Students completed the end-of-year math assessment for the district on Wednesday morning. Because of this exam, our normal lessons got pushed back by a day. Therefore lesson 10.7 will be taught on Thursday and 10.8 on Friday. There is NO math homework Wednesday night, and they will do 10.7 Thursday night instead.
Volunteers Needed!!
We are still looking for a few parent volunteers to help out with the whole school Young Authors event on Wednesday May 27th in the morning. If you are interested in helping out please let either Ms. Nani, Señor Hester, or Ms. Melissa know. You can also contact Ms. Lucy (1st grade English) directly, since she is coordinating the event, and will have more details about exactly what is needed from you. Thanks so much to all our parent volunteers for everything you do for our school!
Thank You!!
We would like to send out a big THANK YOU to Taliya's mom, Felicia Gittleman, for coming and speaking to the class about her career as an immigration attorney. The kids were very engaged and asked some really wonderful questions. They really got a lot out of your visit, and they expressed how much it meant to hear about the issues directly from a professional. These kinds of experiences make these tough topics really come to life. Thank you again so much for your time!
Also a big THANK YOU to Kyle's mom, Melinda Duplessis, for connecting us with a guest speaker from the Orca Whale Museum. The kids had a lot of fun learning how to identify and track wild Orcas. This was a great complement to a conservation lesson we had about a month ago. They students especially loved looking at the whale skull and recieving Orca trading cards. This was a fun and educational opportunity, so thank you for connecting our class with this speaker!
Upcoming Project Due Dates
--> This Friday students are expected to have finished their books for the Book Clubs. I will collect the reflection journals for the final time. I will be checking for all the required elements (all written on the first page of the journal) and I will also be checking for elements of quality writing. Many students need to go back and double check their spelling!! Students will receive a final self and group evaluation form that will be due Friday June 5th.
--> They will also recieve the instructions for the final project for literacy on Thursday afternoon. The Book Club groups will each create a "survival pack" in which they will put 10 artifacts or symbols that represent what it takes to carry us through hardship. They will be expected to gather objects or create some sort of visual representation of a symbols from their novel and then write a brief decription of each object and what it represents. I will be looking that in these descriptions they reference the book and either with a quote or description of a scene, connect explain why they chose the object they did. These "survival packs" will be due Thursday May 28th. The groups will have time in class to gather ideas and write the descriptions, but they will need to spend some time at home either finding the objects, or creating artifacts for the survival pack. All the objects must fit into a paper grocery bag, so no large items. I will show the students an example of a survival pack I have created for Crossing the Wire.
--> Students have also now been introduced to the DREAM Act topic for our CBA civic writig assignment. We will talk more about this assignment on Thursday and Friday, but I encourage students to begin reading what they can about the Act to gather information. There are many great sources linked from the social studies blog. This assignment will be due on Friday June 5th.
--> On Friday we will talk about our final project for the immigration unit. Students will be interviewing an immigrant and then creating a poster that shares his or her personal story of immigration. We will brainstorm questions together and possible interview candidates Friday. Next Tuesday we will write our interview questions and students will do mock interviews to prepare. If a student is interviewing someone who comes from a Spanish speaking country (HIGHLY encouraged) they must conduct the interview in Spanish. This will help the student in the end because the posters will be done in Spanish, and then no translation will be necessary. Possible interview candidates include family members, neighbors, family friends, or many of the teachers and IAs at John Stanford. If a student wishes to interview a student from the BOC classroom they will need to check with Ms. Melissa so that she can get permission from that child's parent/guardian first. Students will need to have completed the interview by Monday June 1st at the latest, and posters will be due Friday June 5th.
ON MONDAY STUDENTS WILL RECEIVE A CALENDAR WITH ALL THESE DUE DATES AND PROJECT DESCRIPTIONS TO HELP THEM ORGANIZE THEIR TIME. THERE SHOULD BE ENOUGH TIME IN CLASS TO COMPLETE THE ASSIGNMENTS, BUT ELEMENTS WILL NEED TO BE DONE OUTSIDE OF CLASS, PARTICULARLY THE IMMIGRANT INTERVIEWS.
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