Celebrations
As we've told you countless times, your kids are AMAZING! Here's some more evidence... We have a serious sub shortage at our school. (All schools do.) Every day staff members are being asked to cover for other teachers. Last week Ms. Anderman was out and then this week Ms. Michael had to be out. We volunteered to cover for one another and just pretended like we were teaching in California or any other state where class sizes are over 30 students in a class;) Needless to say, the students rose to the challenge. They supported each other and the teachers to make it as flawless a day as possible. We are truly grateful for our caring community of learners.
T-shirt/Sweatshirt orders are due this Monday!
Please send in those order forms by Monday, November 15th with payment if your kiddo is looking to order new swag. They went home with kids who were interested last Monday. T-shirts are $10 and Sweatshirts are $26.
Conferences
Conferences have been a huge success! It is so nice to chat with you all about your child's growth since last year. Thanks to all of you for being flexible with our change of date. A reminder if you were scheduled for a conference on Tuesday 11/2 you were rescheduled for this coming Tuesday 11/16. You will receive a zoom link via email on Monday.
Giving Back to our Community Food Drive
In an effort to practice kindness and help others, the Wizards will be collecting non-perishable food items to be donated to our local food shelf. To add a twist to this, students will be placed on mystery teams and will earn 1 point for their team for each item donated. Food items will be collected this coming Monday - Friday. Each day we will announce team scores and we will determine a winner on Friday.
Language Arts
This past week, began a unit on Informational reading and writing. Students learned about the importance of non-fiction text features. They used their Science World magazines to go on a Text Feature Scavenger Hunt and then created text feature posters. We will be using articles about Climate Change activists as our anchor to study comprehension strategies related to reading non-fiction.
Ask your student what their Flocab vocabulary words are this week and challenge them to use them while talking to you. Or, ask them if they've found any of the words in the book they are reading.
Math
Students have spent the past week using their new learning about ratios and their math reasoning skills to investigate a Fermi question. A Fermi question is a question that is difficult or even impossible to find an exact answer. Questions ranged from how many pencils our school uses in a year to how many times do you blink in a lifetime. Ask your Wizard mathematician what their Fermi question was.
Early Humans (A Science & Social Studies Unit)
We've been learning about the evidence for human evolution and the important steps in that process that brought us to become modern humans. Students began to research the different iterations of early humans and will be creating presentations to share with their classmates. Part of this week's work required them to take notes while they did their research. Here are the presentation requirements if you are interested.:) You can also ask them to show you their "Digging into History" Google Classroom if you are curious about what we are working on. A good question to ask them this week is, "What is something that caused human brain size to change after millions of years of brain size remaining the same?" Because my homeroom has me for LA and SS right now, they made an excellent connection between the content in the two classes. Let's just say I LOVE teaching in a Humanities format. It allows students to see the interconnectedness and relevance of their learning!
Science
Students completed a variety of small demonstrations and experiments to investigate matter and its properties including all matter takes up space. We also began looking at physical properties of matter including the difference between mass and weight.
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