Good (snowy!) Morning everyone,

At the bottom of this post is the learning schedule for our classroom for Monday, 2/8. There are some important changes happening this week and beyond so it would be wise to take a moment to discuss those with your child and think through how they impact your week. Here are the highlights:

• Specialists: In preparation for the return to in person learning, there are changes to our specialist timing, scheduled and expectations.  You should have gotten additional information from the district regarding these changes.  The bottom line is that specialists are now happening from 12:40 – 1:05 and attendance will be taken. Please make sure your student understands these changes. We will also be discussing these changes in class today.
• Family Meetings: Because the new specialist timing now eclipses our family meeting schedule, we will no longer be holding family meetings.  However, I am working on a schedule for families to schedule a meeting over the next few weeks if you feel that one final family meeting would really support your child before we make the move to in-person/hybrid learning.
• Supply Bags: There will be no transportation drop off of Supply Bags these next few weeks. However, we will have a supply bag pick up at Carnation Elementary on Wednesday from 8 – 9. I know that this causes some inconvenience for our Duvall families, but it’s only for a few weeks.
• What will things look like in March? Class placement information will be sent out from the Main Office this week. For the PAT classes, all students will be remaining with their current teacher and I will have more details on what our learning day will look like for everyone along with how our learning rhythms will be changing (and what will remain the same).  What I can tell you is that learning will continue and we’re keepin’ the band together…and that’s about all I’ve got right now. 🙂 As always, I appreciate your patience with this endlessly evolving educational experience!

Happy Monday!

-Ms. I

Today’s Schedule:

9:25 – 9:55 Morning Meeting

• Complete your Monday Morning Check in Form
• TOPIC: Specialists – New Look, New Time, New Expectations!
• 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 24
• Ogopogos: 6.2 Lesson 14
• Dragon Turtles: 6.6 Lesson 16
• Agafia: Lesson 16

Morning Break (10:55 – 11:10)

11:10 – 12:10 – Language Arts

Target: We will meet to discuss editing before we get back to writing. Remember, you are writing for 30 minutes every day and this piece of writing is due on Thursday, February 11th.

Today you will complete: Hub 19: Deliberate Punctuation

Lunch (12:10 – 12:40)

PE: 12:40 – 1:05

Your Task: Attend the specialist Zoom meeting for today. The Zoom link is in your Loop. After this meeting, please complete any Loops activities connected to this specialist. You will find your Specialist Loop link on your Loops Dashboard.

1:05 – 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:

• Work on Book Wheel #3 (Read, Write, Project)
• Complete specialist activities
• Complete tasks from Instructional Block 1 & 2
• Look at your vocabulary tasks for this week or study

Due to the new specialists schedule, we are no longer holding family engagement meetings. If you have a concern or a question, email to either discuss via email OR set up a one-time meeting.

2:00 – 2:45 IB3/Vocabulary & New Book Wheel Kick Off

Target: Today, we will review our vocabulary words for the week and meet our new book wheel!

Task: Complete all Monday tasks for the first hub of our vocabulary loop and start new book wheel (#3).

2:45 – 3:40 – Independent Work Time

Your Task: Work on tasks marked independent in on Today’s hub or any other task for today that is not yet completed.

If you have finished all expected tasks, please use this time to do additional work on:

• Book Wheel
• Math Quest
• Expert Tasks

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?