Important Dates:
Color Days! See info below.
9/7 - no school (Labor Day)
9/17 - Open House
9/23 - Fun Run fundraising begins this week
10/9 - no school (teacher workshop)
10/12 - VI/PR Friendship Day
This week at a glance...
Health/Wellness/Teambuilding:
Classroom Jobs! We have 4 job crews assigned and students will rotate through them. They will keep the same job for 1 week, then rotate to the next. There are gardeners, outdoor cleanup crew, indoor helping hands, tech cart wranglers, and "off duty" folks. They have really taken to the job positions and are working collaboratively with each other to complete the tasks more efficiently while making it fun.
Digital Citizenship lesson - As we are reintroducing computer use, and many of the students have access to their own devices of some kind, we like to do this lesson as a reminder of how to be safe, responsible, and kind.
6th Grade gardens - many 6th graders showed interest in helping install some new plants in our garden boxes. They did a great job and learned about what each plant needs going forward (some more water than others).
English:
- This week's Latin Root word: -form-
- Sentence Stalking - we look very closely at a mentor sentence (pulled from popular books) to learn more about grammar, punctuation, and general sentence structure.
- Letter to the author - students drafted a letter to an author of one of their summer reading books, explaining what character they would like to be, what scene they would change and how, and anything else they might want to tell or ask the author. This was also a great way to reinforce letter format!
- All class Reading book: we are now reading Hatchet, by Gary Paulson. Each student has a copy and will have some assigned reading and writing to complete. We read the first chapter together and they seemed very interested to keep reading.
Math:
- MashUp math
- Work with positive and negative integers, Lowest Common Multiple, Greatest Common Factor
Social Studies:
Mapping skills continued! - latitude and longitude (identify and plot coordinates), grids, using a scale, investigated St. Croix maps and labelled their own
Science:
- Scientific Method
- Microscopes: investigated plant and animal cells under the microscope!
- Unit 1 intro: Plant and animal cells, specialized cells, discuss how models can be helpful, then worked in groups to design their own plant models. When all groups were ready, they rotated to visit other stations where a representative explained the group's model. By the end some students were able to name the plant parts without referencing the book!
COLOR DAYS:
Tuesday, September 8 – Purple Day
Wednesday, September 9 – Brown Day
Thursday, September 10 – Black and White Day
Friday, September 11 – Rainbow
PHOTOS:
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