Before we get to this week's learning, a big shout out to everyone for some terrific flexibility and creative problem solving last week! We know everyone is feeling stretched and challenged in our new virtual environment, but we are so impressed by everyone's resilience!
This week, we will be deeply examining FOCUS. What does it mean to focus? How does that affect our work and relationships with others? How can we set ourselves up to focus effectively? Be ready for them to share some fabulous ideas with you. In reading, we will be ensuring that our independent books are Just Right for us. We will be able to give evidence for why it's a good match, and students will be working on reading EVERY DAY for a period of time in this book. We will also be making friends with new characters! Students will discover that characters ARE the story - it's their journey, and that investing in them is our primary goal. Writers will start a draft of their first narrative story. We will discover the joy of critical friends and how drafting multiple times means a better product. We will also be learning two new word work (vocabulary and spelling) routines, and finding out how fun it is to work and collect words. Mathmeticians will be deeply exploring place value -- think BIG numbers! We will continue to be curious about numbers and find ways that math is all around us. We will develop more strategies to explain our mathmatical thinking. Students will be working with expanded form, number value, and reasoning. Our week in science will revolve around states of matter and developing minds that pursue inquiry. Be prepared for them to look for some hands on artifacts to share their understanding! We will also start our reflection portfolio called the "Write Rite." Taking the time to look back daily and re-process our learning experiences helps strengthen those neural connections. We look forward to a great full five days!
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