This past week seems to have flown by and with all the great learning happening next week, I expect the same will also happen. We were fortunate to play host to Braxton in our class for just one day on Friday and the students did their usual great job at welcoming him and making him feel at home. He was an integral part of our class albeit, just for one day.
Here are this weeks current events;
Tuesday - Elvin
Wednesday - Eric
Thursday - Simon
Friday - JungBin
Wednesday - Eric
Thursday - Simon
Friday - JungBin
Some important announcements first;
Tuesday is Track and field day. Students will need a water bottle, hat, swimming clothes (we will supply the towel) and sneakers to run in. If they are bringing a lunch from home please be advised that we eat outdoors on this day so there is no hot water or microwave available. Those who have a school lunch have already ordered it.
If the AQI us above 200 at 7:00am it will be cancelled and rescheduled to Thursday. If it is between 150 and 200 it will go as planned so if you do not want your student out in this kind of air day, please keep them at home. These are the regular school track and field AQI rules.
Friday is the last of the school book fairs. If students want to purchase some books they need to bring some RMB to school with them on Friday. The kinds of books grade 5 students like usually start at about RMB60 and go up from there. Please use your judgement in sending money in with your student.
We will start our Trade and Interdependence unit this week with a game called Settlers of Catan. The students got a quick intro into this on Friday and will play it 4-5 times this coming week. The will have a 4C's assignment to complete every day and final copy on Friday - these are Connections, Challenges, Concepts and Changes.
We also have book clubs this week on Monday, Wednesday and Friday so it is important that students stay caught up with this so they are prepared for their part of the discussion time. There is a yellow Book Clubs booklet that they fill in as well as a Thinkmark to aid in their note taking and discussions.
Our writing takes to persuasive essays and we are doing a class example about cellphone use in class. There has already been an interesting discussion about this.
This coming week is Take a Stand week where we look at how students can be advocates for others in their school that may be bullied or teased. At this age it is not just recognizing this but also beginning to learn how to help others when it is seen. Mr. K and also a group of HS students will help us out with this starting with an assembly on Monday morning first thing.
I will be out of class on Friday for part 2 of the MSIS training. This is training in Math that is in alignment with the math program we Have at ISB so there are teachers from all grade levels to grade 10 involved with it. I will have a full set of sub plans ready for the day.
That is it for today. If you have any questions please feel free to contact me and I will set up a time for us to meet.
