ANNOUNCEMENTS:
POETRY CAFE: You should have received your invitation to the Poetry Cafe with the link. You are not necessarily in a 6th grade room for this event, so you will need to keep that link that was sent with your invitation. Thursday, February 25, 2021, at 2 p.m. Come a little early to be sure to not miss anything.
Leadership brings you...Crazy Hat and Hair Days: February 23 and 24. Show your school Spirit!
Scholars need to be sure to get their folders and notebooks organized. I have been going over suggestions for how to do this in class, last week and this, and offering supplies to everyone. Scholars need to have the following dividers in their math and science notebooks respectively:
MATH: MAP TESTING will take place in class Tuesday, February 23rd. (tomorrow.) All scholars need to be well rested, have had a good breakfast and be ready with their machines fully charged and ready for the test. The set up for math is the same as it was for when Mrs. Mattull did language arts, in terms of needing it to allow popups. We can assist you if you need it. Scholars should plan to have a couple pieces of "thinking paper" next to them to work out problems. ( I suggest when the testing is over they save that paper in their math notebooks for their own reference. )
MATH: POSTER PROBLEM- BROWNIE PROBLEMS- there are three great problems about sharing brownies this week. Scholars should work on them and be ready to share hints on Hint Day Wednesday. This is a fun way to think about division, fractions, decimals, and percents- it is all about fair shares.
MATH: Scholars were given four decimal numbers and directed to build these numbers using their base ten sets and then to record that on their "PERCENT FLASHCARDS" using colored pencils. Scholars began this assignment on Monday, February 22, 2021, using their base ten blocks to represent four decimal numbers. Scholars will record that number by coloring in the corresponding space on their "PERCENT FLASHCARDS" using colored pencils. Tuesday and Wednesday and Thursday we will look at how that number is expressed as a fraction, a percent and how it is written out. This is a multi-day assignment so scholars need to be doing a little bit each day. They should be recording that in their planners each day. The Percent Flash cards have already been given to scholars, but if they have lost that paper, they can print it from the jumbo packet that is in the stream. I will add a due date on Wednesday of this week, after I see how far we have come along with the concept.
SCIENCE: We have quite a bit of reference reading to do. Scholars have a packet with several pages to it : "Rocks and Minerals." Last week they read and annotated Metamorphic rock. This week they will read and annotate the rest of this packet. It is a lot. A manageable option would be to do one page a day starting Monday and continuing through Thursday. I have made a video of me reading in case they want to just listen and annotate along from that reading. It may not be up and running until Tuesday, depending upon my skill (luck ) getting it loaded.
We will be doing an attribute activity with rocks, and scholars will need to go in search of small gravel, large gravel and a small pebble, from their surrounding community. (If you have fish, you may have some small gravel or large gravel that you put in your tanks... if it is not colored, that could be used. But, also consider getting out into the world safely of course, and seeing what you can find. I bet there is some in the plant beds around the school! We only need small amounts. I will go over this in detail and share a sample on either Tuesday or Wednesday, depending upon time with our testing. They received in class on Monday or Tuesday (or on Sunday if ALL VIRTUAL) a small bag with sand an a large pebble to get them started with this.
HIDE AND GO SEEK ROCKS: We still have about 8-10 scholars who have not yet brought back their rock. We are setting up the game on Monday and Tuesday and hope to play it Wednesday or Thursday. All rocks need to be returned by Tuesday in order to play. If you do not bring back your rock, you do not play and a zero for this activity will be recorded.
We have two bigger activities to do still with our study of Rock Formations: Keying out Rocks and Rock Boxes. These are very tricky lessons to set up because they are material intense, but they are such great fun I did not want to just shelf them due to a pandemic. BUT I WILL NEED YOUR FAMILY SUPPORT AND COOPERATION! I will be setting up items for those scholars who are ALL VIRTUAL to be able to do this at their homes, safely. I am taking a risk with rock samples that are part of my private collection and I want them to be well taken care of and not lost, and safely returned. More about that after with complete our Math MAP testing.
LASTLY... GROUP PROJECTS FOR SCIENCE; Scholars have been assigned to a small group of 3-4 scholars to complete a group review project. They will be teaching the class for the review for the final assessment for our study of GEOLOGY! Thee are 7 topics that will be covered: Earthquakes, Tsunamis, Volcanoes, Plate Tectonics, The Rock Cycle, Weathering, Minerals. Each group is responsible for a Visual... something to look at, an Interactive...something for scholars being taught to do, and for incorporating depth and complexity, including the BIG IDEAS, PATTERNS, TRANDS, PROCESSES, ORIGINS CONTEXT, MULTIPLE PERSPECTIVES, THE LANGUAGE OF THE DISCIPLINE, THE DETAILS, THE IMPACT AND THE PROOF! (ICONS IN OUR ROOM AND IN THEIR PLANNER!) . We will go over all details for this on Wednesday in class. Outside work with your group is expected, but MUST BE DONE SAFELY, and does NOT REQUIRE in person interactions. We must remain safe and prevent the spread of Covid.
