I saw a lot of learning about text features and text-based evidence this past week. The great thing was seeing this happen throughout the grades. As we begin to think about what our writing plan should be, let's begin by ensuring that K through 2 focus heavily on conventions. Third grade needs to be writing actual essays with several paragraphs that includes indenting. This will really help with where our students need to go in 4th and 5th grade. Here are some examples of what I saw this week:
Ms. Siegel in 1st grade also invited me to her class for a Mystery Skype session. We played a number guessing game where we practiced number sense with another class. At the end of the session we found out the class was from Kansas! Mystery Skype can also be used as a guessing game for geography for you to determine where the other class is located. We will definitely be holding a Wired Up Wednesday session about this soon.
Next Week at a Glance:
- NESS Meeting next Monday at 2:20 in Shari Heyman's classroom.
- I appreciate those of you who have attended our Wired Up Wednesdays so far. Thanks to Melissa Lopez for leading this past week's training on Class Dojo. We understand that the timing on the same day as the FSA writing test might have prohibited some of you from attending. Melissa will hold an alternate training sometime in the near future.
- Team Collaboration is scheduled for next Wednesday afternoon. Please remember that this is time to work on your lesson plans collaboratively.
- Our Spring Book Fair kicks off next Wednesday. I would appreciate anyone who can make it to our Evening Book Fair beginning at 5:30 on Wednesday. Our students and parents love to see all of you at these type of events. Thanks to those of you who volunteered to assist the PTA that night.
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