Look at this! I’m not writing this at 6 am! Whoo hoo!

Below you will find Thursday’s learning schedule. Here are a couple of things to take note of:

• There is no school on Friday (2/12) or Monday (2/15). Happy Mid Winter Break!
• Students do need to turn in their final writing piece today. While I will be discussing this in our Language Arts block, it certainly wouldn’t hurt if you were to check in with them, too.
• Yesterday, you received an email letting you know which time frame (AM/PM) your child will be attending school starting March 1st.  I have more information coming to you soon. I spent my afternoon triangulating, cross-referencing and redesigning what we do to keep as much consistent as possible while also creating something totally different. It’s slow going, but I’m making progress.
• Finally, we’ve been exploring entertaining ways of processing our emotions in our daily check in form. Thursday, the class challenged me to send our cat check in out to staff members and when I did I realized how infrequently we — as adults — actually check in with each other and how important it is to ask each other, honestly, “How are you?”.  So, here’s one for all you hard working, supportive, endlessly flexible parents out there.  (FYI – this is currently anonymous, because sometimes it’s easier to be honest that way, but if you want me to know who you are, you can add it in one of the text boxes.)

Happy almost break and happy (?) almost one year anniversary of the remote schooling adventure.  I feel like we all need some trophies for something.

Cheers,

Ms. I

Today’s Schedule:

9:25 – 9:55 Morning Meeting

• New day, new animal check in! Come find out what we’re looking at today!
• TOPIC: Take two on the Marie Curie Kahoot
• Review schedule & Plan the day

10:00 – 10:55 – Eureka Math (Groups)

Please pay attention to when your group is meeting.

10-10:30: Pythons (5.2 Lesson 26)

10:30 – 11:00: Ogopogos (6.2.C Topic Quiz on Go Formative) Aim to take your quiz BEFORE our meeting at 10:30 so that we can discuss the quiz at our meeting.

Other groups

• Dragon Turtles: Projects! (for topic B & C) (Ben, we’ll meet at 2:50 again today)
• Agafia: Quiz Module 4 Topic D Quiz Let’s start the next book! Module 5, Lesson 4 (yes, we’re skipping a few, because you can)

Morning Break (10:55 – 11:10)

11:10 – 12:10 – Language Arts

Today, it’s time to finish up, turn in and reflect on your informational writing piece! We will meet to review what to turn in and you will have time to work on your self-reflection form.

Today you will complete:

• Hub: Turn in, Self-Evaluate & Celebrate

Note: You will turn your work in via Skooler Link for this assignment.

Lunch 12:10 – 12:40

ART: 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
• Take your Vocabulary Quiz!
• Complete any science nodes due at 2 pm today

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/Science (Mixtures and Solutions)

We will meet to share and discuss examples of mixtures we’ve made and brainstorm methods of separating them.

Please bring a mixtures (which could also be a solution) to our meeting. If it’s possible to bring the actual mixture, that’s awesome, if not, a picture will work, too.

Target: We will discuss methods of separating mixtures and review the important pieces of good science writing (C, E, R & SR)

Task: Complete “Science Notebook: Observations” (you’ll be observing mixtures and solutions that we discuss in class) and “Claim Evidence Reasoning (CER) 1.1”

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?