Reminders:
-cross country running tomorrow after school, and maybe flag football?
-boys volleyball have more try-outs this week
-girls basketball has their 2nd try-out Wednesday after school from 3:30-4:30p.m
-student council elections are coming up soon
-we have gym tomorrow (in the gym)- please bring appropriate clothing and footwear-participation in gym is mandatory unless you have a note from home/a doctor's note
Today:
Gym: outside in the wet grass- it was a beautiful morning and most students were troopers!
We played several co-operative and games of low organization including: everybody's it tag, pirate tag, chuck the chicken, and Larry, Curly, Moe!
Math: We started a week of inspiration math (imath) from Stanford University with a lesson on mindsets, open inquiry, and we revisited important number facts and relationships. Today we worked on an open inquiry lesson called the "four 4's".
Literacy: Introduction of our monthly novel study for independent reading. The first novel study is due October 14th. If you have questions, please conference with me well before the due date. Remember, each novel study must be completed with books from different genres. (Example: if you choose a mystery novel for October, you cannot choose a mystery novel again). You may however, read multiple novels at the same time. Novels may be from the school library, classroom library, public library, or home.
We also had independent silent reading for 20 minutes, most students are getting settled and reading without interruption, demonstrating terrific stamina!
We did a mini inquiry lesson on looking at pictures and making inferences/forming questions about what we see! Students had some great contributions to our discussion!
Here is a link that we used for this exercise:
Music: We were introduced to the first assignment of the year for music- a "soundtrack to my life". A gathering of 8-10 songs that represent you- your personality, significant moments in your life, people in your life, etc. and a custom designed CD cover. This is due Monday, September 28th.
Students will be given a hard copy of this assignment.
Science: We used our prior knowledge to recall the steps of the scientific method. We watched a "Mythbusters" segment that took us through each step of the scientific method: Question, Hypothesis, Materials, Procedure, Observation/Collect Data, Conclusion/Results, Communicate- what a fun way to review!
We ended by completing our anchor chart for the learning skill initiative:
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