Dear families,

Our learning schedule for Tuesday is below.

This week, our learning will look similar to past weeks, but changes are coming. You may notice a lightening of tasks as we begin to transition in to our new schedule. Please encourage your child to spend extra time working on their book wheel, reading in general, science expert tasks or other home tasks (music practice, creating things, helping out around the house) if they seem to have extra time. I am also including some at home science challenges (see the end of our daily schedule) this week which I would whole-heartedly encourage kids to try and discuss at home.

This week, we will continue to have three learning blocks a day with a morning meeting.  We are reading a Junior Great Book story this week to focus on reading actively and writing about reading using evidence and reasoning. In science we are studying mixtures and solutions and will be (hopefully) setting up an home experiment to observe this week. In math, students will continue to work forward on their assigned math module. Even thought it is a 4 day week, we still have vocabulary and book wheel tasks to work on. We will not be having family meetings (you are still welcome to reach out to me via email and we can certainly schedule a one time family meeting if you feel that is needed). A class we will begin to discuss some of the changes coming in the next few weeks and I will also be sending home more details this week for families.

Next week, we will drop down to AM meetings only. That we will not be holding our instructional block 3. Students will work independently instead. This will allow me to put finishing touches on the physical classroom, as well as our schedules and plans for learning in our new mode.

Have a great Tuesday and stay warm and safe!

There will be a supply swap this Wednesday, at Carnation Elementary only, from 8 – 9 AM.

Today’s Schedule:

9:25 – 9:55 Morning Meeting

• Monday Morning Check in on a Tuesday
• TOPIC: Vocabulary – Let’s get a head start. (Margit, we will try that Kahoot one more time tomorrow)
• Review schedule & Plan for 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 27)

10:30 – 11:00: Ogopogos (6.2 Lesson – Review quiz & lesson TBD)

Other groups

• Dragon Turtles: 6.6 Lesson 17  Lesson 18 (we’re skipping 17, when you loot at it, you’ll see why) (Ben, we’ll meet at 2:50 again today)
• Agafia: To Be Determined

Morning Break (10:55 – 11:10)

11:10 – 12:10 – Language Arts

Target: Read Aloud! Ms. I will do the first reading of this week’s Junior Great Book story. You will listen actively and practice stopping, jotting and thinking as I read. Come to the meeting to find out what the story is.

Task: Complete First Read Hub of this week’s Junior Great Book Loop

Lunch 12:10 – 12:40

Library: 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/Science (Mixtures and Solutions)

Target: We will complete the work we didn’t finish last week by talking about CER & R as a structure for writing science explanations.

Task:

• Claim Evidence Reasoning (CER) 1.1
• Read “Mixtures”

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?

Something Science-y:

You could totally try this today! This is actually a mixture doing some really interesting things. What could you learn about mixtures by trying this out yourself?