Couple of quick announcements for the next couple of weeks... Tuesday, February 9, is the 4th Math Olympiad for 4th and 5th grade math students. Thursday & Friday, February 18 & 19, are the next STEM Challenges. Sign-up Genius for parent volunteers was sent this week. Check your email inbox. Third grade language arts has begun again this week and will continue for the month of February. The students are leading and participating in literature circles based on Andrew Clements books that are about school. Your child is either reading The School Story, The Report Card, or Frindle. We had our first meetings today in small groups and the kids did a GREAT job participating in good discussions about our novels. Each week the kids will have 4-5 chapters to read and a job to complete. Their job will be either director when they write two "deep" questions for their team to discuss, summarizer when they write a 5-8 sentence summary of just what we read, word wizard where they define the two words given each week, or illustrator when students must graphically represent the chapters we read and write two sentences to explain. Mondays will be an in-class work day and Thursdays will be the official meeting day. In between, we will be doing some reader's theater and creativity tasks. Check with your child and see what their job is for next week's reading. The snow day changed our plans a little this week, as I was suppose to meet with all of the grade level gifted students to touch base on their affective goals from their ALP for the year. 5th graders' goals are based on healthy risk taking. We read stories of famous mistakes that turned out to be a success (ask them about the stories behind popsicles, hot dogs, or sticky notes.) 4th graders' goals are based on study skills and organization. We discussed test taking strategies. We also had some fun coming up with test taking tip posters that we can post during PARCC testing in April (they were super creative with slogans like "PARCC - the playground for your mind!") I will meet with 3rd graders next week to discuss their peer relationship goals and do a fun activity to work on team building. Stay tuned next week for pictures! What an amazing experience our first STEM Challenge was! The parent help was invaluable too! We had some great creativity going on in class to meet their objectives. The students worked very hard to communicate and cooperate with their teammates. There were challenges and frustrations and success and failures. Such is the life of an engineer! We also had 13 Fossil Ridge seniors come and help on Fridays with the building, testing, and reflecting. In your students' Friday Folder should be the copy of their reflection from the build. I played around with IMovie (forgive the cheesy music!) and created some videos for each grade level that are the pictures and test videos from our fun days. Check out the videos below and the pictures are uploaded by grade on the photos page. Enjoy!
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