Week 19 Recap
Posted on Monday, January 15th, 2018 at 5:21 pmHi Everyone!
This past week a lot of our students began the journey of recording their own work progress in their planner. I am so proud of them. They really lived up to the expectations and they feel a sense of pride of taking it over.
Even though the students did not have school on Friday, we were able to talk and learn about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. throughout the week and also discuss fairness- January’s character topic. For Dr. MLK, each language group read the same passage and our Antelopes language group did listening and tracking while I read and we would stop at certain vocabulary and discuss what they meant. Words such as segregation, color, violence, and fairness were some of the words that we went over. The Badgers language group read the same passage, but they completed some sentences that were missing a vocabulary word. They had to figure out which word fit the sentence and then for the last question they got to pick which one they wanted to use in their own sentence. The Crocs group read the passage and completed the fill in the blank vocal page the Badgers had, but also there were story questions responses they were asked to complete.
The students also went over fairness. The students left off their conversations regarding fairness about how fairness is about equality. The students also discussed how fairness to them meant that everyone gets the same because that is equality- you get what you want and someone else gets that too. We replaced the sentence “You get what you want” to “You get what you need.” I showed them this picture:
This was a powerful picture to the students. It lead to our discussion on how everyone is on a different path and has different needs, so some students or people may need a different approach then the person next to them.
Home Project: President Report- Up top in the Projects tab, I added the links to the President’s report pages. I also sent home a physical copy this past week. January’s home project is due Jan. 26th.
Past Week:
In cultural this past week: History
Level 1s: Learning that clocks have an hour and minute hand and what does that mean. Began telling time to the hour (A great lesson to practice at home on digital and analog clocks!)
Level 2s: The Sun and Mercury facts
Level 3s: Permian period and Mesozoic Era overview
Each grade level worked on their Geometry lessons this past week:
Level 1s: Endpoint/vertex, line, line segment, ray
Level 2s: Identifying angles given to them (right, obtuse, and acute)
Level 3s: Perimeter
Upcoming Week:
This coming week each level will work in different math areas. Level 1s will work on fractions, Level 2s will go over time, and Level 3s: will do fractions as well.
We will do Zoology/Physiology this week
Thursday- We have a lockdown drill
Have a great extra day off and rest of your week
Ms. Kaley