POETRY CAFE: You should have received your invitation to the Poetry Cafe with the link. You are not necessarily in a 6th grade room for this event, so you will need to keep that link that was sent with your invitation. Thursday, February 25, 2021, at 2 p.m. Come a little early to be sure to not miss anything.
Leadership brings you...Crazy Hat and Hair Days: February 23 and 24. Show your school Spirit!
Scholars need to be sure to get their folders and notebooks organized. I have been going over suggestions for how to do this in class, last week and this, and offering supplies to everyone. Scholars need to have the following dividers in their math and science notebooks respectively:
MATH: MAP TESTING will take place in class Tuesday, February 23rd. (tomorrow.) All scholars need to be well rested, have had a good breakfast and be ready with their machines fully charged and ready for the test. The set up for math is the same as it was for when Mrs. Mattull did language arts, in terms of needing it to allow popups. We can assist you if you need it. Scholars should plan to have a couple pieces of "thinking paper" next to them to work out problems. ( I suggest when the testing is over they save that paper in their math notebooks for their own reference. )
MATH: POSTER PROBLEM- BROWNIE PROBLEMS- there are three great problems about sharing brownies this week. Scholars should work on them and be ready to share hints on Hint Day Wednesday. This is a fun way to think about division, fractions, decimals, and percents- it is all about fair shares.
MATH: Scholars were given four decimal numbers and directed to build these numbers using their base ten sets and then to record that on their "PERCENT FLASHCARDS" using colored pencils. Scholars began this assignment on Monday, February 22, 2021, using their base ten blocks to represent four decimal numbers. Scholars will record that number by coloring in the corresponding space on their "PERCENT FLASHCARDS" using colored pencils. Tuesday and Wednesday and Thursday we will look at how that number is expressed as a fraction, a percent and how it is written out. This is a multi-day assignment so scholars need to be doing a little bit each day. They should be recording that in their planners each day. The Percent Flash cards have already been given to scholars, but if they have lost that paper, they can print it from the jumbo packet that is in the stream. I will add a due date on Wednesday of this week, after I see how far we have come along with the concept.
SCIENCE: We have quite a bit of reference reading to do. Scholars have a packet with several pages to it : "Rocks and Minerals." Last week they read and annotated Metamorphic rock. This week they will read and annotate the rest of this packet. It is a lot. A manageable option would be to do one page a day starting Monday and continuing through Thursday. I have made a video of me reading in case they want to just listen and annotate along from that reading. It may not be up and running until Tuesday, depending upon my skill (luck ) getting it loaded.
We will be doing an attribute activity with rocks, and scholars will need to go in search of small gravel, large gravel and a small pebble, from their surrounding community. (If you have fish, you may have some small gravel or large gravel that you put in your tanks... if it is not colored, that could be used. But, also consider getting out into the world safely of course, and seeing what you can find. I bet there is some in the plant beds around the school! We only need small amounts. I will go over this in detail and share a sample on either Tuesday or Wednesday, depending upon time with our testing. They received in class on Monday or Tuesday (or on Sunday if ALL VIRTUAL) a small bag with sand an a large pebble to get them started with this.
HIDE AND GO SEEK ROCKS: We still have about 8-10 scholars who have not yet brought back their rock. We are setting up the game on Monday and Tuesday and hope to play it Wednesday or Thursday. All rocks need to be returned by Tuesday in order to play. If you do not bring back your rock, you do not play and a zero for this activity will be recorded.
We have two bigger activities to do still with our study of Rock Formations: Keying out Rocks and Rock Boxes. These are very tricky lessons to set up because they are material intense, but they are such great fun I did not want to just shelf them due to a pandemic. BUT I WILL NEED YOUR FAMILY SUPPORT AND COOPERATION! I will be setting up items for those scholars who are ALL VIRTUAL to be able to do this at their homes, safely. I am taking a risk with rock samples that are part of my private collection and I want them to be well taken care of and not lost, and safely returned. More about that after with complete our Math MAP testing.
LASTLY... GROUP PROJECTS FOR SCIENCE; Scholars have been assigned to a small group of 3-4 scholars to complete a group review project. They will be teaching the class for the review for the final assessment for our study of GEOLOGY! Thee are 7 topics that will be covered: Earthquakes, Tsunamis, Volcanoes, Plate Tectonics, The Rock Cycle, Weathering, Minerals. Each group is responsible for a Visual... something to look at, an Interactive...something for scholars being taught to do, and for incorporating depth and complexity, including the BIG IDEAS, PATTERNS, TRANDS, PROCESSES, ORIGINS CONTEXT, MULTIPLE PERSPECTIVES, THE LANGUAGE OF THE DISCIPLINE, THE DETAILS, THE IMPACT AND THE PROOF! (ICONS IN OUR ROOM AND IN THEIR PLANNER!) . We will go over all details for this on Wednesday in class. Outside work with your group is expected, but MUST BE DONE SAFELY, and does NOT REQUIRE in person interactions. We must remain safe and prevent the spread of Covid.