Week 11: 11/30-12/4

Hi everyone,

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving and a great long weekend! I spent the weekend eating lots of yummy food and snagging some online shopping deals! I hope everyone's ready for this full week of school!

Here's some of what you can look forward to this week:

New Specials!: Beginning this week, students will be attending two specials during their independent remote days. They will attend PE from 9:55-10:35 and then will attend Library from 10:40-11:20. The two Zoom links for these specials will be linked on the remote schedule.

Last Week's Zoom Work: Any work your child completed during last week's virtual school days should be returned to school this week. If their work is not completed, they should still return items to school so they can finish them during independent work times. This includes:

  • Array City

  • Fall Reading Wreath

  • Alien Inherited Traits

  • You Be The Historian (The First Thanksgiving)

  • Trick Word Spelling Packet

This Week's Remote Work: Please help your child to remember to put their completed remote work into their Take Home Folder to return to school. I collect these assignments, check off if they're completed, and provide feedback to students using them. This week, students will bring home:

  • "Representing Division" & "Packs, Students, Sides, and Frogs" Math Practice Pages (Day 1 Remote Work-- Must Do and Submit)

  • Spork Read Aloud questions (Day 1 Remote Work-- Must Do and Submit)

  • The Importance of Voting recording sheet (Day 1 Remote Work)

  • Kindness Challenge Day 4 Recording Sheet (Day 1 Remote Work)

  • Drafting Book (Day 1 Remote Work-- Must Do and Submit)

  • Multiplication and Division Stories math practice page (Day 2 Remote Work)

  • 1-1-1 Remote Work Practice Page (Day 2 Remote Work-- Must Do and Submit)

  • Traits in Space recording sheet (Day 2 Remote Work)

  • Heart of the Story writing page (Wednesday Zoom)

  • "Multiply or Divide" math practice page (Wednesday Zoom)

There are additional online assignments linked to the remote schedule that your child should complete. Be sure to check your child's Take Home Folder when they come home from school to read my feedback on their turned-in assignments.

iReady Assessment: Next week, I will be assigning students the iReady assessment during their Remote Learning Days. This assessment will cover reading and math topics and will take place over 2, 50 min sessions. It is very important that your child completes these assessments completely independently. Here is a letter from Dr. Macneal with more information about these assessments. I will send home log-in instructions with Cohort B students this week and Cohort A students next Monday to make logging in easier.


Here's a peek into what we did in virtual school school last week:

Math: Students completed a project called "Array Cities" where they created a city using arrays as windows. They connected these arrays to a multiplication equation. Arrays are just one representation students will learn to use to represent multiplication situations and equations this year.

Reading: Students selected one book they've read this year to complete a "reading wreath" on. Students thought about the main characters, their likes and dislikes, and traits. We will display the completed wreaths this week!

Science: We learned about how inherited traits work in animals, humans, and even aliens! Students began designing their own alien family using a luck-based approach to choose their traits.

Social Studies: We attended two community celebrations focused on the First Thanksgiving and listened to some traditional Native American stories. We also explored a website from the Plimoth Plantation to see what really happened at The First Thanksgiving about 400 years ago.

That's all for now! Have a great week!Ms. McLellan