Good morning, everyone.

Below is the schedule for our learning today.

This is a 5 day week with an early release Wednesday.  Most of our learning will be as usual. We are still moving forward on math and writing everyday (30 minutes) on a piece of informational writing (due dates will be coming this week). We will be finishing our Chapter 5 Social Studies Loop this week by taking several assessments. We will be taking a break from our book wheel for a week — the new book wheel will begin next Monday — but students are still expected to read for 30 minutes a day on texts of their choice. Finally, we are returning to our vocabulary routine for a few weeks, so get ready to do some studying this week!

A few important schedule notes for this week are:

• There will be NO SUPPLY BAG SWAP this week. Due to K/1 students returning to the building, transportation needs to reconfigure how the supply bag swap will happen. While Carnation is offering an at-school-only supply bag swap, it seemed unnecessary to ask you all to drive in to pick them up. Next week, as things setting, we will hopefully return to bag swaps. I’ll keep you posted.
• I mentioned this to students last week. This Wednesday, we will be participating in a virtual field trip to the Capitol via Zoom from 11:15 – 12:15. This is still within our regularly scheduled day, so there’s nothing special that you need to do, but if you’d like to join to “chaperone” you’re welcome to!  And good news, there’s no hour long bus ride!

Finally, as Kindergarten and 1st graders return to the building today, things are getting real.  Please know that over the next month we will be working in earnest to plan and shift our learning from a fully remote model to a hybrid model. This is no small task. I will share more details as I know them. I know that you are all still living with the uncertainty of what that will look, and I know that can be uncomfortable. Hang in there. Like all of you, I’m doing the best I can.

Today’s Schedule (Monday 2/1/21):

9:25 – 9:55 Morning Meeting

• Complete your Monday Morning Check in Form
• TOPIC: Wednesday’s Virtual Field Trip
• 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 22
• Ogopogos: 6.2 Quiz for Topic B
• Dragon Turtles: 6.6 Topic B Project & Lesson 13
• Agafia: Lesson 13

Morning Break (10:55 – 11:10)

11:10 – 12:10 – Language Arts

Target: We will meet to review the rubric before we get back to writing. Remember, you are writing for 30 minutes every day.

Task: Hub 13: Editing for Paragraphs

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 for 30 minutes!
• Complete tasks from Instructional Block 1 & 2
• Finish up any social studies from last week that didn’t get done or posted.

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

Today’s family meeting topic: Let’s check on Math.

2:00 – 2:45 IB3/Vocabulary & Student Presentation

Target: Today we will remember how to do vocabulary and learn a little bit about Pandas

Task: Complete all Monday tasks for the first hub of our vocabulary loop

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?