Another busy week in the classroom... We took an all school picture today and have a lot of exciting upcoming events.
Important Information:
Flash Drives
As some of you have noticed we have been doing a lot of a work on the laptops during writer’s workshop. Currently, students have been saving their work on their server space. As we have been working, there have been many problems that have arose:
Until then, I am asking students to bring in a cheap (under $5 dollars), USB flash drive with a small amount of memory on them for students to use to save their work on.
This can be one that you already have laying around at home, just make sure that there is nothing on it.
I will be purchasing a few for the those students who do not have access to one or who’s families cannot purchase them.
Birthday treats:
Unfortunately, we can no longer have sugary sweet birthday treats in the classroom. It is now a federal regulation that was recently brought to the staff’s attention. For birthday celebrations please do not send cookies, brownies, cupcakes, or candy. Feel free to send in healthy birthday treats like fruit or other birthday knick-knacks such as cool pencils or pens. Another note: please do not even feel obligated to bring birthday treats/knick-knacks as we will celebrate students birthday regardless if they bring them or not.
A note from Ms. Wayne: The Original ArtWork Fundraiser date is extended until November 19th,2014.. All Artwork and orders are due on The 19th of November 2014 to Ms.Wayne
Chef Brendan McCall will be cooking up these simple ingredients next week and bringing them to King for the community to enjoy! This soup will be 100% dairy free, peanut/treenut free, and vegetarian. Students will be served a sample of the KLG soup on Thursday, November 20.
We want to THANK the Baru family (King Parents and Owners of Isalita and Mani Osteria & Bar) and Chef Brendan McCall for partnering with us to make this special dish!
King Learning Garden soup will be served next Thursday morning before lunch between 10:30-12:00ish. It will be served warm! We will start with K-1, then 2-3, and then 4-5. We will also be supplying compostable bowls, spoons, and napkins. Please have students place in compost bins when finished.
In the classroom: This week and looking ahead..
Math: We have discussed the importance of decimals and why we use them. We learned how to compare and order decimals on a number line. We then shifted into estimating, add and subtracting decimals. To make this something that is concrete and real life to students, ask them questions about decimals in their everyday life. This weekend they are asked to go on fantasy shopping spree. We will continue to work with decimals into next week.
Writing: The past two weeks we have been working towards completing our final drafts of our last personal narrative. We worked with adding dialogue into our writing, separating our writing into paragraphs, revisited how to write bold beginnings and memorable endings, and began typing our final drafts. We continuously have been looking at what makes a quality personal narrative. Next week, we will be finishing our third personal narrative and then revisiting a past personal narrative that we are looking to publish. Using rubrics to peer edit, we will begin re-publishing with illustrations.
Reading: The past two weeks we have been focusing on adding to our “think marks”. Students were asked to use and record their “good reading strategies” by making predictions, connections, asking questions, and giving character’s in their stories character traits with evidence. We have begun talking about inferences, specifically what they are and how we make them. This is something that we will continue to work on through out the year as it is a hard skill for students to master. This week we discussed the purpose of reading response letters, revisited what they should include, and students wrote a new one using their think mark as a guide. Next week, we will begin to talk about fluency of reading, specifically reading punctuation and I will have the students participate in a bit of reader’s theatre.
Science: We have been observing our inorganic vs. organic grass experiment, which seems to be going better than the first. We have been learning about fungi and recently started an experiment that involves mycelium. We will continue to observe both experiments into next week. We will also begin discussions relating to an upcoming experiment involving mushrooms and bread mold.
Social Studies: We have made way into our exploration of the Northeast region. We have been using google earth to get a "real life" view of the different stops we are making in our textbooks. We began discussions about government in relation to the Mayflower and Plymouth, Mass. and the pro's and con's of different groups having power. We specifically looked at the pro's and con's of having a king, 5 smart men to run a town, only males, and everyone over 10. Next week, we will continue to tour into other areas of the Northeast.
Important Information:
Flash Drives
As some of you have noticed we have been doing a lot of a work on the laptops during writer’s workshop. Currently, students have been saving their work on their server space. As we have been working, there have been many problems that have arose:
- Students are having trouble logging on to the server.
- The server being down at school.
