October 6

Upcoming Events:



- There will be no school on Monday October 9th.
- Photo Day on October 10th.
- National Music Center field trip is on October 23rd from 9:10am to 3:00pm. We are in need of parent volunteers. If you are available and has a volunteer clearance, please email us. 
- We have forms sent home last week and this week. Can you please fill them out and return it us on Wednesday October 11. 








Math
We brainstormed what numeracy is and what it means. In this week's lesson, we discussed the term equality and inequality and how we can represent it using place value and math manipulatives. When students demonstrated inequality between two numbers, they also explained their findings through the use of "greater and less than symbols".



Literacy
Our classes wrote a personal narrative about their special person. Students brainstormed ideas and organized their ideas into paragraphs. We used the hamburger writing organizer and writer's checklist to edit their work. During the process, students gave each other feedback as well as self assessment. They looked for at least one area on the checklist to make an improvement on before they move on to publishing it next week. 


Our classes explored various fictional and non-fictional text and discovered some similarities and differences. Here's what they noticed.
 



On Friday, we spent time with our buddies and here's a quick snapshot. 


Science
At the beginning of this week, students did a critical thinking challenge on animal senses. They had to establish a criteria among their group and decide how they are sorted. Here's a few examples:



Students then used this knowledge as well as jot noting skills on their animal hearing research project. They had the choice of learning the sense of hearing about dolphins, bats, elephants,or  dogs. Working together with a partner, they looked at books and internet resources to gather information for their infographic. 


Health: Zones of Regulations
Students read the book "The Way I Feel" and discussed the different emotions a person can have. Our students shared:
-  “Our feelings can change. Things can happen throughout the day. Different things can happen and changes our feelings.” ~ L.M
- "Sometimes you feel happy that you get your way but you know it is not right." ~ D.D

What is Zones of Regulation? 

"The Zones is a systematic, cognitive behavior approach used to teach self-regulation by categorizing all the different ways we feel and states of alertness we experience into four concrete zones.  The Zones curriculum provides strategies to teach students to become more aware of, and independent in controlling their emotions and impulses, managing their sensory needs, and improving their ability to problem solve conflicts. " 

http://heshergott.weebly.com/the-zones-of-regulation.html

Here's a reflection of the 4 different zones. 

http://www.zonesofregulation.com/index.html