News from Mrs. LS's Room...
On this page, you will find important dates, events, and what is being covered in the classroom. Directly below is an overview of what we're learning about this month as well as a calendar of events for the month.
(Note: there have been some issues loading the school calendar - if school-wide events are not listed, this is why!)
(Note: there have been some issues loading the school calendar - if school-wide events are not listed, this is why!)
October - This month we are working on...
Establishing the classroom environment:
Literature circles, language arts, and literacy instruction:
Mathematics:
Physical and Health Education:
Career Education:
Art:
Social Emotional Development:
- Continued building of routines, leadership, responsibility, & expectations (including new Health & Safety expectations)
- Community development through social responsibility, building emotional intelligence, and peer support systems
- Rules & regulations created through weekly Class Meetings (student-driven - occurs all year long)
Literature circles, language arts, and literacy instruction:
- Completions of initial assessments in the areas of reading, writing, and spelling
- Beginning of personalized small group instruction for spelling, vocabulary, and word work
- Continued set-up for Daily 5 literacy instruction - carrying out tasks from the Daily 5 menu, including some student choice
- Beginning of the Global Read Aloud Project
Mathematics:
- Introduction to Guided Math stations and routines (we will probably only establish 3-4 of these this month): Math Journals for note-taking, practice, problem solving and communication, Math Vocab, Math Games, math problem practice, creating how-to videos explaining mathematical processes
- Complete review: place value and general number sense, operation facts
- Introduction to decimal: place value, rounding, and operations
- Introduction to "The Big Six" historical thinking strategies
- Introduction to Science skills, concepts, and processes
Physical and Health Education:
- Continued exploration of body management games and strategies
- spatial and player awareness
- adapting strategies to rule requirements
- manipulating rules to maximize game efficiency
Career Education:
- self-assessment of personal strengths, abilities, skills, preferences, attitudes, values, etc.
Art:
- Identity collage
- Introduction to sketchnoting
Social Emotional Development:
- Daily MindUP practice - self-regulation to be calm, alert, and focused
- Creating rules and regulations in the classroom that are fair and just through student governance in Class Meeting
- Talking circles - practice of sharing and listening to responses of critical classroom questions
- Developing leadership skills through the creation of class jobs such as Student Lead
School Calendar
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