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February 16th, 2024

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Dear Families,

A little progress each day adds up to big results”. We are looking forward to seeing you soon for our upcoming Student Led Conferences. Keep in mind for our future meetings, that each child grows at different rates which eventually adds up to enormous and amazing results! Believe in your child because we believe in them!

Weekly Learning Goals & Tasks

English Literacy

Learning Goal

Writing Compare-and-Contrast Essays

What readers & writers are doing at school...

The hallmark of true understanding is the ability to take a strategy, a skill, or a lesson and apply it to new situations independently!

For our final week in Writing, our students will apply everything that they have learned across the past lessons and apply them for one last final compare-and-contrast essay. This type of intellectual work gets students to think more deeply about texts they are reading and to move more effortlessly up and down the ladder of abstraction. As writers, our children will carry forward all they know and use it in service of writing to compare and contrast! Off they go!

Ways to Push your Thinking

What readers & writers could be doing at home...

Thursday, February 29 - Homework Session 19

NO Reading Log this Week! :)

Spanish Literacy

Learning Goal

Creando conexiones texto a texto.

What readers & writers are doing at school...

Los escritores inician a planear la creación de sus textos informativos, pensando en temas en los cuales ellos tienen mucha experiencia o conocimientos y usando diferentes estructuras en cada capítulo de su texto informativo.

What readers & writers could be doing at home...

Los escritores leeran durante 20 minutos libros relacionados con su tema de escritura (textos informativos)

Mathematics

Learning Goal

Students will be able to review concepts related to measuring area and perimeter.

What mathematicians are doing at school...

They will generate a formula for determining the area of rectangles and squares. After that, they will find the perimeter of rectangular and square pieces. Finally, Students will revisit the area and perimeter formulas, working in metric rather than customary units.

What readers & writers could be doing at home...

Homework :

Tuesday, February 27th, 2024 Pages 103- 104

Science or Social Studies

Learning Goal

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Social Emotional Learning Program

Learning Goal

Friends and learners will consider how the way we communicate changes depending on the environment. We will write a conversation that is respectful in the environment and practice changing the conversation in response to a change in the environment.

What friends and learners are doing at school...

Friends and learners will change the way they communicate based on where I am and who I am speaking with.

Consider how my communication affects the thoughts, feelings and actions of others.

Communicate respectfully and show others that I care about them and their thoughts.

What friends and learners could be practicing at home...

Identify new Communication Boosters or Bloopers in their various environments throughout the week. Think about how they might turn a “bloop” into a boost.