- Student’s work isn’t saving correctly.
- Students cannot access server from home to work on writing.
Until then, I am asking students to bring in a cheap (under $5 dollars), USB flash drive with a small amount of memory on them for students to use to save their work on.
This can be one that you already have laying around at home, just make sure that there is nothing on it.
I will be purchasing a few for the those students who do not have access to one or who’s families cannot purchase them.
Birthday treats:
Unfortunately, we can no longer have sugary sweet birthday treats in the classroom. It is now a federal regulation that was recently brought to the staff’s attention. For birthday celebrations please do not send cookies, brownies, cupcakes, or candy. Feel free to send in healthy birthday treats like fruit or other birthday knick-knacks such as cool pencils or pens. Another note: please do not even feel obligated to bring birthday treats/knick-knacks as we will celebrate students birthday regardless if they bring them or not.
A note from Ms. Wayne: The Original ArtWork Fundraiser date is extended until November 19th,2014.. All Artwork and orders are due on The 19th of November 2014 to Ms.Wayne
- Tuesday, November 18th Turkey Trot
- · 9:00-9:30 Jarjoura, Peck
- · 9:30-10:00 Teshima, Shah, Vosters, Russell
· 10:00-10:30 Hagan, Racine, Nadar
· 10:30-11:00 Clarkson, Delise
· 1:00-1:30 Huyck, Nascimento
· 1:30-2:00 Gracey, Gatonez, Hong
· 2:00-2:30 Warner, Knorr - Thursday, November 20th King Garden Soup
Chef Brendan McCall will be cooking up these simple ingredients next week and bringing them to King for the community to enjoy! This soup will be 100% dairy free, peanut/treenut free, and vegetarian. Students will be served a sample of the KLG soup on Thursday, November 20.
We want to THANK the Baru family (King Parents and Owners of Isalita and Mani Osteria & Bar) and Chef Brendan McCall for partnering with us to make this special dish!
King Learning Garden soup will be served next Thursday morning before lunch between 10:30-12:00ish. It will be served warm! We will start with K-1, then 2-3, and then 4-5. We will also be supplying compostable bowls, spoons, and napkins. Please have students place in compost bins when finished.
In the classroom: This week and looking ahead..
Math: We have discussed the importance of decimals and why we use them. We learned how to compare and order decimals on a number line. We then shifted into estimating, add and subtracting decimals. To make this something that is concrete and real life to students, ask them questions about decimals in their everyday life. This weekend they are asked to go on fantasy shopping spree. We will continue to work with decimals into next week.
Writing: The past two weeks we have been working towards completing our final drafts of our last personal narrative. We worked with adding dialogue into our writing, separating our writing into paragraphs, revisited how to write bold beginnings and memorable endings, and began typing our final drafts. We continuously have been looking at what makes a quality personal narrative. Next week, we will be finishing our third personal narrative and then revisiting a past personal narrative that we are looking to publish. Using rubrics to peer edit, we will begin re-publishing with illustrations.
Reading: The past two weeks we have been focusing on adding to our “think marks”. Students were asked to use and record their “good reading strategies” by making predictions, connections, asking questions, and giving character’s in their stories character traits with evidence. We have begun talking about inferences, specifically what they are and how we make them. This is something that we will continue to work on through out the year as it is a hard skill for students to master. This week we discussed the purpose of reading response letters, revisited what they should include, and students wrote a new one using their think mark as a guide. Next week, we will begin to talk about fluency of reading, specifically reading punctuation and I will have the students participate in a bit of reader’s theatre.
Science: We have been observing our inorganic vs. organic grass experiment, which seems to be going better than the first. We have been learning about fungi and recently started an experiment that involves mycelium. We will continue to observe both experiments into next week. We will also begin discussions relating to an upcoming experiment involving mushrooms and bread mold.
Social Studies: We have made way into our exploration of the Northeast region. We have been using google earth to get a "real life" view of the different stops we are making in our textbooks. We began discussions about government in relation to the Mayflower and Plymouth, Mass. and the pro's and con's of different groups having power. We specifically looked at the pro's and con's of having a king, 5 smart men to run a town, only males, and everyone over 10. Next week, we will continue to tour into other areas of the Northeast.