Friday, October 21st
Grading & Staff Development- NO SCHOOL for students
Thursday, Oct. 27th and Friday, Oct. 28th
Fall Parent Conferences- NO SCHOOL for students
Math Homework
For the week of Oct 24th- 28th, focus on these Apply homework pages:
For all 3rd and 4th graders:
You can finish up your Module 1 homework-workbook. We will sending home a new homework-workbook for Module 2 at our fall conferences next week.
Also recommended: daily practice with multiplication facts for 2-10's
Check out these multiplication fact practice apps:
What's happening in the Puffin Nest:
Language Arts Workshop
This week, we began planning our stories. First, we brainstormed ideas for a special opening sentence. We worked with a writing partner to choose the best idea. Next, we used our narrative planning page to begin drafting our introduction paragraphs.
We are also reading and analyzing mentor texts with rich, descriptive language that demonstrate the components of personal narrative stories.
You can support your kiddo by sharing family stories at home!
"I remember the time when..."
Demonstrate oral storytelling by telling your kiddo stories from your younger years, as well as stories about them as little ones. Prompt your kiddo to think up personal stories from the last few years of their lives that they can recall and describe in detail!
Novel Study Read Aloud: The Wild Robot by Peter Brown
The Wild Robot is the story of Rozzum unit 7143, a robot who finds herself on a strange island. She uses her robot skills and programming instincts to study her environment and learn how to adapt to her new wild surroundings.
During Reading Workshop we focused on making predictions. Making predictions is an important strategy that helps us to connect with the text and to think more deeply as we read. We practiced this strategy while reading mentor texts, and thought about how we can make predictions before, during and after reading. We used our background knowledge, coupled with clues from the text to make predictions, and then we paid attention to see if our predictions were confirmed or altered as we read on.
Out & About & Science
On Wednesday, students got to meet a young native bee expert, Marek Stanton, to learn about Oregon’s amazing native bees. He shared some adaptations that make them unique. (Did you know that bees come in every color of the rainbow? Or that some live in mounds in the dirt?) Then, we headed outside to assess how well the garden provides habitat for native bees, and came up with a plan to improve the garden. Maybe you'd like to complete this Bee Habitat Inventory in your backyard or neighborhood too!
Social Emotional Learning
Last week, we learned about how animals live and work in groups.
We humans also benefit from living and working in groups! This week, we focused on some important ideas and strategies we can use in our social interactions with others as we tackle group projects. We watched videos and had discussions about cooperation before working on our group mural project for the Wild Robot.
We learned that cooperation is an important skill, but it can be a complex concept. It’s not just working together; it’s a web of feelings and actions that includes:
- being patient and trusting others
- listening, turn taking and making compromises
- managing strong feelings and being flexible
- sharing the work in a group