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I wanted to give you an update regarding POLs. If your child is in the Tuesday/ Friday group they should have brought their outline home on Tuesday. If your child is in the Monday/ Thursday group they will be bringing home their POL outline on Thursday. Here are some ways to help your child prepare for POLs over the long weekend: Make sure all aspects of the outline are filled out, and that your child is happy with what they have written. Feel free to help them add meaningful details. Have them go through their POL, including solving the word problem and sharing their thinking. Have conversations about public speaking (eye contact, facing your audience, speaking in a loud, expressive voice). One way to do this is to watch a TED talk with your child and talk about what the speaker is doing to engage the audience. Here is a link to 25 different TED talks, please choose one that is appropriate for your child’s age and interests: http://www.edudemic.com/25-ted-talks-perfect-for-classrooms/ Please take 10-15 minutes a day to work on POLs with your child. My goal is for each student to feel confident and successful while they are up in front of the panel. Don’t forget that the dress code for POLs is the same as Exhibition. Students can change right before their POL so that they are comfortable the rest of the day. Announcements: No School - Professional Development, Fri, 5/23 All families should homeschool on this day. No School - Memorial Day Holiday Mon, 5/26 Not a homeschool day. LACMA Memorial Day Trip Mon, 5/26 | 10 am - 4 pm LACMA has sponsored two buses to bring 100 people to the museum. Prepare to spend the day with friends, family and lots of art. Please bring your own lunch, water and sunscreen. There is plenty of green space for kids and adults to run and play. We will be leaving DVIA at 10:00 am and coming home after 4:00. All children, adults and extended families are FREE and welcome!!!! Hello!
I cannot believe how the end of the year is sneaking up on us! I want to thank everyone again for Teacher Appreciation Week, it was really great! I want to share what I have noticed about the math curriculum so far and invite you to share your thoughts with me as well. I have noticed that the majority of the students seem to be doing some/ all of the home curriculum lessons. They often reference things that they have learned at home and are making awesome connections between the lessons. The curriculum is very thorough in building a conceptual understanding of the areas that are being covered. I love that the curriculum allows for us to focus deeply on one or two ideas in a lesson and really share our thinking with each other. I am working on ways to build on these lessons in order to have them be appropriate for all students. One strategy is to give the students an option as far as which numbers they use during the problem of the day. For example: Juice boxes come in packs of (2) (6). If Eli is inviting (12) (30) friends to his party, how many packs of juice boxes does he need to buy? Each friend gets 1 juice box. You could try doing this with your child if you want to give them some choice in which numbers they use. They often end up wanting to solve it both ways, which can lead to some interesting conversations. I have created a short survey to find out what your experience using the curriculum has been like the last few weeks. Please take a few minutes to answer these questions: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/HX85GSC POL update: POL Outlines are coming along really nicely. Students will be leaving them at school this week and bringing them home to practice over the weekend. If you could please take 10-15 minutes a day to have your child give their presentation out loud that would be great! Please make sure that you have signed up for a time slot: http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0D48A8A729ABFE3-presentations Writing in Patrick’s Class: Our class has been working on building “powerful paragraphs” with Patrick. They have been creating paragraphs in response to literature or topics of discussion. They have been covering main ideas, supporting details, and topic sentences. Ideas for paragraph writing at home: ·Have them do mind mapping as a prewriting tool. I would recommend googling “mind map” and exploring all of the different options. This helps students to get their ideas down on a particular topic prior to building a paragraph. Try writing the topic sentence together and then have them write the supporting details on their own. Spelling: I will be talking to each student this week during reading time and figuring out whether they are ready to move on to new spelling words or not. Some of them will be staying with the same words a week longer, and others will be bringing home new lists. Please continue to have them do one spelling activity each day with these words (list of spelling activities is in previous blog entry). Announcements: Please send water bottles with your child to school! It is hot out this week! End-of-Year Social - A Cultural Carnival - THIS WEEK Fri, 5/16 | 5-7 pm Join us for a cultural exploration and learning experience! We will explore the creativity of different heritages by tasting and making food, listening to and sharing cultural performances and looking at and making artwork. You can also read and write about heritages around the world. Let's share a great learning adventure and have fun! Summer Camp Is Filling Up! Reserve Today Four weeks starting 6/16, M-Th, 12-3 pm Anxiety Workshop: Weds. 5/28 - 6:00-7:30pm. Anxiety is the most common mental health problem in children and adolescents, affecting up to 25% of youths. Drs. Michelle Rozenman, Ph.D. and Araceli Gonzalez, Ph.D. from the UCLA Child OCD, Anxiety, and Tic Disorders Program will present information on how to assess and identify excessive feelings of fear, nervousness, and worry, and discuss evidence-based therapies for pediatric anxiety disorders. Specific tips and strategies for helping kids and teens manage stress will also be discussed. Hi Everyone,
Well it is almost that time of the year again, time for Presentations of Learning! Our class will be holding POLs between May 27th and June 2nd. On Sign up Genius, please sign up for one 40 minute block of time. (http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0D48A8A729ABFE3-presentations) Your child will be presenting for 10 of these minutes and the rest of the time will be a part of a panel asking the other 3 presenters questions. Please plan to show up at the beginning of this 40 minute block, and stay for the whole time so that all students have a panel to watch them and ask questions. For this POL your child will be presenting on Math, Language Arts, and their Project, along with the Habits of Heart and Mind as they relate to each piece of evidence. Math: Students will have a chance to pick one word problem to solve. They will be expected to share their thought process, along with the strategies that they use to solve the problem. I will be giving them several word problems to choose from that represent the main learning goals we have covered this semester. They will also share the Habit of Heart and Mind that they used while solving the problem. Language Arts: Students will pick a piece of evidence that they feel represents their growth in Language Arts this year (ex. Insect Storybook, a book that they read that represents them meeting a new challenge in reading, one of the paragraphs that they are writing with Patrick). They will also share the Habit of Heart and Mind that they used in meeting this Language Arts challenge. Project: Students will be sharing the musical instrument that they created during tinkering time and sharing how they used the design cycle to improve it along the way. They will also share the Habit of Heart and Mind that they use while creating the instrument. We will be writing the POL outline during class starting next week. I will be sending you further updates with specific things you can do to support your student as we get closer to actual POLs. Don’t forget that the dress code for POLs is the same as Exhibition! Please let me know any questions you may have! Other announcements: We are still looking for all kinds of junk to use during our tinkering project! If you have any boxes, plastic, metal pieces, rubber bands, duct tape, wood, cardboard etc. we would love to take it off of your hands! There is still time to register for Summer Camp! We are excited to be offering 4 different fun weeks of camp, please talk to the office or to me for details. |
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