in October and emailed to you. Look at the bottom of each goal sheet (one goal sheet for each area of identification - math, reading, and/or creativity) because you will find a detailed write up about your child's final goal progress. (I have attached a quick picture of the box you should pay close attention to so you don't miss the most important information.) Final projects and units are coming to a close in my groups. Here are a few quick updates: 5th grade math - We finished our unit on ratios and rates with a test last week. They also completed the Stock Market Game and turned in their reflections on their learning from that experience. 5th Grade language arts - This group is finishing our final lit circle this week based on Tuck Everlasting. They have also been adapting children's books to be plays that we will perform for the kindergartners the last week of school. 4th Grade math - Fourth grade finished up a weight, capacity, and volume unit last week and took our last test of the year. Next week, we'll be learning finacial literacy through my own version of the Game of Life (jobs, rent, groceries and more!) 3rd Grade math - This group has just finished a unit on measurement including volume, capacity, and measures of central tendency (mean, median, mode) and coordinate grids. We'll finish up next week with a few fun lessons on probability. 3rd Grade language arts/creativity - The final literature circle of the year will be on Tuesday when we finish up Horten's Miraculous Mechanisms. We also have creativity monsters to finish up. A HUGE thank you to the students and parents who helped make teacher appreciation week at Werner so amazing!! I love working with your students, and I so appreciate you entrusting me to teach your children. The letters and gifts this week were beyond generous and definitely reminded me that my time and energy are valued. Thank you, thank you, thank you!! First off this week, I want to thank the 5th grade math students who joined me (and the parents who allowed them to joins me) at the Mighty Math Minds Tournament. The kids did a great job representing Werner. They worked hard, behaved well, and performed amazing. I was most impressed at the teamwork the kids exhibited. Those students who were a part of the fun were: Haleigh G, Ashton S, Joseph F, Sofia L, and Cameron C Megan J, Brennan S, Baden T, Rachel C, and Evan L Charlotte G, Andy P, Peter G, Holly D, and Jackson G I took a bunch of photos of all of the deep thinking that went on last night. Click on the photos page to see more. http://traceybean.weebly.com/photos.html While 3rd grade and 4th grade math students were PARCC testing a majority of the week, 5th grade math students were working hard on our last unit of the year focused on ratios, rates and proportions. We have been having fun with activities called "Three Acts." These are a series of three videos that require the students to look for math and make connections as we watch three different videos that together tell the whole story. We have solved problems related to ratios of ingredients in recipes, rates of jumps for world record jump roping, and scaling ratios for paint mixing. Today we explored the idea of using unit rate (rate per 1 item) to solve a challenge. Students were asked to assess a carnival poster advertising ticket sales to find the mistake (if you analyze the prices you realize that there is no consistent ticket price and that strangely buying the largest amount of tickets costs the most per ticket.) After we explored the given poster, the students were asked to remake the poster in a way that would encourage people to buy more tickets. Below are a couple examples of students' work, as well as the original poster. This week I had a chance to check in with all of the GT students on Monday on their progress towards their affective goals. Students reflected on their individual goals and shared how they felt their year went. They answered questions about where they felt growth and where they felt they needed continued work. You'll be getting copies of these reflections, as well as the updated ALP (Advance Learning Plan) with teacher comments in the coming weeks. Academic goal reflections will be included too. Goal areas were: 3rd Grade - Peer Relationships 4th Grade - Study Skills & Organization 5th Grade - Healthy Risk Taking |
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