Happy Tuesday, sorry a little late with this week's happenings:) The above quote is a perfect growth mindset view towards the last week we had with assessments. I am so proud of all the hard work each student put towards their social studies, math, and science tests. Tests went home yesterday and today. I want to emphasize that we are focusing on a growth mindset and working towards setting goals this year. Your child's leader binder went home to show you how we are tracking our data in math. You will notice the pre-assessment was out of 18 points. The post- assessment has those same 18 points (first 4 problems of the test). The actual test score is out of 42 points.
*Reminder- Any grade 70-79, students have the CHOICE to fix it and return for partial credit. A grade of 69 or less MUST be signed, fixed, and returned.
Science: We are beginning our weather unit this week. We will begin tracking the weather and charting our daily findings using weather.com. We also began science stations based on the water cycle.
Writing this week we are editing, focusing on commas usage and publishing our second personal narrative via Google drive. We will celebrate by sharing on Friday!
Reading We are wrapping up on unit on interpreting books clubs by analyzing and comparing characters' connections to a theme, study the choices an author did not make to better understand the ones they did, and delve deeper into literary analysis. We will celebrate on Friday with sharing their thoughts and recommendations on both of their book clubs books!
Math We will began our unit on division! We will relate division to multiplication through fact families, divide with and without remainders, divide mentally using patterns with powers of 10, and estimate quotients. Their will be homework nightly via the Blog.
Social Studies Today we began Ch. 2 The First Americans. Today we learned how people first came to the American continents, theories behind Beringia, and one of the first important civilizations, the Mound Builders. Our centers included: My Capstone Library books about different ancient Americans and American Indian tribes, American Indian tribe comparison chart, and debating with me on the theories of how the first American evolved in America. We are using the website mycapstonelibrary.com. Students are choosing from the following books to read/listen to--
What did the Aztecs do for me?
Sitting Bull
American Indian Stories and Legends
Great Basin Indians
Pocahontas
Northwest Coast Indians
Southeast Indians
Northeast Indians
California Indians
Plateau Indians
Plains Indians
***There are so many more books on this site that are FREE- just use Concord's username/password, concordes/school.
REMINDERS:
Thurs. 10/8: Spirit day for Blues
Fri. 10/9: Spirit day for Cardinals
Fri., 10/9: Family Trivia Night 6:30-8:30 p.m. at Truman Cafeteria
Fri., 10/16 Half Day- Dismissal at 11:50 Wear Ignite. Innovate. Inspire. T-shirt for school picture after our assembly! ***End of 1st Quarter
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