Peregrine Press
February 16-19
Schedule
Tuesday: Out and About (Phases of the Moon) & 4th Grade State Writing Test
Wednesday: Art & PE at Pacific University (Very last day of 4th Grade State Writing Test)
Thursday: Music & ELC Buddies
Friday: All School Meeting & Hopefully Fitness Friday
Last Week
Last Week we spent time looking at the Solar System, and distances all the planets are from the sun and each other. On our Out and About we were quite surprised to see how far they really are! The students also spent a great deal of time working on their planet projects and everyone presented to the class the things they learned about the planet they studied. The 4th graders spent time working on the writing test while the 5th and 6th graders completed a variety of different literacy activities surrounding editing and reading comprehension in particular. Some students also worked on reading fluency and writing. We did our second round of Mystery Classroom and looked at improving our calculations of photoperiods. I was very impressed with how quickly many students were able to transfer to military time and calculate photoperiods. On Friday students did watch the different body changes videos and I feel that it went very well. I was very impressed with how mature the students were in dealing with a somewhat awkward topic!
This Week
We will be learning about the phases of the moon to conclude our mini-solar system unit and will view a video on the Mars Rover probably on Friday. Students will also continue with the Mystery Classroom activity. The majority of the rest of the time will be spent on the Treasure Books. My goal is to have students working on their "sloppy copies" this week and part of next week. After the sloppy copy they will do a lot of editing alone and with me and then they will write their rough draft. That will be followed by more editing and then they will do their final draft. In total they will have about 1 month to do this but it is really important that they meet the final deadline because if they don't, their book will not be bound. The final draft is due on March 15th. If students are going to type them they have to do all that at home and print them at home. It gets way too complicated to do that at school. It is NOT required to be typed, and to be honest, I would rather they write them because if they type them at home, they are often left with "nothing to do" during Treasure Book time at school and will be tempted to just goof off.
There are a few 4th graders that will have to finish the writing test this week so they will miss treasure book work time. I talked to them about this last week and they are aware of this so they may have some work to do at home to get caught up on their sloppy copy depending on how much time they take on the state test.
Wednesday we will be starting PE at Pacific University. This is a great opportunity for the students to have a more traditional PE (in a gym) and Teaching Students at Pacific will get the chance to practice being PE teachers. Rick will still take them to PE but he will not be the instructor while they are there. The teaching students are supervised by Pacific Education staff so they are in good hands. They will go for 3 weeks now, then take 3 weeks off and go back for another 3 weeks. It is kind of a scheduling mess, but it was the only way to do it.
Friday we will have an All School Meeting and then if time permits, we will have Fitness Friday as well.
*There will be no Word Work (spelling) this week because of the tight schedule so some students that normally have spelling homework from me will not be getting that this week.
February 16-19
Schedule
Tuesday: Out and About (Phases of the Moon) & 4th Grade State Writing Test
Wednesday: Art & PE at Pacific University (Very last day of 4th Grade State Writing Test)
Thursday: Music & ELC Buddies
Friday: All School Meeting & Hopefully Fitness Friday
Last Week
Last Week we spent time looking at the Solar System, and distances all the planets are from the sun and each other. On our Out and About we were quite surprised to see how far they really are! The students also spent a great deal of time working on their planet projects and everyone presented to the class the things they learned about the planet they studied. The 4th graders spent time working on the writing test while the 5th and 6th graders completed a variety of different literacy activities surrounding editing and reading comprehension in particular. Some students also worked on reading fluency and writing. We did our second round of Mystery Classroom and looked at improving our calculations of photoperiods. I was very impressed with how quickly many students were able to transfer to military time and calculate photoperiods. On Friday students did watch the different body changes videos and I feel that it went very well. I was very impressed with how mature the students were in dealing with a somewhat awkward topic!
This Week
We will be learning about the phases of the moon to conclude our mini-solar system unit and will view a video on the Mars Rover probably on Friday. Students will also continue with the Mystery Classroom activity. The majority of the rest of the time will be spent on the Treasure Books. My goal is to have students working on their "sloppy copies" this week and part of next week. After the sloppy copy they will do a lot of editing alone and with me and then they will write their rough draft. That will be followed by more editing and then they will do their final draft. In total they will have about 1 month to do this but it is really important that they meet the final deadline because if they don't, their book will not be bound. The final draft is due on March 15th. If students are going to type them they have to do all that at home and print them at home. It gets way too complicated to do that at school. It is NOT required to be typed, and to be honest, I would rather they write them because if they type them at home, they are often left with "nothing to do" during Treasure Book time at school and will be tempted to just goof off.
There are a few 4th graders that will have to finish the writing test this week so they will miss treasure book work time. I talked to them about this last week and they are aware of this so they may have some work to do at home to get caught up on their sloppy copy depending on how much time they take on the state test.
Wednesday we will be starting PE at Pacific University. This is a great opportunity for the students to have a more traditional PE (in a gym) and Teaching Students at Pacific will get the chance to practice being PE teachers. Rick will still take them to PE but he will not be the instructor while they are there. The teaching students are supervised by Pacific Education staff so they are in good hands. They will go for 3 weeks now, then take 3 weeks off and go back for another 3 weeks. It is kind of a scheduling mess, but it was the only way to do it.
Friday we will have an All School Meeting and then if time permits, we will have Fitness Friday as well.
*There will be no Word Work (spelling) this week because of the tight schedule so some students that normally have spelling homework from me will not be getting that this week.
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