Good morning everyone,

Below is the schedule for today. Here are a few notes on the week.

• This is a 4 day student week. There will be no meetings or work assigned on Friday as it is a teacher workday. Students may use Friday to finish work not completed during the week or for activities of their choice.
• There will be a supply bag exchange on Tuesday between 8 & 9 AM.
• If you have not already completed it, please take a moment to fill out the survey sent to you through Skooler last Friday. 
• Starting today (January 25th), all teachers have been recalled to work in the building so I will no longer be working from home.  One impact of this is that I will be much less available to support/respond to or monitor students before and after school hours as my commute is now a little longer than it has been.  This is may be a good time to start transitioning all students back to the understanding that school hours start at 9:25 and only go until 3:45. That may also help with our transition to in person learning in March.
• Finally, this will most likely be a lighter week for students. I am also running behind on loops building for the week. There are a lot of shifts happening behind the scenes right now. I am running into some of my own human limitations in maintaining our forward motion while also thinking through the next incarnation of this learning space. Thanks for your patience and support.

Today’s Schedule:

9:25 – 9:55 Morning Meeting

• Complete your Monday Morning Check in Form
• TOPIC: Class Constitution – What else needs to be there?
• Review schedule

10:00 – 10:55 – Math Work Session

Today, like last Friday, is a work session. I will have an meeting running from 10:15 – 10:45 and students (you) are expected to check in with me at some point during that time. You can come check in once and then go work independently OR you can come and join a break out room with your math team members and solve problems together

Target: Work with your classmates to discuss and complete math tasks

Task: Complete your math tasks for the day

• Pythons: 5.2 Lesson 9 (starting topic F)
• Ogopogos: 6.2 Lesson 9 (Starting topic B)
• Dragon Turtles: 6.6 Project!
• Agafia: Quiz (see your Great Minds Dashboard)

Morning Break (10:55 – 11:10)

11:10 – 12:10 – Language Arts

Target: We will share where we are in our writing We will break out into small groups to share, then you will continue writing, thinking about how to organize your work into chapters, if that makes sense for your writing.

Task: Hub 9: Organizing into Chapters

Lunch (12:10 – 12:40)

12:40 – 2:00 Independent Work

Your Task: Work on tasks marked independent in on Today’s hub or any other task you’ve listed on your agenda. Good places to start are:

• Read, write or project for Book Wheel #2
• Complete tasks from Instructional Block 1 & 2

Family meetings today (find these on your calendar): Jasper, Zim, Margit, Wes, Axel, Jack B & Ivy

Today’s family meeting topic is up to you. What do YOU want to talk to me about, share with me or get feedback on?

2:00 – 2:45 IB3/Mentor Sentences & Drama

Target: We’ll discuss how mentor sentences will look different this week – You choose the sentence! and then we will break out into small groups to work on & compare our work on gathering knowledge about European Explorers.

Task: Complete Day 1 for Week 4 by posting your work to the node & gather information on three more explorers.

2: 45 – 3:10 – Independent Work Time

Your Task: Work on tasks marked independent in on Today’s hub or any other task you’ve listed on your agenda.

Music: 3:10 – 3:40

Your Task: Go to the specialist loop and attend the meeting to for today or follow the directions provided by your specialist teacher.

3:40 – 3:50/4 pm – Wrap up your day

• Did you complete all the work you were expected to? If yes, then celebrate! If no, do you need to keep working? Or will you add your tasks to tomorrow’s list in your agenda?
• THINK or WRITE – What is one thing to celebrate about your day today?