There's no pictures to share but THANKS for coming to Student Led Conferences (A Day and Time to Reflect) this week! I hope you enjoyed going to the stations in the room. Make sure you are connected on Seesaw. Remind them to share something they have learned or are working on each week on Seesaw if they haven't posted anything already. They will be working on 5 Seesaw Challenges to get them used to all its features during reading stations so you will be receiving them each week. Check in with them every day/week on conversations we had at my station. Last week Case Western Nursing students came in and showed us how to use breathing techniques to calm us down when we need it. They made a lot of connections with the mindfulness techniques we already use. I can't wait to see them take action and use them when they need it. Our Class T-Shirts FINALLY Arrived and they look great on them! The JUNGLE BOOK Play even made some connections to our new theme Sharing the Planet. It talked about how humans change the environment. I wish you could see them interact with their 1st Grade Writing Buddies. They hold each other accountable during these 15 minutes. They ask each other for ideas, read their stories to each other, help with editing and even teach each other writing strategies. Lots of Action and Living the Learner Profile going on during this time. We also got to share Informational Texts with our Kindergarten Reading Buddies Thursday afternoon. Just look at how focused they are! 2nd Graders work on their reading and fluency while kindergarteners get to work on their listening, comprehension and vocabulary skills. We also get to be leaders that they look up to. When we pass them in the halls their eyes light up and they give each other huge smiles.
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We celebrated Learner Profile Award winners at our K-2 Morning Meeting on Monday, October 7th. Congrats to Cortland for winning the Principled Award and being a self-manager! We researched Ohio to see what good information we can include about our state on the postcards we are sending out to all 49 other states in our POSTCARD EXCHANGE Project. Ask them what we've learned so far. Mandarin Lesson on Greetings Mr. Eric came for the Playhouse Pre-Show to get them ready for the play, Jungle Book, that we will go see next week. The Inquiry Cycle has started in our new theme Sharing the Planet. To get us thinking about our next Central Idea students worked in groups to create animals in different environments (air, water, urban, rural, dessert and forest). Then we created a list and discussed whether these animals are still around. That brought up the word extinct so we made a list of animals we thought were extinct. This discussion led to different levels of extinction. During this "Tuning In" time I accept all ideas and during the "Finding Out" stage we will research to see what was factual. We had a Publishing Party with our 1st Grade Writing Buddies! We each got to share our final narrative pieces with each other. After we did that we shared compliments about what they saw in their partners stories. We also did our Final On Demands on Narrative Writing that will be shared at Student Led Conferences and took our next On Demand on Informational Writing to see what we remember from kindergarten and first grade. Cerenity's mom stopped by at Lunch Time for her birthday. She also dropped off an awesome healthy birthday treat for each of her classmates. We ended our week dancing at the Dance-a-thon and then had the announcer of the Cavs and the Cavs Scream Team come and celebrate the total of all of our donations in the afternoon. I chose Kenny to represent 2nd Grade on the stage because his dance moves were non stop and amazing at the Dance-a-thon. He did a great job and earned himself a Cavs T-shirt! THANKS to all the families that donated! Our efforts to be kind are now posted on our door. As we walk in and out of our classroom it will remind us to Always Be Kind. We also plan on holding ourselves accountable with the pledge we wrote on our hearts.
The Cup Stacking Challenge taught us to listen to each other, don't be afraid to try new things and we can all be successful when we help each other. Conflict Posters and the 6 Teams that Worked Together to come up with their best Resolutions We had a guest speaker from The Cleveland Sight Center this week come and talk to us about ways people who are blind can communicate. We learned: who started braille, what a braille cell is, how a brailler works, and looked at books coded in braille. This connected to the biography on Helen Keller we are reading this week and our year long Central Idea: Communication takes on many forms. Case Western Nursing students came in and talked about how we can T.H.I.N.K. before we say things and other resolutions we can use when we are being treated meanly or how to approach others when we feel we are being bullied. They performed a few skits and sent them home with a little reminder of what it means to T.H.I.N.K. Take a look at what we have learned since August about solving conflicts using resolutions. This assessment strategy is called First Word- Last Word. The KINDNESS Bus stopped by Campus this week and Bob and Bogart presented on the importance of being KIND and how easy it is to do and how much our world needs it. Thank you to our PCO for making this event happen. I've seen this bus around my neighborhood and always wondered how it started. Our school is going to count how many acts we can do this year. Let the challenge begin!
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AuthorMrs. Humphrey
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