Hello Crew Families,
Important Dates Student-led conferences (Wednesday Oct 12 and Thursday Oct 13) Click here to sign up/check your time! Please let me know if you're having technical difficulties and I can help you out! **Looking for a Crew Parent!** The role of a crew parent is vital to a successful crew. Your job would be to assist with fieldwork planning and coordinating (such as helping organize parent drivers) as well as other special events or projects. Please let me know if you'd be interested in taking on this role! Crew parent will be selected through a lottery process if there is a lot of interest. Thank you! Homework for this week: -Read each night for at least 20 minutes! We are going to start off logging our homework on paper and I hope to have our biblionasium accounts set up within a week or two. Thanks for your patience! Math This week we looked at patterns visually and numerically. We worked with linking cubes and tile squares to finish a pattern and learned that our classmates were able to come up with many different patterns! We tracked our patterns in a t-chart and discovered that writing down the patterns numerically led us to find even more patterns! Ask your student what their linking cube or tile square pattern looked like Listen to your student explain what a t-chart is and the different components ours had Extend the learning by finding patterns around the house or in nature Literacy In literacy, we continued to build our reading stamina and model good procedures for reading to someone. During read aloud we finished up the second Boxcar Children book and worked on predicting what might come next in the story. Quite a few of them had really accurate predictions! Ask your student whether or not their prediction for the Boxcar children was accurate Listen to your student retell their favorite book from this week Extend the learning by choosing a best fit book to read together as a family Expedition We used expedition this week to practice the skills of creating multiple drafts and critiquing each others work. Our project is creating a class puzzle--each person has a puzzle piece to decorate and we will put it together to represent our class. We watched a video called "Austin's Butterfly" that modeled for us what creating multiple drafts and critiquing someone's work might look like. Our feedback for each other aimed to be specific, constructive, and gentle! Ask your student what strong feedback for a peer might be Listen to your student explain what they added to their puzzle piece Extend the learning by watching Austin's Butterfly together and discussing it further https://vimeo.com/38247060
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