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January 11-15
Schedule
Monday: Art
Tuesday: Out and About to UCC Church
Wednesday: Art and PE
Thursday: Music and Buddy Reading at the ELC
Friday: Geography Bee at Grove Room (Central School)
Last Week
What a great first week back to school! I feel like we started off the new calendar year with some really fun activities. The chemistry experiments have been going well and for the most part, the class seems pretty interested in the unit. The experiment with cornstarch and water was quite entertaining to watch. I think they could have played with that mixture for hours and not gotten bored! They learned about solids, liquids and gases and examples of physical changes.
We also spent a great deal of time on writing. We really went back to the basics of writing paragraphs. There were a variety of writing activities that involved groups and individuals writing. There was room for creativity and also some very structured, outlined writing. For some I am sure it was a review, but for others I think it was a very important component of writing that I maybe had not focused on quite enough in the beginning of the year.
We almost completed the first round of the Geography Bee. We have a tie breaker on Monday to determine the final person that will join Mica at the school finals on Friday. The winner of the school competition will then take a written test in hopes of qualifying for the State level finals.
The rest of the week was pretty routine. We had a great music session where students learned about solphege and also practiced the 50 states and capitals song. We had running club on Friday and continued with word work and superstar.
This Week
We will continue with the Chemistry Unit this week with a focus on chemical changes. On Tuesday for our Out and About we will head to the UCC Church so we can use their commercial kitchen to make bread, ice cream and popcorn. This will be in connection to our physical and chemical changes unit. We will also have our first round of essay writing. The students will be given 3 prompts to choose from. They choose one of the prompts and will take their essay through the writing process with no direct help from me and turn in all their work. We will do this again the last week of January also. Then, the 2nd week of February the 4th graders will take the State Writing Test and the 5th and 6th graders will do one more round of essays in class. Typically we do not like to spend a lot of time on writing essays just for the sake of writing essays, because we like to integrate our subjects, but for a few weeks we do feel that we need the students to practice essay writing in this sort of setting. Friday is the Geography Bee Finals at the Grove Room at Central School. We might have Running Club one day this week but I am not sure at this point which day it will be.
No School Monday January 18th
No School Friday January 28th
January 11-15
Schedule
Monday: Art
Tuesday: Out and About to UCC Church
Wednesday: Art and PE
Thursday: Music and Buddy Reading at the ELC
Friday: Geography Bee at Grove Room (Central School)
Last Week
What a great first week back to school! I feel like we started off the new calendar year with some really fun activities. The chemistry experiments have been going well and for the most part, the class seems pretty interested in the unit. The experiment with cornstarch and water was quite entertaining to watch. I think they could have played with that mixture for hours and not gotten bored! They learned about solids, liquids and gases and examples of physical changes.
We also spent a great deal of time on writing. We really went back to the basics of writing paragraphs. There were a variety of writing activities that involved groups and individuals writing. There was room for creativity and also some very structured, outlined writing. For some I am sure it was a review, but for others I think it was a very important component of writing that I maybe had not focused on quite enough in the beginning of the year.
We almost completed the first round of the Geography Bee. We have a tie breaker on Monday to determine the final person that will join Mica at the school finals on Friday. The winner of the school competition will then take a written test in hopes of qualifying for the State level finals.
The rest of the week was pretty routine. We had a great music session where students learned about solphege and also practiced the 50 states and capitals song. We had running club on Friday and continued with word work and superstar.
This Week
We will continue with the Chemistry Unit this week with a focus on chemical changes. On Tuesday for our Out and About we will head to the UCC Church so we can use their commercial kitchen to make bread, ice cream and popcorn. This will be in connection to our physical and chemical changes unit. We will also have our first round of essay writing. The students will be given 3 prompts to choose from. They choose one of the prompts and will take their essay through the writing process with no direct help from me and turn in all their work. We will do this again the last week of January also. Then, the 2nd week of February the 4th graders will take the State Writing Test and the 5th and 6th graders will do one more round of essays in class. Typically we do not like to spend a lot of time on writing essays just for the sake of writing essays, because we like to integrate our subjects, but for a few weeks we do feel that we need the students to practice essay writing in this sort of setting. Friday is the Geography Bee Finals at the Grove Room at Central School. We might have Running Club one day this week but I am not sure at this point which day it will be.
No School Monday January 18th
No School Friday January 28th
1 comment:
I am looking forward to seeing your faces!
Hugs, Becky
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