2020-2021
September 2020
Week 1- Getting to know you, sharing stories about kindness, learning about LITS class (expectations, resources, and routines).
Week 2- Thinking about stories, sharing stories, and writing our own stories using Book Creator and Seesaw.
Week 3- Exploring fiction and wordless books, creating our own stories with Book Creator and Seesaw.
October 2020
Week 4- Non-fiction text features, author's purpose, continue with story creation, ocean habitat theme.
Week 5- Non-fiction continued, animal research, research databases- PebbleGo and more!
Week 6- Review LITS resources, independent practice, book requests, library accounts, continue with research.
November 2020
Repeat weeks 1-6 above with new cohort of students
December 2020
Celebrate the Hour of Code and create stories in code with Scratch Jr and the Hour of Code website. Read and check out books from the library.
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2019-2020
November 27-29- NO SCHOOL- Happy Thanksgiving!
December 2-6 Introduction to Coding
December 4th- 1/2 day students
December 9-13 HOUR OF CODE WEEK https://code.org/learn
December 11- 1/2 day students
December 16-20 Continue with Code
December 23-Jan 3 HOLIDAY BREAK-NO SCHOOL
Jan 6-10- Aquaponics and Follow the Journey- Continue to Code
Jan 13-17 Coding with Robots- Beebots
Jan 20- No School MLK Holiday
Jan 21-24- Coding with Robot Con't- Dash and Dot
Feb 1-14- President's Day and Black History Month Exploration
Feb 17-21- Break Week- No School
Feb 24-28- Google Expeditions & Whale Research
March 2-6 Podcasts & Graphing- Ocean habitats and animals
March 9-13- BOOK FAIR- Ocean Habitats and animals con't.
April 6-9 What happens in spring? remote learning with online resources
April 13-17 Capstone eBooks- Battle of the Books Week- Which book will win?
April 20-24 Capstone eBooks- Spring Reading Challenge- Tell us your favorite book for a chance to win!
April 27-May 1- Author's Read- listen to authors reading their favorite books
May 4-May 8- PebbleGo and PebbleGo Next research- Animals and Biographies. Plus, a Book a Day in May ebook challenge
May 11-May 15-
June 12 - Field Day
STAY HEALTHY EVERYONE! WE MISS YOU!