The Beauty in Nature

                                                       The Beauty in Nature
                                                             

Fourth Grade News:

   Open House was a great success.  It was great to see so many of you there.  We hope that we cleared up some of your questions and concerns.  For those of you that missed it, the slide deck and video of the classroom is up on Class Dojo.

During Intervention time this week, some of the books we read were;  All Are Welcome, The Best Part of Me.  We did some writing activities to go along with the books.  Intervention time is a time for the students to catch up on work from the day, some one on one time with the teachers, if they need extra help, and some art activities are also incorporated during that time.

 The children are very focused when it is time to listen to the book.  Many great questions are asked and some great conversations are started related to the themes of the books.  

During recess time, the children alternate by day, as to what section 

of the school yard they play in.  The beautiful weather is allowing 

for some enjoyable times outside.

On rainy days we have a fun Kahoot game that the children enjoy playing.  The children are really doing well with all the new changes and guidelines.  They all follow the new guidelines and make the best of the situation.

Fifth Grade News:

 We are continuing with Ungifted- The children listen to the audio and write important details from the chapters.  We have discussions about the events in the story and this helps them with answering questions. 

This narrator, from You Tube is so animated in her reading.  The children are attentive and stay focused.

We also finished the Narrative Benchmark and will be starting Personal Narratives in writing.

This week we will also be introducing the students to their first English project from Summit.  Everyone is still waiting for chrome books, but in the meantime, I will be showing them the platform and how to navigate through it on the big screen.  Our Summit coach, Mrs. Grant, will be helping us roll this out to the students.  

Don't forget- Smile 

Even though we are trying to adjust to a new way of living, we should always make each other smile and be positive towards each other.

Keep Believing

 Week of October 12-October 16

Fifth Grade

The week went well.  Lots of things are going on in Zirilli's ELA class.  The fifth graders are continuing with Ungifted, they are making a character quilt and they have completed their narrative benchmark.

Some of our fifth graders have even shared their narratives to the class.  I truly enjoy listening to their writing.  They have such great imaginations and creative minds.  

As we continue to read Ungifted, the children work on answering

questions from the chapter and we discuss what has been happening in the chapters.  

We are moving right along and are continuing to build connections.  The children are completing assignments, participating in class discussions and are fully involved in the learning that is happening all around.

Virtual Learners

    A couple of reminders for our students learning from home-

Make sure you attend our google meets on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.  You should be on during your class time for ELA.  During our meets we discuss work and go over any new lessons that we are doing.

Once you complete assignments you must submit them to me via email or google classroom, depending on how the assignment is given.  

You must keep your camera on during the whole time and microphone off until you have something to add or ask a question.

I am concerned that some of you are not meeting up with the class and are missing crucial information.  

The link to the google meet is right in the google classroom banner at the top of the page.  

Fourth Grade

Our fourth graders are also moving right along as well.

They are reading The Chocolate Touch with Mrs. Davia.  They completed their narrative benchmark as well this week.  I have also continued to do read alouds during Intervention.  

Don't forget- tomorrow the children will be home as teachers will be attending workshops.  We are putting things up for them to work on.  Fourth graders were given a choice board, both a hard copy and on google classroom.  

Fifth graders can work on Ungifted- Some need to catch up on reading and questions.  They should check their google classrooms to see what each teacher has planned.  Have a wonderful day!

We Are Doing Amazing Things

This week flew by again.  With teachers moving from class to class, our days go quickly.  We are all in a routine and have adjusted nicely to our new way of doing things in school.  I have to commend the students for doing a great job with masks, and social distancing.  It is a big change from what we used to do, but they are handling it great.

Fourth Grade News

We finished up The Name Jar and the children did a wonderful writing activity that involved finding out what their name means or how they got their name.

I enjoyed hearing their stories and they did a great job putting this together.  The final products came out nicely and have been displayed outside their classroom.

 

We will be doing more activities like this involving other great read aloud books.  

Fifth Grade News

We are continuing with Ungifted.  The children seem to be enjoying the book and want to keep reading- words I love to hear.   We will continue to read this week, but we are also going to be introducing the Summit Platform to the students.  We will be discussing what it consists of and how it will work.  

We were also able to play a Kahoot game in order to review chapters 1-3 of Ungifted.  The children seem to enjoy Kahoots and many of their review sessions will incorporate the Kahoot platform. 

I hopoe everyone enjoys their long weekend.  Stay safe!!

Over the Rainbow

 
 It was another productive week.  Things are moving right along.  Schedules are being followed, assignments are being completed and our distant learners seem to be on track and participating with in our google meets.

The days seem to fly by for me since we (the teachers) are traveling from classroom to classroom.  I am sure that the days also fly for our students.  They seem to be well acclimated with the routines and we are all adhering to the mask wearing and regulations.

Fourth Graders:

Our 4th graders are reading The Chocolate Touch with Mrs. Davia.  Since we are not distributing actual hard copies of the book, We are using Epic with the children.  

I hope the children are enjoying the book and the activities that are being planned.  

During our Intervention time with 4Z, I have been reading a story a day from the book: The 7 Habits of Happy Kids.  I read the story, we discuss the habit and do some writing about it.

Last week we discussed 3 of the Habits;

Be Proactive, Have a Plan and Work First Then Play 

We have done some activities with Be Proactive and you can see it in the following pictures:

The children were given the handout and they had to place each picture inside the circle, if they had control over it or outside of the circle if it was out of their control.

They did a nice job with it and I am looking forward to doing more with the different habits.  There have been some great conversations about the various habits and children are making connections with certain ones.  It is great to see them excited about writing also.  

We will be starting Personal Narratives in the next week or so and this leads itself well to choosing about a topic they want to write.

Fifth Grade:

Our fifth graders have also had a very productive week.  We have started a novel by Gordon Korman titled Ungifted.  The children seem to be enjoying it and they too are following along on Epic.

The classes are having great conversations about the book as we read.  This week we will also be starting Personal Narratives and working on Adjectives and Adverbs.  

Our fifth graders are also doing a great job with handing in work and taking part in their classes.  We are so happy to be back and seeing the children.  

On Friday, when a few of the teachers left, we saw this as we walked outside

Seeing this made me hopeful that things are moving along in the right direction and that things are going to be ok.  We've got this!!!

Enjoy the rest of the weekend and have a wonderful week!!