Growing Writers

Writers have been working on writing opinion reviews and science conclusions in our integrated Gum Unit. We have been using microprogressions to help students learn how to elevate the quality of their writing. We look at other student writing and teacher models as mentor texts and then use the PQP (Praise, Question, Polish) strategy to help each other edit, revise, and aim for a 2-3 star piece.

Microprogressions for opinion writing

We look forward to sharing your student's writing and other information with you during our conferences. Please use the link on the sidebar (or teacher email) to sign up for a time that works for you.

Praise, Question, Polish
Peer Editing Tool 

Computational Fluency Work Place Game

We are nearing the end of our current math unit and students have been working on strategies for multiplication and division problem solving as well as building their computational fluency with multiplication facts through work place games. This week we will show our thinking in our post-assessment. Then we will reflect on how we have grown using our pre-assessment and reflection tools. These assessments will come home for you to celebrate how your student has grown as a mathematician.

Thank you for helping your students to use their yellow planners to organize their weekly responsibilities. This is just one of the ways that we can help our students to build executive functioning skills like time management and organization.

Lego Masters at Work
During Friday Workshops

If you have a special skill that you would like to share with students please remember that we would love to have family volunteers to run a Friday Workshop. These run almost every Friday from 2:05-2:40. You would have a group of about 10 students. Please contact your child's teacher if you are interested.